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Are You Really Sure You’re Ready to Start a Startup?(wadefoster.net)
50 points by bryanh 13y ago|23 comments
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by bryanh 13y ago
http://gigaom.com/2008/01/22/wordpresscom-creator-raises-29m... maybe? Not sure.
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by bryanh 13y ago
Kevin is an investor in Zapier and we've got to say he has been outstandingly awesome. Before committing he came over to our place and hung out with us (and didn't bat an eye when my dog Tuna tried to pull off his socks multiple times, how
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by bryanh 13y ago
Great tools! My goto reference is still the wonderful btilly presentation about how to A/B test properly, with nice examples and code snippets: http://elem.com/~btilly/effective-ab-testing/ He provided a full on javascript tool that isn't
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by bryanh 13y ago
Lots of really great support tips and quotes in here, support is one of those tricky things that can wear you down. Worse, when you screw up on a support interaction, it is especially disappointing to the user. Bugs can be fixed, relationsh
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by bryanh 13y ago
Another comment suggested this and we've added it, should be pushed later today.
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by bryanh 13y ago
Hmmm, I think we bubble that information up into that view. I'll look into it.
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by bryanh 13y ago
Great suggestion, we'll do that. Edit: done, should be deployed later today.
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by bryanh 13y ago
Great suggestions: 1) Some less popular endpoints have lower volume, so that would be a challenge to be sure of issues. However, we could probably aggregate the endpoints that are causing issues and attach them to the report. We'll look int
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by bryanh 13y ago
We've noticed that, it is very odd indeed. We're going to get that fixed ASAP, thanks for the report + screenshot.
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by bryanh 13y ago
We've had a few requests on HN about releasing this info, so we did it. Some more information is available on the introduction blog post: https://zapier.com/blog/2013/05/06/introducing-api-status-bo... We also provide an RSS feed and JSON
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Show HN: Monitor the Downtime of 170+ Popular Web APIs(zapier.com)
143 points by bryanh 13y ago|33 comments
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by bryanh 13y ago
We have one internally, we've talked about opening it to the public (we'd have to scrub data a little better as it is). Would there be interest in this?
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by bryanh 13y ago
Zapier is seeing widespread outages on: * Google Tasks * Google Drive * Google Calendar Seems like Spreadsheets and Gmail are still chugging along fine though (though we've some Oauth issues). Edit: looks like Tasks, Drive
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by bryanh 13y ago
We definitely support catching inbound email ( https://zapier.com/zapbook/email/ and https://zapier.com/zapbook/mailgun/ comes to mind). I'm curious if there is a clever parsing solution...
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by bryanh 13y ago
Interesting use case! Unfortunately we don't have that clever of a parser. We've definitely talked about it but aren't 100% sold on any sort of internal implementation. We've thought about a "reverse template" where you would mark blocks of
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by bryanh 13y ago
Good call! I've updated it.
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by bryanh 13y ago
We were largely inspired by GitHub's Hubot in writing this list of examples. Additionally, it's fairly trivial to use our developer platform to spin up new, private actions for custom services and APIs. Happy to answer questions!
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Turn Gtalk Into A Command Line for the Web With Zapier(zapier.com)
63 points by bryanh 13y ago|15 comments
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by bryanh 13y ago
Just did on the REST API suggestion! I noticed you mentioned a half-baked proof of concept, if you decide to publish the branch I wouldn't mind hacking on it. :-)
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by bryanh 13y ago
You guys have fixed every single frustration or oddity I experienced when playing with docker just a week or two ago: * localhost access. * re-attaching to terminal. * set your own port. Brilliant work guys!
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by bryanh 13y ago
Watch out for these Celery gotchas: 1. Tracking tasks status in SQL will result in a lot of queries! (Even when using Redis/RabbitMQ as brokers.) 2. Crontab style tasks are great... until they take a long time to complete and Celery kills
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by bryanh 14y ago
Yes, exactly.
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by bryanh 14y ago
Really? Asking people to pay earlier rather than later can only work with Zapier?
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by bryanh 14y ago
So, basically, that boils down to: I have a critical mass of paying users and I have to disappoint a small portion of them. I hope I'm not misrepresenting your comment because on the spectrum of problems afflicting early stage
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by bryanh 14y ago
This is very clever, I just tried it and was impressed. Streak, thanks for sharing all your clever technical hacks, I always enjoy reading them.
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by bryanh 14y ago
I do believe we support Redmine now, if we're missing something specific within Redmine, just let us know.
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by bryanh 14y ago
I will attest to the fact that Tuna is an excellent pomodoro style timer. Every couple hours it's time to go outside, regardless of your mood or state of mind. I used to worry that I was getting sidetracked at inopportune times, but I've le
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by bryanh 14y ago
Indeed, they can be: http://i.imgur.com/MVXeF8l.png
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Slack in the System(bryanhelmig.com)
9 points by bryanh 14y ago|0 comments

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