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by Fission 6y ago
I also agree that this is a problem. This is why we're evaluating the old-school solutions for each problem. For payroll, this is ADP + PayChex; for knowledge bases this is Confluence; for payment processors we're even dealing wit
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by Fission 6y ago
Hey Austin, I appreciate the thoughtfulness and the kind words. I think even though we're working in different directions, we share a lot of the same values and see similar issues with the status quo. When (I hope not if) quarantine&#x
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by Fission 6y ago
I think there are a couple of great points here, and I'll try to break things down and address each point independently. 1. re: "real" user reviews — right now, we do do this, just in a different way vs. what I think you&#x27
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by Fission 6y ago
Hey, thanks for the datapoint! I'd like to break your comment down into what I believe are the two main points, and address them independently. 1. On whether or not FRB should be in the list — we certainly think they should. Based on t
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by Fission 6y ago
It definitely is a bit confusing, I'd agree with you there — I'll try to explain it: Put shortly, this is the exact same company that YC invested in back in S18. The product may be different, but the underlying company (in the leg
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by Fission 6y ago
Thanks! I shared some thoughts on this earlier ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23237147 ), but I also wanted to take some time to discuss the points you made. Completely agree that The Wirecutter's up-front-ness a
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by Fission 6y ago
re: fonts — I booted up my windows machine, and you're right, it renders abnormally narrow and is hard to see. No CSS rendering options could fix it, so I think it just comes down to how Windows handles the font. We'll try to swap
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by Fission 6y ago
This is actually a really interesting comment, because it reminds me of a meta-observation that I've made over the past few weeks. First off though, I want to clarify that the money market fund is typically not operated by the org. The
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by Fission 6y ago
Thanks. Focused on info for the earliest stages of a startup for now, but we're continuously progressing towards later-stage topics.
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by Fission 6y ago
Pushed! Thank you for the suggestion — completely forgot about some meta tags.
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by Fission 6y ago
Done, thanks again for the suggestion. It'll break the links in the main post temporarily, but hopefully dang can rescue it. Edit: decided to throw in some redirects instead, should work well.
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by Fission 6y ago
Appreciate the suggestions. To be honest, we spent a decent amount of time on table formatting, but we'll take another look. We think horizontal headings are out of the question though, b/c we don't see a way to preserve the
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by Fission 6y ago
Thank you, appreciate the feedback! Would you be willing to go into some more detail into how these decisions played out for you in the past?
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by Fission 6y ago
Thank you for the comment — feedback like yours helps us continuously find ways to improve! I'm really interested in digging in a bit deeper, as you've expressed some thoughts we haven't heard before, and I'm hoping to i
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by Fission 6y ago
Appreciate the kind comment! To be honest, I didn't really think about that paragraph too much — I just wrote down my own qualms/experiences in a list, and eventually decided to consolidate it into a paragraph. It was just somethi
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by Fission 6y ago
Hey thanks, appreciate the kind words! It's definitely something that we thought about (and are continuing to think through). There is also the question of service vs. product businesses, although there are certainly a lot of comparabl
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by Fission 6y ago
Didn't publish anything. Mainly, we focused on making 3D reconstruction practical for B2B use cases. It's interesting, because I personally see the idea of commercializing academic research to be well-intentioned, but a bit more d
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by Fission 6y ago
Totally! It's something we've considered, and it wouldn't be too hard to implement. The reason why we've deferred it is because we've found that most early-stage startups are pretty homogeneous in their requirements
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by Fission 6y ago
Thanks for bringing this up. Just to clarify, the base version of GA provides an event-based model. GA App+Web is a feature of GA that's aimed at sharing/consolidating info between websites and mobile devices. We're focused o
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by Fission 6y ago
We'll take a look.
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by Fission 6y ago
Appreciate the feedback. Our goal is really only to be useful, which naturally ends up with us covering a lot of background (e.g. for store of money: what is a cash sweep, how is yield determined, what are the underlying incentives for vari
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by Fission 6y ago
Appreciate the suggestions. You're right about dashes, will look to fix. Lack of metatags comes down to the lack of any social media accounts.
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by Fission 6y ago
Actually, I totally agree with you. This is something that we thought hard about, because our initial three guides are dominated by YC companies. I think the main explanation is that YC companies, to a much greater extent than other compani
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by Fission 6y ago
Insofar we haven't outed ourselves as doing reviews, so we mainly used our own accounts or some burner accounts (we've got a few email addresses that will remain private). This allows us to get the actual customer experience.
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by Fission 6y ago
We actually have a sidenote that mentions that GA can be used for event-based tracking, but we've decided to skip over it in v1 of the guide because it's missing some critical analytics functionality. We're focused on the big
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by Fission 6y ago
This is going to be a bit of a roundabout answer, so please bear with me. Our first task is to prove we there we can provide sufficient value through objective info, and in helping people figure out which tools to invest in. This is a bit o
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by Fission 6y ago
Will do. It might be a bit lengthy and take a bit of time to write, so I'll post this placeholder for now and update it throughout the day.
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by Fission 6y ago
> I can't count the number of times I've ended up on one of those ranking sites that feels like an affiliate scam. Totally agree. We took a close look to figure out what made some review sites slimy (and frankly not very useful
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by Fission 6y ago
Yeah, startups are in the position of having to make high-velocity yet high-quality decisions, yet without too many resources to accomplish either. A bunch of our own decisions in the early-days mostly came down to asking some founder frien
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by Fission 6y ago
Oh, and I'd like to add — one of the reasons why I'm so excited about this launch is because it's been a crazy journey so far. I entered YC as a solo founder fresh out of college, working on a near-polar-opposite product (mob

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