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johns

20,431 karma · joined March 11, 2008

Previously:

  Runscope (Co-founder, acquired 2017)
  Twilio (first Developer Evangelist)
  IFTTT
  Xamarin
twitter.com/johnsheehan

johnsheehan at gmail

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johns··on Goodbye IFTTT
Basically Node-RED?
johns··on Why Do We Have Dev Rels Now?
If you have available time, start doing the job. Write, teach, talk, stream, etc. about technology that you like. Grow your communication skills and audiences. Then when a company you feel passionate opens up a DevRel role, you'll have your 'resume' ready to go.
johns··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
I believe this has been redesigned in iOS 14.
johns··on After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract
People are not agencies. Protected classes exist to protect people from discrimination, not to protect agencies/companies/organizations.
johns··on Show HN: Axiom – No-code Browser Automation
Congrats on nearing launch. You’re being downvoted because it’s socially unacceptable here to use a competitors thread to promote your service. Unless you are specifically mentioned by another commenter or you have a broader, vendor-agnostic insight to provide related to the service, you’ll be better off discussing your service in your own submissions about it. Good luck with the launch!
johns··on GitHub is degraded/down
Also having issues with CenturyLink fiber at home in MN. Stuff is very slow today.
johns··on Project Svalbard, Have I Been Pwned and its ongoing independence
They get paid a portion of the proceeds of a sale (or raise if you decide not to sell and raise money instead). The bill was almost certainly from his lawyers. I went through a failed M&A process and we were left with a 90K bill for it.
johns··on Nintendo Play Station Super NES CD-ROM Prototype
Console Wars[0] was a good book about this. Mostly centers around Sega, but the development of the PlayStation is a major topic covered as well.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Console-Wars-Nintendo-Defined-Generat...

johns··on I almost sold Baremetrics for $5M
It would be unlikely that anyone would/could share public details about such a thing given the NDA (and potentially LOI) terms that are signed prior to something like this happening. It happens though.
johns··on Stripe CLI
https://stripe.com/issuing. Just needs a virtual-only option.
johns··on Mailgun Acquires Mailjet
Mailgun's logging is great, and includes the full-text of messages.
johns··on How we hit our $30k ARR milestone
:)
johns··on Uber lays off around 350 more across Eats, self-driving and other departments
Not invented here
johns··on Apple Watch Series 5
That’s a Fitbit
johns··on Bad Times in Tech? Not If You’re a Startup Serving Other Startups
They told me they basically only serve companies with VC investment. We were declined despite meeting the stated balance requirements because we were self-funded.
johns··on Ask HN: Modern Stack for Business?
This is a pretty good list: https://pilot.com/guides/recommended-financial-stack/
johns··on Beware the data science pin factory: The power of the data science generalist
You should put some contact info in your bio
johns··on Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
Show me one place selling a $10 latte in SF. $5-6 sure, but you're exaggerating for no good reason.
johns··on What developer advocates do
This is a very real problem, and one I learned to deal with for the just under two years I was in evangelism. It was a big shift from 'doing the doing' to trying to influence the doers (product, engineering) from the outside. What I learned though was that I had a unique perspective into customer's needs since I was a partner to them and not trying to sell them anything (thankfully the company backed up this philosophy). Once I learned how valuable that perspective was, I was able to use those learnings to get leverage with the product team to effect change. So while it was a few degrees away from writing the code to make a customer's life easier directly, ultimately I got the same satisfaction from being the customer's advocate. And it made it possible to transition to a PM role.
johns··on Ask HN: What do you use as a scratchpad for your notes?
Notion is getting popular fast
johns··on Engineer.ai raises $29.5M Series A for its AI+Humans software building platform
Their web site[0] claims they've already had 60MM in revenue. Curious why that impressive number pre-A round wasn't included in this article.

[0]: https://www.engineer.ai/customers

johns··on Ask HN: How do you monitor your websites?
Note that the retention is not time-based: https://www.runscope.com/support/kb/test-result-retention Hopefully we have a better solution for this in the future.

There are more resources working on Runscope than ever before. CA continues to invest in stability, new features and support. CA is also going through an acquisition and that introduces more variables, but as of today (1+ year after acquiring us), CA has been extremely supportive of Runscope.

johns··on Ask HN: Am I just a wantrepreneur?
Salespeople...but, yes.
johns··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
Your pricing is wayyyyyy too low.
johns··on Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
Rdio. No other streaming service has come close to the UX perfection of Rdio.
johns··on GitHub and Jira Software Integration
The Microsoft deal hasn’t even closed yet.
johns··on Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook
Don’t forget advertisers!
johns··on Ask HN: How to pursue acquisition?
I’ve been through this and happy to discuss privately and confidentially. Email is in my profile.
johns··on Ask HN: Securely exposing host just to webhooks?
ngrok
johns··on Show HN: Declarative Testing Framework for REST, GraphQL APIs
We attempted to come up with a similar format for Runscope tests (YAML and all) but quickly abandoned it once we tried anything remotely complex (chained requests, control flow, limits of declarative assertions, etc.). YAML quickly becomes far less expressive than code. I still prefer using a UI like Runscope personally, but I’d use code if it weren’t available.

Also, any proper GraphQL support would abstract away the payload format. It should simulate a GraphQL client, not an HTTP client.

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