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by aroc 3y ago
Are you a PM at Retool?
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by aroc 3y ago
I find myself strangely drawn to dystopian aesthetic. There’s something deeply moving about them.
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by aroc 3y ago
This is great. I think visual tools like this are under utilized. They’re fun to use and can often reveal interesting insights.
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by aroc 4y ago
Feels like the first company to study is Amazon. They are super customer focused and they have actual content out there you can find where they talk about it in detail and what it means. In the early days of Amazon they kept an empty seat i
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Lambda School Raises $30M to Expand Income-Sharing Tuition for Coding Students(forbes.com)
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by aroc 9y ago
Hi there, a friend and I are very excited to release a new education course we've created for instrumenting product analytics. We’ve both been building digital products for some time, and have been involved in the setup and management
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Show HN: Product Analytics Implementation Course(metricsacademy.com)
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by aroc 9y ago
http://www.get-jumper.com/ A way to motivate people (including myself) to exercise with a chat bot that tracks your progress. Originally built it to track how often I worked out, and if I didn't, what the reason was an
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by aroc 9y ago
This looks super interesting. I built out a spreadsheet of (very rough) projected financials for a business I was considering trying that was going to do something very similar; essentially gear rental for camping. I wasn't able to fin
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by aroc 10y ago
Hi there, I work for Keen IO. The AutoCollector SDK was fixed early this morning. Version 1.0.8 no longer sends password fields in plaintext. If you upgrade your version to 1.0.8 you'll be good to go. We're working to inform all u
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by aroc 10y ago
Vancouver, BC. Supernatural beauty. Immediate access to incredible outdoors. Great food and cafe scene. Fantastic arts and music scene. Clean. One of the greenest (carbon footprint) cities in the world. Fantastic transit system. Fast growin
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by aroc 10y ago
+1. I would be curious to see how it performs vs. a standard form as well.
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by aroc 10y ago
10. Technology is incredibly interesting. But I base my number off the fact that I'm always pretty involved in product/growth/strategy at companies where I do software engineering and I'm 90% of the time working on an in
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by aroc 10y ago
There's certainly some aspects of bullshittyness to it all, but I find it exciting. It's cool to see new ways of doing things coming into the industry and people trying to improve. I think when you start thinking that it's al
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by aroc 10y ago
I came to the comments section to post this exact comment. This is a hugely impactful change! Super happy to see this land.
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by aroc 10y ago
Thanks so much! Honestly, I think I'm more excited about the landing page than I am the chatbot at times haha. I built it using http://tachyons.io and I'm not sure I've ever had more fun writing HTML/CSS. Def
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by aroc 10y ago
This sort of stuff is really interesting to me. I think any app/service can use ML though, it doesn't have to be a chatbot. I'm actually surprised we aren't already seeing more of this. I feel like most all fitness tra
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by aroc 10y ago
So the "friction" conversation about a product like this is pretty interesting imo. One one hand, the bot is easy to get started with: Almost everyone already has the software (assuming Jumper works on multiple chat platforms) to
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by aroc 10y ago
No kidding - happy to hear some feedback about how well those actually work. I've been wondering.
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by aroc 10y ago
That's not a bad idea. If people covered the cost I'd have no problem adding SMS back!
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by aroc 10y ago
No unlimited plans from Twilio, unfortunately. https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing Maybe another SMS service offers that? If so, I'd certainly consider SMS again.
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by aroc 10y ago
I use Zwift as well! It makes indoor riding nearly fun! (so long as you have a decent bike trainer, of course). Ultimately there are no magic bullets, you have to do the exercise. And that's the idea with Jumper - motivating you to g
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by aroc 10y ago
Jumper actually started out as SMS. It operated solely on SMS for about 2 months, but the unpredictable message delivery, high cost or messages (esp. images) and lack of access to user profiles made me switch. Is there another chat platform
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by aroc 10y ago
Thank you!! :D I actually started out on SMS with Twilio! I switched to Facebook Messenger simply because it was starting to get expensive and I really started to miss the niceties of using a proper chat platform: thing like predictable mes
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by aroc 10y ago
haha this will hopefully do the trick! If it doesn't, let me know how it could be better! :)
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by aroc 10y ago
I probably should have said "chatbot" instead of robot. :/ And thanks for the congrats! I really appreciate you letting me know your impression on it.
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by aroc 10y ago
So this the crux of this whole project. You nailed what is "interesting" here. This should, by no means, be more effective for anyone who's currently using it. This bot is pretty damn simple. But the personification is seem
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by aroc 10y ago
Thank you so much! I've been operating Jumper for ~4 months with a small group of people and the conclusion most people have made: It's useful because it's very lightweight and the personal style interaction helps with motiva
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by aroc 10y ago
"backwards Tamagotchi where the computer takes care of the human" has got me down a deep dark hole of thought about computers taking care of humans now haha. Simple statement, but lots to unpack there. Having "robots", w
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by aroc 10y ago
Hey everyone, I recently built this FB Messenger bot to help me exercise more regularly. I found that I was pretty off-and-on-again for exercise and wanted to be a lot more consistent. I feel so much better when I exercise every day. I or

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