kapilkale

I wish the second paragraph was the launch announcement

Is the argument here that "if you know how to code, spreadsheets aren't useful to you?"

If so, that's false. Spreadsheets are a fantastic way to present visual data and analysis in a way that's auditable by anyone, regardless of technical competence. They are visual programming!

This also makes them a better way to do lightweight data processing. One of my most common workflows is to dump production data into a CSV so I can analyze it and build charts off it. This is perfect for business-as-usual questions, like basic segmentation analyses. Pivot tables!

A major issue with Google Sheets is that the DSL is terrible. Like, try to do any sort of string manipulation (extract the first two words)[1], and you'll see how bad it is. Adding native python support helps solve this.

I'm just a random HN-er who saw this, but I'm very excited about this product.

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[1] https://www.spreadsheetclass.com/extract-text-or-numbers-fro...

That makes two of us. We have a Cloudflare worker serve the content from Webflow (which is actually set up with a custom domain at https://webflow2.tremendous.com/. Yes, it's a little convoluted.

We still don't know what broke here - the Cloudflare worker or Webflow, or the combination of the two.

Sorry about that ya'll- we do some magic with Cloudflare workers to point our marketing pages at at Webflow with a custom domain. This allows us to keep our main app on the same domain. We're still not totally sure what broke in this chain. It's possible HN overwhelmed something.

This setup is not particularly stable, and we're working on migrating away from it.

Is the 100x valid? The odds of a founder dying vs. the chances of a company shutting down seem not apples-to-apples

I would guess there are many cases of solo founders shutting down their business other than founder death...

Tremendous | Rails Engineers, Data Engineers | REMOTE [EST +/- 3 hours | Full-time | https://www.tremendous.com

* we help companies pay people for things like user research, signup incentives, take-home projects, bug bounties, etc

* we are highly profitable (almost irresponsibly so), making $XXM revenue with 30 people, and growing fast

* we are bootstrapped, which means building with the long term in mind vs. VC rat race nonsense

email me at [email protected] if interested.

we're hiring for literally everything, so even if there isn't a job that's an obvious fit, email anyway, because there's probably another opening up that will be

Kinda- for a $300 reward, for example, we only need an email address. So a recipient could just choose an Amazon.com gift card and apply it to their account, with only an email address provided.

My company, tremendous.com, does this, including the tax form collection process if spend exceeds $600 / person. Our primary use case is user research incentives, but interview incentives is an analogous problem.

Basically no strings attached for both sides. We do complete a compliance review for businesses signing up for our site (given we're a payments company), but it's basically invisible at smaller volumes.

Right on that payments is a challenge in implementing this. Companies need to pay candidates, who may be anywhere in the world, a small amount of money on a one-off basis without the hassle of paperwork.

Tremendous.com (where I work) does this.

Candidates can get payments, gift cards, or donate the money to charity.

(we've been paying candidates to take calls, do tech screens, and complete projects, and it's easily been worth the cost. at some point we'll do a blog post on the conversion rate differences)

book is called "the world until yesterday"

Yo, this is actually really hard

Tremendous | Senior Fullstack Engs (Rails) (FT) | Remote (+/- 3 hours of EST)

Product: tremendous.com/demo, grown 5x over last 15 months, profitable

Team: 19 people, former eng leaders from Plaid + AngelList

Comp: 80th percentile or better (we pay well)

Always ask about the preference stack. You'll rarely discover anything interesting, but if you do, it'll completely change how you value your equity grant.

https://angel.co/blog/liquidation-preference-your-equity-cou...

“Looking for jobs through employer reviews is becoming more popular, so buying Glassdoor not only grabs more users but also strengthens Recruit’s existing HR platform,” said Yushi Kawamoto, analyst at Haitong International Japaninvest KK. “Recruit is paying about seven times sales, which isn’t high. This will boost their competitiveness. So overall this is positive for Recruit.”

Glassdoor was valued at ~7X revenue [1], and was growing ~30% YoY [2].

This means they were doing ~$170M top-line, up from $130M in the year prior.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-09/japan-s-r...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-26/jobs-webs...

I doubt this is a choice on Shopify's part; it's almost certainly coming upstream from their payments partners.

https://stripe.com/blog/why-some-businesses-arent-allowed

$33 / US driver... I'd say Uber came out on top here.