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by augustflanagan 10y ago
I recently joined a company that's built on Rails. I previously was most comfortable with Python/Django. There's lots of code to crib from, and I've picked up the basics pretty quickly. That said, I've been looking
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by augustflanagan 10y ago
BabyList - Oakland, CA | Full Time | ONSITE BabyList is making it easier for new parents to prepare for one of the biggest events in their lives. We have an extremely engaged user-base, we’re growing quickly and making real money. Our core
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by augustflanagan 10y ago
BabyList - Oakland, CA | Full Time | ONSITE BabyList is making it easier for new parents to prepare for one of the biggest events in their lives. We have an extremely engaged user-base, we’re growing quickly and making real money. Our core
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by augustflanagan 10y ago
BabyList - Oakland, CA | Full Time | ONSITE BabyList is making it easier for new parents to prepare for one of the biggest events in their lives. We have an extremely engaged user-base, we’re growing quickly and making real money. Our core
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by augustflanagan 11y ago
Oh nice, I guess I didn't get that far in the docs. Actually, for my use case this would be perfect. I just need the city, state and zip.
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by augustflanagan 11y ago
Nice work! I really like the minimal homepage. One small suggestion, when someone clicks the 'Try It' button and it scrolls to the address input have it focus the input for the user. I've actually been needing the exact oppos
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The JIT Startup: Why we waited 2 years to build a change email form(blog.cronitor.io)
4 points by augustflanagan 11y ago|1 comments
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Tips to prevent duplicate cron job execution(bencane.com)
2 points by augustflanagan 11y ago|0 comments
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by augustflanagan 11y ago
HackerNews posts have yet to produce a single paying customer :) OP, I'm hesitant to share that strategy out in the open. Customer acquisition has certainly been our biggest challenge. Feel free to DM me if you'd like to chat priv
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by augustflanagan 11y ago
A little over a year ago a friend and I launched https://cronitor.io Our first paying customer came on July 9th, 2014. As of today we're at about 80 paying customers. As of last month, we have started taking monthly revenue
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by augustflanagan 12y ago
NerdWallet - San Francisco, CA - relocation and H1B ok (sorry, no remote) NerdWallet is a fast growing startup dedicated to bringing transparency to the world of personal finance. Our mission is to empower millions of people by providing th
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by augustflanagan 12y ago
I think this is a great answer that covers the common pitfalls with launching any side-project. I would add another often repeated, but important, point to the list - try to build something that solves a problem you're having. Earlier
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by augustflanagan 12y ago
https://cronitor.io It's a simple monitoring service for cron and other scheduled jobs (also works well for heartbeat monitoring). It was launched on HN a couple months ago. We've been slowly improving our keyword rank
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by augustflanagan 12y ago
Great article, thanks for sharing!
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The first paying customer(aflanagan.com)
10 points by augustflanagan 12y ago|4 comments
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by augustflanagan 12y ago
A friend and I launched https://cronitor.io last week ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7917587 ). It's a simple cron/scheduled jobs monitoring and alerting tool. We built it after trying to use a s
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by augustflanagan 12y ago
You're right. Weekends project would be a better title. We built an end to end proof of concept our first weekend on it, then spent another Sunday polishing it as well as a few hours here and there a couple of evenings.
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by augustflanagan 12y ago
Thanks! It's a django app that uses Mandrill for sending email, and Twilio for sending sms alerts.
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by augustflanagan 12y ago
hehe, thanks! these were fun to come up with!
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Show HN: My weekend project – simple cron monitoring(cronitor.io)
29 points by augustflanagan 12y ago|30 comments
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Good Pilgrims: Why Mexican immigrants are returning home(harpers.org)
2 points by augustflanagan 12y ago|0 comments
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Grocery Delivery Service Instacart (YC S12) Raises $44M(dealbook.nytimes.com)
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by augustflanagan 13y ago
This isn't a new service, it's just new to San Francisco. It's been running for 6 years in Seattle.
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by augustflanagan 13y ago
Trulia http://www.trulia.com/jobs - San Francisco, CA Trulia is one of the largest real estate search platforms in the United States with over 35 million unique visitors across our platform every month. We're looking f
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by augustflanagan 13y ago
Trulia - San Francisco, CA (H1B transfers) Trulia is one of the largest real estate search platforms in the United States with over 35 million unique visitors across our platform every month. We're solving interesting problems and buil
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by augustflanagan 13y ago
Trulia - San Francisco, Full time, (H1B transfers) Trulia is one of the largest real estate search platforms in the United States with over 35 million unique visitors across our platform every month. We're solving interesting problems
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by augustflanagan 13y ago
Trulia - San Francisco, Full time, (H1B transfers) Trulia is one of the largest real estate search platforms in the United States with over 30 million unique visitors across our platform every month. We're solving interesting problems
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by augustflanagan 13y ago
Trulia - San Francisco, Full time, (H1B transfers) Trulia is one of the largest real estate search platforms in the United States with over 30 million unique visitors across our platform every month. We're solving interesting problems and b
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by augustflanagan 13y ago
I used to go to the gym and lift really heavy things off the ground for 2-3 hours a day 5 days a week. It was great exercise and I loved how strong I was after a few years of doing that religiously. At some point life "got in the way", and
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by augustflanagan 14y ago
This article was great! I had implemented a side menu on my own a couple of days before this came out. It was using css transitions on the width property which was fine on desktop, but clunky on mobile. I re-worked it following your approac

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