ebzlo

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1. 91.▲
   by ebzlo 14y ago

   In house! By me, so thanks! :)
2. 92.▲
   by ebzlo 14y ago

   Thanks!
3. 93.▲
   by ebzlo 14y ago

   Hello! 1. Los Angeles, CA. I didn't think snail mail was necessary, but I guess we could throw it on there. 2. We're basically analyzing students. Our content is aligned to the common core standards, so we can figure out what standards stud
4. 94.▲
   by ebzlo 14y ago

   Thanks! I guess it's not immediately apparent, the application itself is free. Our monetization strategy comes from content (we sell third party content in our store similar to Apple's App Store). This is still in the pipeline, however.
5. 95.▲
   by ebzlo 14y ago

   Every sheet of paper uniquely identifies the student and assignment. One thing we're going to do to make this less annoying is to remember the order the students' assignments were faxed in and just print it backwards the next time the teach
6. 96.▲
   by ebzlo 14y ago

   Yeah. That button is gone now. Took it down. We'll figure something out later.
7. 97.▲
   by ebzlo 14y ago

   PDFs should be generating now. Thanks! :)
8. 98.▲
   by ebzlo 14y ago

   Just got an email from Heroku, looks like they're not happy about that.
9. 99.▲
   by ebzlo 14y ago

   Checking. Edit: DNS hasn't resolved for our print server. We're going to hotfix it real quick.
10. 100.▲
    by ebzlo 14y ago

    You are correct! And they can be faxed to us as well. We just don't publicize it (yet).
11. 101.▲
    by ebzlo 14y ago

    Thanks! Yeah. Going to rework that. Lots of great feedback here.
12. 102.▲
    by ebzlo 14y ago

    In house solution--well, bundling together a couple of different open source libs (QR code detection, openCV).
13. 103.▲
    by ebzlo 14y ago

    Hey patio11! Funny thing, my co-founder and I were just talking about you and methodologies earlier last week (conversion rates and ab testing you do with BCC etc). We really hadn't thought about the vocabulary in the buttons there at all,
14. 104.▲
    by ebzlo 14y ago

    Thanks! Yeah, we don't use the word anywhere on our site, but figured it might be okay to use in the title of an HN post.
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    Show HN: We allow teachers to print out "Scantrons" and scan for results via fax(kiteedu.com)

    62 points by ebzlo 14y ago|47 comments
16. 106.▲
    by ebzlo 14y ago

    My co-founder and I launched our progress tracking tool for educators. It allows teachers to print out assignments that can be scanned via fax. We do the scanning and grading on our end automatically and spit the results out in analytics. C
17. 107.▲
    by ebzlo 14y ago

    Getting a new demo set up is going to be a little slow right now (didn't anticipate this much traffic).
18. 108.▲
    by ebzlo 14y ago

    We're planning to partner with publishers of textbooks, test prep materials, and question banks to sell their content in our marketplace (not yet launched). It works very similar to the apple app store where we take a cut of all sales. All
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    Show HN: Analytics of students in the classroom w/o expensive tech requirements.(kiteedu.com)

    15 points by ebzlo 14y ago|3 comments
20. 110.▲
    by ebzlo 15y ago

    My educational startup uses them in our printed assignments. Teachers fax completed tests to us and we can grade them by identifying the assignment through QR. Example: http://kiteedu.com/assets/print.jpg
21. 111.▲
    by ebzlo 15y ago

    Some info: We're entering a private beta in about a week. The analytics portion of the application is free, but we're also building a content distribution system (a sort of iBooks for question banks and assignments). Currently we have a sub
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    Show HN: Free student analytics for teachers and districts (try a demo)(kiteedu.com)

    2 points by ebzlo 15y ago|1 comments
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    Neat little feature with Ruby's Time object(ebzlo.com)

    5 points by ebzlo 15y ago|0 comments
24. 114.▲
    by ebzlo 15y ago

    Bootstrap does one very important thing. It raises the previously very, very low bar of a poorly designed website. Exceptional designers will always be exceptional designers; poor designers (engineers? :P) now have a tool to put them on an
25. 115.▲
    by ebzlo 15y ago

    This is cool, but ultimately worthless- even detrimental to security. The only problem this could possibly solve is that user has to wait for a reload before trying their password again. For an attacker, this becomes a lot easier break into
26. 116.▲
    by ebzlo 15y ago

    Or at the very least, host the images on your own server.
27. 117.▲
    by ebzlo 15y ago

    The bottleneck they overcome (that you don't) is that they get the user to download the app. Once a user has downloaded an app, it matters much less how much friction there is to start using it. It would take a lot to turn them away from us
28. 118.▲
    by ebzlo 15y ago

    Probably the least of most of everybody's concerns, but it doesn't look like you can get more than 10 points.
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    by ebzlo 15y ago

    Disclaimer: I'm Chinese-American (can read both). The example he gave is not a good one. I instantly recognized both words because the Chinese word for dragon is a single character and in English, words are separated by spaces. Often times,
30. 120.▲
    by ebzlo 15y ago

    I hate mini-usb, for some reason the fit has never been good for me. I'm fine with Apple's USB connector being the standard fit for our mobile devices. And this means if someone has a Samsung tablet at their house, I can charge my iPad.