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cool idea, at first glance I wonder how much of this could be covered by MCP? Claude connected to all of my other tools and a product's MCP can create custom views/dashboard/automations/etc.

Show HN: Derby.app – An AI-powered research tool for Kentucky Derby picks

https://www.derby.app

Hi HN,I built derby.app — a tool to help research and handicap the Kentucky Derby using AI.In the spring of 2023, I had some time between jobs and got interested in trying to pick the winner of the Kentucky Derby. I went all in: watched replays, read bloodline charts, followed forums, and built spreadsheets. I landed on Mage, and when he won, it was one of the most fun moments I’ve had at a...

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018) on Monday July 02, 2018 @03:25PM (#17444633)
Springbuk | Principal Backend Engineer | Growth-Stage | Full-time | Indianapolis | Competitive Salary + Equity

At Springbuk, we’re undergoing a major platform re-architecture in response to our rapidly scaling customer base. We need your help to lead that transition from monolith to microservices and from data analysis that works to data analysis that scales.

• Product: Health Intelligence Platform for Self Insured Employers, Brokers, and Wellness Companies (https://www.springbuk.com)

• Raised our $20M Series B in Feb. Total money in ~$25M.

• Strong revenue and product growth 3 years in a row.

• 1600+ paid employer customers on the platform

• Tech: Ruby, Python, Postgres, Elasticsearch, AWS, React

== Full Description / Apply ==

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018) on Friday June 01, 2018 @02:49PM (#17208717)
Springbuk | Principal Backend Engineer | Growth-Stage | Full-time | Indianapolis | REMOTE | Competitive Salary + Equity At Springbuk, we’re undergoing a major platform re-architecture in response to our rapidly scaling customer base. We need your help to lead that transition from monolith to microservices and from data analysis that works to data analysis that scales.

• Product: Health Intelligence Platform for Self Insured Employers, Brokers, and Wellness Companies (https://www.springbuk.com)

• Raised our $20M Series B in Feb. Total money in ~$25M.

• Strong revenue and product growth 3 years in a row.

• 1600+ paid employer customers on the platform

• Tech: Ruby, Python, Postgres, Elasticsearch, AWS

== Full Description / Apply ==

https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/springbukcom/view/P_...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018) on Friday May 04, 2018 @11:41AM (#16995417)
Springbuk | Principal Backend Engineer | Growth-Stage | Full-time | Indianapolis | REMOTE | Competitive Salary + Equity

At Springbuk, we’re undergoing a major platform re-architecture in response to our rapidly scaling customer base. We need your help to lead that transition from monolith to microservices and from data analysis that works to data analysis that scales.

• Product: Health Intelligence Platform for Self Insured Employers, Brokers, and Wellness Companies (https://www.springbuk.com)

• Raised our $20M Series B in Feb. Total money in ~$25M.

• Strong revenue and product growth 3 years in a row.

• 1500+ paid employer customers on the platform

• Tech: Ruby, Python, Postgres, Elasticsearch, AWS

== Full Description / Apply ==

https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/springbukcom/view/P_...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018) on Monday April 02, 2018 @11:37AM (#16735449)
Springbuk | Senior DevOps Engineer | Growth-Stage | Full-time | Indianapolis | REMOTE | Competitive Salary + Equity

• Product: Health Intelligence Platform for Self Insured Employers, Brokers, and Wellness Companies (https://www.springbuk.com)

• Raised our $20M Series B in Feb. Total money in ~$25M.

• Strong revenue and product growth 3 years in a row.

• 1400+ paid employer customers on the platform

• Tech: AWS, CloudFormation, Chef, Jenkins, Ruby on Rails, React, Postgres (RDS), Python, Elastic Search

== Full Description / Apply ==

https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/springbukcom/view/P_...

Cheers! – Steve Caldwell, VP of Technology

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018) on Friday March 09, 2018 @11:09AM (#16552692)
Springbuk | Senior DevOps Engineer | Growth-Stage | Full-time | Indianapolis | REMOTE | Competitive Salary + Equity

• Product: Health Intelligence Platform for Self Insured Employers, Brokers, and Wellness Companies (https://www.springbuk.com)

• Raised our $20M Series B last month. Total money in ~$25M.

• Strong revenue and product growth 3 years in a row.

• 1300+ paid employer customers on the platform

• Tech: AWS, CloudFormation, Chef, Jenkins, Ruby on Rails, React, Postgres (RDS), Python, Elastic Search

== Full Description / Apply ==

https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/springbukcom/view/P_...

Cheers! – Steve Caldwell, VP of Technology

Re:WatchKit on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @03:10PM (#8626025)
It looks like mostly interface related things, for now. https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
Re:Y Combinator, a Two-Year-Old, and a Pregnant Wife on Thursday October 23, 2014 @09:53PM (#8501760)
There is an obvious difference between things we can and the things we can't control. My example is clearly the former, and is much more analogous than yours.

Oh, and I learned a long time ago that "shut up" doesn't go over too well with my wife, unless I want to get smacked.

Re:Y Combinator, a Two-Year-Old, and a Pregnant Wife on Thursday October 23, 2014 @02:43PM (#8499933)
I can relate. My wife and 2 toddlers were 12 hours away for 4 months while I did an accelerator this Summer. I saw them about a week a month.

Guys like us are in the minority. A lot of people told me I'm nuts for putting my family on the back burner to chase this dream. I told myself I wasn't going to let work come ahead of them, but yeah, I put them on the back burner for 4 months. At times it felt nuts. My kids are growing up fast and I'm working 18 hours a day across the country. Some days, it took immense amounts of willpower to not jump on a plane and dip out.

I used the military analogy with my wife when she complained. Hell, how many guys went over to Afghanistan for months without seeing their families? A lot of them never came back. A ton more risk, for what? Priority boarding and discounts on oil changes? (I have a ton of respect for those guys, and no, they don't do it for perks or respect.) Compared to that, I'd say the upside of this opportunity is what they call once in a lifetime.

But in reality, a lot of those folks didn't really have better options. I could make a good living as a developer if I wanted to. If I'm honest, doing this startup thing with a family requires me to be pretty selfish most of the time. But selfish in a good, weird way - working 80 hours a week so someday I don't have to work 40, so I can take my wife and kids to Hawaii for the summer someday, or whatever.

Luckily for us, the experience of the accelerator was worth every pain point. It probably only gets harder from here. Now I'm back with the family, with a (soon to be) funded company, and will have to make those tough juggling decisions on a daily basis. It's all about finding boundaries and balance.

Off to pick my kids up from daycare...

~rich reminds me of my NWO Wolfpac page on Angelfire. Also, I'm pretty sure this is what PCP feels like.
Re:Plastc Card on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @06:31PM (#8424363)
Seems like most people who will opt for "payments 2.0" will just wait for Apple Pay and Google Wallet to be more mainstream. Especially with wearables in the mix.
I think the point about Swiss makers being in trouble with the younger generation is valid. I'm 28, and have always had a great appreciation for fine watches. This is mainly because I grew up seeing my dad appreciate them, and many of the people I'd classify as successful were appreciating them. I wonder though, how many in my generation will teach their children - intentionally or not - that a reasonably successful individual owns the best smartwatch to control their Tesla and their smart home, and not a Rolex? It isn't a stretch to think Rolex could partner with someone to be that brand of smartwatches. Today, smartwatches aren't competing with classic timepieces. In 10 years, there's a real chance that they will.
Re:A Quick Guide to Sublime Text on Monday April 14, 2014 @10:01AM (#7586157)
I'm a big fan of the sublime-grunt packages ... http://crosstek.net/2014/03/03/building-projects-with-grunt-...
Oops, I thought I left those somewhere...
Re:Save more with Google Drive on Thursday March 13, 2014 @06:38PM (#7395648)
Theres a glacier price calculator out there somewhere. I recently priced 12TB and it was something like 25k to pull it all out immediately.
Re:Save more with Google Drive on Thursday March 13, 2014 @05:31PM (#7395232)
Kryder's law will hold true, but right now that's not enough for me to leave Dropbox.