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nate
7,926karma·1,070submissions·October 10, 2006
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YC alum. Founded Inkling and Draft. Ran Highrise. Founding engineer at Census (acquired by Fivetran)
https://ninjasandrobots.com
I'm working on https://allihat.com, https://pageforth.com, and more. If I can be helpful at all with anything, please hit me up on X (@natekontny) or email me anytime (nate.kontny+hn@gmail.com).
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Another way I like to look at this is to define Innovation in a bit of a different way then most people think about it. If you think about Innovation as simply "removing steps from a process"…
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Thanks! Yeah, exactly. Even put in the work and a little but of money to create a slightly fancy icon. Called it Somersault to convey how easy it was now to switch lenses, and the icon was a camera so…
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Ran into the exact same problem with a very simple camera app I made. Camera app was completely gesture based. So you never had to find a button to quickly flip the camera to the other side of the pho…
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Thanks for this! This explains so much. I've been allergic to various sunscreens for years, and now I see why :)
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There's a book I love to send people: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001REFRZG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect (old school. no kindle. just hardcover. :) ) "Something Really Ne…
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There's a series called The Movies That Made Us, and the thing that stuck with me, is that so many of these movies have the constant theme: a million things came up lucky for these movies to have…
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Definitely. But super helpful in a pinch when we all begin these very large email threads as soon as slack is down. :)
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One fun thing we discovered an outage or two ago: Zoom, which is likely already on your computer too, has a very Slack-like Chat feature. Open up the Zoom app, then click the Chat icon in the top head…
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This reminds me of something I stumbled onto in grade school. In 7th grade, a teacher upset me for some reason I can't even remember. But being a brat, I went through this phase where I decided t…
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I got such a kick out of my 7 year old at my grandparents. We turned on some random movie that was half way through and she said: "Oh, let's watch this, start it from the beginning." Wh…
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Thank you. Oh for sure. (for people not familiar) So we took Highrise over a bit after that announcement, and that was almost an impossible thing to overcome. It was hemorrhaging customers. It was alw…
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Thank you!
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It's tough to get it all down here in a comment. Maybe now this is all out I'll share more in some channels soon. I will say that last comment in Casey's article: “They don't want …
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When they DHH+Jason laid the 7 of us off from Highrise (the Basecamp CRM spin-off) no one even showed up online to say anything to us on our last day. Just the Head of Devops to turn off our access to…
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This just dropped, but someone's already got 5.8 million cookies. Someone on here perhaps? :)
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Love stuff like this. It feels like we're close to some really interesting things here but I haven't quite seen it yet. Facebook/Apple have their "auto movies" but they'r…
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Congrats y'all! Looks interesting. One use case I believe you're talking about that I'd love to see even more fleshed out is the tool to find the interesting clips for me? I'd love…