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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022) on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @04:10AM (#31245898)
Meetupcall | Software engineering, product and marketing roles | Remote (UK) | https://www.meetupcall.com

Want to work on a meaningful problem and receive meaningful equity as part of a founding team?

At Meetupcall we're working to reduce loneliness and isolation by delivering services that empower our customers to provide community, connection and belonging to those that need it the most.

We're developing a remote communications platform that is used by care providers to reduce loneliness, facilitate social interaction and establish communities by connecting people remotely, using simple to use and familiar technology.

Our stack is Rails, Elixir, WebRTC and Asterisk running on Amazon Web Services.

E-mail me at [email protected] if that sounds interesting.

Re:Ask HN: Companies hiring for a 4-day workweek? on Monday May 02, 2022 @06:17AM (#31233248)
I'm founder of Meetupcall, a startup working to help care organisations reduce loneliness and isolation for those most in need. We're currently looking for a senior Rails engineer on these terms.

If that sounds like something you might be interested in, let's have a conversation, my e-mail address is in my profile.

Re:Ask HN: Sendwithus won't support GDPR, what are you using instead? on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @09:29AM (#16483173)
It doesn't seem viable that they won't support it. I think they have potentially mis-understood the wide reaching impact of this legislation.

I'd be surprised if there is not a follow up to their email fairly soon.

Ask HN: Startup featured on the TV, now what?

Posted by Simon_M on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @07:46AM
from the ask-hn dept.

So we managed to get our startup featured on a tech show (BBC Click) on the BBC here in the UK, which is great. Plenty of traffic to the site, a load of signups and a few telephone enquiries.It kind of happened without us knowing, so we were a bit unprepared, but what can we do now to maintain this momentum?I guess it should be possible to get other coverage from the back of this?In what ways...

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Re:UK threaten to enter Ecuadorian embassy and arrest Julian Assange on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @05:43PM (#4388393)
It appears under UK law the Prime Minister could denounce the embassy as no longer Ecuadorian territory.

The UK government has 'reminded' Ecuador of this fact in an attempt to influence their decision.

Ask HN: Are they any e-mail feedback services out there?

Posted by Simon_M on Monday August 06, 2012 @11:04AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm looking for a service / API that can trigger an e-mail upon a completed transaction that will allow our customers to rate the service on a per transaction basis and then collate and report on the results.There are loads of survey type offerings, but they're all a bit heavy. I'm looking for something where the end user has to do nothing other click a link within the email to rate their...

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Re:Show HN: Meetupcall - Simple conference calls on Monday July 16, 2012 @12:38PM (#4251380)
I'd love to HN's feedback on our attempt at making hosting and joining conference calls that little bit better.
Re:Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol on Friday February 10, 2012 @05:19AM (#3575207)
Is their filtering on a per TCP port basis? Or more advanced packet inspection?
Re:Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI on Thursday January 12, 2012 @08:56AM (#3456300)
How do people deal with remote files? I love Sublime, but always end up reverting back to VIM as it is so slow when accessing files over a network connection.

I've tried the SFTP plug-in, but find it really clumsy. Ideally I'd just love to be able to add a remote folder over SFTP the same way you do local ones.

Re:Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI on Thursday January 12, 2012 @08:54AM (#3456290)
That's one annoyance out of the way. Is there a decent way to work with remote files yet?

This is always the killer for me.

Re:What really happened aboard Air France 447 on Thursday December 08, 2011 @05:00AM (#3328481)
Considering how many incidents there seems to be due to the loss of these airspeed sensors it seems crazy not to have an additional, different method of calculating airspeed.

Is there a reason GPS is not suitable here?

Re:16 pixels For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake on Friday October 07, 2011 @08:12AM (#3083609)
Am I missing something? The physical size of a 16px font will surely vary based on resolution and screen size.

So claims such as '16px is the same as most books' are clearly nonsense.

Re:Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight on Friday July 29, 2011 @05:06AM (#2820861)
"...keep the money and use it to book yourself into a nice, safe hotel room the next time you travel. You’ll be glad you did."

Statements like this certainly fuel the hotel industry conspiracy theories from yesterday for me. It doesn't even make sense, as she claims the hotels will be safer for the travellers. The travellers safety was never at question here was it?

Re:LulzSec supposedly claims its biggest coup yet: The entire UK 2011 ... on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @06:07AM (#2678096)
I wonder if they are using the same (undocumented) exploit for each of these attacks.

I am certainly no expert in this field, but I would have thought discovering new exploits and security holes would take time, yet these guys are hitting several major sites a week.

Re:FeedHint.com: Make your own personalized Hacker News feed on Thursday June 16, 2011 @09:16AM (#2661095)
Out of interest, why the old browser/OS combo?
Re:Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a smelter first. on Sunday June 12, 2011 @10:31AM (#2646530)
Wow, real-life Minecraft.
Re:1 in 6 Russian entrepreneurs are in jail, 1 in 3 prisoners are busi... on Thursday May 26, 2011 @10:35AM (#2587857)
So are 1 in 3 prisoners corrupt businessmen who have been jailed for their 'corruptness'.

Or are 1 in 3 prisoners businessmen unjustly jailed due to corrupt officials?

Re:Show HN: "Never wait on hold again" service built with Rails and Tw... on Thursday March 03, 2011 @06:12PM (#2286175)
Founder of a conference call start-up here.

This wouldn't work for conf call services as you'd still be charged from the moment a call was connected on your particular 'room' irrespective of who actually called it. Although it would certainly save time and you wouldn't have to listen to the annoying hold music.

Oh, and if you organisation is really paying 30 cents per minute, then you should get in touch as we could save them well over 12 million dollars a year! ;)

Regarding the dial-out when everyone's ready service... we're working on it.