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mamattaon How to make your first sales hire – a guide for SaaS startups

or if you're in Toronto, reach out :)

mamattaon Show HN: Pagerbot, a chat bot for managing PagerDuty on-call schedules

Hey Anthony,

I'm on the sales team here at PagerDuty. Feel free to send me a note at mark at pagerduty dot com and we can work something out for your team regardless of size.

Thanks!

mamattaon New Y Combinator Website

same with the PagerDuty one

mamattaon It’s time to say goodbye

Do.com, Desk.com, Social.com, Work.com, Force.com, Data.com

Quite the list.

mamattaon It’s time to say goodbye

Salesforce (the company behind do.com) is notorious for buying 2-4 letter domains. I'm sure they'll find another way to use it a few years from now.

mamattaon Celery (YC S12) Lets Sellers Accept Pre-Orders, Charge When Ready

I knew this was coming as soon as Lockitron started the trend with their "SelfStarter" site: https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter

mamattaon In Hours, Thieves Took $45 Million in A.T.M. Scheme

And that's where http://solinkcorp.com/ comes into play.

Shameless plug: Brother's Canadian startup

mamattaon Facebook buys Parse

Everyone wants a piece of mobile dev tools. Think Twitter + Crashlytics and now Facebook + Parse. As some might remember, Facebook at one point only had Heroku as their core Dev partner [1], so it only makes sense for Facebook to get in this space.

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/558/

mamattaon Sold raises seed from Google, Greylock and Matrix to automate selling

Pretty looking app

mamattaon Facebook Home

how can they afford that to happen?

mamattaon Nate Silver correctly called 50 out of 50 states

quick image reference on Nate's predictions versus actual results: http://cl.ly/image/0744432U0S0L

mamattaon Upverter Gets Your Circuits Laid

this is a big deal. from designing to manufacturing, this will help get prototypes off the ground much faster

mamattaon Ask HN/PG: What's with the influx of "Here's how I got into YC"?

Here's 3 examples in the last 24 hours:

Zappier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4718595 MakeGamesWith.us: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4715627 PayDragon: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4714859

mamattaon Show HN: Sell your stuff for more money with less hassle

i love the service, but when someone made me an offer and chose his contact details to be just his First_Name, I have no way of responding to him. You should change it so email is required on a bid

mamattaon Show HN: landing pages for iOS apps with interactive, usable demos

Great idea! I can really see this taking over this growing "marketplace" space. How do you render these demos/simulations on the browser

mamattaon New Heroku Status Site

awesome job pushing trust/status in a clean way! It looks like salesforce.com's smaller divisions is really getting a handle on status pages, i.e. http://desk.com/trust

mamattaon Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I spent 2 years of my life on

http://blog.inbox2.com/

mamattaon All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad

facebook engineer as per his HN profile

mamattaon Is 80-100k salary real? there's an app for that, a weekend project

so you can actually do it online by inputting coordinates:

http://geolary.com/salaries/139.793644,35.864778