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johnson Logo Pizza: Hot and ready logos for sale

That's either a seal playing with a ball or a mermaid.

johnson Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

Check out how our chaining and env vars work. We have Swagger import too. https://www.runscope.com/docs/api-testing

johnson Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

Try stoplight.io

johnson HTTPie 0.9.6

Frequently discussed here: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=httpie&sort=byPopularity&prefi...

johnson Usage Plans for AWS API Gateway

I run a monitoring service so I'm obviously digging for info here, but I'm genuinely curious: what do you use for monitoring?

johnson AWS Application Load Balancer

Become a big enough customer

johnson Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M

That's basically Product Hunt

johnson Show HN: Polybit – Build, Deploy, Host Node.js APIs

Love the idea. I think you really need an about page though. People need to know why they can't trust you.

johnson Twilio's Seed Pitch

The biggest crowd this was ever done with was NY Tech Meetup and it was bonkers: http://johndbritton.com/2010/08/04/live-coding-demo-at-new-y... (too bad the video doesn't work...looking for another).

Fred Wilson also wrote about that one: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/08/how-to-pitch-a-product.html

johnson [dead]

Is this a direct rip off of Sentry Breadcrumbs??? http://blog.getsentry.com/2016/05/04/breadcrumbs.html

johnson OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

WWDC is about software. Hardware updates mostly happen later in the year.

johnson Show HN: Run your own OAuth2/OpenID Connect provider

Unicorn

johnson Pebble 2, Time 2 + All-New Pebble Core

Check out charge.co. Discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744875

johnson Coming soon: express even more in 140 characters

Details on the changes in the API: https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/upcoming-changes-to-twe...

johnson Coming soon: express even more in 140 characters

Then just reply to any random tweet on their timeline.

johnson Coming soon: express even more in 140 characters

If you are replying to a tweet, they won't show up for everyone. This only applies when composing a new tweet from scratch that starts with an @name (and behind the scenes does not contain an "in_reply_to", which if you want to broadcast to everyone, can now be retweeted).

johnson Chrome removes Backspace to go back

On OS X, go to the Chrome menu, select "Warn Before Quitting". This makes it so you have to hold Cmd-Q to exit. No more accidental closing.

johnson Ask HN: Which sites do you use to learn about the business side of SaaS?

https://www.saastr.com/

http://tomtunguz.com/categories/saas/

http://heavybit.com/library (tailored toward dev tools, but still generally useful)

johnson Gor — Test your system with real data

The industry buzzword for this is 'service virtualization' as mentioned above.

johnson Show HN: I made an interactive Bootstrap 4 cheat sheet

using replaceState instead of pushState will keep the address bar updated without interfering with the back button

johnson Ask HN: How would I sell my company to RackSpace, EMC, RedHat, VMWare?

1. Partner with them. If that goes well, they'll be clamoring to buy you. This also gets you an internal business unit/advocate to push for something.

2. Talk to their corporate development team. Their job is to buy companies. Hopefully they've reached out to you. Otherwise, you likely don't have any leverage.

3. Hire bankers to find you other potential bidders to drive the price up. The good ones will know all the corp dev people.

johnson Sketch 3.7 released

Isn't that what Numbers is? And it's terrible if you know Excel. Plus Office is only like $10 a month now.

Edit: Meant Numbers, said Sheets.

johnson Runscope acquisition falls through

We definitely want to keep them going. They're a great source of leads. If you're using them all the time though, sign up for a Runscope subscription! That's the best way to support those sites.

johnson Runscope acquisition falls through

For this company, absolutely. It's not perfect for every kind of business, but for what we wanted to accomplish I think it was the best path to do so. I'd just ask them better questions about failure scenarios :)

johnson Runscope acquisition falls through

I wouldn't read too much into it. I love the Bay Area. Rent is crazy, but there's no better place to run a startup.

johnson Runscope acquisition falls through

This was a really tricky balance. We could have let some people go earlier to extend runway and maybe give us more time to optimize an exit, but at the cost of morale and perhaps a subsequent talent drain. We also knew the people were going to be a focal point for an acquisition so the more good people we could keep around, the better our value to an acquirer. All things considered we ultimately choose to hold on to as many of them as we could for as long as we could while trying to be transparent about our status so they could decide if it was worth it for them to hang around.

johnson Runscope acquisition falls through

Fair point. In retrospect it felt sustainable fresh off our last round given the market at the time and the amount of runway it gave us. Not saying that it was, just that it felt that way.

johnson Runscope acquisition falls through

That's great advice on tone. I wrote this more for family and friends back home who were going to wonder why we were back. If I was writing it for HN it would have been very different :)

johnson Runscope acquisition falls through

This post is getting more attention then intended but I'll be back later tonight after my hockey game to answer any questions.

I do just want to state unequivocally that we do not intend to shut down, we're still growing and are as sustainable as ever. Customers don't need to worry about us disappearing.

johnson Show HN: Podcat – Imdb for podcasts

Here's a good data source for you http://interviewed.io/