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ahtomski

15 karma · joined April 20, 2013

Email andrew dot ratomski at mail by the search guys.
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ahtomski··on TaskPipes (YC W15) Is SaaS to Simplify Using SaaS Platforms
Would love to know more about what the use cases for this are currently? Who are your current users? What kind of data sets are they using this for and at what kind of scale? I think it sounds like a really promising idea and the proliferation of software-as-a-service products with an "export to csv" button is really crazy.
ahtomski··on Show HN: Instantly Understand Any Spreadsheet
Have you got anyone in finance actually using this at the moment? I imagine there's a pretty high bar to entry in terms of security/stability for them to even give a product like this a test drive.
ahtomski··on OS X Yosemite public beta starts tomorrow
If anyone is interested in tracking adoption tomorrow, my employer released a real-time counter showing adoption by % of web traffic (obviously a sample): gosquared.com/yosemite.
ahtomski··on Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective
This post does a very good job of explaining clearly why Bitcoin could be huge in a way that someone not familiar or excited by the technology could understand. And I think the meta-point here from Stripe is, by the way 'we want to be the next Visa'.
ahtomski··on Irresistible El Greco
El Grecco invented modern art 250 years before anyone realised that painting for painting's sake was an endeavour worth exploring.
ahtomski··on Ask HN: tool to measure clicks/events/conversions?
GoSquared offers event tracking and has a ridiculously simple API to integrate with. No free plans but I think they still have a 14 day trial. Mixpanel is awesome for any kind of phone apps (in addition to regular web funnels).
ahtomski··on Show HN: Visualise the structure of a spreadsheet
I'm curious, how have you built this?
ahtomski··on Why is it so difficult to find an office for my startup?
So what do you do apart from just list spaces?
ahtomski··on Ask HN: How do you create diagrams in documentation?
Have you tried UMlet? It's limited but great for nailing UML diagrams.
ahtomski··on Ask HN: How do you create diagrams in documentation?
Yeah I quite like Gliffy. More often than not, we take photos of whiteboards and email them round the team.
ahtomski··on Show HN: Turn sketches into vector diagrams
Glad you like it, how did you share them before?
ahtomski··on Show HN: Content underload
How will you know what I like?
ahtomski··on Kivo (YC S13) Uses Git to Make Collaborating on Documents Easier
You should check out this http://www.teachhub.meliordevelopment.com/. We built it in a weekend exploring exactly that problem in schools.
ahtomski··on Airbnb gears up for big legal and legislative battles in New York
They also have the problem of special cases who list in airbnb but are actually professional bnbs/pensions/small hotels etc. who use other commercial listing sites. They're probably on top of their tax vs. amateur users (their spare room is not a sole income stream) who are taking some of that market and heck cities can't lose that cut of tourist/hotel taxes.