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by thomasmost 1y ago
Incredible stuff. "Instead of using a content management system for our content management, what if we used GitHub??"
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Show HN: Plugin Makes Controlled Components Not Suck in Storybook(npmjs.com)
4 points by thomasmost 2y ago|1 comments
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by thomasmost 3y ago
One of the things we're doing is encouraging our customers to reach out to their vendors to request it!
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Show HN: Bend 2.0 API for transaction enrichment/CO2e estimates(docs.bend.green)
8 points by thomasmost 3y ago|3 comments
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by thomasmost 3y ago
I'm a full-stack developer that started my work on Bend using Rocket and then migrated to Axum. Would be very happy to contribute/be a part of a community initiative like the one you describe
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by thomasmost 3y ago
Thank you! We would love to have you try it out :)
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by thomasmost 3y ago
Thank you so much!
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by thomasmost 4y ago
Good advice, thank you.
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How to approach titling for early engineering hires?
5 points by thomasmost 4y ago|13 comments
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by thomasmost 4y ago
Just wanted to update the Hacker News community here that we just launched on Product Hunt as well! Y'all asked a ton of amazing questions here and if you wouldn't mind checking this out as well and engaging if you're so move
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by thomasmost 4y ago
I meant this turned the other direction lol
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by thomasmost 4y ago
We have a large database of carbon intensity factors generated using government data from two different sources (the EPA and Exiobase). Comparing our merchant specific factors to those industry standards, you might be surprised by how accur
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by thomasmost 4y ago
I don't understand what you're saying. Replacing a 10k cloud service with 100k of private server equipment would probably reduce a company's co2 balance.
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by thomasmost 4y ago
We will never sell financial data.
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by thomasmost 4y ago
+1, it also really depends on the offset (as to whether it's a scam or not)—like I talked about elsewhere, even our low-cost offset is a much more credible project than some of the credits frequently purchased by big companies. If we d
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by thomasmost 4y ago
We're huge supporters of a carbon tax, but there are significant challenges, both technical and political. If we had perfect information and the political will, I think the approach you describe would be great—in the meantime, unfortun
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by thomasmost 4y ago
Exciting! Would love to hear more about it and chat all things climate-tech in our Discord server if you're interested: https://discord.gg/muGxr24U Good luck to you too!
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by thomasmost 4y ago
Yes, $100/month is our Startup pricing. Enterprise customers have very different needs and multiple bank connections to manage, so we approach those case-by-case.
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by thomasmost 4y ago
To be fair, I think a solution like Bend would help companies make the kinds of decisions your advocating for. "You can't improve what you don't measure," so Bend offers a measurement tool that enables procurement manage
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by thomasmost 4y ago
Good question! We don't currently consider payroll a carbon emitting activity. Generally we think of salary as paying exclusively for human-hours. In contrast, if your company paid for your metro card or reimbursed for mileage or gas o
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by thomasmost 4y ago
Absolutely. Even though we have a fintech background and we're tackling carbon accounting from the angle of spend, we know how sensitive revenue and budget data are. Our business is firmly in mapping the carbon graph; we'll never
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by thomasmost 4y ago
From a regulatory perspective, yes, there's a lot of pressure being generated in European markets. In the US, another thing we're starting to see is pressure from procurement managers at large companies like Salesforce. Since Sale
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by thomasmost 4y ago
Thank you! There's not a ton of activity yet but if you wanna hang out with us and chat all things climate-tech, here's the link to our Discord: https://discord.gg/muGxr24U
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by thomasmost 4y ago
Bend, Oregon? I'm from Seattle, but I've actually wanted to visit Bend for a while. Seems like a nice river town
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by thomasmost 4y ago
We are offsetting all our emissions via the Bend Offsets Plan, so the carbon footprint of your $100 Bend subscription is credibly net-zero :) And yes, line-item and other "level 3" data is very exciting to us techies—unfortunately
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by thomasmost 4y ago
I like the way you're thinkin'! That's a very "Bend-onomics" mindset, if I can be so presumptive. That calculation is not dissimilar from what we do on a merchant-level, and I think it's a good, macro-compariso
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by thomasmost 4y ago
Yes, green-washing is definitely a problem. There is an incredibly wide variance of quality among carbon offsets, from dubious avoidance offsets priced at $2 per ton of CO2-equivalent emissions (tCo2e) to actually sucking carbon out of the