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Built this back during COVID, still chugging along at a few hundred $/month. Sales tend to pick up around the holidays, it makes for a nice xmas gift.

https://cadenceprints.com Use your strava / fitness data to create beautiful wall art

You might be thinking of Charlie Lee? Charlie Lee joined Coinbase, wash traded Litecoin [1] to give the appearance of wider interest and volume in order to get Litecoin listed on Coinbase, and promptly dumped all his bags at the peak.

[1] https://i.redd.it/u9vhbxvr63t71.jpg

Canadian tech salaries are experiencing the exact same thing as described in the article in my recent experience interviewing.
Re:Show HN: Watchmespendmoney on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @05:05PM (#23774217)
Sidenote but the vercel <-> logstash integration is really easy to set up and will persist your logs.
Re:Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown? on Sunday June 21, 2020 @12:22PM (#23592933)
I built an app to create prints (framed or otherwise) of your fitness activities.

Strava only for now but uploading GPX/KML files coming shortly.

https://cadenceprints.com

The maps are really cool. How are you guys managing to find customers given that the product is fairly niche?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019) on Friday March 01, 2019 @02:17PM (#19284317)
Centro | Digital Advertising Platform | Senior and Intermediate engineers | Toronto | ONSITE | https://www.centro.net

We build Basis, Centro's answer to the challenging and convoluted digital advertising landscape. Our engineering teams across North America work closely with product managers, designers, and testers, creating well-crafted solutions to the complex problems of our industry. Our sales team is top notch, and is hitting their targets for rapidly growing our client roster. As an engineering organization, we are aggressively optimizing to reach this scale, while at the same time building industry-leading features that will land even larger clients.

Our stack is Ruby on Rails, Node, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, AWS

Send me an email if you have any questions: kaizhi [dot] wei [at] centro.net

https://centro.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Centro/job/Toront...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018) on Monday April 02, 2018 @06:17PM (#16739937)
Centro | Toronto | Software Engineer, Full stack (All levels) | ONSITE | https://www.centro.net/careers

At Centro we’re building a unified platform to execute every digital media advertising transaction, thus providing a new level of automation and intelligence in ad tech.

My team is working on the DSP (Demand Side Platform) portion of the Centro platform. Technologies we use include Ruby on Rails, Postgresql, React, Transis[1], Java, Redis. You don't have to be familiar with the whole stack but a willingness to learn and ability to be fairly independent is welcome.

If interested please email: [email protected]

[1] https://github.com/centro/transis

http://presets.io

I'm working on a platform backing the existing desktop app for users to create, share, and explore lightroom presets - kinda like a package manager for photography presets.

Re:Why aren't you using GitHub? on Friday May 29, 2015 @08:50PM (#9628382)
They have a tendency to remove repos that they don't agree with ideologically.
Re:Show HN: Mighty Spring – Passive job search on Friday May 30, 2014 @10:04PM (#7825000)
I tried this a few months ago and didn't have any luck at all with matches. Maybe I was doing something wrong.

The team however was friendly and very responsive to feedback.

Re:My side project: Rank your tech company based on culture on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @08:56PM (#7344732)
The white header/light grey body text is very hard to read against that background image.
Re: Review my Startup: SendTweet.com on Saturday November 23, 2013 @02:05PM (#6787025)
Seconded. The scroll animations are a bit excessive.
Shameless plug for my sideproject I'm currently working on, http://hiresync.io which is aiming to do much of the same thing.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool? on Saturday October 26, 2013 @07:30PM (#6619894)
Hiresync (http://hiresync.io/) -- collaborative coding interview tool / tool to send out screening questions to candidates, record their response, and being able to pass that recording to your team to review at a later time.

Currently pretty early in development, alot of features are incomplete, but it feels nice to have something deployed online.

Mostly feeling like I'm stagnating at my day job so this was a good chance for me to learn some new skills.

It seems to be a recent feature. I recently started seeing my 10 year old cousin's email in the "People You May Know" section, and I'm fairly certain she has never signed up for LinkedIn.
Re:Shopify POS on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @03:49PM (#6292207)
The page seems to crash the tab after 40 seconds in Chrome Canary Version 31.0.1602.0 canary - also there's a js error after closing the signup popup.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013) on Saturday March 02, 2013 @01:16AM (#5308692)
UXP Systems (http://www.uxpsystems.com) Toronto, Canada

We're building a platform and corresponding front-end clients for mobile, web, smart TVs, and set top boxes which interfaces with various cable providers/telcos' existing infrastructure and enables these companies to bring their offerings up to par in the age of Netflix and smart TVs.

We're looking for front-end developers as well as UX designers to help flesh out the existing front-end projects we have, as well as help define the direction - both visually and architecturally - of the UI going forward.

On the front-end, we're using Backbone, SVG for markup and animations on hardware-constrained set top boxes, and HTML/CSS for mobile, web, and smart TV. Alot of the front-end challenges we deal with here have to do with trying to optimize our application in order to provide a great user experience when dealing with the limited hardware capabilities of certain hardware platforms we use - we think existing TV solutions are subpar, and we aim to provide something people will enjoy using.

Apply at [email protected], or you can contact me directly at [email protected].

Re:Leap on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @01:56PM (#4418629)
I think this has great potential for use in conjunction with wearable computing such as Google Glass. I'm not sure how the current interface for Glass works, but I imagine it's based on voice input and possibly some buttons on the unit itself.

Imagine wearing a smaller Leap controller on your wrist - you would be able to use gestures to control the Glass and mostly likely interact much more intuitively with your surroundings as seen through Glass.

It looks to be based on matching the location provided by your browser with the location of your phone.

I don't know whether it's a good idea or not, but it's certainly a unique concept.

Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011) on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @12:24PM (#3182795)
I had an interview with these guys a couple of weeks ago for the front end web dev position.

The interview had been scheduled for a week at that point. After arriving, the person I was supposed to be interviewing with comes out late and tells me they already filled the position a week prior and didn't bother to tell me.

Turns out they're still hiring for that position? Lying to prospective employees isn't nice.