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by dougzor 9y ago
TetraScience | Senior Software Engineers | Boston,MA | On-site, Full-time TetraScience is a Boston-based SaaS company and rapidly growing startup that is applying the Internet of Things (IoT) playbook to lab research. We build both hardware
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by dougzor 9y ago
TetraScience | Lead Backend Engineer, Lead DevOps Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer | $100k - $160k + equity | Boston | ONSITE | http://tetrascience.com TetraScience is a Boston-based SaaS company and rapidly growing startup that is
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by dougzor 10y ago
Lola [ https://www.lolatravel.com ] | Boston | Full Time | Onsite We’re a new kind of travel company that provides on-demand, personal travel service through a smartphone app. The Lola app instantly connects people to our team of
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Show HN: Lola – Instant access to a personal travel service(lolatravel.com)
7 points by dougzor 10y ago|0 comments
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by dougzor 11y ago
Lola Travel Company - http://lolatravel.com/ | Web & Server Developers | Boston, MA and Westford, MA | Full-time | On-site Lola Travel is a well-funded team that is looking to build the next great travel company in Bost
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Blade Travel acquires hopOn(medium.com)
6 points by dougzor 11y ago|0 comments
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by dougzor 11y ago
BLADE - http://blade.net | Web Developer | Boston, MA and Westford, MA | Full-time | On-site Blade is a well-funded team, currently in stealth, that is looking to build the next great travel company, in Boston. We hire for the
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by dougzor 12y ago
That's a really good point - we're just trying to make sure that bad actors can't be spammy and create accounts they have access to for lots of people without their approval (hence the approval step). It's very possible
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by dougzor 12y ago
Just did a search from Oslo to Montreal, and do see some Iceland air options (see link below). https://www.hopon.com/add/flight/results#dates=2015-06-10%2C... In terms of how to book group/family trips ther
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by dougzor 12y ago
It's actually a fairly complicated business development process - we make money the same way the other travel booking/OTA (online travel agency) sites like Expedia/Orbitz do, but we think our differentiation is the simplicity
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by dougzor 12y ago
So fundamentally we think we have built a better Expedia, that also happens to have a lot of social features. The core value of the site is that it's a much simpler way to plan a trip than currently exists. If you happen to be travel
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by dougzor 12y ago
Thanks! Choose Backbone.js mostly because of personal experience in using it beforehand/being comfortable with it.
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by dougzor 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback! 1) Once you create a trip - just click the big red "Invite" button on the right side (desktop site) and you'll get options to invite friends/colleagues by email, share a link where people can see
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by dougzor 12y ago
For flights, we're plugged into exactly the same systems (called GDS's or Global Distribution Systems, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Distribution_System ) that Expedia, Orbitz, etc use for flights. For
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by dougzor 12y ago
Thanks! Importing existing bookings from other sites (tripit style) is a feature that we have been working on for a while. Not quite ready for prime time yet, but we'll get there!
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by dougzor 12y ago
Thanks for the comment! We are plugged into exactly the same systems for flight booking that Expedia, Orbitz, etc use for flights, so our prices are identical in 95%+ of the cases. Yes - we're planning an Android app, but for now we ha
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by dougzor 12y ago
While what we've built works great for consumer groups, it goes way beyond that. We've also built: * Small/medium business features ( https://www.hopon.com/why/business ) * Features for recurring solo trip
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by dougzor 12y ago
Yep - "social travel" has earned a bad reputation because previous companies haven't delivered on the promise of being able to easily book travel with friends and colleagues. We've spent the last year and a half buildin
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Show HN: HopOn – Simple and Social Way to Book Travel(hopon.com)
43 points by dougzor 12y ago|24 comments
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by dougzor 12y ago
We use pyramid+gunicorn+nginx without any issue. Behind that is SQLAlchemy & Postgres (with memcached for caching layer) I know that SurveyMonkey also uses the pyramid+nginx setup. Edit: Pyramid Documentation: http://docs.pyl
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by dougzor 12y ago
Congrats to Yash and the gang, great to see some GT grads doing exciting things!
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by dougzor 12y ago
hopOn - San Francisco, CA (SOMA) - Senior Visual Designer hopOn (hopon.com) is a brand new startup in the social travel booking space. We've raised a seed round from top-tier investors. The founders have an excellent track record of bu
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by dougzor 13y ago
hopOn - San Francisco, CA (SOMA) - Full Time - Mobile & Web developers hopOn (hopon.com) is a brand new startup in the social travel booking space. We've just raised a seed round from top-tier investors. The founders have an excell
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by dougzor 13y ago
hopOn - San Francisco, CA (SOMA) - Full Time - Mobile & Web developers hopOn (hopon.com) is a brand new startup in the social travel booking space. We've just raised a seed round from top-tier investors. The founders have an excell
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by dougzor 13y ago
Congrats guys! Speaking from SurveyMonkey's perspective, we're very happy customers :)
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by dougzor 13y ago
Having worked with Kevin for 2 years at SurveyMonkey, he'll make a great addition to YC, congrats Kevin!
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by dougzor 14y ago
Palo Alto, CA - full-time, SurveyMonkey, Mobile Software Engineer We are seeking a seasoned mobile developer to become the first hire in our brand-spanking-new mobile team to help define, design and support our growing communication appli
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by dougzor 14y ago
This reminds me some of WeBike: http://webikedoyou.com/ Regardless, glad to see some fellow Yellow Jackets doing well! Good luck guys!
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by dougzor 15y ago
At it's core Lamson is just a really sweet wrapper around smtpd ( http://docs.python.org/library/smtpd.html ) using asyncore for asynchronous socket IO. When a mail is received you can optionally process it and when done processing you can