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by mayop100 5y ago
Thanks for the detailed thoughts! And for the kind words in here :) Re: team features -- we have Workspaces and Channels that let you solve many of the same use cases as Front. Check out our guide here including a quick video intro: https:
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by mayop100 5y ago
Many of us were Inbox users and miss it! We're trying to do more than Inbox did, but we were certainly inspired be it :)
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by mayop100 5y ago
We would very much like to support other services in the future. Rather than using IMAP, we integrate with Gmail's APIs from our servers. This allows us to have a new client-server protocol that supports a bunch of new stuff -- like fa
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Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox(shortwave.com)
224 points by mayop100 5y ago|123 comments
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by mayop100 5y ago
Shortwave | Software Engineers, PMs & Designers | Remote (US) or SF $125k-$225k+ base & equity Shortwave is rebuilding email from the ground up to have the features and UX of modern messaging apps. Our mission is to ensure the futur
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by mayop100 5y ago
Shortwave | Software Engineers & Product Designers | Remote (US) or SF $130k-$220k+ base & equity Shortwave is rebuilding email from the ground up to have the features and UX of a modern messaging app. Our mission is to ensure the f
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by mayop100 5y ago
The url https://.to also works, but HN apparently doesn't support emoji domain names...
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Shortwave Snail Mail(shortwavesnailmail.com)
23 points by mayop100 5y ago|15 comments
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by mayop100 5y ago
Shortwave | Software Engineers & Designers | Remote (US) or SF | $125k-$210k+ base & equity Shortwave is rebuilding email from the ground up to have the features and UX of a modern messaging app. I previously cofounded Firebase (YC
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by mayop100 5y ago
(Shortwave founder / previously Firebase founder here) Thanks for the love Hacker News! Our blog post covers the mission of the company: https://www.shortwave.com/blog/future-of-messaging/ We’re not just tryi
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Journalistic ethics prevented me from being a Bitcoin millionaire(rethinking.news)
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Why I'm Starting a Newsletter(rethinking.news)
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by mayop100 6y ago
Subspace | Mobile / full-stack | SF | Remote I'm one of the Firebase founders. We have a team of 11 mostly ex-Firebasers working on a new product. We're still stealth so can't share the details, but it's cool I prom
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by mayop100 6y ago
The drivers want 22. Overwhelmingly. Let them work!
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by mayop100 6y ago
Drivers deserve to be able to make their own choices about what work they want to do. Yes on 22!
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by mayop100 7y ago
The title is inaccurate. This does not require a backdoor. The agreement changes nothing about the use of encryption. https://twitter.com/mmasnick/status/1177979730932297728?s=21
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by mayop100 7y ago
I’m sorry you feel I was arrogant. I really do want to hire people “that I like and wanted to work with” though. I would hope most managers do. FWIW we never technically interviewed internal transfers inside Google (we counted on Google’s n
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by mayop100 7y ago
Ahh, I understand what you're saying. My blog post goes through the process for inbound candidates, which accounted for the majority of our hiring. We did actively try to poach folks as well. I spent literally 4 years trying to recruit
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by mayop100 7y ago
[author here] If you're already happy with your current job, and we can't convince you that our company is potentially a much better opportunity for you, then this is working as intended. Interviews are expensive for the company t
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by mayop100 7y ago
Well, then perhaps the test is working as intended! Candidates who aren't sufficiently excited about your company will drop out at this stage.
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by mayop100 7y ago
We did the phone screen and the take-home test and asked them to come in for the on-site interview before asking for references. So this was pretty late in the process.
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by mayop100 7y ago
That's a different problem than the one we used. We added some additional complexity that required a search of the entire solution space to get a provably optimal answer, and then we made the maps & allowed # of moves large enough
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by mayop100 7y ago
The problem with interviews that rely on discussions of experience alone is that they aren't effective. It's easy for candidates to exaggerate or misrepresent their accomplishments. This is especially true when they worked on larg
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by mayop100 7y ago
[author here] I actually agree with your thesis! You're right that candidates are only willing to put in this level of effort if they are really interested and consider your company a "top 5%" big opportunity. So it's cr
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by mayop100 7y ago
The alternative to a take-home test is on-site interviews with white board problems. These also take (unpaid) time and are timed (you have until the end of the interview). Doing this part of the interview at-home rather than in-person gives
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by mayop100 7y ago
Yes, we definitely had false negatives. It's always hard to be sure if you made a mistake though -- someone might be super successful at another company but not work out well at yours. I'm sure we made mistakes, though I don'
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by mayop100 7y ago
[author here] Hi all - I hope you find this useful! If you have questions or want to know more I’m hosting a live stream Q&A today on Twitter at 1 PM Pacific. Tune in and bring your interviewing and hiring questions! I'm @startupan
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by mayop100 7y ago
The Gold Fig founders know what they're talking about here. Vikrum ran devops for Firebase from the first server in 2011 up to millions of users after the Google acquisition. Greg was the TL for the Firebase Realtime Database, our flag
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by mayop100 7y ago
Needs a website you say? I own pineappleday.org. Hit me up on Twitter if you want to help make it : )
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by mayop100 7y ago
(Pineapple Day founder here :-P) Thanks for the love HN! Don't forget to set that calendar reminder for yourself for next June 27th! (and set to repeat annually, of course)!

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