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Re:Simple Bank Is Closing on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:25PM (#25678510)
I loved simple, have used them for ~10 years, and gotten 5+ people in my circle to use them, they were the greatest. But at a certain point simple's budgeting system breaks, once you have another card. I would make payments per transaction on my CC to maintain that tagging data within Simple for reporting.

For years I was left unsatisfied with a tool that managed expenses with multiple cards and I found it half a year ago in CoPilot: https://copilot.money

Great app and handles internal transfers (ie payments to a card or another account) with grace. Smart rule system, recurring transactions, etc. Mint on steroids. Highly recommend for people like me looking for tools to replace simple.

Note: I am in no way affiliated with CoPilot, just found them super useful for that function as Simple wasn't hitting it.

Shameless referral code for a free month: 7UWQ7W https://copilot.money/link/cXPAZ3zJ3QT2N4LS6

Re:Density raises $51M Series C led by Kleiner Perkins on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @12:21PM (#23977365)
Great team with an excellent product that was able to re-position extremely well during the current COVID era. Hats off to all at Density.

Worked with this team ~8 years ago when in college at my first startup and they were a consultancy. Smart people who I learned lots from when starting out and always enjoy hearing their continued success.

Ah thats pretty cool! I made https://snow.watch that gives 10 day forecast snow reports via SMS.

Wanted to do a second angle on it, see you did travel which is pretty sweet. I assume those are affiliate links, wonder what % are buying flights?

Back in college I made an application similar to this: http://mymanual.herokuapp.com/ (sorry if its slow or broken, unmaintained for ~3 years).

I had to do an input for each device and tag the ports so the logic in the application can create custom setup guides.

Re:For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @05:17PM (#11393086)
I applied to around 100 jobs over the course of 9 months when starting to learn how to program. For the startups I would get to a phone screen and potentially a technical challenge then be turned away. At the job I am at now, was contacted by CTO online, and had phoned/on-site/started within 5 days of initial contact.

I've seen a bunch of blog posts recently about some companies priding themselves on who they turn down versus who they accept and I feel that is one of the bigger problems we have as an industry in hiring.

Churndown: https://www.churndown.com

One click to get customer feedback, connected directly to Stripe. Easy to get feedback and reach out to customers about to churn.

Re:SF Yellow Cab to file for bankruptcy on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @07:04PM (#10854945)
Not really, I lyft to work often and its $5 each way door to door.
Re:Noisli – Improve focus and boost your productivity on Monday February 09, 2015 @11:44AM (#9022083)
There is a free app that has the same basic functionality that came out a few months ago: http://noiz.io/
Re:Show HN: ParseHub – Extract data from dynamic websites on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @04:19PM (#8357892)
After using both there is a very large brick wall that prevents usability of kimono labs on most well-known web applications (airbnb, craiglist, etc). Example is data extraction from content visible via hover (airbnb calendar pricing) which ParseHub is able to handle.

Thanks a lot for building this, I am excited to save server costs/time from scraping data for projects.

Was unaware that is all thats needed to transfer a number. Thought about porting a number to Twilio, then to have 2 phones which one would have to pay for and just switch the call forwarding.

I'll check out the sim card solution, thanks for the info!

By taking out a sim card you don't remove the risk of physical damage to your phone. By replacing a $10 phone with a $600 phone you can eliminate the risk.
I've had the idea for a while to allow users to own a dumbphone and smartphone and be able to switch them back and forth easily to receive your main #. Smartphones are so expensive and I don't need the functionality over 50% of the time so it can cut down the risk of breakage by just bringing the flip phone instead.
May 2013: Graduated from college with marketing degree and started to learn to code. (Blog post here: https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/being-over-your-head-2c187f3e1f31)

September 2013: First paid gig after completing 2 personal projects

From my first project to my current ones I increased my rate at $5 a month for any new projects that I signed. It has gotten me to a livable wage from coding within a year. As of now I charge $120 an hour and even if I don't have 40 billable hours a week I can still get along. The key is be around people building things. They will inspire you and help get you projects. Luckily a few of my friends started projects in college so my first 6 months of client work was easier to adapt to. After that referrals started coming in and the business started to grow at a much more serious pace.

I created a graph to display the data that I pulled from the poll around 10pm EST on 6/2/13: http://glacial-island-9881.herokuapp.com/

Open Source Project Network

Hello Coders!I am creating a website with some fellow developers. I’d like to get the opinion of the open-source community. The problem were trying to solve is how to make open-source development more centralized, social and open to new comers, but also how to create a useful tool to senior developers.I’d like to develop a centralized recruitment and development community for open source...

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