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Add to this list the fact that there is no setting anywhere in the preferences (not even in the Windows registry) to turn off the "Your Dropbox is almost full! Upgrade now!" notification that pops up on my screen daily is just brutal.

Hi all -- its been a long journey, but wanted to share our app that makes remote data accessible as a custom function in Excel/Google Sheets. In addition to Python/Node.js we have a handful of nocode function packs for various web services, but happy to do some free coding if there are some specific integrations you'd like to use. :-) For fun, here's a Hacker News one: https://www.flex.io/integrations/hackernews Any thoughts/feedback would be appreciated.

...and half of them were probably for Wall Drug! ;-)

Interesting idea! Just wondering if there are any benefits to going down this road other than saving the 21K of bandwidth necessary for Gzipped/minified Vue.js?

...and this is really what it comes down to. State management should come down to what the front end has to manage in order to be well-organized and structured. By creating a multi-page app, all you are doing is forcing yourself to organize your state by page. This is something that can be done simply enough by using modules in your state manager of choice. With a SPA, you have the option, with MPA, the decision of overall organization has already been made.

Don't forget the JS library that senses your mouse position so that when you move your mouse up to the tab bar, it opens a final "Wait, don't go! Here's a free e-book, etc." modal on the page.

Hi there!

This seems like an interesting concept. Signing into your app via the link in the email does a good job of showing the concept of what you're working on. Your app also has a nice look-and-feel to it.

Couple of thoughts/questions for you:

1) Once I was logged into your app, it was unclear to me what my next step was... I saw "New App" under "Developers", but I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do there.

2) Is your app meant for the end user or website/app creators? Who benefits from using your service? I'm a website/app creator and I don't know why I would want to outsource the one thing that makes my users feel secure when coming to our app?

3) While forgetting a password is massively annoying, there is a small sense of "security" I feel in that I had to type something in to access a website

4) With the proliferation of services like LastPass and 1Password, how are you going to go about convincing users that are using those services? (these services do a pretty good job of removing much of the pain of having to remember a password)

5) Seems like SSO via FB, Google, GitHub and the like are pretty convenient to users already -- is there a benefit/upside that your service provides that these SSO services don't?

It seems like this would be something where you'd need a large number of companies to have buy-in to what you're doing in order to add your form to their website. It seems like you'd need to have some hook there to get critical mass of widely-used websites to adopt your sign in/sign up form.

Look forward to hearing your thoughts and seeing where your service goes from here!

Heh -- I'd say it's safe to say that almost all companies are data companies now. Walmart, Amazon, UPS, grocery stores, etc. Even if you take a look at major league baseball teams, there's been a huge shift to analyzing the data of their business to establish norms, trends, expectations, etc. I think a better way to describe Palantir would be that they're a company help their clients draw correlations and potential conclusions from data based on a very large dataset of information. Finding how seemingly-unrelated disparate data actually is related is the secret sauce that makes their product valuable to government agencies and other large organizations. You can see how this would be helpful for something like the Department of Homeland Security.

Interesting idea!

I'm also curious about the business model here. It seems like if you were to aggregate a certain set of metrics and then have each use rate each company for a given position, you could put together some sort of metric which might be useful a) to the companies that are doing the interviewing and/or b) to other folks that are applying for the same position.

Curious to see where you go with this...

Hi all -- we're using Hexo for our website. For our API docs we wanted to provide 'live' runnable code snippets in Markdown, so I came up with a way to make it easy for anyone on our team to add tiny Javascript apps in Markdown with a simple tag. Thought HN might find it useful too and happy to answer any questions.

The link above lets you play with live examples; GitHub repo here: https://github.com/flexiodata/markdown-components.