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Ha! this is great.

I made a similar one that replaces newsfeed with a todo app that unlocks when you complete your work: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/todobook/ihbejplhk...

It will also optionally replace Hacker News, Product Hunt, Reddit, Twitter, and Youtube homepages/feed with the same todo app. Basically all the sites that stop me from doing my work (HN is one of the worst for me)

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Rep | Product Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite | https://rep.ai/

We are a small team (6) building tools to change the way businesses communicate with customers. Our product, Rep, combines customer context, machine learning, and a slick app that enables organizations to build meaningful relationships through mobile and desktop messaging.

We're actively looking for builders — folks that want to contribute more than code. Your specialization is less important than your desire and ability to learn fast and adapt to shifting technologies.

We're founded by ex-Googlers with deep experience in messaging, personalization, and machine learning, and we're backed by some of the top investors in Silicon Valley: Accel Partners, First Round Capital, SV Angel, and Forerunner Ventures.

We offer competitive salaries, meaningful equity and generous health, dental and vision benefits. If you are a member of an underrepresented group in technology, we strongly encourage you to apply.

Technologies: Python, Postgres, WebSockets, React, Redux, ML, etc.

Drop us a note at jobs@rep.ai with a link to your LinkedIn, a resume, or anything else we should know. We’ll get back to you quickly!

p.s. I love working here. The team is smart and talented but also deeply good, respectful, and empathetic.

I'm toying with the idea of having the Todobook extension replace all Like/Comment/Upvote counts, etc with the number of tasks you have in your todo queue. I think the Likes count is toxic and encourages really weird behavior.

I built a chrome extension to help me with this addiction. It replaces the distracting parts of social networking sites (like Facebook's News Feed) with a todo app to keep me on task whenever I look to these sites to procrastinate.

The app unlocks the site for a configurable amount of time after I've completed my tasks.

Also supports Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, and Product Hunt.

It has helped me a lot with a. Recovering lost productivity and b. Feeling less addicted to these sites.

If curious: Todobook https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/todobook/ihbejplhk...

I feel the same way so I built a Chrome extension that replaces the News Feed with a todo list [1].

If I complete all my todos I get to use News Feed for 5 minutes.

I had tried blocking fb entirely a few times but I always churned and unblocked it... So I thought instead maybe if I could redirect myself to a productive task any time I tried to use News Feed, the most addicting/distracting part of the site for me, that might help. (it has and I love it!)

[1] Todobook: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/todobook/ihbejplhk...

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We are a small team (6) building tools to change the way businesses communicate with customers. Our product, Rep, combines customer context, machine learning, and a slick app that enables organizations to build meaningful relationships through mobile and desktop messaging.

We're actively looking for builders — folks that want to contribute more than code. Your specialization is less important than your desire and ability to learn fast and adapt to shifting technologies.

We're founded by ex-Googlers with deep experience in messaging, personalization, and machine learning, and we're backed by some of the top investors in Silicon Valley: Accel Partners, First Round Capital, SV Angel, and Forerunner Ventures.

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Update: We're now only looking for full-time candidates. Thanks!

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We are a small team (6) building tools to change the way businesses communicate with customers. Our product, Rep, combines customer context, machine learning, and a slick app that enables organizations to build meaningful relationships through mobile and desktop messaging.

We're actively looking for builders — folks that want to contribute more than code. Your specialization is less important than your desire and ability to learn fast and adapt to shifting technologies.

We're founded by ex-Googlers with deep experience in messaging, personalization, and machine learning, and we're backed by some of the top investors in Silicon Valley: Accel Partners, First Round Capital, SV Angel, and Forerunner Ventures.

We offer competitive salaries, meaningful equity and generous health, dental and vision benefits. If you are a member of an underrepresented group in technology, we strongly encourage you to apply.

Technologies: Python, Postgres, WebSockets, React, Redux, ML, etc.

Drop us a note at hi@menschlabs.com with a link to your LinkedIn, a resume, or anything else we should know. We’ll get back to you quickly!

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p.s. I love working here. The team is smart and talented but also deeply good, respectful, and empathetic.

Mensch Labs | Product Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Interns & Full-time | Onsite preferred | http://rep.ai/

We are a small team (6) building tools to change the way businesses communicate with customers. Our product, Rep, combines customer context, machine learning, and a slick app that enables organizations to build meaningful relationships through mobile and desktop messaging.

We're actively looking for builders — folks that want to contribute more than code. Your specialization is less important than your desire and ability to learn fast and adapt to shifting technologies.

We're founded by ex-Googlers with deep experience in messaging, personalization, and machine learning, and we're backed by some of the top investors in Silicon Valley: Accel Partners, First Round Capital, SV Angel, and Forerunner Ventures.

We offer competitive salaries, meaningful equity and generous health, dental and vision benefits. If you are a member of an underrepresented group in technology, we strongly encourage you to apply.

Technologies: Python, Postgres, WebSockets, React, Redux, ML, etc.

Drop us a note at hi@menschlabs.com with a link to your LinkedIn, a resume, or anything else we should know. We’ll get back to you quickly!

--

p.s. I love working here. The team is smart and talented but also deeply good, respectful, and empathetic.

I'm glad to see Apple beginning to throw developers a bone but this change is about 5 years too late.

As an indie developer my single biggest gripe with the app store (after the obviously asinine review process) is the resetting of visible app reviews any time an app is updated. This is an incredibly expensive tax on shipping app updates which creates a strong disincentive to not incrementally improve your product and a strong incentive for sleazy developers to buy fake reviews when they do ship an update. I detest this part of the app store. DETEST.

Because our culture has shifted strongly away from the phone call. Turns out we prefer async comms for most things. Think about how many of the successful app startups were really just manifestations of replacing a phone call for a particular use case. Chat bots are the logical next step in this cultural shift, enabling people to communicate asynchronously to get more things done. No singular big tech change to point at, just tons and tons of incremental ones. The momentum behind chat bots is cultural, not technological IMHO. The mainstream is now primed for them. The phone app on my iPhone has been partially replaced by every other app on my home screen and entire categories of remaining use cases will be replaced by chat bots (customer service as an obvious example)... Dot ai.

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Just launched this app. Daily round of cocktails curated by professional bartenders from around the world. Swipe right to save the ones you like and build you personal drink library and boozy shopping list. Share favorites via iMessage and Facebook Messenger.

Saw some VC tweeting this link with the caption, "VC is hard." ...I think he missed the point of the article.

I was working at the design center while this was going on. Totally surreal. I moved out of Boston in May. Lots of people I know have or are planning to relocate. Quite poetic that the snow has outlasted us... What a wretched, miserable couple of months. Never again.

What exactly do you think the whole Twitter Fabric thing is all about if not to get their code into as many 3rd party apps as possible so they can do better ad targeting. Any app that has implemented crashlytics (lots of apps) is already telling twitter who its users are.

"Terrorism is not a very significant real risk..." ...I get what you're saying but tell that to anyone who was living in or near NYC in 2001. Or anyone in or near Copley square last year. (I qualify for both...) the "More people die from [insert ridiculous thing like bee stings]!" argument doesn't work for me because there's not much you can do about bees/lightning/the existence of bathtubs but there's plenty to be done about bombs/guns/jihadists/etc. Not advocating NSA-esque tactics just reacting to the oft-used "this isn't a significant risk so why bother" argument, which I think is BS.

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That's a valid point re marketing, education, support... I'll write something once we're a bit further along.

I appreciate what you guys are doing and get that you're here to make a profit etc but even now at this super early stage the market for beacon hardware is so competitive that you've totally priced yourself out for people like me. I'll be deploying >1000 beacons this year. Beacons take about 30 seconds to configure using a configuration app (of which there are many). The biggest cost in doing a deployment is literally transporting the thing to it's location and placing it. The hardware should cost next to nothing (which it will pretty soon). The real value, like you've said, is in the services running atop the hardware. Just my opinion... That said, I'm interested in hearing what a partnership looks like w/ you guys since, as I said, I am deploying many beacons this year and for the foreseeable future.

Been doing some iBeacon dev and deployments for about 8 months. The estimote hardware is just outrageously expensive compared to what you can source from China with little effort. As in, 3-4x the cost. If you're just doing simple BTLE proximity I don't know why you'd need a $30 beacon (I guess they have some other sensors built into their beacon as well?)...if you're making a toy, fine, but if your intent is to deploy thousands (or even dozens, really) of beacons it just doesn't make any sense. I suspect in a year's time generic hardware will be had at < 1/10th the price of an estimote.

"no one is able to work productively for 8 hours, that's a fact"

tell that to a medical resident...or just about any in-hospital physician, for that matter. many, many people work long shifts and are entirely productive.

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If interested please reach out and share some code samples / links to android apps you've built.

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you insulted the OP twice in your first two sentences. then you said that depression is "table stakes"...after that, it's extremely hard for the rest of your long and well-written comment to be taken seriously. just an observation.

We've had this in Boston for literally 10 years: Garment Valet (started by Northeastern undergrads as Husky Express). Great service. "Uber for laundry" before Uber. Surprised they weren't mentioned. Nothing new here.

Well, it was only a matter of time with this guy.

Don't know what you're doing wrong. I live in the south end and use Uber and Lyft (mostly Lyft these days) all the time to get around Boston. Rarely do I wait more than 5 or 6 minutes. Often times it's 2-3 minutes. Both services have been pretty great on average. In Boston, I find Lyft drivers to be nicer (and Lyft marketing less douchey) so I try to use them when the wait times are similar. I'll wait an extra 3 minutes to ride Lyft if I have to but usually I don't have to.

Outrageously cold and immature to imply that the family members are overreacting and worse to imply that it might be related to their ethnicity. They've been given false hope for two weeks. I cannot begin to imagine the emotional torture they've had to endure.

i enjoyed this b/c i recently made the jump from ruby to obj-C and, though scary at first, i now feel incredibly comfortable working in obj-C and think i even prefer it. so, that's cool.

i do see at the bottom that this post is one of those "inbound marketing for job candidates" things. that's cool, too... but, i gotta say, as soon as i read the sign off, "If you want to work somewhere where..." i thought to myself, "not in a million f'ing years - that company is run by jerks!"...now, maybe the founders are actually good people but their public personae is just so off-putting that it totally undermines an otherwise well-done marketing blog post. i'm curious if that's just me or if they generally have trouble recruiting.