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by jenthoven 8y ago
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A female engineer's opinion on why there are fewer women in tech(kapwing.com)
167 points by jenthoven 8y ago|444 comments
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Is your idea good enough to start up? Lessons since leaving Google(kapwing.com)
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by jenthoven 9y ago
Damn, 3.5 million users?? Congratulations. That's a lot of lightning rods.
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by jenthoven 9y ago
[Julia again] Y'all should read the article! These examples of "lightning striking" absolutely happens to people that don't work hard for it. But knowing and appreciating the role of chance doesn't mean that hard wo
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by jenthoven 9y ago
[This is Julia, the OC] In some ways, this article is a response to this sentiment. It's true that luck is an important factor, but you can make your own luck through hard work. Being successful with startups is not like winning the lo
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by jenthoven 9y ago
When I was in college, I interviewed for an internship with the CIA. The 2012 interview was for a 2014 summer internship, and they told me I couldn’t smoke pot between now and then. Given how many talented coders I knew at Stanford who had
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Luck and startups: Our journey(kapwing.com)
116 points by jenthoven 9y ago|39 comments
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Fundraising: A conversation with myself(kapwing.com)
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Google Image Search adds captions below images(blog.google)
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by jenthoven 9y ago
Hey, we're using a basic MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node) and using FFMPEG on the back end
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by jenthoven 9y ago
This is Julia, the OC. I'm glad it was helpful! I've noticed that international (outside of the US) users especially tend to look for Paypal or alternatives to CC. Something to keep in mind.
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by jenthoven 9y ago
[This is Julia, the OC]: We started integrating with Paypal and basically gave up because of the engineering effort required. Vs Stripe, which has a great web and iOS app and has been seamless from day 1.
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by jenthoven 9y ago
[This is Julia, the OC] If you're interested, we wrote a blog post on why we included the "I don't want to pay" option and our reflection on the results. It's the first blog article on our website. Also the fact tha
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by jenthoven 9y ago
Google Accounts are free and simple to create, so if a user doesn't want to "link everything together" they can create a new separate account that they only use for Kapwing. Plus, we're aren't "linking" to
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Unexpected challenges of making money on the internet(kapwing.com)
359 points by jenthoven 9y ago|161 comments
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Life After Google: A Comparison to Startup Life(hackernoon.com)
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by jenthoven 9y ago
This is an awesome cheat sheet. I’ve been struggling with the constant aspect ratio problem!
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by jenthoven 9y ago
Right, but isn’t this true about many other fields that women do go into, like art, design, medicine, journalism, earth sciences, finance, research, etc? In these fields, the “meat” of the job is also analytical and done alone, but they’re
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by jenthoven 9y ago
No I do not. You should not draw rigorous scientific conclusions of any kind from this article, as I say in the post haha.
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by jenthoven 9y ago
A few thoughts from Julia (the OC) 24 hours after this post caught on: 1. Thank you all for the kind words and thoughts - The Kapwing chat box has been full of supportive and kind messages this morning. 2. I didn’t intend to solicit pity;
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by jenthoven 9y ago
Hey this is Julia, the post’s author. Sorry there’s no legend; I kind of included it in the title of the graph but orange was “Rude or trolling messages” and blue was “Sexual harassment or heckling”
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by jenthoven 9y ago
Yes, I'm using the word "messages" loosely in the article. Here, "messages" = message threads or sessions. - We got 2,100 message threads over the last three months. - We got 14 message threads or abusive sessions p
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by jenthoven 9y ago
We didn't include "Go away" or "get out of my way" or even "shut up" in the count of rude messages. I only counted messages where a user swore, called me a name, or said something clearly aggressive or mea
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by jenthoven 9y ago
>>Why bring up some other site? Sorry for not being clear. "Drift" is the name of the messaging widget we use to support Kapwing's chat bot. If a user responds to the welcome message on Kapwing, they're automatical
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by jenthoven 9y ago
No - I counted each thread separately. A "burst of messages" counts as 1
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by jenthoven 9y ago
Yes, I noticed that people hated when they thought they were talking to a bot. [This is Julia, the OC.] Sometimes I would respond to a sequence of four or five messages from a user, and they would immediately stop messaging, as if they didn
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by jenthoven 9y ago
Hey - I totally agree it can be annoying, especially since Drift asks users to enter their email address and people are worried about spam. So it’s a tradeoff between annoyance at the pop up and the support users get when they have problems
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by jenthoven 9y ago
Right. I was a PM on Google Image Search and, from what I experienced on the team, would assume this is related to the Getty Relationship, not for users’ benefit
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by jenthoven 9y ago
My comment was in response to your initial point that "“Many girls decide at around age 12 ... to get a husband that will do all the heavy lifting". I don't think it's because they're "smarter" because in

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