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by bryanh 11y ago
How so? We have an skilled support team (including engineers) working with customers everyday which is what we think of as our primary human connection.
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by bryanh 11y ago
CTO / cofounder of Zapier here - I'm flying today but happy to answer any questions during layovers. I'm sure a bunch of the team is watching the thread too, so ask away!
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by bryanh 11y ago
Good observation! The article also covers that exact scenario - plus a solution called fencing which a proper locking system can help facilitate.
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by bryanh 11y ago
Zapier CTO/co-founder here. This is something we've been cooking up for a while and today I spend a ton of time writing one-off code snippets in Zapier instead of deploying it to AWS/Heroku/etc. Some of the things I do:
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Zero-Deploy Python and JavaScript Workflows by Zapier(zapier.com)
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by bryanh 11y ago
Great suggestion - thanks! I'll look into providing the POST body for inbound webhooks.
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by bryanh 11y ago
A quick primer: 1. We store a hashed unique id for polling deduplication for as long as your zap is on. We don't store "all" data for all items "seen" in this case. 2. The nice thing about polling is even if we miss
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by bryanh 11y ago
That is pretty clever. We also let you rewrite the "hook" - or shrink it - or even augment it!
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by bryanh 11y ago
We don't have any automated tools for combining zaps into multistep zaps right now - unfortunately. Seems like it could be useful though!
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by bryanh 11y ago
Likewise - Zapier co-founder/CTO here - really excited about this launch. It represents a complete re-build of our stack to support workflows. Pretty much anyone can build complex workflows from a pretty easy to use UI. To call this ou
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by bryanh 11y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11008851 .
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by bryanh 11y ago
The money quote: > Musk said that a rocket's first stage accounts for three-quarters of its total price tag, so a vehicle with a reusable first stage can be produced at far less cost — assuming the hardware is fully and rapidly reus
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by bryanh 11y ago
There is another interesting class of power storage called "pumped-storage hydroelectricity" [1] - for example - there is one in use in Missouri that actually burst in 2005 [2]. Li-ion batteries have a round-trip efficiency of 80-
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Zapier is looking for an API/Platform Engineer to work from anywhere(zapier.com)
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Zapier is looking for a front-end engineer to work from anywhere(zapier.com)
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Zapier is looking for a full-stack engineer to work from anywhere(zapier.com)
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by bryanh 11y ago
Link to thread from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9935357
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by bryanh 11y ago
Thanks so much for you and your team's work on Pipes - I'd be lying if I said it didn't inspire many parts of Zapier!
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by bryanh 11y ago
Aw man - that is sad. We at Zapier took great inspiration from Pipes, it was such a cool and powerful product! It was a shame to see it languish. I'd sure love to pick the brain of anyone formerly involved in the project - it seems lik
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Zapier (YC S12) is hiring remote full-stack and API engineers(zapier.com)
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by bryanh 12y ago
We often reuse previous job posts with various tweaks - I'll make sure to update the date with revisions/new cycles from here on out!
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by bryanh 12y ago
Zapier - REMOTE - full stack engineer. Zapier is a platform for connecting APIs via a simple UI. Most of our users don't even know what an API is. We have some really cool stuff coming this year that you can help us build. By full st
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by bryanh 12y ago
Zapier - full time - remote - javascript engineer. If you're a talented dev but not in one of the so-called "top" tech cities, you should definitely chat with us. We have some really interesting things we're working on
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by bryanh 12y ago
Actually, I think truly remote teams are just rare regardless of affiliation - we're YC, 20 employees, and only hire remote for all the reasons outlined in this thread and others.
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by bryanh 12y ago
Zapier hires 100% remote and it works beautifully for both sides. We're looking for javascript and full stack engineers - https://zapier.com/jobs/ .
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by bryanh 12y ago
If quality of code had a causal relation with success - that might be accurate. I'm not sure it does.
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by bryanh 12y ago
My frustration (and likely most people's frustration) isn't with the contractors - not at all. It's the politics that can change at the drop of a hat. The perceived effects of cancelled or scrapped missions is a lot of money
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by bryanh 12y ago
Call me cynical, but I feel like NASA won't end up shuttling humans to Mars. Instead, NASA will more likely be shuttling government money between various contractors before having the program cancelled in the far-future... Politics + e
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by bryanh 12y ago
That could also work too!
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by bryanh 12y ago
Cool idea! That might make it way more manageable for large groups.

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