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Does anyone else use MongoDB but do most of their analysis in Google Sheets?

We were tired of exporting MongoDB to JSON, then converting JSON to CSV, then copy-pasting into Google Sheets and doing index-matches to consolidate collections. So we built a tool to automate it!

MongoToSheet quick exports your MongoDB collections into Google Sheets automatically. Feel free to sign up on our website (it's free).

It's not an ad. It's genuinely a hobby project... We have not made any money on it. There are teams at those companies using our app, not the companies themselves.

My email address and main job / company are in my profile btw.

Yeah we need better language. It's just a fun way for teams to stay connected. So for $1 a day a company can add it to as many channels / use it for as many teams they want.

We've priced it relatively high at first, but we've also put the language "If you want to get on the paid plan for Hallway, but don't want to pay, just email us at support@hallway.chat with a link to yourself sharing Hallway on social media and we'll give you a discount"

We can look into adding tiers

Great article, thanks for sharing

We've priced it relatively high at first, but we've also put the language "If you want to get on the paid plan for Hallway, but don't want to pay, just email us at support@hallway.chat with a link to yourself sharing Hallway on social media and we'll give you a discount"

Thanks for the advice! We don't store phone numbers, but that's great advice to ask users for language to use.

Regarding channels, we posted on product hunt and then I think they are mostly word of mouth

Btw we just added the paid tier today!

Oh it posts hangout rooms every X hours in any channel you want so you and your colleagues can have a 10 minute chat. It's a fun break from work

Yeah they have video rooms... Hallway can use any video room software

This is really helpful. And good guidance on thinking really hard about whether it's needed.

When do companies usually start not allowing this? I've heard of even facebook and google having this functionality?

Yeah, the biggest thing would be automating / integrating our outreach across channels. Something like boomerang across channels would be really nice

Thanks! We haven't, but we get a lot of this for free because we're so small. As soon as we grow we will have to prune the list for sure (but will replace these tools with others)

The biggest issue is that we have all these tools but don't have the time to integrate any of them :). Most integrate with Zapier though

The interesting part to me here is that all the non-open source tools are very big, successful companies

Yeah we do this all the time. We set up shared slack channels with our customers

Thanks for sharing Missive. I'll check it out!

Are there any channels that Pipedrive can't support

Yep, the idea is to create a CRM with many more seamless integrations / an open API. Our big missing channels are LinkedIn, texts, and Slack messages

Our thesis is that it should be authentic.. i.e., the company should know who you are. It's terrible to contact support and have them have no idea about all your past interactions with a company. We want to prevent situations like the above from happening down the road

Yes on #1. We dont have auto-reminders or an autoresponder, but could certainly build them!

I really like stripe

Definitely disagree. You're essentially making the argument that Softbank is too big to fail. This is not true.

There was another thread about Aspera on HN the other day.

We built a lot, but here are two :)

Talkative (meettalkative.com) - The easier way to interview your users

Referlist (referlist.co) - Increase sign-ups via Robinhood-style referrals

For me, the most important thing I do is "act" like I am at work. I.e., shower, shave, put on work clothes, sit at a desk, and only take the type of breaks I would in an office environment (e.g., make coffee)

This. It's so easy to escape in workaholism and ignore the "hard" things in life (relationships, health, purpose, etc). It's easy (for me at least) to fall into this trap.

I never had waived change fees when I was 1K. They must have added it recently, but agree that is nice!

Don't.. it's mostly noise to be honest. There are good financial commentators (e.g., Matt Levine) but most financial news is just noise

Also read Bridegwater / Dalio on long term debt cycles [1]

[1] https://economicprinciples.org/downloads/ray_dalio__how_the_...