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by olegp 12y ago
If you want to know what it feels like when a Show HN post takes off, check out this blog post I wrote a while back: https://web.archive.org/web/20121030145412/http://blog.akshe... I have yet to reproduc
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by olegp 12y ago
Weird, worked for me; will fix. In the meantime please forward your email to jobs@helsinkijs.org - thanks!
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by olegp 12y ago
I can second that. Having interviewed a number of SaaS vendors as part of the customer development work we've been doing at StartHQ ( https://starthq.com ) it became apparent that some vendors are seeing as many as 60% of the
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by olegp 12y ago
Helsinki, Finland - full time, part time, VISA Omniata - http://www.omniata.com - Founded by a team of former Digital Chocolate and EA data leads, Omniata integrates analytics, CRM, CMS and A/B testing platforms into one so
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by olegp 12y ago
https://starthq.com - a browser extension that lets you search across all your cloud services, here's the API: https://starthq.com/developers
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Zendesk's first investor on how to spot a winner(forbes.com)
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by olegp 12y ago
Yeah, I hope Geekdom isn't affected. Best startup co-working space in SF IMO.
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by olegp 12y ago
Thanks, really appreciate the detailed feedback. There's an automated tweet sent out when an app is added to the directory. I presume you got notified of that via email. I've intentionally not emailed app owners directly as I thou
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by olegp 12y ago
Since we are on the topic of experimenting with the FF new tab page, it would be great to get the feedback of the HN community on this add-on that we've been working on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox&#x2
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by olegp 12y ago
There's a lot of great open positions for developers in Helsinki, Finland. Drop me a line at jobs@helsinkijs.org with your CV and I'd be happy to match you up with the right one for you.
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by olegp 12y ago
Co-routines are great! Have been using them as part of Common Node ( https://github.com/olegp/common-node ) via node-fibers for a number of projects. Both stability and performance have been admirable. For example at Sta
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by olegp 12y ago
Been working on adding new search providers to StartHQ cloud search. Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nqe7yy4ledz82hc/screenshot2.png API docs: https://github.com/starthq/search#readme S
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by olegp 12y ago
First couple of results should do what you want: https://starthq.com/apps/search?q=assets
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by olegp 12y ago
Might make sense to stick with JS to start with for the sake of simplicity. I actually wrote a Node.js PaaS that I never open sourced & periodic short lived jobs was one of my use-cases. Let's continue via email.
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by olegp 12y ago
This is the only service in this space I could find: https://starthq.com/apps/crondash It doesn't actually run the job but could be used to trigger them. I think the idea could work if you could write the tasks as
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by olegp 12y ago
Speaking of a "labs" feature, you should check out http://tai.st which offers "Labs as a Service".
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by olegp 13y ago
Great to see a number of alternative solutions emerging! We've been using BS3 with a patched version of AngularUI for a few months now without any problems at https://starthq.com . Using Angular with AngularUI means we no lo
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by olegp 13y ago
If you had to prioritize these, which would be your top three? Mine are "Search across multiple attributes", "Ranking" & "provide real results from the first keystroke", in that order. Would be great to kno
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by olegp 13y ago
+ http://starthq.com/apps/submit if it's B2B SaaS
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by olegp 13y ago
Yes! In fact, you can have a Mongo interface to Postgres. I've written just that for Node.js: https://github.com/olegp/pg-mongo/
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by olegp 13y ago
Nice to see New Tab Plus, a new tab replacement add on mentioned. We have a new tab replacement out as well as well. Unlike NTP, it's similar to the old style Chrome new tab page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/f
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by olegp 13y ago
Makes me want to do this to the 12MHz 286 I had as my first computer in 1990 as well. I still have it in storage. Any thoughts on how one would go about this? I guess one would need an ISA (IIRC) network interface and some DOS ethernet driv
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by olegp 13y ago
Have you looked at fibers? We've had a very good experience with them at https://starthq.com Here's a talk my co-founder Alex gave on it: http://youtu.be/pmyDJnEza6A
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by olegp 13y ago
Great! Mail sent.
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by olegp 13y ago
Looks great! We're doing almost exactly the same thing at https://starthq.com Some initial observations: - you have a much better UI for the directory - we have more data on the apps, which we pull in automatically via API
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by olegp 13y ago
Jan, was the conference where Yehuda avoided you Froscon a few years ago by any chance? I remember having a chat with him about the issues I was having with Mustache at the time and him hinting at solving all of them in his own project. We&
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by olegp 13y ago
Awesome! Let me enable some upcoming features like deep links and screens for you. I can also enable developer mode, if you want: https://github.com/starthq/search#starthq-search-api
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by olegp 13y ago
https://starthq.com - a web app launcher & new tab replacement extension - like the old Chrome new tab page, but better. What makes it cool is that we are implementing a number of desktop and mobile OS features, like multipl
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by olegp 13y ago
I'm curious: given the negativity of the comments why does the post have so many upvotes? Do people find the technical details interesting despite the privacy concerns? Either way, congrats to Martin, Sam and others on the launch. Gett
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by olegp 13y ago
I answered the same question recently on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Startups/What-are-some-cool-tech-compan... Hello to everyone else from Helsinki, Finland - we should organize a Hacker News meetup!

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