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cbkirk | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)

Parabola is building the future of work by enabling all employees to leverage the power of technology. As the world continues to become more technical, all people will need access to technology, but not all people need or want to become engineers. With Parabola, workers automate their data processes and can build flows/algorithms that would otherwise be impossible without an engineer. Through our easy to use drag-and-drop interface, knowledge workers get more done by automating their daily tasks; freeing them to focus on the things they’re uniquely skilled to do rather than on tedious tasks.

Our tech stack: React, NodeJS, Python.

For more info/apply: https://angel.co/parabola/jobs or email me: [email protected]

cbkirk | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming

That's definitely on our roadmap, and we move things around based on need/interest of users. Shoot us an email to hi [at] parabola.io with what you're looking to do and we'd love to see how we can help.

cbkirk | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming

Thanks @adamfeldman. Parabola originally was pure JS: running the majority of each step function of the language in the user’s browser, making use of some python API endpoints and React and Immutable.js for some performance enhancements to know when steps needed to be calculated and rendered.

Given there are definite limitations with browser based JS and user’s systems, we’re now a fully cloud based compute environment. As users make changes in our React UI, we send the work to a queue and then distribute it by parsing the flow tree across various node worker servers so steps can run in parallel (if your flow is built that way). Each step is self contained and we then use sockets (powered by PubNub) to notify the UI of changes.

cbkirk | 9 years ago | on: Expa Labs? Does anyone know anything about Garrett Camp's accelerator?

My co-founder and I also went through this program building our company, Chalet. It was a fantastic experience. Everyone at Expa is smart, talented and very interested in helping the Labs companies succeed in whatever they can; similar to how @mikeschmidt describes, it's almost like they are members of your team.

You get a lot of access to and support from the partners. During our first month in the program, at a meeting with Garrett, we actually got some of the best advice and directional support we'd ever received. Without just that meeting, our company would not be the same as it is today.

My co-founder, Michelle Cunningham, also wrote up a short blog post about our experience with the program: https://blog.withchalet.com/chalet-expa-our-take-on-labs-b32...