james_impliu

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by james_impliu 7y ago
No affiliation, but I found Dash incredibly helpful for working offline: https://kapeli.com/dash . You can download the docs for most languages/frameworks AND you can download Stackoverflow by section in a way you can r
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This is a really cool idea. You could add a tag to feature request issues that it'd read from, maybe as a github app or something. I run an OS repo and it'd be really cool to be able to get through them all faster with a bit of mo
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by james_impliu 7y ago
We launched a 1:1 tool for sales managers that used predictive analytics to suggest which deals needed to be discussed (ie Deal X looks like it's stuck). The reason being, when I was a sales manager, I found people would naturally talk
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by james_impliu 7y ago
We have actually integrated Clickhouse already for this reason. We started with Postgres as it works well for smaller volumes, but we have this integration in a paid version.
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The business model for OS has been really tough historically, which probably has made raising money harder, so growing as rapidly as the SAAS companies therefore really hard. It's quickly becoming clear (GitLab/Mattermost/Sen
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We were debating applying it at a framework or query level but were nervous about this being harder to "clean up" conceptually - what would the equivalent of the "PostHog UX toolbar" need to look like to make that possib
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by james_impliu 7y ago
We have got the ability to do grouping in the backend at the moment, but the UI isn't quite there yet - we definitely want "team" level analytics as a good starting point as we've already had this question several times.
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- We had a good view of what to do product-wise - the key thing that is different for us is the open source model. - I'd stress how important it was feeling inspired by the idea. Ian from Mattermost was really helpful, as were Dalton
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by james_impliu 7y ago
Whilst Matomo and PostHog both provide analytics, Matomo are more focussed on session-tracking, rather than user/event-tracking. That means they’re better at things like analytics for traffic sources. The things you can do with PostHog
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Launch HN: PostHog (YC W20) – open-source product analytics
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At the moment, way more VC money is going into later stage deals as companies stay private longer... that is the chunk that if securitisation becomes mainstream , where VCs will have competition. The impact of this could be really fascinati
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by james_impliu 7y ago
- First-principles based reading. I fell into the easy trap of just reading business books that cover tactics. Read biographies of people who've accomplished a lot. Read how computers and electronics work at a more fundamental level, n
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Soft ideas aren't a good basis for a startup(jefhawkins.com)
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Sadly, no. The only thing was this: https://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/us-startup-visa-delayed-fallin... .
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by james_impliu 7y ago
I increasingly just use google to search sites I already know have better content than the web at large, since it so often feels like it sucks for any depth of information. Want to get in touch with someone? name job site:linkedin.com. Want
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by james_impliu 7y ago
I wrote this post because I struggled to understand why I was annoying my wife despite doing the hoovering. A little bit of research into the very basics of mental workload made me hope someone builds a wearable that tracks how hard you are
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The Mental Workload of Hoovering(jefhawkins.com)
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Had the same response but then spotted that there's a practise tab at the top!
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It is awesome seeing colours in context. I've so frequently rejigged the palette whilst building the website, so this would stop doing that. I'd love to be able to pick my own colours and to see how they look, instead of being bou
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by james_impliu 7y ago
Agreed - care is needed here! Curious if you can see a way that an automated functional test could pick up on the quality of design?
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I'm the founder of a startup that focusses on tech debt. (Context: mini survey app that sits in GitHub/Lab so the team can track what needs fixing) To underline the importance of what you're saying - one of the most interesti
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by james_impliu 7y ago
Two examples of rapid prototyping spring to mind: * Twitch, started as one guy streaming his life then they realised lots of gamers were watching, and that they'd like to be able to stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by james_impliu 7y ago
I recently created ad campaigns on Twitter/Facebook and Google for our startup. The dark patterns like this were shocking. They really taste of short term metric driven growth that doesn't consider "now I'm paying for cl
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by james_impliu 7y ago
Mixpanel was really frustrating in this regard
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As an FYI, car rental in Europe is a million times worse than my experiences in the US. I would be very motivated to try another way to do it. It is totally normal to have a 1-2 hour wait in the UK or France at most airports, for example.
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FYI My first reaction was that your proposition and name are (very) similar to troops.ai, who are quite well established doing Salesforce<>Slack.
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I wonder if this is evolutionary. For example - in the wild, choosing to fight something dangerous is a terrible idea. You run every time.
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Does anyone else always feel a weird HN specific fomo - "comments or content... I want both!"
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Google's robots.txt parser is misbehaving(distilled.net)
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by james_impliu 7y ago
Thank you - we ping engineers after each merge with a couple of questions, then can surface this feedback in retrospectives. I'll think of a way to make that more concise!

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