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Not just people with children, people who don't want/cannot commute there in general. This is a more inclusive option.

The problem is not the builders. The problem is those who hold them back: government red tape, bureaucracy and investors who prefer to put their money on another cat app.

I liked it when you announce it's open source till I checked your Github page:

At the moment we don't provide support for easily self-hosting the code. Currently, the purpose of keeping the code open-source is to be transparent with the community about how we collect and process data.

So basically you ask people to work for free on something only you can use? No thank you.

Code review is not linter. Code review is a chance to discuss design, scaling, trade-offs and mentor others. I don't think this solution will offer it.

I would love to attend as long as people start fresh projects at that day. Ideally people will find new partners and form new teams around shared idea. Otherwise it will become another YC pich night for mature(ish) products.

I'm using Firefox for a while now (both on desktop and mobile) and I love it. The only missing part for me on Android is that Firefox doesn't open native apps (YouTube, maps, Instagram etc..) when you open a link. The integration with built in apps like chrome has is not there.

nice! i had this idea in mind for a while but didn't see how to monetize it :) glad someone did it.

We collect every new submission and comment from Hacker News, and once every 5 minutes or so (assuming I don't break something).

nit - you should decide if your tone is "we" or "I".

edit: another idea would be to add notifications for upvote/downvote you get. it's harder to implement so maybe just when your score changes...

edit2: why downvote? ️

2 issues i have with this "process":

1 - take-home task of "only" 6 hours. that's on top of the onsite (~6 hours) and a few hours for phone call and followups. that's too much for an unpaid job.

2 - they try to find people they know to sniff around about the candidate. that's usually bad as you can jeopardize the candidate's current job (usually people interview while still working at another place). overall this post made me want to work at firebase even less now.

It's NOT free. It now gives you annoying popups to upgrade to subscription paid version. Very shady marketing to call it free.

Sunsetting Hire 7 years ago

when was the last time Google had a successful consumer-facing product? looks like they just keep shutting down products in the past few years.