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Thanks! While we do have ads in the free version, there's no sharing of any user account data with third parties. We strictly do not share/sell any user data, and treat all user data with the same care as the user data that would fall under HIPAA standards.
Thanks! I'm the founder, & long time HN lurker. We've bootstrapped over 11 years and still fully founder owned.
Founder of cronometer here. Sounds like a email delivery issue — I assume you already checked for it accidentally going to junk filter, etc. if you email our [email protected] they can get you going.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021) on Friday October 01, 2021 @06:44PM (#28724174)
Cronometer | Revelstoke BC, Canada | Multiple Roles | Full Time

Cronometer is a leading nutrition tracking platform headquartered in a mountain-sports paradise. Bootstrapped over 10 years, now 35 people strong and growing. We are looking to add senior engineering talent to help grow and manage the team (i.e. senior roles in managing both the people side and the technical side). Our ideal team member also wants to come skiing, mountain biking, touring, climbing, hiking, mountaineering, kayaking, etc... with us!

https://cronometer.com/jobs/

We adopted it a year ago and the team still quite likes it. Reduced day to day stress and distractions and a good structure and shared vocabulary. Wouldn’t say it’s perfect but much nicer than the sprint treadmill.
Re:Bring back hydrogen lifting gas on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:35PM (#28124324)
This article is very USA centric — it centers around it being banned for lift in the states — but that wouldn’t stop just about everywhere else on the planet from building hydrogen air ships, if they are viable.
Re:We bootstrapped to $11M in ARR on Thursday March 18, 2021 @03:30PM (#26506539)
Yes -- we've been bootstrapping our diet tracker cronometer for the last 10 years. It's a much slower pace, but nice growing & operating on own terms. It took the first five years before I could quit my regular job -- but now hitting $3M ARR. Designed an awesome workplace in a ski town and have been slowly recruiting other ski-bum / devs to our way of life.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020) on Monday November 02, 2020 @01:22PM (#24971266)
Cronometer Software Inc | Senior Dev | Revelstoke, BC, Canada | Full-time | ONSITE

We're a small 25 person company situated in a Ski Resort town, so we're trying to find an experienced full-stack senior developer who also likes to shred the gnar in winter, shralp the loam in the summer. Enjoying the mountain lifestyle is baked into our company culture.

Cronometer.com is an advanced consumer nutrition and fitness diet tracking app along with a corresponding professional version for health-care providers.

https://cronometer.com/jobs/ for more details.

Re:'Zoom towns' are exploding in the West on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:48PM (#24873972)
Definitely seeing this happen in my small remote ski town (Revelstoke BC). The demand for housing has sky rocketed for this winter as so many people want to work remote from here and enjoy the skiing. Local blue collar workers hate the skiiers because they are getting priced out of everything and their cost of living & property taxes keep going up.

I have a small (~25ish person) software company based here and it's going to be a challenge to recruit this winter (we're hiring for senior devs) simply because it will be impossible for anyone to find housing here until the end of the ski season!

Re:Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple on Monday June 29, 2020 @06:42PM (#23684280)
Last year we pulled all social logins (facebook, google, yahoo) out of our app, after supporting them for years. The UX / customer service issues mentioned in this post are absolutely legit, a complete PITA. While we were nervous about adding the extra signup friction, a year later I can easily say it was worth doing.
Re:Virus Survival Strategy for Startups on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:33PM (#22607537)
My established B2C SaaS app business is already seeing a steep drop in signups, activity, and sales this week. Feels like it's going to be a tough fight for survival, and already taking a lot of steps to begin turtle-mode.
Re:Under Armour dumped an app on Friday February 07, 2020 @12:38PM (#22268498)
There are lots of good alternatives. I've been bootstrapping my alternative tracker since 2011. Started as a hobby project back then but now at $2M ARR and growing.
Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @06:19PM (#22187111)
We rewrote our entire mobile app in flutter (previously native android and iOS) for cronometer. It’s been a mostly great experience, and the worst issues have been worked out as the platform is rapidly maturing.
Re:Flutter desktop shells on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:15PM (#19753415)
We logged a similar issue -- iOS keyboard is severely laggy since v1.3.14: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/31138 My guess is it's related to the other more general jank as well, but a severe example.
Re:Notice of Data Breach on Thursday March 29, 2018 @07:17PM (#16712113)
thanks! cronometer founder here :-) my indie hackers interview for anyone that cares: https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/03874047f2