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ninjastar99··on Show HN: I made an app that lets you save audio to your Cameral Roll
Why is there no preview of what these look like on your website? That seems like a critical omission.
ninjastar99··on New in Gmail: Making E2E encrypted emails easy to use for all organizations
Thought this was an April Fools joke - please tell me it is! That UI looks exactly like a phishing email. And then to make users login once they click it? Exactly like a phishing email.
ninjastar99··on To Log into WordPress, You Now Have to Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good
I'm done with Wordpress until Matt is done with Wordpress. Then (and only then) will I consider it for new projects.
ninjastar99··on Show HN: Double-entry accounting based personal finance app
Typo "Recieved" on your main page FYI
ninjastar99··on WP Engine Reprieve
Great work making the train-wreck worse, Matt. This whole situation is cringeworthy and makes me 100% dedicated to never trusting Matt or Wordpress with any important project, ever again.
ninjastar99··on Launch HN: Roame (YC S23) – Flight search engine for your credit card points
Love this! Design is stellar. Very well done!
ninjastar99··on Movemap.io: Decide Where to Move
When I click on Tennessee, it says 6% tax rate -- but TN has no state income tax, no?
ninjastar99··on Ramp raises $300M
We converted from Amex Platinum Business and Chase Ink to Ramp. Before Ramp, each of our team members had one corporate card, and had to submit documentation for each charge on their card monthly - what it was for, which project it was in relation to, etc.

With Ramp, we can instantly create multiple cards per staff member, so they have one card per project we're working on. Our accounting group then immediately knows how to categorize that expense (because that card is ONLY used for that project), and Ramp reminds our staff to forward along the receipt (which it automatically links to the transaction). Our accounting group doesn't have to lift a finger.

It makes the whole process completely mindless, whereas before it was filled with lots of busy work to keep our accounting clean and organized.

The fact that it's free is icing on the cake. Big fan.

ninjastar99··on Ramp raises $300M
Really big fan of this company. Saved our team a huge amount of accounting time in the first week alone, and on-boarding was super easy (less than 48 hours and we were running).
ninjastar99··on The Clock (2003)
Is this for sale? Take my money!
ninjastar99··on Show HN: Kloudsec, Our Bootstrapped Anycast CDN with LetsEncrypt for Your Site
The word "serious" is misspelled on the main page (says serioues).
ninjastar99··on Show HN: Learn Magic Tricks Online
Love Scam School - he's a great teacher and fun to watch.
ninjastar99··on Show HN: Learn Magic Tricks Online
Best place to learn magic online is theory11 (http://www.theory11.com). They work with David Copperfield, JJ Abrams, and make cool cards with MailChimp. Production quality is great. I'm also a big fan of Scam School on YouTube (Brian Brushwood).
ninjastar99··on Why, after a year with Adobe EchoSign, I’m taking my business elsewhere
Not recommended. Adobe Echosign allows NO WAY (at least no easy way) for regular users to export signed documents in a single batch. I've been a paying customer for 6 years. When I asked their tech support where this (surely obvious) feature was, they said that I must have an Enterprise account to export a batch of my own documents. For an account like mine with hundreds of signed documents in it, that would take hours. It took 27 (!!) messages with their support technicians to get a batch of my own documents. Sadly, it seems with the acquisition by Adobe, any hustle, humility, or innovation on the part of Echosign is out. Best of luck to Hellosign to make up for the slack.
ninjastar99··on Twitpic’s Future
Is this the third or fourth dramatic development in the Twitpic closure? It's beginning to get a little ridiculous. Every week it seems like the story changes. They're closing, they're not, they're acquired, they're not, and now they are again.
ninjastar99··on Show HN: SeaLion 2 – Linux Server Monitoring, Alerting and Debugging Tool
Spelling mistake in the very first screenshot in the very first visual when I clicked your link. Seperate -> Separate.
ninjastar99··on Ask HN: What video hosting service do you use for your video platform?
We use Wistia (http://www.wistia.com), and they're absolutely fantastic. Lightning fast loading and amazing performance on mobile. Also would recommend checking into Vimeo Pro.
ninjastar99··on Frame.io: A GitHub for Video
Like this a lot. Well done. Heads up - collaborator is spelled wrong in your demo video (right hand side).
ninjastar99··on Direct Invoice beta is up and running
Is it just me, or does this look very close in design (and even placement of specific buttons) to Metalab's Ballparkapp (http://www.ballparkapp.com)?
ninjastar99··on Shopify Announces Payments
My experience with both Shopify and Stripe (separately) has been absolutely fantastic. Both are extremely innovative teams at the top of their craft, and outstanding customer service the few times we've needed it. Happy to see them working together - great fit.
ninjastar99··on HipChat releases native app for Mac
Hipchat is incredible. Simple, but for our company - it basically is the MAIN form of communication internally. It keeps our team connected in real time, around the world, in the office and on the go. It's a rare day when I get an email from anyone on our team because we're in constant communication via Hipchat all day, every day. Very excited about this native version - much faster.
ninjastar99··on Ask HN: how do you stage/push your code?
We've been using Beanstalk (http://www.beanstalkapp.com) for a few months now to collaborate more effectively, and thus far pretty impressed. Great system, and they've consistently added new features often.
ninjastar99··on Retrospective from Postmark on outages (MongoDB)
Really tried to love Postmark for about 3 months now. Constant, almost daily issues forced us to unfollow them on Twitter (it literally became an annoyance seeing issues daily). Then we switched to Mailgun last week, and we are very happy. +1 to Mailgun
ninjastar99··on Ask HN: lightweight and simple CMS?
Big fan of ExpressionEngine. Was on the fence, but used it for a critical project where simplicity was the critical point, and it was a dream to work with. No issues, and nothing that limited our extensive development ideas from coming to life.
ninjastar99··on What Assistly did wrong launching Desk.com
I'm confused. Didn't they just change the name and update their design? As long as the features are the same, I don't care too much if they call it Assistly or Superchefbobbyflay. As far as I've seen, the features are all still there, they just updated their design and name. A quick heads up would have been nice, but this doesn't enter FCP X territory or even the continent of Netflix. I thought your example there was a bit over the top. Netflix changed their entire business model. Assistly updated their name and design. Am I wrong? Disclosure: I don't even use Assistly - I use Zendesk. But I respect what they're doing.
ninjastar99··on Ask HN: best eCommerce Platform
Really love Lemonstand (http://www.lemonstandapp.com). Super well developed and has been easy to customize. Great support. For simple, quick projects, I've used Shopify (hosted) and had a very good experience with it. Their team is very active and constantly adds new features and improvements. Our experience with Magento was a mess - we found it very difficult to work with, and far overkill for what we needed. I've heard good things about Spree (http://www.spreecommerce.com), but haven't used it myself yet.
ninjastar99··on Gandi.net will contribute $1 per inbound transfer to EFF until Jan 15th
I've used Gandi for two years now, and my advice can be summed in one word: avoid. Absolutely atrocious, horrible support. No live chat. No phone number. And it took them THREE full days and two "reminder" emails to respond to me on a system critical issue. This is not acceptable - and it quite frankly goes against their "slogan." On the flip side, I've found Namecheap support and value to be far greater. So I support them wholeheartedly.
ninjastar99··on GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
I like Gandi's motto ("no bullshit"), but their support is - for lack of a better word - exactly that. It's now hovering at 36 hours without a response after repeated emails to them. No excuse. I'd rather pay the $10 extra and get real phone or live chat support from anyone else. Avoid.
ninjastar99··on Gmail app for iOS available in the App Store (again)
Wow. Two weeks later and they STILL messed this up? I'm only getting sound / vibration notifications. Impressively bad. How many people are working on this project? Follow up question: how many people are working on testing this project?
ninjastar99··on Introducing Asana: The Modern Way to Work Together
Really love Flow. Tried Asana, but Flow is just better. My one critique - Flow MUST be cheaper to allow me to get my whole team on it. Come out with Team plans for $14.95 (5 people) to $24.95 (10 people), and I will have all of my friends and colleagues on it fast.
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