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We made a similar arrangement a year ago, and it didn't cause any significant issues. We chose to be transparent about it, and every employee was allowed to sell the same percentage of their shares (as long as they're vested) as the founders. Most chose not to sell.

People should understand that building a successful independent company is easier when the founders don't have to worry about their financials.

Smartly.io | Software Engineer | JavaScript, React, Redux, Ruby, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, Cassandra | Helsinki, Finland ONSITE VISA | Full-time

Smartly.io is a product for large-scale Facebook marketing automation and optimisation. We’re a profitable and fast-growing startup, with 150+ employees and counting. Companies like eBay and Skyscanner use our products to grow their business.

We deploy to 400+ servers 10-20 times per day, processing petabytes of data every month. In frontend we do React+Redux+Flow, and in the backend services are mostly written in Ruby, Node.js and Kotlin.

More information at http://www.smartly.io/developer

StackOverflow Jobs site is used quite a bit at least in Europe. https://stackoverflow.com/jobs

It's relatively easy to Google for expat websites for any specific country. The salaries are generally lower, but so is the cost of housing.

Our company Smartly.io is also hiring. 3-year-old startup, 100 employees, 30+ engineers, profitable, some real scalability issues to be solved (already 200+ servers), and based in Helsinki. :)

Flowdock also supports multiple organizations in one client.

Flowdock has pretty much the same functionality, and supports multiple organizations with one login. https://www.flowdock.com/

Here's a better full-size screenshot: https://d2cxspbh1aoie1.cloudfront.net/assets/press/flowdock-...

Thanks for the feedback, we'll be adding more of them, and blogging about individual features.

We actually have a Campfire importer in case you want to retain your chat history.

Thanks for the post! We've been working on this new release for a while, hoping to get lots of feedback from HN.

The local university here in Finland has in interesting partnership with Microsoft. They offer you some money if you develop your app exclusively for Windows Phone for the first 6 months or so. Seems quite harmful for the startups...

Most of these concepts are already implemented in Flowdock: https://www.flowdock.com/

If you think you've found a bug, please let us know by tweeting or emailing team@, and we'll get it fixed. We haven't had downtime in 2 months, so I'm curious what seemed to be broken.

And https://www.flowdock.com/ is still going to be around, with way better reliability, IRC support, more and better integrations & much more. :)

A Grove.io importer was also added yesterday: http://blog.flowdock.com/2012/09/27/import-your-grove-io-acc...

Flowdock's similar IRC gateway is already open source: https://github.com/flowdock/oulu

No, that's just business as usual.

I also spent a lot of time trying to figure this out.

When you can finally find the New Repository link from the News Feed page, it doesn't have an option for choosing the account for the repository. You need to do that before going to the New Repository page...

Despite the rumors, this is not really competing with YCombinator.

Thank you for your feedback! Indeed, without the integrations Flowdock is just a group chat - although most teams still need one.

When you bring in activity from GitHub, Pivotal Tracker, JIRA, emails and all your other tools, you'll get to react to anything in seconds.

They get a message saying that this FB user is not associated with a Flowdock user, please log in to pair it to an existing account.

We rolled out the FB/Google signup/login today, so we don't have any numbers about the usage yet. We'll need to do a blog post about that when we have some hard data.

Thanks, that's a good point.

Yes, just wanted to share the new signup form that supports Google/Facebook and also lets you specify your company.

If you want to know more about Flowdock, the most advanced team messenger, it's better to check out the front page: http://www.flowdock.com/

Unfortunately PayPal is pretty much the only option, if you're based in Europe and want to do recurring payments.

I agree with all the points above: the support is worst I've ever experienced, the user experience is horrible and hasn't improved over the years, and the recurring payments clearly don't belong to the product.

Some of the tools we're using ourselves:

Team collaboration: http://www.flowdock.com/ No matter what are the other tools you're using, Flowdock keeps your team organized and up-to-date. Google Wave done right.

Version control: http://www.github.com/

Agile project management: http://www.pivotaltracker.com/

Customer feedback: http://www.uservoice.com/

Service monitoring: http://www.pingdom.com/

Scalable database: http://www.mongodb.org/

Programming languages: JavaScript, Ruby, Scala

Everyone in the company is using an OS X desktop, and our servers (hosted in several places) are powered by Ubuntu Linux and Chef (systems management).

Indeed, latest development version of Chrome doesn't work. We found and fixed the bug earlier today, the fix will be deployed later this week.

In MongoDB this is not possible:

> db.test.insert({"foo.bar": 1}); Mon Jul 26 14:24:39 JS Error: uncaught exception: can't have . in field names [foo.bar]

After all that's only natural, because the dot notation is supported in queries.

For example, consider storing an e-mail in MongoDB:

{ content: "<p>HTML mail. <img src="cid:1234.0" alt="from attachment"/></p>", attachments: { "1234.0": { some details about the attachment } } }

This is not legal, but in this case it's of course easy to work around (have attachments in an array and have the CID as a value instead of a key).

Actually, we were running Cassandra 0.6.1. I'm a bit sorry that we didn't try to upgrade to 0.6.3, because it could have fixed some of the problems.

We had a surprisingly sticky problem and were forced to do a lengthy data migration. The service is now up.

This is a problem with Fluid's default settings. You can fix it by going to Preferences -> Advanced -> Add a new pattern: flowdock.com

We'll try to document this process a bit better.

Thanks, we're working on the icons.

Sessions do not actually expire anytime soon - we just deployed a bugfix release and had to restart the backend. We'll make the deployment experience a bit smoother soon. :)

Hi! Thanks for the feedback. We're sure planning to make the conversion as easy as possible, and Yammer import is on top of our list. We will announce new features in our blog and on Twitter, stay tuned. :)