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2.6% per year inflation. Fed did a decent job.

This might be a misunderstanding. The following tweet implies they’ve just tightened the standard for how sites are supposed to be configured as PWAs.

https://x.com/jamesrlandrum/status/1755411290107863429

Some public CEOs comp packages are defined by them exceeding $SPY so boards do expect more than just the economic cycle.

it refers to a somewhat poorly named concept known as reverse ETL, something we started working on back in 2018 with our product Census (getcensus.com). We launched it on HN in 2020, though it's come a long way since then :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23034642

we're hiring for this kind of work if you want to chat :-) boris at getcensus dot com

I really thought this game/book was lost in time. Glad to know there's a fellow pig herder fan.

Very cool to see. A lot of folks (Notion, Figma, Loom) use our service (https://getcensus.com) for this purpose if folks are curious to check out a SaaS version of the concept.

We support all the major data warehouses (incl. straight Postgres), connect to a bunch of different applications, and don't store any of your customer data!

Bonus: we recently added native support for dbt :-)

That’s a great question. I think of them as teams that a) help proactively onboard customers (ie ensure they get what they paid for) and b) monitor accounts to determine how to help them get the most from your product + upsell new features.

So it’s not quite customer support and it’s not quite cold sales. There’s healthy debate about the scope of the team though!

So nice to hear! That's precisely how we felt :-)

Thanks! We've been talking about that on the team. I kind of want to expose any table automatically as a pandas dataframe so that you could transform it with python on the fly and we'd take care of the execution (and then sync the result back to the apps). Do you have something specific in mind?

Very soon! Send me an email at boris@getcensus.com and I'll get you going asap!

Yes and no. It's primarily focused on centralizing data into a data warehouse / data lake rather than sending data out to other apps. Segment also pushes events into a warehouse but most of its functionality is about forwarding events to 3rd party apps. That said, you can use tools like getcensus.com to move data/events from an AWS-populated data warehouse back to other apps (disclosure: I'm one of the founders of this service).

Couldn't agree more. This is obviously a shameless plug but we built a product (getcensus.com) specifically focused on this problem of getting data to/from Salesforce & data warehouses (not just Redshift).

Heroku Connect is pretty powerful but not only is it super expensive as you point out but also forces you into creating an extra layer in the stack by creating a Heroku Postgres DB. The secret advantage of Connect is that since it's owned by Salesforce it bypasses Salesforce API quotas but that's a whole other can of worms :-)

That's a great question. I don't know all the features in their offering but here's some of the ways I believe we're different off the top of my head: we run on any data warehouse, you can use SQL to build data models, and we can sync any kind of data, not just users. Would love to hear if you've had experience with Personas and what you like/dislike.

We're launching a service that helps growth/ops teams get data about customers into go-to-market tools (a HN-worthy description would be "Fivetran in reverse"). Census connects directly to your data warehouse and syncs into apps like Salesforce, Marketo, Google Sheets, and FB Audiences.

You can customize how data is mapped and how frequently it’s synced. You can also use SQL to build custom views on your data. Our goal is to help you build an effective customer data hub out of your data warehouse.

Would love to hear feedback from the HN community.

Is this the first unicorn in the 500 Startups portfolio?

Looks like Bose smells the same opportunity as Doppler Labs with their "Here One" https://hereplus.me

We'll work on fixing that. I think it's safe to say that particular tab experiment hasn't worked out.

I'm sorry you feel that way and will try to correct it. Can you send me feedback on the functionality that's not working as well now in Meldium? There's definitely some edges we're still working through and I'd love to make sure we make it awesome for you asap. You can drop me an email as well (boris at meldium dot com)

Neat! So if I understand correctly, first you retrieve the "value" from the blockchain, which acts as the index into the DHT you're running separately?

Are you seeding the DHT with your own machines right now? At web scale, wouldn't the number of machines participating in the storage network (as opposed to the blockchain) need to be huge?

If they're Internet accessible then yes! Feel free to email us (support at meldium dot com) to talk about it.

Boris from Meldium here. While I can't make promises, we intend to invest and improve our service for years to come!

It's server-side and the browser extension unpacks the result.

Boris from Meldium here. One of our customers wrote a great description on our blog (http://blog.meldium.com/home/2014/5/19/the-web-setup-envy-la...) which I'll paste here:

"The actual implementation continually blows my mind. You're basically using a man-in-the-middle attack for good, if I don't betray my poor understanding of the concept. A less malignant analogy would be to liken it to the way telephone companies operated switchboards before individual telephone numbers connected people directly. You had to call the central and ask the operator (i.e. Meldium) to talk to your friend Frank McFakeperson in Ipsum, South Dakota (i.e. MailChimp) and the operator would patch you through to them seamlessly."

Their public-facing servers (that receive requests) were patched but not the code that made outbound HTTP requests.

Note: while building this tool, we discovered key sites that were patched yet still vulnerable to Heartbleed including reddit! (now fixed)

Very fair point. I wrote the post and I'll look at modding our blog template to make sure author is visible.

We is Meldium (YC W13) - a startup helping companies manage passwords & accounts for the plethora of web apps we use to run companies today.

I think the author is primarily making an argument that everything scales, including focus on security. Overall I agree with your issues (obviously as I run a password & account management company) though perhaps a lot of this is due to the fact that some of the tools are not that user-friendly. A lot of our customers at Meldium are enthused when they find that non-technical employees enjoy the benefits of a password manager that offers simple automatic sign-in.

This is something big tech companies have known since the dot-com era (Amazon & Microsoft have been recruiting from Waterloo heavily for over a decade).