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by mgadams3 4y ago
I'm an R1T owner and I can't even put into words why the truck is just so much better and differentiated. It's not just that it's an EV Truck... my friend has a Lightning and it has none of the magic of my Rivian. Magic
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by mgadams3 4y ago
Grain | Senior Software Engineer | Remote (US timezones) | Full-time | https://grain.com/careers-detail About Grain: We're a 4 year old company with an Elixir/Phoenix backend and React front end, 10 engineers (mos
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by mgadams3 4y ago
I've owned 3 EVs and Tesla is the lowest quality car I've ever owned. Teslas weigh down the average b/c they're the majority of EVs on the road.
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Grain lands $16M led by Tiger Global to turn virtual meetings into ‘libraries’(techcrunch.com)
1 points by mgadams3 4y ago|0 comments
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by mgadams3 5y ago
IMO it's generally more of a tooling problem than a methodology problem... like trying to build a skyscraper without power tools. The main challenge with taking notes during meetings is that the tools use were designed for drafting in
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Cure your Zoom amnesia with Grain 2.0(mgadams.com)
9 points by mgadams3 5y ago|0 comments
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Great stuff Jake, thanks for sharing. I watched that pricing change very closely as we have a similar progression from solo to multi-player at [ https://grain.co/pricing ] but very helpful to hear the reasoning behind it. Com
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Most new companies in this space have been using "AI" marketing to pitch a better world of video conferencing and it's been largely a failure. (unless you call getting bought and then shut down by Cisco a win) But I 100% agre
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Thanks Dariel! Time is a crazy thing ;)
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by mgadams3 6y ago
The cited article pulled out a catchy headline from an extrinsically motivated context like Telemarketing. Not surprising that people who fail from a rote task get de-motivated and quit, learning nothing. I don't believe that study has
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by mgadams3 6y ago
completely agree with this. This is why the idea behind Cagan's "Empowered Product Teams" [ https://svpg.com/empowered-product-teams/ ] is so important. Founders are often too blinded by their initial appr
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by mgadams3 6y ago
For sure, ideas matter A LOT. But we over-index on product solution ideas by default. I think ideas that matter most for is for founders are the ones around a strong conviction on the market opportunity and then be flexible about the soluti
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Thanks, I agree that the default path of "be like Steve Jobs" is a trap that I've fallen into enough times to realize that there are more ways to build where you don't have to have the insights up front. The key in my op
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Thanks Scott. I remember back to our convos in the Grain office from a year back that helped to inspire the structure of this post. Was cool to see you invest in it at Tipe and reap the rewards!
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by mgadams3 6y ago
We did concierge onboarding and set up shared slack channels with many of our early teams. This made it really easy and expected to ask for more feedback and to have users give it proactively. Community channels are key as you grow. Frankly
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Author here. Great feedback and completely agree with your comments. Taking a structure/organized approach to collecting, indexing, and sharing the qualitative data isn't something I covered here but absolutely essential to make s
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A founder’s guide to understanding users(mgadams.com)
209 points by mgadams3 6y ago|38 comments
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by mgadams3 6y ago
very true. I should have been more clear that I was referring to their whole seamless profile vs landscape thing that I personally thought was silly when I tried Quibi. Seems like a good idea in theory tho
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Wow, that honestly happened much sooner than I thought that it would. Will be really interesting to see if anyone steps up to buy the content... but from what little I watched it was all pretty rough. Seems like a lesson learned about raisi
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Hey HN! Mike here, co-founder & CEO of Grain. As of today, we're removing the waitlist for Grain 1.0 and releasing an all-new Windows app (in addition to our existing Mac app)! Let me know if you have any questions. I'm a pre
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Show HN: Grain – Share Zoom video clips, transcripts, and live notes for free(grain.co)
12 points by mgadams3 6y ago|1 comments
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Grain | Senior Backend Engineers & Head of Growth | https://www.grain.co/ | Remote | Full-time Grain turns the important moments of live video (starting with Zoom) into async video highlights. It's a 10x faster and
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Frankly this wouldn't make for a great highlight clip. You could make it but nobody would watch it. Grain is best for that punchy quote you want to share mid-moment or for the summary 30 second wrap-up at the end. We have changed our d
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Not really b/c 1) Grain is real-time and 2) it's not a screen capture.
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Great questions. - Yes, the only way to log-into Grain is with your Zoom account. It's been really seamless, they did a great job setting up those permissions. - Sort of. You can take notes if 1) It's your Zoom link or 2) It'
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Frankly we didn't anticipate my calendar filling up so we added my co-founder Jake... his filled up so we added our intern Max... his filled up so we're finding someone new. Stay tuned, thx for the patience.
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by mgadams3 6y ago
10 years of start-up network building has helped and so we got referred into them by people who they trust. The bootstrap problem to get early teams before you have credibility is crazy difficult. It takes time to do it well and with authen
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Zoom is just one of many media input sources for us and the only one we launch with b/c the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.
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by mgadams3 6y ago
Good question! Here are their docs: https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api But we use everything around recording, including live streaming. Zoom has a great team of folks in the developer forums
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by mgadams3 6y ago
There are lots of differences but yes, it's a calculated risk we feel good about given those differences.

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