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Agreed, we use them for a number of things and find them very reasonably priced (especially, unlimited plan is very good if you are doing 5+ million).

After getting tired of no way to easily follow news of AWS product updates for only ones I actually use we built Broadside. You can set which services you care about, how often you want to be notified and it sends you a digest of the updates.

https://getbroadside.com/

Just the images on the front page, guess a bit bigger than icons!

Jstanier - Great job, this looks really cool. Curious what icon set are you using? I saw you have similar style icons across a few of your projects, is there a standard library you are using or are you creating them yourself?

At 500 million+ records, even a 0.01 second per lookup/update is going to be too slow at that scale even in parallel, unless the DB is able to process in parallel without lock contention extremely quickly.

Agreed that storage is cheap, unless it's in a live cluster. Right now I keep 100% of the data in Redshift then use window functions to unload the latest X per id. Keeping it in real time I haven't tried but right now the unloading of the full dataset of last X per id takes multiple days on a 6 node cluster.

The analysis at end of month is simply give me 100% of the data set chunked up by ID. All analysis is done outside of the system.

Flat files is my thinking right now with S3 and prefixes per partition, I'm not sure on file format, since one thing is with each day's data being able to process and update existing data quickly. Current thought is to load current day's data to Redshift -> unload sorted by id -> process concurrently. With multiple prefixes on S3 I won't hit the rate limits. My main worry is if read in, loading/parsing each file will take too long to be scalable at 250-500 million unique id's per day. I wanted to check here before going down that route to see if anyone had a different recommendation.

I've heard good things about them, for me right now the payroll takes ~30 minutes or so a month with end of quarter payroll taking a little longer to create the 941 forms.

We do the people at the same bank get free transfers, it's out of bank ones is ~5$ per transfer. The bank recommended using viewpost which charges at 50 cents/transfer but from their site they say they should not be used for payroll, and require the other side is registered on their network so it isn't just a routing+accounting numbers push ACH transfer.

That's a great idea...perhaps a quick weekend project there we'll talk on!

It's great, I've been using one for ~2 years. I bought a powered adjustable one, but have only ever lowered it once when I had my ACL done about a year ago. Otherwise, I stand the entire day and find I can focus pretty well.

I also noticed I drink a bit more water and move around a little bit more since there isn't the "get up from sitting" process.

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What's a good way to get in touch with you? Would like to talk a bit more about possibly switching our stuff over to you, my email is in my profile or let me know what is the best way to get in touch.

Awesome - right now it looks like you are beating the other small business 401k provider that I know of (theonline401k) which i think charges around 525/quarter+4 per employee on it.

Are you 100% managed investments? Or can an employee opt to pick their own investments? Do you have access to the admiral funds and are you allowing the company to chose which funds are available?

I also am seeing similar issues. Most (not all) retweets/mentions etc. that I get to my gmail go to spam. Others who are also getting these same emails sometimes are not seeing the same behavior.

We saw this before, but we're not tied to a specific data source or affiliation. We're hoping that by having a broader range of sources, we'll be able to find more savings.

Also - I haven't used Tingo.com specifically in the past, but I haven't had much success in sites which say "book with us and if others book lower you can get a refund." Have you had good experiences with Tingo?

Great advice on weeding out the ones we won't be able to find savings early so we don't waste time!

Rebooking is on the roadmap just wanted to get the first version out and see if there was interest in this type of product.

Thanks guys for all the feedback. Didn't want associate this with a specific comment but here is what we're hearing:

* Look at how to make this a risk free opportunity, money back guarantee, etc.

* Play with pricing, percentage of amount saved vs flat fee. Our biggest worry with that is trying to get someone to pay later on. As right now we aren't rebooking it, if we sent you an alert "go rebook on XYZ.com and save 500 bucks" we have no way to force you to rebook or verify if you actually got the deal we found.

We'll definitely be taking in all the feedback here and hopefully trying to work it all into the next version of this.

Typo fixed, thanks!

As for the automatic it is partially automatic. As we're gauging interest right now we haven't fully automated it.

For the pricing we're looking into different options such as taking only a %'d of amount saved, only charging if we save you money, etc. We'll be doing some testing in the very near future on different pricing models.

This is a small side project I made after finding I could make hotel reservations far in advanced and then get price matches or resubmit new ones if the prices fell. Figured there must be others who would like to save money on their reservations and threw together this MVP.

Let me know what you think and any feedback you have.

Would be great to also have radio capabilities (ie 3g,4g, lte, etc.) as a filter.

Looks awesome!

cik - would love to talk with you about Wave and your experience with it. If you wouldn't mind sharing your experience on it a bit more with me drop me a line at matt _at_ setfive.com.

Appreciate it!

Do you use the payroll component of it?

Actually looking at wave too right now! I don't see anyway though to do a bulk import of all accounts/transactions, are you doing it manually?

On the phone is there a way to get to your main site from the blog? Was curious on your service but no easy way to jump to the main site, but maybe I missed it?

Pretty cool app, never seen it before!

It looks like the "Stuff To Do" plugin may also be a good fit. Going to look into redmine on Friday, thanks a bunch for the suggestion.

Does agile dwarf allow cross project boards though? doesn't look like it?

Will shoot you an email now, would love to see what you are working on!

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Looks awesome! FYI: When you ask for chrome to share its location it comes from washio.herokuapp.com