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Just signed our 3rd customer with TrueCast (600€/month) (https://www.truecast.fr/), which is Granola for tech and non-tech recruiters. Rather than replacing recruiters in the HR process, we want to give them real time hard skills knowledge superpowers so they can better assess candidates before submitting them to their teams. We are convinced that recruiting should remain human-first.

There’s also a bot option, for self-conducted interviews, mostly used for open applications for some pre-filtering.

We are still unsure on how to enter such market, so we are doing direct networking atm, if you guys have an idea on how you’d do it or want a free trial of the product we’d love having a chat with you about it.

What’s the current roadmap regarding supported technologies and cloud providers ?
Re:Vox: Alpha open-source browser engine in V on Thursday January 04, 2024 @04:42PM (#38872664)
Won’t have a lot of Spanish users (Vox is a far right Spanish political group…)

Ask HN: How do you manage your enterprise GitHub repositories?

I developed an internal web application allowing us to centrally manage our repositories configurations, pipelines and launch orchestrated deployments from GitHub as we were not able to do so in a straightforward way from the GitHub interface (we have around 50 microservices and I was in charge of releases).I am wondering if other people around here have this kind of problems and if it might be...

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E2E test automation for MFA / 2FA flows

I've been reading for a while that in order to run automated E2E tests on web or mobile platforms the best approach was to either not test MFA flows or simply bypass them with the good old if(!prod){}.So I decided to code this thing called GetMyMFA (https://get.mymfa.io).What do you think about the topic? Is this actually a "problem" for you?

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Ask HN: How do you get in touch with your early customers?

I have built https://get.mymfa.io and managed to get ~75 active paid customers but so far I have not been able to get in touch with any of them to efficiently gather feedback.I have tried getting in touch either through generic and/or personalised emails asking them to book a 15 minute slot in their agendas but I haven't gotten many interesting responses so far (~2-3 users wished to share some...

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Re:JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs on Sunday August 28, 2022 @08:04AM (#32627735)
Definitely the nº1 missing feature. Hope it arrives soon :)
Re:Are You Intellectually Humble? on Friday August 19, 2022 @03:53AM (#32518489)
Wow man, send that message to the guy that made you mad.
If you make a mistake with excessive resources allocation, you can get in touch with aws and ask for a refund and they will gladly do so.

I’ve had to do it a couple of times for personal and profesional accounts, and I’ve never had any rejections from them

Not sure what the problem is, if anybody exceeds the expected « normal usage » we simply get in touch and fix the issue.

Lessons learned for everybody, it’s a win-win situation.

Hmmm, weird.

We always get the alerts in time with thresholds set to 70% of the wished value.

25 at the moment :)
We give each one of our developers their very own aws account managed through AWS organizations service. They are full administrators and responsible for resources and cost.

So far we haven’t had any issues or bad surprises, although we have setup some aws billing alerts just in case.

Feel free to make them responsible for cost and resources and you’ll be surprised how well they can manage their own account.

For GetMyMFA I ended up surprising myself seeing that people would discover the product from tech forums and FAQs.

I’d therefore recommend thinking where your users are on the web / what they are searching for and try to join active discussions where your product might be relevant.

PS: I just realized I’m trying to do exactly that in HN right now :D

Yes! Currently working on selecting the best source of information about this topic and thinking about how to display it appropriately (e.g. comparing French inflation with EU average or world average?).

I am also working on the climate impact of the french population :)

> Out of curiosity: What is/was your motivation behind this and how does it correlate to elections?

What motivated me is the simple fact that during this presidential campaign we would have one candidate saying that his presidential balance has been "very good", and on the other side all the opponents have been constantly stating that it has been a "disaster". During these last months, I have been unable to find a "neutral" and global way of see the impact Macron has had during the last 5 years. I therefore wanted to build this website in order to have a dashboard showing national statistics on key topics.

> Showing election dates of French presidents looks like a classic and rather obvious case of correlation does not imply causation.

I wanted to show the presidential election dates precisely to showcase this: It really almost doesn't matter which president France has. I believe that the macroeconomic variations follow World/European variations. And unfortunately, I feel that too many people believe that the presidents are "destroying" or "saving" the country.

> Might well be that I don't have the full picture though and I was not following French campaigns. Is there a public debate/ general public opinion in France that presidents had significant influence on these indicators shown?

I guess that there has probably been debates and studies about this, but from my experience I can say that presidents cannot influence too much the trends that the country is following.

Ng2-charts and the chartjs-plugin-annotation, the website has been built using ant design NgZorro :)

Ask HN: Any recommended third party sign-up service?

Hello HN,What third party service would you recommend to have a smooth and visually attractive sign up process for users? The service should be able to submit the sign up elements to a webhook API (no sensitive info is shared at that point).I am currently using Typeform for GetMyMFA (https://get.mymfa.io) but unfortunately there is a maximum of 10 monthly questions and paying 20 bucks per...

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I fully agree with you on the theoretical reasons why SMS-based MFA is bad and should stop being used at some point.

In the meantime, try explaining a random user how to setup and use a TOTP for your application, I wish you good luck.

Once every business is able to enable TOTP-based MFA for their applications, it'll be a great day for cyber and my side project will cease existing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Ask HN: How would you efficiently confirm who your actual target customer is?

Hello HN!I have built GetMyMFA (https://get.mymfa.io), a simple web application allowing individuals and businesses to simply rent and receive SMS Multi-Factor Authentication Codes.This website has been built after our business had the need to test our mobile and web applications with multi-factor authentication through multiple users (thanks Quality Assurance team!).Being a reader of HN and...

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Was thinking that as well, but still haven't found out the best way to contact a group of potentially interested founders. Do you think cold-messaging might be worth the effort and not be too "spammy" ?
Thanks for the tip, I was thinking that perhaps it might be too soon to announce a v1 of the product in such lists, do you still think it might be worth it?

Ask HN: How would you get in touch with startup founders to share your product?

Trying to scale https://get.mymfa.io and I feel that companies that could benefit the most from the service would be: 1) small companies building a QA team (or outsourcing it) 2) startups (fintechs) getting ready to submit their app to the App Store with a Two-Factor Authentication mechanism.I am having a hard time trying to figure out a channel to communicate efficiently to potential...

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Thank you very much for the kind words! Let me know if you'd like to discuss about the "well managed and tested bypass", I'm sure it could be a very interesting conversation ;)

Show HN: I built a platform to share SMS Multi-Factor Authentication codes

Hello there HN!I just wanted to share with you a product I've been working on for a while. The product is called GetMyMfa and is accessible at https://get.mymfa.io. The objective of this project is to allow organizations to safely and easily share Multi-Factor Authentication codes for their Quality Assurance and Apple App Store review processes.*Where the idea came from:*I am currently working...

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Re:Ask HN: What did you build this week? on Sunday October 31, 2021 @11:13AM (#29057547)
I personally just released https://get.mymfa.io. A platform allowing you to share Multi-Factor Authentication codes safely and easily for Quality Assurance and App Store review processes :)

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