ritikm

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by ritikm 6y ago
> YC once tried an experiment of funding seemingly good founders with no ideas. I think every company in this no-idea track failed. We were a no-idea company in the S12 batch. We ended up starting Streem [1], which was acquired by Box in
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by ritikm 7y ago
[PM on Brex Cash] Glad to hear that you’re having a good experience with the Brex card! We would love to hear your feedback on the card, and what you would like to see in Brex Cash. We are doing a limited roll-out for Brex Cash, however, as
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by ritikm 7y ago
[PM on Brex Cash] > - checks are still a thing in business, what is remote deposit story? You’re absolutely right - which is why are in the process of adding the capacity to send and receive checks. Remote deposit capture is what we&#x27
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by ritikm 7y ago
[PM on Brex Cash] This may not solve your problem, but if you have a company entity registered in the US, we can support you no matter where you live or have your headquarters domesticated!
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by ritikm 7y ago
Got it, good to know and will keep in mind for future planning. Thanks for the feedback here!
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by ritikm 7y ago
[PM on Brex Cash] We require all users of Brex Cash to have 2FA enabled on their account. Adding 2FA checks to withdraw/send money is on our roadmap for Cash!
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by ritikm 7y ago
[PM on Brex Cash] Great question -- not on the roadmap as we're laser focused on building a resilient and delightful Brex Cash product for our customers.
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by ritikm 7y ago
[PM on Brex Cash] Top five things: 1) 1.6% or more yield on your cash balance. (Savings accounts in the US offer 0.06-0.16% interest on average.) 2) Zero fees on ACH and wire transfers. (Average wire fee is $23.) 3) Get Brex reward points e
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by ritikm 7y ago
[PM on Brex Cash] Yes, you get an account and routing number with your Brex Cash account, which you can enter into on Stripe (like you would your bank account's account/routing number) to receive your Stripe payouts.
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by ritikm 7y ago
[PM on Brex Cash] Thanks for the feedback! Let us know if you have any questions by emailing support@brex.com or visiting https://brex.com/cash
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by ritikm 7y ago
[PM on Brex Cash] It’s true that banks are able to offer money market fund sweeps, however, they are incentivized to hold funds as deposits (better for their bottom line), which often results in limitations on account activity, and checking
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by ritikm 7y ago
[PM on Brex Cash here] Thanks for the response, all great questions. Answers below: > Can you guys elaborate on this in non-marketing/PR speak? If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck… Brex Cash functions like a checking accou
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by ritikm 8y ago
Hey HN, co-founder of Elph here! Excited to share what we've been working on. Elph is highly scalable blockchain infrastructure for Ethereum. We're capable of handling over 5,000 transactions per second (vs. Ethereum's 15) at
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Show HN: Elph – Highly Scalable Blockchain Infrastructure for Ethereum(elph.com)
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Workday acquires Zaption(blog.zaption.com)
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by ritikm 11y ago
Garry is one of the best human beings out there. One fond memory that resonates well with how he thinks and works with other people was in an office hour we had with him. I asked him why he does what he does and his response was simple: &qu
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by ritikm 12y ago
We built an on-demand adaptive bitrate video transcoder that works with HLS. So it's able to fluctuate the quality and size of the video being streamed server-side before sending it down to the client. In a low-bandwidth environment, t
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by ritikm 12y ago
We really wanted to make the list :)
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by ritikm 12y ago
(Streem co-founder here) Small clerical error - we were actually YC S12, not W14 :).
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by ritikm 12y ago
It's definitely on our list of things to do before our full open launch. Sorry for not being on top of this sooner; we'll get this fixed ASAP.
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by ritikm 12y ago
Sorry, bad choice of words. It's against YouTube's TOS, and there have been quite a few YouTube-scraping sites that have been taken down by YouTube/their legal team in the past, so there's precedent for Streamnation to g
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by ritikm 12y ago
On our roadmap! We'll make an announcement once we release it.
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by ritikm 12y ago
Definitely not our goal; happy to explain further: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7601652 . Or take a look at the CEO of Reddit's post on this: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/
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by ritikm 12y ago
Here's a breakdown of what each of these things mean: royalty-free : Streem doesn't have to pay the user to display the content they upload back to them from our authorized clients (web, desktop, mobile). perpetual : The right t
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by ritikm 12y ago
- Unlimited space vs. 1TB - No sync required + native integration into Finder/Explorer. With Google Drive you have to sync (i.e. store locally) to open files with your native app like VLC, or you have to view them on the web if you don
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by ritikm 12y ago
We follow the same DMCA policy as Dropbox, etc. [1] If we get a DMCA takedown notice, we disable public linking and sharing on the file. The original owner gets to keep the file in their own account (exactly how Dropbox works). [1] http:&#
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by ritikm 12y ago
Yes, we transcode all video files so that they're streamable on whatever platform you're on (including directly streaming from the browser). We'll be giving users access to our iOS app slowly, which will let you stream MKV (a
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by ritikm 12y ago
- Native desktop filesystem integration. We don't make you go to a website to access your content; everything is accessible as a regular file in Explorer/Finder and opens/plays in your native player (i.e. VLC). - Instant adap
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by ritikm 12y ago
We have a few advanced techniques that inspect the file data and ensure that the file is valid. So even if you rename your encrypted backup to to My_Home_Video.avi, it wouldn't pass our check and would fail to upload.
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by ritikm 12y ago
Absolutely! We're also testing out our Javascript RAW image viewer so you can browse your RAW images without any special software, directly on the web, and on any computer.

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