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abhip··on Show HN: I made a GPT to reflect on your past year and the year ahead
For many years, my wife and I would end the year by filling out a YearCompass (yearcompass.com) booklet.

The booklet is a fantastic resource with thought-provoking activities and questions that helped us start each year with intention. Oh, and it's free!

This year, being new parents, we haven't been able to prioritize it.

So, I thought I'd create a GPT to make it easier to have that reflection through a simple conversational interface.

Comments/feedback are welcome!

If people find it useful, I'll build it into an app.

abhip··on Show HN: 'Start a Startup' Adventure Game by WhimsyAI
Thanks! 100% gotta work on faster image gen. Dall-E 3 was just announced (coming in October). Hopefully that's a lot faster.
abhip··on Growing Our SaaS with YouTube
Lots of awesome tips here. Thanks for sharing.

Really interesting to see how you go about researching video topics.

And also to see an example of how long it can take for videos, especially on a new channel, to gain traction. "300 views after 250 days... but then over the next 250 days the video had over 25,000 views" :mindblown:

abhip··on Analysis of 13,000 founders on YC's co-founder matching
> What is the most meaningful lever to help increase women founder representation?

This is a great question and something I've been thinking about as well.

IMHO, the most meaningful lever overall is improving representation in VC.

The most meaningful lever that I can act upon, as a male technical founder looking for a cofounder, is to look for women founders to partner with and women investors to join my cap table.

Recently, I did find and reach out to some folks on angels.vc - a women-led community of accredited angel investors.

Curious to hear your perspective.

abhip··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)
Teachers Pay Teachers| NYC (New York City) | ONSITE, REMOTE | Full-Time

Teachers Pay Teachers is a community of millions of educators who come together to share their work, their insights, and their inspiration with one another. We are the first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell, and buy original educational resources. Since we've started, authors on Teachers Pay Teachers have earned over $300M. Here's a bit more of the backstory (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/technology/a-sharing-econ...). Our engineering culture focuses on Fearless Development (http://engineering.teacherspayteachers.com/2015/10/11/the-fe...), curiosity, learning, and autonomy.

We're currently managing our AWS infrastructure with Terraform and our servers with Chef. All of our newer services are deployed in Docker containers and managed by Kubernetes. We use a mix of Elixir/Phoenix, PHP, NodeJS, React, and Python to write our services.

If you want to learn more about us, check us out on The Muse: https://www.themuse.com/companies/teacherspayteachers/

To see what we're hiring for, you can check out our careers page: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Careers

abhip··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
Teachers Pay Teachers| NYC (New York City) | ONSITE, REMOTE | Full-Time Teachers Pay Teachers is a community of millions of educators who come together to share their work, their insights, and their inspiration with one another. We are the first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell, and buy original educational resources. Here's a bit more of the backstory (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/technology/a-sharing-econ...).

Tech Stack: We use a mix of Elixir/Phoenix, PHP, NodeJS, React, and Python to write our services. We're currently managing our AWS infrastructure with Terraform and our servers with Chef. All of our newer services are deployed in Docker containers and managed by Kubernetes.

Check out our careers page: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Careers

I'd be happy to chat about positions over email at recruiting AT teacherspayteachers.com

abhip··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)
Teachers Pay Teachers| NYC (New York City) | ONSITE, REMOTE | Full-Time

Teachers Pay Teachers is a community of millions of educators who come together to share their work, their insights, and their inspiration with one another. We are the first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell, and buy original educational resources. Here's a bit more of the backstory (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/technology/a-sharing-econ...).

Tech Stack: We use a mix of Elixir/Phoenix, PHP, NodeJS, React, and Python to write our services. We're currently managing our AWS infrastructure with Terraform and our servers with Chef. All of our newer services are deployed in Docker containers and managed by Kubernetes.

Some of the roles include:

- Engineering Manager, Search and Personalization

- Senior Software Engineer, Resource Experience

- Senior Software Engineer, Schools

- Software Engineer, Data

- Senior DevOps Engineer

- And more! Check out our careers page: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Careers

I'd be happy to chat about positions over email at recruiting AT teacherspayteachers.com

abhip··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)
Teachers Pay Teachers | Engineers, Product Managers, Product Designers | NYC (New York City) | Full-Time

Teachers Pay Teachers is a community of millions of educators who come together to share their work, their insights, and their inspiration with one another. We are the first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell, and buy original educational resources. Since we've started, authors on Teachers Pay Teachers have earned over $200M. Here's a bit more of the backstory (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/technology/a-sharing-econ...). Our engineering culture focuses on Fearless Development (http://engineering.teacherspayteachers.com/2015/10/11/the-fe...), curiosity, learning, and autonomy.

We're currently managing our AWS infrastructure with Terraform and our servers with Chef. All of our newer services are deployed in Docker containers and managed by Kubernetes. We use a mix of Elixir/Phoenix, PHP, NodeJS, React, and Python to write our services.

If you want to learn more about us, check us out on The Muse: https://www.themuse.com/companies/teacherspayteachers/.

I'd be happy to chat about positions over email at recruiting@teacherspayteachers.com or check out our careers page (https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Careers).

abhip··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)
Teachers Pay Teachers | Engineers, Product Managers, Product Designers | NYC (New York City) | Full-Time

Teachers Pay Teachers is a community of millions of educators who come together to share their work, their insights, and their inspiration with one another. We are the first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell, and buy original educational resources. Since we've started, authors on Teachers Pay Teachers have earned over $200M. Here's a bit more of the backstory (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/technology/a-sharing-econ...). Our engineering culture focuses on Fearless Development (http://engineering.teacherspayteachers.com/2015/10/11/the-fe...), curiosity, learning, and autonomy.

We're currently managing our AWS infrastructure with Terraform and our servers with Chef. All of our newer services are deployed in Docker containers and managed by Kubernetes. We use a mix of Elixir/Phoenix, PHP, NodeJS, React, and Python to write our services.

If you want to learn more about us, check us out on The Muse: https://www.themuse.com/companies/teacherspayteachers/.

I'd be happy to chat about positions over email at recruiting@teacherspayteachers.com or check out our About Us page (https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/About-Us).

abhip··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)
Teachers Pay Teachers | Engineers, Product Managers, Product Designers | NYC (New York City) | Full-Time

TpT is a community of millions of educators who come together to share their work, their insights, and their inspiration with one another. We are the first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell, and buy original educational resources. Since we've started, authors on Teachers Pay Teachers have earned over $200M.

Here's a bit more of the backstory (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/technology/a-sharing-econ...).

Our engineering culture focuses on Fearless Development (http://engineering.teacherspayteachers.com/2015/10/11/the-fe...), curiosity, learning, and autonomy.

We're currently managing our AWS infrastructure with Terraform and our servers with Chef. All of our newer services are deployed in Docker containers and managed by Kubernetes. We use a mix of Elixir/Phoenix, PHP, NodeJS, React, and Python to write our services.

If you want to learn more about us, check us out on The Muse: https://www.themuse.com/companies/teacherspayteachers/.

I'd be happy to chat about positions over email at recruiting@teacherspayteachers.com or check out our careers page (https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Careers).

abhip··on “Learning How to Learn,” the most popular course on Coursera
I took the course as well and wrote a post about applying the lessons learned as a developer: https://medium.com/learn-love-code/learnings-from-learning-h...

Feedback welcome! Would love to learn what other techniques devs use to learn and level up

abhip··on Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
> Consider that the ability to concentrate without distraction on hard tasks is becoming increasingly valuable in an increasingly complicated economy.

I agree with this particular sentiment but I don't believe that "deep work", as Cal Newport calls it, requires us to turn off social media or other forms of less-deep work altogether. Certainly, we must balance and control our usage of social media. Certainly, we must be more than just consumers and create tweets/posts/blogs/etc. These mediums can be great ways to give back to the community.

abhip··on Ask HN: What are good reads for designing APIs?
Good documentation is a key part

- Good summary of best practices for documentation: https://bocoup.com/weblog/documenting-your-api

- Tips for good api doc design: http://blog.parse.com/learn/engineering/designing-great-api-...

abhip··on Bookmarks for Social Coders - Don't fill up your browser's bookmarks
the chrome extension is awesomeee!
abhip··on Now Can We All Agree That The "High Quality Web Content" Experiment Has Failed?
when most consumers want to find something, they do a search. for that most go to google. they dont go to the economist. they dont go to HBR. as a result, if search is done right (quality results), free high quality web content will be found, read, shared, and read again. but there is no loyalty built there for the news source's brand. very few publications will get the status that the economist, wsj, or nytimes enjoy.