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by alonmower 5y ago
Hi Hacker News, Alon from Switchboard here! We’re really excited to share what we’re working on at Switchboard — a platform to help teams develop tailored onboarding, feature engagement, and upsell experiences that activate and engage their
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by alonmower 5y ago
Switchboard https://switchboard.cc | Multiple roles | Onsite (Hybrid) | Oakland, CA | Full-Time We are a Seed stage company building APIs / SDKs / libraries for developers - more specifically growth engineers - to make
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by alonmower 5y ago
Switchboard https://switchboard.cc | Multiple roles | Onsite (Hybrid) | Oakland, CA | Full-Time We are a Seed stage company building APIs / SDKs / libraries for developers - more specifically growth engineers - to make
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by alonmower 5y ago
Switchboard https://switchboard.cc | Multiple roles | Onsite (Hybrid) | Oakland, CA | Full-Time We are a Seed stage company building APIs / SDKs / libraries for developers - more specifically growth engineers - to make
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by alonmower 5y ago
Switchboard | Multiple roles | Onsite (Hybrid) | Oakland, CA | Full-Time We are a Seed stage company building APIs / SDKs / libraries for developers - more specifically growth engineers - to make it much easier to build robust gro
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Amplitude (YC W12) IPO S1(sec.gov)
90 points by alonmower 5y ago|28 comments
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by alonmower 5y ago
I’d argue it’s higher given the exponential nature of disease transmission. While the odds of harm in who you directly transmit the virus to might be lower than the odds of you hurting someone drunk driving, if you play the tape forwards it
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by alonmower 5y ago
Who are they harming? Literally everyone else in the space that is now more likely to be exposed to someone with the virus (and who has taken fewer precautions to avoid being contagious) People’s rights to swing their fists around wildly en
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by alonmower 5y ago
If you’re interested in this stuff I definitely recommend checking out ‘Annals of the Former World’ if you haven’t already. I have no geology background but found it utterly riveting https://www.amazon.com/Annals-Former-Worl
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by alonmower 5y ago
AR will replace your phone VR could replace your TV
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by alonmower 5y ago
It’s pretty interesting to look at a lot of these small updates as stepping stones towards making sure that when they launch an AR device in the next few years that it’s as compelling as possible (e.g. identifying text and objects, a huge f
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by alonmower 5y ago
There are aligned incentives here, something a company that focuses on selling devices can do vs the companies that sell your attention
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by alonmower 5y ago
Wow you’re right, have to slow way down to get there
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by alonmower 5y ago
He puts his mouth where his money is*
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by alonmower 5y ago
Well, there's at least one star you can fly it to
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by alonmower 5y ago
*Most ride-hailing companies that needed a narrative ahead of their IPO for why they had a defensible long term moat and leaned heavily on 'self driving' as their answer to that are now getting pressure from investors on why they
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by alonmower 6y ago
Yes, and it's not exceedingly rare https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-cent...
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by alonmower 6y ago
I 100% agree, it changed me from thinking of VR as a dumb gimmick to starting to seriously consider changing my career focus towards VR
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by alonmower 6y ago
I bought the quest out of curiosity with low expectations. I’ve tried a few of the games, many of which were novelties but have been blown away by Eleven Table Tennis. It replicates maybe 98% of what it feels like to play ping pong and I’ve
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by alonmower 6y ago
There should be analyses of product misses in a well functioning product org, though getting to a concrete “root cause” can be a lot harder and may not need to be the goal. You should at least be trying to understand, to the extent possible
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by alonmower 6y ago
Same, though I wish I could be better at avoiding these
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by alonmower 6y ago
Probably because if you’re joining an early stage company you’re inevitably going to get diluted if there are any later rounds. By how much will depend on how the company is performing so they won’t be able to know exactly what this will lo
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by alonmower 6y ago
You should absolutely ask about A) and be very suspicious if they refuse to tell you. No one can answer B) with any real confidence because they don’t have a crystal ball. C) is almost always going to be at IPO or when the company sells, th
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by alonmower 6y ago
With Zoom (as long as Zoom has focus) you can hold down spacebar to temporarily unmute yourself. It's been a real lifesaver
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Free portal to share your roadmap and gather customer feedback(productboard.com)
2 points by alonmower 6y ago|0 comments
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by alonmower 6y ago
We’ve done the social lunch thing on video chat and while it has been nice it can also add to overall fatigue of being in camera and in front of a computer all day. It also doesn’t scale that well in terms of number of people. Still though,
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by alonmower 6y ago
I don't think they disagree with this, but that Tesla now has the 3/Y that get you all of the benefits of an electric car, with interiors that aren't too far off of the S/X for a fraction of the cost. If they want to con
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by alonmower 6y ago
Please do!
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by alonmower 6y ago
Maybe we're getting hung up on the definition of what 'over-communication' means. I don't disagree with you that there's a failure mode here, but as a mindset it's helpful when approaching your interactions wit
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by alonmower 6y ago
I've always interpreted this message as "don't assume that everyone you're interacting with has all of the same context as you" and be proactive about sharing relevant context whenever you communicate. Not "sen

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