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Show HN: Familio – Private Family Platform (Contacts, Newsletters, Photos)

Hi HN,I wanted to share with y'all Familio(https://familio.life/), a private family hub for your contacts, photos, newsletters and recipes. For the last two years I have been using Familio and now it's now ready to share for everyone else to enjoy. Not only is Familio a management software for your contacts, photos and recipes but also Familio provides automated workflows to do the tasks you do...

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Re:Ask HN: Is Facebook down? on Thursday May 25, 2017 @03:51PM (#14419663)
I'm seeing it too. Although API's still seem to be working ok.
Re:How do we solve the filter bubble? on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:29AM (#12906351)
Yeah, that's an important distinction. Once text analaysis gets better, I think it will be important to mix the results.

How do we solve the filter bubble?

Not trying to be political, but I think most people are shocked by the results of this election. Google and Facebook drive most of the new news consumption. What can we do to solve "getting served what you like"?

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Re:Midas – Enriched contact information for email lists on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @06:15PM (#11998023)
I wouldn't be surprised if it this is powered by Clearbit. A lot of companies seem to be reselling the data bought from Clearbit.

Intercom uses another company for their data too: https://docs.intercom.io/help-and-faqs/your-users-data-in-in...

Re:Heroku Kafka on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @04:41PM (#11584344)
Thanks for the update. That is awesome. Excited to see what people do with it.
Re:Heroku Kafka on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @11:13PM (#11577606)
As a former user of Kafka, this is awesome and it would have been a huge help for our company if this was available then. I'm glad to hear that a company is offering Kafka as opposed to other propriety versions(AWS Kinesis etc).

One thing is odd though, there is no mention of disk space at all and only a configuration of retention time. One of Kafka's best features is the use of disk to store large amounts of messages, you are not RAM bound. Heroku seems to only allows you to set retention times? This could be awesome if they are giving you "unlimited" disk space, but could also be a beta oversight. Interested to see how this progresses.

Re:Zapier: Introducing Multi-Step Zaps on Monday February 01, 2016 @12:07PM (#11013107)
Very sweet. I'm excited to see some of the more popular Zaps that get published.
Re:Show HN: Text Nina, your personal list assistant on Friday October 23, 2015 @10:46PM (#10442216)
That feature has been requested a lot and is on the backlog. Just trying to figure out how to make it super easy and intuitive :)

Any ideas?

Re:Show HN: Text Nina, your personal list assistant on Friday October 23, 2015 @07:47PM (#10441832)
I just pushed an update to handle that case. It will not delineate commas and new lines as separate items.
Re:Show HN: Text Nina, your personal list assistant on Friday October 23, 2015 @07:46PM (#10441828)
Very Cool. I really like that use case. Works really with with iMessage
Re:Show HN: Text Nina, your personal list assistant on Friday October 23, 2015 @03:14PM (#10440692)
Yeah, definitely. That is definitely a feature on backlog. Coming soon :)
Re:Show HN: Text Nina, your personal list assistant on Friday October 23, 2015 @02:53PM (#10440569)
Try it for your grocery shopping list. That use case is what gave me the idea to build it.

So handy to just shoot a text instead of opening an app and navigating to the right list.

Re:Show HN: Text Nina, your personal list assistant on Friday October 23, 2015 @02:50PM (#10440548)
Yup, I'm using Twilio. Super easy to use and pretty low cost. Not free, but makes life really easy.
Re:Show HN: Text Nina, your personal list assistant on Friday October 23, 2015 @02:47PM (#10440536)
That is very cool idea. I love saving the context there. It may be really cool to send an SMS contact too. That would make it one step less than the copy and paste.
Re:Show HN: Text Nina, your personal list assistant on Friday October 23, 2015 @02:33PM (#10440443)
I wasn't. What is it?
Re:Show HN: Text Nina, your personal list assistant on Friday October 23, 2015 @02:33PM (#10440440)
I'm rolling out that feature in a few hours. I was a bit ambitions, but it will be `send to {{number}}`. Glad to hear that you found this as an important feature. I think it will be valuable too :)
Re:Show HN: Text Nina, your personal list assistant on Friday October 23, 2015 @12:05PM (#10439472)
Hi, I created this tool because I really wanted it. Let me know if there are any features you would love to see. Hope you find it as useful as I do!
Re:The US digital service on Friday August 14, 2015 @01:11PM (#10061326)
Came here to say the same thing. Know a few people who work there and they are doing some cool things.

I love how they work in the public and really advocate open source. One cool project is their analytics reporter: https://github.com/18F/analytics-reporter

Re:The Great Microservices vs. Monolithic Apps Twitter Melee on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @08:00PM (#8205322)
I also think a lot has to do with language and deployment. Etsy uses PHP for their entire codebase. PHP can be easily hot swapped without any overhead. It's all scaffolded and thrown out every pageview. This provides a much simpler deploy process and has much less impact.

Java on the other hand takes time to warm up. It just isn't practical to redeploy the whole app when you are just updated one aspect.

Re:A Gentle Intro to Monads … Maybe? on Friday January 17, 2014 @11:19AM (#7076537)
I made a port of some Scala Monads to Javascript. Mostly, Option and Either. Makes for some really nice, and you won't find yourself doing (typeof foobar === "undefined").

https://github.com/mbseid/Monad.js

Nope, it probably isn't best for performance. It wasn't my call to make, and it has been operating like that for years.

But for data stability, I see why it was done. It is a trade off, one that we may reconsider down the line.

Edit: Misread the question. I'm not exactly sure, but it significantly improves speed, enough for us to complete the migration, then switch it back on during production.

One note: when running on a VM, it seems not to flush to disk regardless of the OS setting. Probably because of the virtualization software

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