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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015) on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @05:00PM (#9306851)
Usabilla - https://usabilla.com/jobs - Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We are looking for Full Stack developers and experienced Front-end Developers.

Stack: AWS, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Go, AngularJS, PHP (Symfony 2). Awesome team & most beautiful office in Amsterdam (https://instagram.com/usabilla/)

Re:Show HN: Headphone Enhancer for Techno and 5.1 Movies on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @06:12PM (#8817286)
Would be great if I could adjust the bass myself a bit. Some songs are now just a bit too much. Furthermore vocals are missing that spark and sound quite dull. I have the idea that you are boosting the mids which pushes high freqs a bit to the background.
Re:One-click video conversations without registration on iPhone on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @07:37AM (#7844984)
"Video conversations with up to 8 people for free."

Guess there will be a paid plan later which allows more people.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014) on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @02:16PM (#6996101)
Usabilla - Amsterdam - The Netherlands

We build cutting-edge feedback technologies. We have just reached a record exposure of 2 billion monthly Live Feedback button displays – serving an international client base, including big online players like Booking.com, Vodafone, T-Mobile and Spilgames. Time to expand our team with highly motivated and skilled web developers.

We use: PHP / Symfony 2, Go, NodeJS, Javascript, MongoDB, AWS

http://blog.usabilla.com/hiring-skilled-web-developers-amste...

Re:Show HN: Kraken.io – image optimization service on Sunday August 11, 2013 @05:32AM (#6194481)
What would be the difference from tools like http://tinypng.org and http://www.jpegmini.com/main/shrink_photo ?
Re:The Data Behind Purchasing Behavior at UserVoice – Pricing for Conv... on Friday July 19, 2013 @03:01AM (#6068712)
I think he meant that the actual conversion to a paid customer. Of course you will get more sign ups (we saw the same at Usabilla), but that doesn't mean those additional sign ups will convert into a paid customer.

We have seen as well that there is less dedication from a customer when they sign up without a credit card. People sign up and forget about it, because it isn't paid anyway (even when you send them regular update emails). When requiring a cc for sign up the user is more motivated to actually trial the product and see if there is a fit.

It basically shifts the drop by sign ups from the actual users who want to use your product for a longer period.

Above is all from B2B experience. B2C can be totally different.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2013) on Monday July 01, 2013 @04:26PM (#5973350)
Amsterdam, Netherlands, sales executives, Usabilla.com

We are looking for full time ambitious native speaking sales executives, who can actively sell our SaaS-tools Usabilla Live and Usabilla Survey in the UK, Germany and France.

Usabilla is a fast growing Software as a Service company that offers website feedback tools to big online players like: Vodafone, Booking.com, Tele2, G-Star and T-Mobile. By continuously innovating our frameworks and using the highest possible technical solutions, we make sure that we keep ahead of the leading edge of the technology curve and remain the standard in user feedback.

Full job description: http://blog.usabilla.com/we-are-looking-for-sales-executives...

Apply or more information: [email protected]

Re:Why I Dislike EC2 on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @07:15AM (#5818705)
First, people seem to think EC2 saves you time and hassle. Compared to collocated servers, this is true. But compared to dedicated servers, managed or unmanaged, it simply isn't. Hardware fails? They'll replace it (at no cost).

I totally disagree. OK, maybe it takes a bit more time to set everything up, but when you have it all up and running (AMI's, Autoscaling, etc.) you have a robust setup that can scale when you scale (up or down). Adding a new instance literally only takes some minutes. Try that with a dedicated setup. It's more expensive for sure, but comes with a lot of flexibility.

What I see as an EC2 (or AWS in general) issue / challenge is that it's hard to switch providers. When you use S3, SQS, Cloudwatch, Elasticache, Cloudfront, DynamoDB, SES, Route53 your code is totally integrated / adapted to AWS. You can't take your code and deploy it on a different setup elsewhere.

Re:Optimizely Raises $28 Million to Go Global on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @02:22PM (#5526985)
I was quite astonished when reading about their insane growth. Most of the companies we talk to in The Netherlands (Telco's, E-commerce, Banking / insurance, travel) are using VWO, Sitespect and last week I heard two clients talk about Maxymiser. Not one time I heard them talk about Optimizely. Seems there is still a lot of room for growth (at least in NL).

We (usabilla.com) are using Optimizely with great satisfaction though!

Re:Wizard for Mac - a tool for statistics and data analysis on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @02:49AM (#4574461)
Or upload it to youtube and split it up, so it's scrollable (wasn't able to scroll in the 30+ minute video now).
Re:How Google takes feedback on Monday September 24, 2012 @10:50AM (#4564937)
We just deployed a change. When you give feedback for a second time (when you are still in the feedback flow), you won't see the intro dialog anymore.
Re:Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99 on Thursday August 16, 2012 @01:41AM (#4390048)
For the ones that are seeing a different price. There is a small trick workaround for that. You can generate a real US address here: http://www.realusaaddress.com/ and make that your primary address. As you as shipping digital stuff it doesn't matter that it's not your real address. Prices of the Kindle store should drop immediately.

Watch out when making non digital purchases though that you select the correct address ;-)

Re:Pie chart progress in your website's favicon on Thursday August 02, 2012 @10:56AM (#4329025)
We are using Notificon (https://github.com/makeable/Notificon) to display notifications in the favicon of Discover (http://discover.usabilla.com/), but I really this pie chart as well. Now I have to think of useful ways to implement it.
Re:Ask HN: Recommendations for learning and improving UX/UI skills? on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @09:32AM (#4317115)
shameless self promotion - On our company blog you can find lots of articles which can improve your UX/UI skills:

http://blog.usabilla.com/category/design/

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