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Co-founder, CTO at Pace.
For sure. They are both a shit-ton of work, but so far it has been well-worth it. Can think of any other way I'd rather spend my time. Just wish I knew more folks going through the same thing.
Clinc | Ann Arbor & SF | Onsite, Full-time | https://clinc.com
Clinc builds the world's most advanced conversational AI platform. We partner with enterprise companies to create new experiences in messengers, mobile apps, call centers, the drive-thru, and more!
Our team includes top researchers in systems & AI, and engineers that have scaled software at Facebook and Google. We're a post-series A startup that has raised $8M, and we are growing quickly in both team & revenue.
We have several roles open in our downtown Ann Arbor HQ as well as in our SF office in Fidi:
* Software Engineer, Full-Stack Web
* Software Engineer, Mobile
* Software Engineer, Infrastructure
* Solutions Engineer
Learn more and apply at: https://clinc.com/careers.html
Clinc | Ann Arbor & SF | Onsite, Full-time | https://clinc.com
Clinc builds the world's most advanced conversational AI platform. We partner with enterprise companies to create new experiences in messengers, mobile apps, call centers, the drive-thru, and more!
Our team includes top researchers in systems & AI, and engineers that have scaled software at Facebook and Google. We're a post-series A startup that has raised $8M, and we are growing quickly in both team & revenue.
We have several roles open in our downtown Ann Arbor HQ as well as in our SF office in Fidi:
* Software Engineer, Machine Learning
* Software Engineer, Web
* Software Engineer, Mobile
* Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Learn more and apply at: https://clinc.com/careers.html
Clinc | Ann Arbor & SF | Onsite, Full-time | https://clinc.com
Clinc builds the world's most advanced conversational AI platform.
Our team includes top researchers in systems & AI, and engineers that have scaled software at Facebook and Google. We're a post-series A startup that has raised $8M. We are growing quickly (team & revenue!), and we're partnered with some of the world's largest financial institutions.
We have several roles open in our downtown Ann Arbor HQ as well as in our SF office in Fidi:
* Software Engineer, Machine Learning
* Software Engineer, Web
* Software Engineer, Mobile
* Software Engineer, Infrastructure
* Product Designer
* Project Manager
Clinc | Ann Arbor & SF | Onsite, Full-time | https://clinc.com
Clinc builds the world's most advanced conversational AI platform.
Our team includes top researchers in systems & AI, and engineers that have scaled software at Facebook and Google. We're a post-series A startup that has raised $8M. We are growing quickly (team & revenue!), and we're partnered with some of the world's largest financial institutions.
We have several roles open in our downtown Ann Arbor HQ as well as in our SF office in Fidi:
* Software Engineer, Machine Learning
* Software Engineer, Web
* Software Engineer, Mobile
* Software Engineer, Infrastructure
* Product Designer
* Project Manager
Learn more and apply at: https://clinc.com/careers.html
Clinc | Software Engineers | Ann Arbor & SF | Onsite, Full-time & Internships | https://clinc.com
Clinc builds the world's most advanced conversational AI.
Our team includes top researchers in systems & AI, and engineers that have scaled software at Facebook and Google. We're a post-series A startup that has raised $8M. We are growing quickly (team & revenue!), and we're partnered with some of the world's largest financial institutions.
We have several engineering roles open in our downtown Ann Arbor HQ as well as in our SF office in Fidi:
* Full-stack software engineer
* Data scientist
* Front-end web engineer
Learn more and apply at: https://clinc.com/careers.html
Clinc | Software Engineers | Ann Arbor & SF | Onsite, Full-time & Internships | https://clinc.com
Clinc builds the world's most advanced conversational AI.
Our team includes top researchers in systems & AI, and engineers that have scaled software at Facebook and Google. We're a post-series A startup that has raised $8M. We are growing quickly (team & revenue!), and we're partnered with some of the world's largest financial institutions.
We have several engineering roles open in our downtown Ann Arbor HQ as well as in our SF office in Fidi:
* Full-stack software engineer
* Data scientist
* Front-end web engineer
* iOS engineer
* Android engineer
Learn more and apply at: https://clinc.com/careers.html
Clinc | Software Engineers | Ann Arbor & SF | Onsite, Full-time & internships | https://clinc.com
Clinc builds the world's most advanced conversational AI for enterprise companies. We're a post-series A startup that has raised $8M, growing quickly (team & revenue!), and is partnered with some of the largest financial institutions around the globe.
We have several engineering roles open in our downtown Ann Arbor HQ as well as in our SF office in Fidi:
* Full-stack software engineer
* Data scientist
* Front-end web engineer
* iOS engineer
* Android engineer
Empirically, www seems to have won -- a large fraction of the top consumer sites online have picked it. One could make UI/UX-type arguments for no-www, but I sites like Facebook and Pinterest have some of the best UI/UX people in the world, and have still picked www.
What is this the case? What is the top reasons for www? Is it the cookie thing? I've heard that www lets you play DNS trics also, but haven't seen more details on this.
I'd love to hear more about this choice from people who understand the decisions at top Internet companies.
Sorry, not in the near future.
If you look into the Twitter API and have some experience fetching and parsing websites, it isn't too bad. If you don't, its a fun learning experience :)
Hey HN! My friend Leslie and I created Venture News to easily keep up-to-date with the buzz in the VC community. It is great for people who are interested in VC/startups but don't use Twitter, follow all the VCs on Twitter, or have time to keep up with their timeline.
Since a good fraction of y'all keeps up w/ VC and startup news, it'd be helpful to hear your thoughts and suggestions!
Some friends and I all think Daft Punk is pretty awesome, and have been imagining what a collaborative multimedia shrine to Daft Punk might look like. What if there was one place online created by the fans to represent Daft Punk media/culture? What would it look like? What would it feel like?
This is our first take at it, and we'd love to hear your thoughts, questions, and critiques..
100% agree on How to Win Friends and Influence People. Classic book. The title makes the book sound dubious, but it really isn't.
Friendship is a two-way street. If you learn someone is terrible, you can choose not to be friends with them.
I've been building Soulmix [1], an online tool for organizing and sharing great stuff on the web.
I use it every day. Most content isn't notable enough that I would want to come back to it, or keep notes on it. However, a few times a day, I stumble across something that I really like, and then post it to on Soulmix [2].
If you want to give the beta a spin, just request an invite, and I'll send one to your email.
I know what you are saying, but as a new blogger, I understand how it can be difficult to get stuff out. If I had to choose, I'd rather more people write their stories, even if the writing quality isn't that good. In general, I can pick up what bloggers are trying to say, and over time, they tend to get better.
Enjoyed the write-up Thomas -- thanks for opening up about what happened, and look forward to part 2.
I added this to a list of startup postmortems I've been keeping notes on: http://www.soulmix.com/remix/363
(I should probably disclose that I building Soulmix also :)
Nir Eyal behavior design work includes an interesting thought on this: apps that are vitamins can become painkillers.
If you haven't gone through his slide deck, I'd highly recommend it. He goes through the vitamin/painkiller part pretty early in the slide deck.
Cool, just signed up and submitted Soulmix (http://www.soulmix.com). Would love to see how a listing on KickoffBoost turns out :)
Awesome.. exactly what I was looking for :)
I'm in the process of trying to drive initial traffic to the Soulmix private beta (http://www.soulmix.com), so this is helpful. I would love to see more people say exactly what they did to drive traffic at the early stages of site. Bloggers often make it sound trivial, but I'm not sure that is true.
Great writeup on your showing-not-telling approach to designing a landing page.
But after reading it, here is what I really want to know: what does "a few tweets" mean? I know many people (myself included) who have tried to "kick out a few tweets" and did not get 1000 email signups quickly. My belief is you are writing it because it makes a better story, and puts emphasis on your design. But is it true?
How did the tweets get out to that many people in your target audience? Do you have many followers? Did an influential person retweet it? If so, was it a friend or an unplanned retweet? I'd love to hear more about this side of the story.
Hey all,
I've been working on a site for connecting people over content related to living a good life; pretty much a Hacker News for life.
Here is the initial prototype. For now, there are only two rules: (1) anything related to living a good life is on topic, (2) don't be an asshole.
Would love your feedback on it, as well as an email signup if you are interested :)
Hey, please shoot me an email at alex@soulmix.com.
In your experience, how quickly is "quickly"?
"@infogaufire, how did you manage accounting and marketing? Did you delegate that too?"
I would love to hear about this too. One of my other biggest challenges, as a tech guy, has been figuring out how to go about all the non-tech stuff.
Yeah, the biggest thing I’ve been trying to do is minimize the prototyping, and try to fail fast.
It is difficult to tell the difference between failing, and not trying hard enough.I feel it is a gut decision that should get better with time.
I agree.. historically I have liked writing, and used it to organize my thoughts.
It is easy to let the "supposed" urgency of work come before writing (or working out), but the time spent writing will probably be worth it. Thanks.
As a first-time entrepreneur, I do have a blogging dilemma but it isn't related to confidentiality. My problem is that I both don't have time, and don't know what I am doing.
Everyday is a struggle to figure things out as fast as possible. Given the situation, I can either (1) blog about how I am struggling during the struggle, or (2) move forward as fast as possible without wasting the time it takes to write and manage a blog.
Lately, I have opted for (2) with the hope that I will be able to blog more meaningfully with some real experience under my belt.
Very cool! You got me off my butt and moving for 7 minutes and it was a great work break.
A few notes for you and others:
1) There are a few that switch sides/legs and I would handle them differently. For the lunges and step-ups, I think alternating sides is good. For the side planks, I think it would be useful to give the other side a whole segment. Splitting it in half wouldn't be much of a workout.
2) This is awesome because for the most part, you can modulate the workout however you want. In fact, keeping a log of the number of pushups/situps/high knees/etc would be cool because people could see progress. This might be a nice extension for the site!
3) It may be good to balance things out as far as muscle groups go. Pushups are repeated multiple times, as are squat related exercises. It is important to balance these out with the muscles that oppose these exercises.
4) Even better (at least for me) would be to have a series for desk workers that open up your body. We spend so much time crouched forward that a series of exercises to counteract this would be awesome.
Thanks and I hope you keep building on this!
It may not be for you, but there is nothing pretentious about it. There are many ways to motivate yourself. Having physical reminders to keep important stuff at the top of your mind is just one way of doing it. It works for some.. it may even work for everyone if people weren't negative about this stuff.
A good example I like is Bruce Lee's letter to himself on his chief definite aim: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/03/my-definite-chief-aim.h.... Some may find this stupid, pretentious, or cheesy, but I bet it was useful for Bruce Lee and that is what matters.
I just got one because (1) I find myself coming back to this saying a lot, (2) I like this motivational type of stuff (I actually want all of little posters up in FB), and (3) donating to Watsi is a good thing to do.