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Thanks :) You can subscribe here for future interviews: https://tinyletter.com/getputpost

I thought the product was pretty cool. It "automated" networking with other professionals who might be good hires or potential co-founders in the future. You'd sign up for a specific time (e.g. Friday at 9am) and once a week get an email with someone to meet and a location to grab coffee.

I went on a few of these meetings and thought there were some interesting people in the network. Sad to see it shut down :( That being said, the service was free and I don't know if I would've been willing to pay Weave.

Congrats Plaid! Opening up banking data via API is a great enabler for fintech startups to create valuable apps. I interviewed them a couple months back: https://medium.com/get-put-post/how-plaid-s-api-brings-finan...

Interesting. There were 2.3mm in 1910 (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/realestate/how-many-people...).

Congrats on the cool SaaS business! Quick suggestion. The logo at the top of the blog should link back to your homepage, instead of the blog index.

I'm an MIT grad (Course 6 2012) and respectfully disagree. College is a great place to start working on a startup and meet potential co-founders. PG has written about this before: http://paulgraham.com/mit.html

Also, regarding the pledge: "This pledge to give back is a personal choice and not binding and funding will not be conditional on a student signing a pledge." (https://sandbox.mit.edu/apply-3/) It sounds like a pretty reasonable program.

Looks like a beautiful article. Saved to Pocket. It would be pretty cool if NYTimes changed their app to better support this long-form content or maybe let you save articles to Kindle.

Great company name. How'd you get the domain?

I agree, Greg! Started a newsletter earlier this year to interview API companies and share those killer usecases: https://tinyletter.com/getputpost

You might want to check out LinkedIn Lookup: http://blog.linkedin.com/2015/08/19/introducing-linkedin-loo...

Unfortunately, that seems to be a common problem: https://consensus.nih.gov/2002/2002CancerpaINDepressionFatig...

Good point. sama points that out here: http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity

I'm glad more companies are removing the stock option golden handcuffs. Pinterest made a similar move last year: https://medium.com/@michaeldeangelo/unlocking-the-golden-han...

Interesting! Have you seen https://pigeon.ly/?

I like http://openweathermap.org/. They have historical data: http://openweathermap.org/history

Is there a site that collects these sorts of tips? Seems like there are a lot of potential pitfalls that can be hard to find in docs like: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/java-r...

The GitHub style guide agrees: https://github.com/styleguide/ruby

The founders sold their previous company to Ticketmaster. From http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/19/ticketmaster-rival-ticketfl...:

<<Ticketfly has an interesting origin story, the company’s co-founders sold their first startup, TicketWeb to industry leader Ticketmaster for $35 million in 2000 and then left that company in 2008 to form Ticketfly.>>

Any idea how this affects payouts to authors?

The form highlight animation is sexy!

Check out https://gyrosco.pe/

AMT is geared towards anonymous tasks (e.g. classifying adult images) and finding projects on Upwork (formally oDesk) will probably be better if you have marketable online skills.

Also, do you live somewhere with Uber?

Very useful for camping, traveling, music festivals, etc. You just keep a few cheap batteries in your bag and don't have to worry about finding the nearest wall outlet.

Thanks! The upgrade is mentioned on the homepage, but we should probably offer unlimited usage until you've used it a lot more.

Sorry about the duplicate "kalte". It uses basic spaced repetition and can be sensitive if the first answers are incorrect.

Absolutely, sunir. It becomes even more powerful when these tools start feeding into each other. For example, what if you can identify that one user is having a bad experience based on their Olark conversations and usage data, then put them on a special drip campaign to help them re-engage. Each tool becomes more automated/insightful when it accesses the data from the others.

That part of the article stuck out for me. The authors then draw a comparison to OKCupid "experiment[ing] on its users", but Uber is writing blog posts with anonymized data. I do agree that Uber should be extremely careful with securing its data, but I'd be interested to read more data analysis.

Good idea. I'll probably start with a longer static list (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Product Hunt, etc.). Thanks for the feedback!

This looks beautiful! Love the database model, which reminds me of Salesforce's flexibility with an AWESOME front end. Really excited to see how people use it.

Congrats, Matt and team! They're building something that's seriously valuable for any SaaS business. If you send transactional emails, check out this guide: https://www.sendwithus.com/resources/guide/

Awesome. Please add German!