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I skim Hacker News couple of times a day. I prefer reading books (on Kindle), ~30 mins to 1 hour every night before sleep and 20-30 mins every morning after waking up.

SEEKING WORK - Remote only

We are a 2-person consulting team which focuses on solving business problems with the right set of tools and architecture. We have worked on web analytics products, SaaS products, mobile apps, audio streaming web apps and real-estate search portals.

Here are some of the things we’re experienced in: Javascript, Node.js, Swift, Python, iOS, Android, AWS, Heroku, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis. We also have experience in frontend development using HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, LESS, Angular.js.

We are available full-time, and prefer working with funded startups and established companies, who have preference for good quality software design and implementation.

We offer weekly rates, and will work with you to create a plan based on your budget and timeline, before starting work on the project.

Contact: prattbhatt [AT] gmail [DOT] com

There are projects like FoldingCoin.net and CureCoin.net, which enable people to contribute processing power for solving computation-heavy problems, such as protein folding. These two projects are focussed on medical research and the tech is based on bitcoin blockchain.

To encourage people to contribute processing power / storage, these projects need to incentivise them which is where bitcoin comes in.

There is a startup called 21.co which is creating an embeddable bitcoin mining chip, which can be "embedded into an internet-connected device as a standalone chip or integrated into an existing chipset as a block of IP to generate a continuous stream of digital currency for use in a wide variety of applications." [1]

As mobile devices start having these embeddable mining chips, people would be able to "mine" coins like FoldingCoin and CureCoin on their devices, which then becomes like a network of coordinated "cloud servers" which are incentivised by these coins

Also, there are decentralised cloud storage projects like Storj.io (similar to Dropbox).

[1] https://medium.com/@21dotco/a-bitcoin-miner-in-every-device-...

Not sure if going forward with Angular.js was the right choice, given Angular 2.0 had been announced, and will be different from Angular 1.0 (no backwards compatibility)

"Oops!

All C1 servers are busy, please retry in few minutes :)"

Interesting to see that they do not have technical specs on their store pages (e.g, http://store.apple.com/us/buy-watch/apple-watch-sport?produc...)

loumf, davismwfl: Thank you for your thoughts. We will try to follow a strategy along the guidelines that you have suggested. As you have said, we are initially going to target companies where we have an existing network, and take it on from there.

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We are 2 full-stack Node.js / AngularJS developers (Prateek Bhatt, Neil DSouza).

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Recent Project:

We have recently built UserJoy.co, a customer Analytics and CRM Tool, using Node.js, Angular.js, MongoDB and hosted on AWS.

DEMO: https://app.userjoy.co/demo

We built both the frontend and the backend.

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We have worked extensively with:

- frontend: Angular.js, JQuery, Twitter Bootstrap

- backend: Node.js, Express.js, Sails.js

- datastores: Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL

- testing: TDD/BDD with Mocha, Jasmine, Sinon.js, Protractor

- tool chain: Grunt, Yeoman, Bower

- version control: Git (Github, Bitbucket)

We have experience working with the following APIs / platforms:

- payment gateways: Stripe, Braintree, Chargebee

- email integration: Mailgun, Mandrill, AWS SES

- messaging: Twilio

- job queues: Iron.io

- social: Google, Twitter, Facebook

- hosting: AWS, Rackspace, Heroku

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Our github ids are:

- https://github.com/prateekbhatt

- https://github.com/neilxdsouza

Looking forward to working with you: [email protected]

I'm getting this error too.

Seems they want to sell the EMV card readers instead of providing them for free.

Could you share a link of the same story which is not behind a paywall?

I faced the same problem while I was building a SaaS product. It became difficult to understand what users were doing on the app and then easily reach out to them with help/feedback emails. We realized that there are other people building SaaS products who are facing the same problems. So, we have pivoted to building an analytics + messaging tool for SaaS products.

These are the problems that we are working on:

- quickly check out the feed of any user's actions on your product

- click on a action and see the recent / most-frequent users for that action

- segment users by their 'journey', e.g. case: how many users have integrated their Google Analytics account but have never seen the generated reports? (user 'hasdone' and 'hasnotdone' queries)

- auto segmenting users based on their engagement/frequency/plan (by assigning a karma score to each user)

- lifecycle emails / notifications : send emails to your users based on where they got stuck while using the product etc

You can check out more on the landing page:

http://www.dodatado.com/landing

My email: prateek [AT] dodatado [DOT] com

Links:

Website - http://www.dodatado.com/landing

Beta Sign Up - https://dodatado.wufoo.com/forms/dodatado-account-registrati...

SaaS product I was working on - http://www.dodatado.com

Agreed

Yes, someone with your access and secret keys can spin up instances, create buckets, and do everything else that the stolen keys are authorized for.

Turns out Yahoo offers a business mail plan to Indian users which provides 1000 email accounts (!) for ~ $5 / month

Link: https://in.business.yahoo.com/business-email/features/

Is it still working for anyone? I see "Sorry, that promotion code is no longer valid".

The founder of Freshdesk wrote a nice blogpost on this a few years ago: http://blog.freshdesk.com/how-to-incorporate-a-us-corporatio...

Do you have PCI DSS certification ? The credit card number is going through your servers.

Its part of the continuous cycle of creation and destruction.

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