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Re:Ask HN: What's your proudest hack? by Kooshaba on Monday December 12, 2022 @10:36AM (#33955768)
I worked for a healthcare startup that interfaced with a lot of large insurance companies. They had no API access for their patient information and would just give us credentials to ancient web portals instead.

I wrote my own browser automation scripts to create our own internal patient API. Ended up reducing claim billing errors by a ton and resulted in 6 figures a month in additional revenue.

Re:Ask HN: What's your proudest hack? by jerrygenser on Monday December 12, 2022 @10:39AM (#33955814)
What impact did the 6 figures in additional revenue bring to you personally vs. the owners of your startup? How were you acknowledged or compensated for this feat?
Re:Ask HN: What's your proudest hack? by Kooshaba on Monday December 12, 2022 @11:50AM (#33956916)
Honestly I was a brand new hire and it was my first real engineering job so I gained nothing from it. At the time I had no idea how to advocate for myself or my accomplishments. Big lesson learned.