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by jchoong 3mo ago
The why and what of any business capability is also a translation. From market needs and signals to requirements and features.
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by jchoong 5y ago
There were definitely bad actors in the pandemic PPE procurement rush. It's mostly cleaned up now (prices/availability are more reasonable) but we would start to see all the lawsuits/investigations come forth from the activit
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by jchoong 5y ago
Cheqout (YC W21) | San Francisco, CA We're an in-person ordering & payments platform for restaurants and hiring for engineering & sales. We've raised enough that we are doubling our team. Engineering: 1 mobile, 1 front-end
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by jchoong 5y ago
Cheqout (YC W21) | Elixir / React | San Francisco, US | Full-Time We're an in-person ordering & payments platform for restaurants, just finished YC and have raised a few million $ to support our rapid growth. We're alread
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by jchoong 6y ago
Cheqout YC W21 | Elixir Engineer | Full-time | San Francisco | https://cheqout.com Cheqout provides in-person ordering and payment for local businesses starting with restaurants. We are now at 150+ locations & growing our re
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by jchoong 6y ago
Cheqout YC W21 | Sales & Engineering | San Francisco Bay Area / New York | https://www.cheqout.co Cheqout is an in-person ordering & payments platform. Our first vertical helps the restaurant industry by increasing
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by jchoong 6y ago
Cheqout.co (YC W21 (current batch)) | https://cheqout.co | San Francisco Bay Area, will consider same time zone remote In-person dining ordering & payments platform. Post-revenue. We're seeing rapid revenue growth as ar
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by jchoong 6y ago
Been helping a 501c3 charity buy PPE for donation send to individual healthcare workers. https://www.humankindnow.org (work is still ongoing. After starting with hospitals/critical zones/etc we've now started wi
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by jchoong 7y ago
No need if you can have the drive unit changed just off the highway in a well mapped/instrumented yard. eg. highway (fully automated truck) <> yard (switch out container/trailer from self-driving truck to manned/normal
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by jchoong 7y ago
Starting up: expect lots of discomfort. There's so much bigCo support you have to re-build and it is hard to hire. It might be better to spend 6mths - 1yr at A/B stage co first then only to the founder stage. Alt, try doing someth
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by jchoong 7y ago
Grab | Senior Engineers + Other Opportunities | Seattle, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines | ONSITE Help drive Southeast Asia forward. We've raised $8 Billion to provide transportation, logistics and financial servic
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by jchoong 8y ago
200 coming in cold is too high without a solid record / examples / focused vertical. Have paid 200/hr easily and was happy for a 2 month project with a specific scope ( needed a solid RN<>iOS/Android bridge w. a li
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Ori – Robotic transformation of interior spaces(orisystems.com)
125 points by jchoong 10y ago|48 comments
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Return of incandescent light bulbs as MIT makes them more efficient than LEDs(telegraph.co.uk)
16 points by jchoong 11y ago|1 comments
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China's Klout for 1.3 billion people(cnn.com)
2 points by jchoong 11y ago|0 comments
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by jchoong 11y ago
In the spirit of hacking to make things better(while waiting for Slack to launch their feature...) I bolted on message threading onto Slack. It consists of a two part effort. First using the Slack api to overlay a reference map on to all me
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Show HN: Hacking message threading into Slack(talkhq.com)
5 points by jchoong 11y ago|1 comments
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by jchoong 11y ago
This "They'd need to solve payment collection;" is an intriguing problem if it is still present. The spate of startups (doordash/postmates/et.al) solves the problem (and more) but I certainly wonder if there's
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by jchoong 11y ago
I'ld add that drone delivery for takeout would be a nice win, given that most restaurants that deliver are already limited to nearby locations and speed is desired. With a proviso that it might be easier in a suburban situation to begi
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by jchoong 11y ago
yeah.. the beauty of the rocket cost asymmetry means they only need to do it 'sometimes' and not all the time to drastically reduce launch costs. (75% of cost is in the first stage, fuel costs are 0.3%)
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by jchoong 11y ago
We have a prototype threading implementation for Slack. Drop a line to <hn username> @gmail.com if interested to test.
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by jchoong 11y ago
+1. Having something that can use the existing rail infrastructure in off periods would be great as a transitional adoption method. That way you have time to address the institutional jitters while still providing/proving real service.
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by jchoong 11y ago
In the 4 minute / 40 people scenario, you're only talking about 10 people every minute. 10 pods stationed at that stop solves it. Now, everyone doesn't wait 3-4 minutes. They just get on the next available pod. Remember, peop
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by jchoong 11y ago
This has a great (and updated) set of links for all PRT efforts http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/prtquick.htm
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by jchoong 13y ago
Booster.com – Boston,MA – Full-time, permanent – http://www.booster.com Booster is the new way to raise money for your cause, passion, or project. There are few startups that actually have a good cause, a sound business and grea
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by jchoong 13y ago
Boston, MA - Campaigns, by CustomInk (we will have a new name in 5 days!) http://campaign.customink.com Think of it as "Kickstarter for Causes". We're a spin-out from CustomInk where a strong corporate parent allo
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Care & Feeding of Grumpy Software Engineers(nczonline.net)
2 points by jchoong 14y ago|0 comments
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by jchoong 15y ago
Why isn't this built as an app on the iphone/droid/ipad? e.g. App with say 4 modes of customer, waiter, kitchen & restaurant. Customer mode:: order =before= you get to the restaurant, book a table, pre-assigned seating, bill split, rate
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by jchoong 16y ago
There are few other world changing endeavors that can match the scalability of impact of the Khan Academy. Haven't encountered it, but would be great to see translations done on a larger scale to touch the wider world. Additionally, perhaps