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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021) on Monday July 05, 2021 @07:20AM (#27736731)
Valla (valla.uk) | Django developer | REMOTE (UK) | Full time

Valla is on a mission to make legal support affordable for everyone. We are starting with employment law in the UK.

* Details: https://bit.ly/3qMQxxX

Re:Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @03:12PM (#26255124)
my understanding is that GCP has recently changed their startup programme. I applied a few weeks ago, and had the same bad service as the OP.
If you take out the startup bit, something like Float app feels more useful since it connects with Xero and can do some of the scenario planning too: https://floatapp.com/
Re:Show HN: Lemonade – the world's first P2P insurance company on Thursday September 22, 2016 @01:10AM (#12554523)
I have to say, I'm pretty excited by this. Mutual insurance companies have existed for a good while, but they're not easy to find. Having one that's married to great tech definitely makes me want to use it.
Re:Show HN: Lemonade – the world's first P2P insurance company on Thursday September 22, 2016 @01:07AM (#12554518)
I'd agree with that. There's a general feeling that people are surprised when their insurance companies pay out/cover some big cost (like rot), rather than it just being part of life. That says something about how much we trust existing insurance companies.
Just typed in 'What if robots ruled the world?'

No reply after 10mins ... shouldn't I get some sort of error handling/user expectation management if it's a question that can't be answered by Murphy?

Re:But Where Do People Work in This Office? on Thursday January 15, 2015 @10:13AM (#8892845)
As much as it pains for me to say it, I do think small, quiet 1-2 person offices are great for thinking and getting real work done. I believe the IDEO offices in the Bay Area have a combination of a centralised area for discussions and collaboration, but a set of smaller offices for more focused work time. Something which would actually be quite nice to see more of ...
Re:Show HN: Supercharge GitHub with ZenHub on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @04:05AM (#8519920)
+1 on the comment.

I'd still give it a spin though. We've been looking for a way to make github work better for us, and this looks like it's going to hit the mark.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014) on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @05:34PM (#7973642)
Ginsberg - Edinburgh, Scotland, Full Time Head of User Acquisition, Project Ginsberg

We’re looking to complete our team by hiring a Head of User Acquisition to drive and execute our strategy around building a world-class mental wellbeing service for the Scottish population.

Key tasks are the planning and execution of our public beta launch plan and driving users to a number of smaller products that might be part of our product suite. Your ultimate success criteria is the number of relevant users that arrive at and activate our services.

We’re a data driven project: part of your responsibility is to identify and quantify the most appropriate acquisitions channels for reaching our target users.

Very competitive pay. Get in touch through kate at project-ginsberg.com see: https://www.project-ginsberg.com/blog/were-hiring-looking-fo...

Ask HN: How do you define KPIs for a Customer Satisfaction person for a startup?

Do you have a Customer Satisfaction 'person' / Community Manager in a startup? Or even better, are you one?How do measure performance of someone like that on your team?Just like devs, we want to measure by quality, not quantity. I've done a lot of Dev team management, where estimates, sprints and retrospectives work. But with something like customer satisfaction (where the focus is on the...

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I just tried to get a refund, but realised that indiegogo doesn't hold funds like kickstarter do.

I understand that its my own fault for not waiting, but if Indiegogo doesn't do anything about this, I think their reputation could get quite badly damaged ...

Well, that's cool. While I totally get the point of what the OP was trying to do (and it's awesome trying to be make female coders/founders more visible), I have to confess that as a fellow 'girl of HackerNews', I think the title could be less leading and a bit more constructive.

There are other female founders out there that code. I'm sorry to say that you're not the first, nor the last. It's about how we get MORE female founders and female coders to increase the diversity of the startup world.

(Incidentally, I'm female, a startup founder and I code. )

Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your sales leads? on Sunday January 12, 2014 @04:47PM (#7047585)
+1 for Pipedrive.
Re:Not Wanted on Saturday January 11, 2014 @04:52PM (#7043911)
I second that. I was just about to email Nate to ask him how he would deal with this issue but struggling to articulate it. Thanks!
Re:PrimeSense bought by Apple for $345M on Sunday November 17, 2013 @06:46AM (#6748521)
This makes a lot of sense especially if Apple wants to move Apple TV on. Lots of TV manufacturers like Samsung has gesture navigation implemented already.

This should be exciting.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2013) on Saturday November 02, 2013 @05:39AM (#6658676)
SEEKING WORK - UK Based or remote

We build educational kids games on mobile, our clients have included SMART Technologies, PBS KIDS and Pearson Education.

We can design and build 2D games on mobile with a quick turnaround. Have spent a lot of time getting our pipeline right in order to publish on iOS and android super efficiency.

Our own consumer facing games at: http://www.tigerfacegames.com

Drop me a line at [email protected]

Re:Stop participating in hackathons just to win on Saturday March 30, 2013 @04:42PM (#5466608)
What should really happen is for hackathons to stop awarding prizes. There's no need for them. Most people go to hackathons because they want to meet people, try new things and learn stuff.
Re:Ask HN: Good iPad apps for children to help with learning? on Saturday March 30, 2013 @04:39PM (#5466596)
[shameless plug]

We build collaborative educational games on the iPad. You should check out Equator (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/equator-2-player-problem-sol...).

Re:My startup story on Saturday September 15, 2012 @05:59PM (#4527439)
It's a real shame to hear this story. I met Toni back in 2010 at a mobile event called MEX and thought the concept was super exciting. It's a shame this happened... I hope the team go on to do bigger and better things.
Re:Show HN: iPad game to help toddlers with Autism on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @08:24AM (#3451606)
Awesome. Please pass on any comments/feedback. We'd love to hear from her.
Re:Show HN: iPad game to help toddlers with Autism on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @07:54AM (#3451517)
It was designed by autism researchers based at the Univ of Edinburgh so its pretty pedagogically sound.

Direct link is: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/findme-autism/id491925436?ls=...

Also, the app is done in Cocos2D, but we might rebuild it in Unity and release it onto android if there's a demand for it ...

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