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Co-founder of UpCounsel
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mase··on Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
I really love the idea of this but it seems incredibly arduous to keep it updated. Everytime I do something, call someone, have a conversation, learn something new, have lunch, etc - it all has to be tracked.

I suppose this is the price to be paid if one wants to track all of those things, but much like many other CRMs there are integration points that could make this far less work for the consumer.

Thoughts or plans on this?

mase··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)
UpCounsel | San Francisco, CA (no remote) | Full Time

UpCounsel is on a mission to make the legal experience remarkable for businesses. We provide businesses with an alternative to expensive and slow law firms through an online marketplace and an all-star virtual lawyer community. UpCounsel is working with thousands of entrepreneurs and companies to increase the quality and speed of legal services, while dramatically reducing costs. When businesses can access great legal services, they make better decisions and can grow their business with confidence.

HIRING for Full Stack Engineers: https://www.upcounsel.com/careers/97856

And other roles as well: https://www.upcounsel.com/careers

mase··on Vizify acquired by Yahoo
Fuck the haters. Congrats to the team!
mase··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2014)
UpCounsel.com -- San Francisco, CA => https://www.upcounsel.com We're a small team taking the big boring legal industry by storm. Revolutionizing the way that SMBs / SMEs hire, manage, and pay for legal services.

We're hiring for several roles including • Product manager • Full stack Rails / Node.js / Javascript developer • Community manger • Corporate paralegals

At UpCounsel, we're building the future of law. If you are motivated by bringing one of the oldest industries in the world to the 21st century and helping millions of businesses in the process, we'd love to talk to you.

Our founding team is composed of serial entrepreneurs with prior successful startup exits as well as "recovering" attorneys who appreciate the pain points of attorneys as well as their business clients. Our seed and angel investors have backed some of the most promising startups of our time. We take pride in doing amazingly good work and are driven by a mission to help small businesses, the backbone of our economy, easily tap into and work with a competent and affordable legal workforce distributed across the globe.

We are building a family of superbly talented and passionate individuals. We are a small team (less than 10) and a flat organization, where everyone's contributions make a profound impact on our future. The "disruptor" mindset is core to everything we do and that means challenging that status quo wherever we find it.

Learn more: https://www.upcounsel.com/home/careers

mase··on Spotify - Chrome Web Store
Finally! Web-based browser. It's actually pretty good. I like the interactions
mase··on Show HN: Noted, a note-taking web app inspired by Vim
Looks and works a lot like http://workflowy.com
mase··on Ask HN: What phone do you use?
Nexus 4 It's big, but it's amazing and untainted by OEM crap.
mase··on Native Advertising Leaderboard
This is pretty cool!
mase··on Database management for public and private clouds
I can say as a beta tester, this product has huge potential! Can't wait for more. Great to see Scoble covering this.
mase··on Perfectum Dashboard
This is super nice. I love it. Sometimes feels over the top, but nicely themed.
mase··on Proximity pairing of smartphones with ultra-high frequency sound waves
Incredible app and super fast pairing, feels nearly instant. I hope to see this technology in more of their apps. I think the possibilities are huge with a ton of potential in other apps.
mase··on Compare JS MVC frameworks implementing the same site: TodoMVC
Love this idea! I need to get more familiar with a lot of these frameworks
mase··on Rackspace launches new OpenStack cloud
This is actually really great. One of the things I hated so far about Rackspace Cloud was that I couldn't scale the resources independently. If I need to upgrade to multiple CPU's or more RAM I don't want to be required to double or triple my disk capacity - that's a giant waste, especially with the availability of Cloud Files.

Now if their Database hosting would include Mongo, I'm sold!

mase··on Show HN: Firebase, a scalable real-time backend
Awesome dude. Great idea and execution for 3 hrs of work! Minor suggestions:

- Sort by (name, start time, rating, distance)

- include video playback controls, useful info such as time of preview, buffering, etc..

- X out or remove videos from my personal view, this would be KILLER to allow me to narrow down my choices as I watch videos

mase··on Redditors who are rich (net worth $1 million+) - how did you get rich?
I hope to someday know what this feels like and not have to learn these lessons the hard way
mase··on Google maps 8bit quest mode. A setup for 4/1 perhaps?
WOW! Incredible. I love the floating balloon advertisements. I could see that getting annoying, but a great way to get your attention
mase··on Coding Horror: The End of Pagination
Jeff mentioned this in the article, but it really forces you to rethink your footer if you put important links there.