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jenthoven | 7 months ago | on: Slow

Some are projects that have a changing variable over a long period of time (Framingham Heart Study, E. coli long-term evolution experiment) or strive to exist a long time (Clock of the Long Now). I would argue that these projects -- their process, data collection methods, and goals -- may have been developed quickly, in a short amount of time. Their longevity is proof that the original project was well established. But the same could be said of the invention of the wheel, shoe, sliced bread, etc

jenthoven | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Handling Two Identical Resumes?

Sure. We accept or reject all candidates as quickly as we can. But do you think this candidate should be progressed or rejected?

Our actual decision was to ask them to send in a video introduction before we schedule a phone screen with one of our engineers.

jenthoven | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Handling Two Identical Resumes?

LLMs don't make up identical resumes twice. For example, the second position on both resumes has this description: "Worked on first class video conferencing platform for qualitative research using Typescript, Go and React.js."

What are the odds that GPT makes up that same copy for two different users?

Re: calling them -- There is no phone number listed on either resume! Also makes me suspicious this is a scam...

jenthoven | 1 year ago | on: Pianofuck

I had trouble following the instructions here. Also the name is a bit aggressive...

jenthoven | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Preventing Phishing Attempts via Text?

(I thought) We had a secure approach (in terms of guarded 2FA credentials, no credential sharing, security training, etc), but this has me concerned. The only place we store phone numbers of employees is in Gusto, to my knowledge, plus my personal Contacts and whoever that employee has shared their contact with personally.

I'm also unsure how concerned to be about this...

jenthoven | 3 years ago | on: Google removed our website from search because it uses YouTube-dl

[This is Julia, Eric’s cofounder] We have filled out multiple counter-notices. The first attempt was the recommended action in Google’s initial takedown notice: send an email to [email protected] with specific reference to the ticket number (2-1881000033144). I wrote a lengthy response explaining why the claims were unfounded in most cases.

After a few days, they got back to us saying actually we needed to file a counter notice form, which involves pasting the URLs one by one into a web form with an explanation for why the page did not violate copyright. So Eric and I split up the URLs and did that, one by one, for 317 URLs

We filed the counter-notice on Thursday. As of the time of this comment (Monday afternoon), we have not heard back, and our pages have not been reinstated

jenthoven | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How long did your startup's first engineers stay?

We hired four people shortly after raising our seed round (in addition to the two cofounders). Two of those early employees are still at the company 4.5 years later. One is the CTO and one is the Head of Product.

The other two left within 2 years of joining. One early employee quit before the one year vest cliff. The other left after about 18 months to start his own company (which ended up not working out).

jenthoven | 3 years ago | on: Someone is impersonating us in a recruiting scam

[This is Julia, the OC] We’re not running a spam campaign. Any more info here on what you’re referring to?

We used to make it free to remove the Kapwing watermark, but needed to up our conversion recently to extend runway and fund R&D. Just shot every creative tool in our space leverages watermarks as a conversion lever because it means we can offer most things for free.

jenthoven | 3 years ago | on: Someone is impersonating us in a recruiting scam

[This is Julia, the OC] It’s not exactly clear what the end scam will be. Scammers ask for bank info, a photo of your ID, and credit info. Sounds like some sort of identity theft or bank withdrawal situation.

jenthoven | 3 years ago | on: Someone is impersonating us in a recruiting scam

[This is Julia, the IC] In this case, LinkedIn had nothing to do with the scam. The thieves were using my real name and they didn’t create a fake profile for the supposed recruiter, so there’s unfortunately no phony profile to report.

jenthoven | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Edit videos faster by automatically removing silences

[This is Julia, the cofounder/CEO] We bootstrapped for 8 months and grew to about 100k of MRR before raising money. I wrote a blog post about this decision https://www.kapwing.com/blog/why-we-decided-to-raise-money-f....

tl;dr is that 1) It's a competitive domain, so we felt we needed to grow our team quickly to stay relevant 2) There's a lot of technical challenges with video editing in the browser + cloud, so we needed to be able to hire talented engineers to scale and 3) I believe there's a huge business in empowering creative teams, so we think we can get to venture scale and needed the capital to support that.

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