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Huge fan of Wakatime here as well -- I usually work on more than one project simultaneously and it helps greatly that Wakatime tells me exactly how I've split my time between each repo.

"JavaScript web frameworks seem to have a half-life of about 6 months..."

Express [1] has been the dominant framework for Node.js since 2009-2010. What frameworks are you talking about?

[1] https://github.com/visionmedia/express

For lazy evaluation with io/streams, also check out http://highlandjs.org

I've met (and quickly distanced myself from) many people here in the Valley who prioritize short-term/short-sighted goals over long-term relationships. Even if you're not yet part of a tight-knit community here, word travels fast, especially on Secret. Screwing someone over can have long-term repercussions, and the last thing you'd want is for something as trivial as a single employee ruining a strong relationship for life.

Plus, friendships can often lead to far greater payoffs in the long-term -- I've given and received many introductions to stellar employees among my circle of friends; having a reputation as a robber is the fastest way to stop this flow of introductions.

OT: Ben has a lot of really great material on his blog, and I'd highly recommend anyone who hasn't yet to read through everything! He also has a great book that compiles all his wisdom into one place [1]; if you're too busy to read it I've shared my notes on Evernote [2].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Hard-Thing-About-Things/dp/0062273...

[2] https://www.evernote.com/shard/s345/sh/7b35d8ab-daba-4181-8b...

This is incredibly clever. Zapier has already built a fast-expanding platform to relate structured business data, and now is taking steps to grow it even further by structuring unstructured data. SaaS mainstays, watch out.

Thanks for the feedback! Would you feel better if we had a (semi-functioning) demo app for you to play around with before signing up? Since we aggregate information from all your team applications, your email would be empty without connecting at least one account.

We've seen Peak, and it's encouraging that there are others in the automated productivity space. There are a few major differences between us and them, however:

Peak focuses on the individual. We focus on the team. There was an excellent article today (http://marcgg.com/blog/2013/11/12/peak-productivity/) discussing the issue with ranking team members based on their output, especially when information is far from complete. We're trying to boost productivity by demonstrating momentum, instead of by micromanaging individual players.

We are not a destination site; we're a passive email that does not interrupt anyone's workflow. Just check your email (on the phone, even) and you'll know what's going on with your team -- you don't have to keep a tab open and keep checking back to find out what's going on.

Finally, we're engineers, not a design firm. We move and ship very fast. We will respond to changes in user needs and behavior instantly, releasing/changing/removing features and applications as necessary.

Thanks for checking us out! We're trying to stay away from trying fruitlessly to track individual productivity (it's exceedingly inaccurate, not to mention creepy) and focusing on overall team progress instead. We don't aim to replace daily standups, just supplement them. Let us know if you have any concerns or suggestions!

These are beautiful! You should sell these, maybe individually as mugs/posters - I'd definitely buy some key one-liners for our office.

For those of you who want a bit more context, here are two sets of notes from this weekend:

https://github.com/charlesfeng/startup-school-2013 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xo99mjzc4nyK3J4_GBiba_Kz...

There is some overlap between the two but also some differences so I'd suggest reading both.

[Disclaimer: I produced the first set - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6578780]

In addition to the excellent services mentioned in the article, I'd like to recommend Rollbar (http://rollbar.com/) -- we've been using them for almost a year and have come to rely on them exclusively.

Their major selling points for us were GitHub integration and filtering by user-agent/other strings (baiduspider tormented us for a while), plus their packages for logging server-side errors (we use them for Node.js). Their price point is also very generous for startups :)

Thanks! We've developed an analogous extension in Firefox, but it has been in the review queue at addons.mozilla.org for over a week now. If you'd like to try it out, you can download it at teameuler.com/hush.

Hi, it should be working now - sorry for the trouble!

Thanks for the comments! We built it in the last 48 hours for the Node Knockout competition (http://nodeknockout.com/) and are planning on opening it up more after public voting is over next week.

Most of the dashboard is done in Ember.js and D3.js, communicating with the server through Socket.io - it really blew our minds the first time we saw it working!