Darkstore, the tech-driven fulfillment solution to enable e-commerce companies to offer same-day delivery, has just released a consumer-facing app called FastAF. Right now, the app is only available in Los Angeles.
FastAF is built on top of Darkstore, which already has relationships with a number of brands that store their products in Darkstores for same-day delivery, currently 550 Darkstores across 283 cities.
With FastAF, consumers can now order directly from those Darkstores for same-day delivery. FastAF currently offers 1,200 items from 170 brands and has partnered with DoorDash to handle deliveries.
“We wanted to have a very good consumer experience out of the gate and use the demand to inform whether we should officially partner with those brands,” founder and CEO Lee Hnetinka told TechCrunch.
Hnetinka previously founded WunWun in 2012, a competitor to Postmates that shut down in 2015. Darkstore, the company behind FastAF, has raised more than $30 million in funding.
