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please add a button to start a GPT voice mode conversation or start dictating / recording an audio note -- too things I'd love to be able to do more on-the-go without having to dive into my phone!

We're also working on some new patterns (e.g. embedded banners and "cards") as we enable teams to offer more native ways to engage users, without interrupting or disrupting their product UX. Our ultimate goal is more personalized web-applications and more control for PMs and PMMs to run in-app campaigns without needing engineers to work on low-lift and low-complexity items!

We wanted to roll out SSO for our web app and used WorkOS.. we looked at Okta, Auth0 and others, but found the out-of-the-box nature of WorkOS really compelling. Aligned with flexibility and support for a wide-range of services, it made our life pretty easy. Recommend

Wrote this to help product teams learn from how Google changed the UI for seeking notifications. There are already good articles on how to do this for mobile apps, but similar best practices need to be applied on the web for pop-ups / modals / product tours etc. which are typically invasive and not helpful.. which gives them a reputation for being annoying.. but it doesn't have to be that way!

tooltips can really be hated, but sometimes they're done really well... can be low hanging fruit for teams trying to reduce support tickets / confusion, as long as they are embraced and some basic design principles followed

There is a pretty decent quora thread about this: https://www.quora.com/What-tools-can-I-use-to-create-a-guide...

Interview process would be:

* Quick chat with me (co-founder & CEO) to align goals and expectations

* Discussion with our co-founder & CTO to outline our stack and challenges

* Small task and code review to check we match on expectations

* References and offer

Chameleon | Pacific Time REMOTE (Seattle / Portland / SF / Vancouver / LA / San Diego etc.)

We're looking for a full-stack engineer, our 3rd hire. Prior remote and startup experience required. To be a good fit you'll be chomping to learn quickly and get shit done!

Hate terrible user onboarding? Chameleon (https://www.trychameleon.com) allows you to build data-driven product tours without writing code. We're VC-backed, with revenue and strong growth since our launch 6 months ago.

If you're interested then please email me pulkit at trychameleon [dot] com with some info about yourself.

Interview process would be:

* Quick chat with me (co-founder & CEO) to align goals and expectations

* Discussion with our co-founder & CTO to outline our stack and challenges

* Small task and code review to check we match on expectations

* A paid joint project to see if we enjoy working together

Chameleon | PST REMOTE (Seattle / Portland / SF / Vancouver / LA etc.)

We're looking for 2 full-stack engineers. Prior remote and startup experience required.

Hate terrible user onboarding? Chameleon (https://www.trychameleon.com) allows you to build data-driven product tours without writing code.

We're VC-backed, with revenue and strong growth since our launch 5 months ago. You'll be joining as our first full-stack engineer and could become Head of Engineering here.

Let's have a 10 min chat to start. Please email me pulkit@trychameleon.com with some info about yourself.

I think SMS is an awesome way to engage people. You could use a tool like http://www.sendsonar.com to manage that messages to your users

Chameleon makes user onboarding amazing for every app, and we are hiring! http://trychameleon.com

± Full-stack Engineer (enable data-driven intelligent onboarding) --- Portland / Seattle

± Front-end Engineer (create an awesome in-app tutorial builder) --- Portland / Seattle

± Full-stack Designer (help design our product and improve that of our customers) --- San Francisco

Seed-funded (top angels and led by True Ventures), with great customers and two engineer founders. Competitive salary, meaningful equity and all benefits.

We believe work is a meaningful, rewarding and enjoyable subset of life; we want to help you grow personally and professionally, and respect and value your individuality.

Please get in touch via https://angel.co/trychameleon/jobs or email jobs a_t trychameleon d_o_t com. Please no recruiters.

We want to have a distributed team that works from wherever people are comfortable, but close enough to get together once / twice a week. The engineering hub will be Portland / Seattle while the customer / sales hub will be SF.

Hiring founding team for Chameleon to make user onboarding amazing for every app.

± Full-Stack Engineer (enable data-driven intelligent onboarding) --- Portland / Seattle

± Front-end Engineer (create an awesome in-app tutorial builder) --- Portland / Seattle

± Full-Stack Designer (help design the company, not just the product) --- San Francisco

Seed-funded (top angels and led by True Ventures), with great customers and two engineer founders. Competitive salary, meaningful equity and all benefits.

We believe work is a meaningful, rewarding and enjoyable subset of life; we want to help you grow personally and professionally, and respect and value your individuality.

Please get in touch via https://angel.co/trychameleon/jobs or email hello@trychameleon.com

(P.S. THESE JOBS MAY OR MAY NOT EXIST - YOU CAN CHANGE THAT BY CLICKING THE LINK ABOVE. If you don't get this reference, you need to either study some physics, or watch Silicon Valley.)

Really interesting deep-dive into Zynga's data strategy - thanks.

There seems to be conflicting advice in the analytics world about (a) capturing all data from the start and (b) being very deliberate and thoughtful on using data in the early stages. I've seen that capturing too much can get very overwhelming and obviously if you don't capture enough then it can be problematic later when you need it.

Do you have any thoughts / guidance on how a new startup should begin its data / analytics function?

I wonder if SMS is being effective now because it's under-utilized by companies and is known to be a channel more typically free from business notifications.. if lots of companies started using SMS would it become too noisy and change user perception about how they wish to be notified / kept part of the community?

If you network for the sake of networking, in places that promote networking, then you'll meet others who have the same objective and may not be useful because there is actually no substance to connect over and meaning to exchange.

However if you attend events because you believe the content will be valuable, and you're open to meeting and learning from others, then it's likely (from my experience) that people you meet will prove helpful to you in future.

Create your bucket list and get going!

I've found that I've often wanted to learn something new, but after the "honeymoon" phase, the novelty wears off and I don't sustain the discipline required. So now I tend to treat any casual interest in something new as just that. Things that I've learnt as new have often been driven by a real need, driven by some other burning desire. For example I learnt about CSS because I needed to make changes to my website, and I was deeply driven about making my product successful. Or I learned SQL because I was interested in getting a better job as a data analyst (and was frustrated by what I was doing day-to-day).

There are some people who learn for the sake of pushing themselves outside of their comfort zone, but they are committed to improving themselves in that way. If you've become lazy then it's a combination of no push away from the status quo and no pull towards something you yearn for.

Ask them questions - try to dig in to why they are bored and find threads of things that interest them.

I'd say the holy grail is incepting interest ;-)

Take it if there is scope for you to make your role interesting / engaging; can you start new initiatives that excite you, can you incorporate learning things you're interested in, can you find opportunities to work with people you like etc.

If not, you can still take it and bite the bullet for 6 months to a year. PLENTY of people have no choice on jobs, and everyone has restricted choices in life, so if it's your only option then can suck it up for a bit.

If you're privileged enough that you can get by without worrying about a job / money, then don't take it and find something creative or value-adding (to society or yourself) to do instead.. at least in the interim till you do find a job you want.

Learnt a lot about Messenger's features from this article, even though I use it prob once-a-week.. seems they haven't done that great a job teaching users / onboarding them to new functionality. Feel like that would be right up the Growth team's alley

what about non-technical founders?

This is pretty cool; I was totally engaged, paying attention to all the little details in this!

Apologies: don't mean to imply that deaths are a "small incident" or that they can be forgiven. My point is not about whether they are or aren't guilty of malpractice or poor protocols, but that a thorough investigation should be used to determine that, not stringing together a series of events that make it easy for any passive reader to discredit the organisation.

tl, dr: we shouldn't pass judgement based on this article.

There are two main types of meditation: concentration and observation. Some of the commenters have referred to the former when they discuss focussing on breath. Observation meditation (Vipassana) is about becoming very aware of what is happening to you and around you.

I learnt the Vipassana technique by attending a free 10-day course run by S.N. Goenka. The course began with the basics and moved on to more advanced techniques. It had a full timetable of activities and asked participants maintain silence. This structure was incredibly helpful in making progress in learning the technique and seeing immediate benefits. For example on the first day I was barely able to concentrate for 1-2 minutes before my thoughts shifted, but by the end I could sit for 1 full hour without moving or losing focus.

The course is run according to a Buddhist technique but is not religious in nature (in fact they ask all participants to remove any religious identifications prior to the course). There is a daily talk about the spirituality behind Vipassana but there is no imposition of any religious practice.

I had received recommendations from friends for it and now I highly recommend it as a really solid way to learn the technique. It's definitely intense but totally worth it.

There is more information at http://www.dhamma.org/ but I'm also happy to answer questions. Email in my profile

Interesting that the article goes down the route of providing more stimulus to help treat ADHD.. wonder if there's also a case for reducing our need for more stimuli (e.g. with mindfulness or meditation) or whether that's just too against the grain of how we are moving as a society (in to a more digital, multi-tasked world)

Think we have to differentiate between using these as signals of bad practice or process and using them as scapegoats or excuses in hindsight. Once something goes wrong, it's really easy to create a case for guilt by using many small, unrelated, eventually inconsequential pieces of evidence - often greater than the sum of the parts and I feel this can be really unfair.

I guess the web could still provide information without functionality -- not too dissimilar to what the taco bell page is doing..?

Interestingly this also supports the argument that Peter Thiel made in Lecture 5 of the Startup Class (by YC at Stanford) to avoid competitive markets or to focus on a niche of the market that doesn't contain any direct competitors