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De-Location Package: Keep Your Career and Live Beyond the Bay Area(zapier.com)
327 points by bryanh 10y ago|184 comments
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by bryanh 10y ago
Back in the early days of Zapier I remember we always made explicit our grandfathering clause for users who gave pricing feedback. Same for any eventual pricing changes
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by bryanh 10y ago
We manage many Google integrations and they had a large number of failed auth tokens during the same window. I'm guessing it was related - but no details have been shared yet.
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by bryanh 10y ago
You do not need to pay for a Zapier account to do something as simple as HN -> Slack unless you have hundreds of HN mentions a month.
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by bryanh 10y ago
I believe we've settled on Quip - we used to be Hackpad. I think Dropbox Paper would be quite nice too (but was too nascent when we were searching ~6 months ago).
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by bryanh 10y ago
160 employees remote is impressive and commendable. Zapier is fully remote as well (but half the size in employee count). I'd say "write everything down" is a great shortcut to the sorts of practices you need to cultivate. We
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by bryanh 10y ago
Zapier has custom Code steps (Javascript & Python): https://zapier.com/help/code/ https://zapier.com/help/code-python/
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by bryanh 10y ago
I'd suggest a "Car Talk" or "Ask This Old House" style call-in, submit-a-question format. Short, diverse segments that are listener guided (though sometimes the shows will have other prepped segments). These often b
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by bryanh 10y ago
git checkout master git merge --squash some-feature-branch
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by bryanh 10y ago
Their API is down too - started slowing down at 2016-11-07T05:44:52Z and went offline in earnest at 2016-11-07T05:47:37Z. As you can imagine - we have a lot of analytics on this sort of stuff at Zapier. :-) Usually we know about API outages
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by bryanh 10y ago
You could always do something like: const maybe = await fetch(url).catch(err => err); But, I can understand that being a bit icky for some... but in a few cases it could make sense and is pretty concise: const hits = await c
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by bryanh 10y ago
Massive bummer - Slava and Mike and the team were super top-notch. RethinkDB will always be my goto to explain the delta between a great and a poor first experience for any dev tool.
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by bryanh 10y ago
Zapier CTO here - I had no idea I needed this so badly until we built it during a full company retreat to Whistler, BC. Basically - it lets you trigger any workflow from anywhere on the web. I have it doing Hubot style things (like `zapbot
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Show HN: A Chrome Extension for 500+ APIs, Powered by Zapier(zapier.com)
12 points by bryanh 10y ago|1 comments
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by bryanh 10y ago
Zapier | Earth | REMOTE ONLY Zapier is a 100% remote, profitable startup that connects over 700 different SaaS services' APIs with a "Lego-like" user-friendly UI. • Frontend Engineer - React, ES6, etc. - https://za
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by bryanh 10y ago
If marketing is a primary focus - a classic technique is to comment on relevant threads in your category - filtered RSS feeds from Quora, StackOverflow, Google Alerts, HN, Reddit, etc. It only takes a second to review a thread and see if yo
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by bryanh 10y ago
This is true and a very good point.
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by bryanh 10y ago
I definitely think there will be a gentle trend of tech moving away from Silicon Valley - perhaps not by people/organizations "leaving SV" - instead, people/organizations not "moving to SV". The center of mass
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by bryanh 10y ago
For those curious about his recordings, search "Rudy Van Gelder" on Spotify or similar - there are many remastered tracks tagged as his. Definitely worth a listen.
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by bryanh 10y ago
Immediately QuickCheck comes to mind ( https://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck ). Folks have written (possibly less powerful) implementations in Python ( https://github.com/HypothesisWorks/hypo
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by bryanh 10y ago
It does fix those issues.
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by bryanh 10y ago
Maybe something like a Django, Rails, etc. DEBUG=True dev server - they tend to poll for file changes which could really tax your osxfs implementation at "idle".
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by bryanh 10y ago
Thanks for the reassurance - I figured this was the case!
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by bryanh 10y ago
I've noticed some pretty extreme performance penalties with Docker for Mac. Wherein VirtualBox would spin <60% CPU idling a bunch of services (MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch, Memcached, several Python daemons) - Docker for Ma
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by bryanh 11y ago
Don't forget https://github.com/blog/2111-issue-and-pull-request-template... - even for private repos it really has changed the way we do bug reporting (for the better).
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by bryanh 11y ago
Less of an issue than you'd think with one simple trick: jitter. :-) Or, we don't guarantee you job runs at 0,5,10,15,etc - we guarantee it runs close to that interval over a day.
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by bryanh 11y ago
Thanks for the comment - that was a nice explanation. We will see what we can do!
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by bryanh 11y ago
Definitely understandable - I appreciate you keeping an eye on us! Hopefully we will deliver that value for you someday.
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by bryanh 11y ago
You'll find most successful business folks don't obsess over tool selection - good enough is good enough, customers don't care about code quality, etc. Engineers (myself included) tend to want to compare tools and pick the be
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by bryanh 11y ago
Two way syncing with our ethos of mass connections would be very difficult - not that we are against it - we'd love to support more update actions vs only create actions. The devil is in the details there - but don't expect Zapier

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