brennanm

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by brennanm 3y ago
This makes no sense. How is pressing a key on a piano different from pressing a key on an electronic piano?
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29,000 tech layoffs in 3 months: 3 Steps every manager needs to take
11 points by brennanm 4y ago|0 comments
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Surveyed 500 ppl in tech about growth, goals, & meetings. Here's 10 takeaways
10 points by brennanm 5y ago|0 comments
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Hypercontext (YC S21) is hiring a SwiftUI developer(ycombinator.com)
1 points by brennanm 5y ago
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by brennanm 5y ago
Not company wide, but definitely paying and a great relationship with folks at Netflix.
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by brennanm 5y ago
They’re giving feedback on the experience. Nothing was broken, just confusing. Using HN for feedback is pretty core to YC’s value for batch companies and has been going on for quite some time
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by brennanm 5y ago
We have a small team starter plan that's $5 total for your first 5 users. Also, we'll only charge you for additional users if you a) invite them and b) they sign in and become active. So definitely can stay at $5/m and use it
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by brennanm 5y ago
Noah! Thanks for commenting. Re - ML on feedback: Customers/users haven't taken us there, yet, anyways. Would love to jam more, if you're open to it? brennan at hypercontext.com?
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by brennanm 5y ago
It's volume pricing for users above that threashold, if that makes sense. So, the first 100 users are $5.60/u/m or $560/m, if annual (to keep numbers consistent). 101 users would be $564/m as only the 101st user wou
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by brennanm 5y ago
All good man. Enjoy google docs
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by brennanm 5y ago
Amazing. Would love as much feedback as you can muster if you want to send it my way: brennan @ hypercontext.com
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by brennanm 5y ago
You're doing gods works here. Thanks so much. Please do ask for a reset when you get the chance and/or email me directly brennan at hypercontext.com would love more feedback like this
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by brennanm 5y ago
Spotted - Yeah we rebranded from Soapbox about 30 days ago. https://hypercontext.com/blog/news/soapbox-rebrand-hypercont...
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by brennanm 5y ago
I 100% hear you here. Meetings are inherently pretty viral, so stopping the multiplayer is actually quite hard. We've had to manage it in app fairly deliberately as user growth can happen too quickly and customers can get frustrated. T
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by brennanm 5y ago
Don't let us discourage you. There is room for multiple companies in any space worth building a startup in. Happy to build this space with you, together. Competition is good for customers and ultimately that's who I'm serving
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by brennanm 5y ago
Job Specs: - Manage 10 people - Code fixes in between meetings - Learn new technical concepts after hours - Management books/podcasts while you sleep - Nobel prize on PTO Views on "stop coding" have been changing. https:&#x2
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by brennanm 5y ago
For the folks who don't want to click-> "[Peter Principle] observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their 'maximum level of incompetence': employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs unti
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by brennanm 5y ago
We launched the goals library Sept last year and it's been growing slowly ever since. Still more to do on it (and other large/free/helpful resources like our template library https://hypercontext.com/agenda-te
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by brennanm 5y ago
In my head, Hera is more of a merge of something like apple reminders and apple notes. More of a single-player experience for productivity. Superpowered has a bunch of similar concepts - however their launch claims that meeting events won&#
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by brennanm 5y ago
Yup - definitely have been competitive with them for a while now. Great for innovation in the space for sure. They're a bit more "sell to HR" focused and we're more "biuld for the end user" focused - eg: They d
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by brennanm 5y ago
We've looked at that and found it's been more beneficial for folks to use one or two of our canned conversation starters to uncover something they wouldn't have otherwise talked about. Definitely something I think about thoug
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by brennanm 5y ago
We've disguising a career change as a promotion since 0 BC
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Launch HN: Hypercontext (YC S21) – Meeting notes, actions, and OKRs in one app
145 points by brennanm 5y ago|60 comments
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by brennanm 6y ago
Absolutely. We're working on adding more and more!
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by brennanm 6y ago
Direct link if you want to skip straight to engineering examples: https://soapboxhq.com/goal-examples/engineering The examples are actually in our app (Soapbox) but we decided to surface them publicly as a resource for
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Show HN: OKR Example Directory – Incl. Roles Like DevOps, VP Eng, etc.(soapboxhq.com)
16 points by brennanm 6y ago|5 comments
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by brennanm 6y ago
Curious to hear if people's daily scrum is changing dramatically with everyone being WFH?
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by brennanm 6y ago
Often see startups use this between product/engineering/cs/sales/marketing in maybe b2b saas companies.
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Managers: This isn't remote work. It's leading through a crisis(soapboxhq.com)
4 points by brennanm 6y ago|1 comments
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by brennanm 6y ago
Personally, I'm getting sick of listicles of remote tips.

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