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Got it, it sounds like there is some issue on the healthcare.gov side. I work at Nava so feel free to email me as well. I totally understand your frustration, and though it sounds like we don't work on the components of healthcare.gov that are leaving you in the lurch just reach out and we can try and route your issue to the right people.

Nava | Washington DC* | Experienced full-stack developers/devops/product manager/operations | On-site - Full-time

We're a small team of engineers and designers from Silicon Valley that came out to DC last year to help fix Healthcare.gov. It turns out there’s a lot more to fix, and it’s surprising how much can be fixed by a small group of resourceful people with a Silicon Valley mindset, deep technical experience, working closely with dedicated civil servants in government.

Our revamped Healthcare.gov application is used by millions, converts 35% better, and halves the completion time. The login system we rebuilt is about two orders of magnitude more reliable and two orders of magnitude less expensive; for example, it’s about $70M less per year to operate.

People die because the Veteran's Administration is months behind in processing claims. The Social Security Administration pays benefits to millions of deceased Americans. $80 billion is spent every year on federal IT contracting, and 96% of projects are deemed failures. [0] That’s not because there’s some conspiracy or because government is inherently incapable of doing it right. These are complicated legacy systems and processes, and there are very few people with modern tech industry experience who are aware of these problems and willing to help fix them. You can help change that.

Our team is about a dozen people (Stanford, Google, Khan Academy, Dropbox, YC alums), and we plan to bring on a few people every month through 2015.

We’re looking for: * experienced full-stack engineers * experienced devops engineers * a product manager with a technical background * a hyper-resourceful operations person

We have a social mission (we just incorporated as a public benefit corporation), but we pay market compensation (above market, for DC) and equity (above market).

If you'd like to build software and infrastructure that radically improves how our government serves people, we’d love to hear from you at jobs@navahq.com

Learn more about us: http://navahq.com Job descriptions: http://jobs.lever.co/nava

*Not in DC / able to relocate, but intrigued and in SF? Talk to us!

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/22/t...

What are the differences between Homejoy, FlyMaids, and Homeaglow?

Are they all incorporated as the same entity, or are they all separate?

Are different founders of Homejoy working on different angles?

Exactly. Tumblr couldn't put money together with the themes people were buying, even though that was pretty lively.

Ello looks like it raised a seed round from Fresh Tracks Capital in Vermont:

"Ello.co is a beautiful, simple & transparent ad-free social network. Ello is designed with the end user in mind, not advertisers, promising “You are not a product”. The site is a collaboration between Paul Budnitz, the graphic design lab Berger & Föhr, and the technologists at Mode Set."

http://www.freshtrackscap.com/fund-iii-companies/Ello

Does anyone know any more about Fresh Tracks?

Submitting this because someone asked for it in this previous thread on Gifpop / lenticular printing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6849907

Large runs means about 50-100 or more, so not too much!

Thanks for this! This thought has been stewing in my head for a while too. Like, for example, cinemagraphs are a creative invention forced by the constraint of the GIF format (ie, tumblr and imgur's size limit means playing to GIF's strengths, like only animating regions of images).

We've also heard from working with Mr. Div and Patakk and the others that sometimes they do hacks to maximize their oomph. For Patakk, sometimes his geometries don't take up the full 500px so that he can pack more motion in a smaller area (and so for our art prints, he's filling out the frame more because that restriction isn't there). Exciting times!

That's great feedback. The first image is an actual example of a gif card at work (hovering plays the animation), and the third link is an explanation of lenticular printing. We should make it more clear though!

We'd love to offer manual upload of a sequence of images, we just don't want people to get the idea that they can upload 10 unique images. With lenticular sheets at this high framecount there's always some ghosting, so it's really for motion (gifs+video) or flipping between a couple distinct images (flip)

We totally understand! We still have to finalize pricing with our manufacturer so that's why we've asked people on the homepage to email us with business card / wedding invitation inquiries. It gets almost an order of magnitude cheaper logistics/labor wise to do large runs, we just need to make sure we can do a good enough quality job!

Thanks! Meshu was our first project together, and we built it on Python/Django. It's been really fun and kind of crazy to have two projects with holiday rushes at the same time :)

Haha awesome. We need to step up our game! We're primarily frontend designer/developers and this is our first node.js project :)

Thank you!

XOXO

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbxb2zaVsR1qcqj0ko1_500.gi...

Totally! We just need to do more work on our end to make sure we don't end up accidentally accepting multi-gig video files. Vine and Instagram is a convenient way to start because it's much more constrained :)

that would be amazing! we're hi@gifpop.io

<3 <3

We were just talking about this yesterday with some friends, and they put it nicely as "Language has no master"

We're currently doing rolling shipping starting next week, and it should only take us a few days from you placing your order to us shipping things out!

It's just the 20-year-cycle of nostalgia ;)

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/04/17/_the_golden_f...

That's amazing! That's why we're honestly so excited about using lenticular type technologies with gifs — they both feel like dumb, old technologies that are actually kind of wonderfully straightforward, and have a lot of creative potential! If you have any photos of that buckyball print we'd love to see it!

YES OH MY GOD! We tried to reference a lot of our favorite memes and things in the video. Glad you caught it!

It's definitely pricy if you order one at a time, but if you want a run of business cards costs come down to a couple dollars each. Or you can just staple your existing business card to a $1 bill!

Hi Aleyan! Yes, side to side works but it works much better when you're further away (unless you've calculated the eye spacing and distance in your imagery). We're planning on offering the option for artist prints to be printed horizontally or vertically, because some of them will be hung on walls.

Thanks! What do you mean about adding an option for 3D prints? Do you mean doing the layering on our end? We could get you viewing angles and such so that you could upload prelayered imagery through the website normally, would that work?

That's actually one reason why we're limiting things to up/down rotation also — the spacing of your eyes makes it hard to display lots of frames accurately when you're rotating it left/right. And zoetropes, so cool! We really want to try some of these out too: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/10/the-first-animated-gif...

Yes thanks! If you have a specific usecase, please feel free to email omg@gifpop.io and we'll let you know when we have more information!

That's great feedback! We've been so rushed to get it out the door for the holidays that we're lacking some basic information up front. We'll get that up shortly!

For now, some price/sizing deets:

$12 each — 2.125" x 3.375" — Business Card

$12 each — 2.75" x 2.75" — Small Square

$15 each — 3.5" x 5.0" — Postcard

$15 each — 5.0" x 5.0" — Large Square

Thanks! Here are some more links to gifs we've printed for artists: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/338114/gifs/by_me/mrdiv-... https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/338114/gifs/by_me/dvdp-8... And here's one of the very first we made, only with four frames and with a lower quality manufacturer, but it was a gift for a friend: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/338114/gifs/by_me/firstg...

Thanks! We currently do support Vine and Instagram video, and you can pick a short clip from there. Processing all videos in all formats is a little tricky right now and it's helpful to have the pre-constraint of those social networks. Taking video from a phone is a great idea though!

Hi! Yes, we are planning on having a way to integrate with Gifpop. We're talking to a few gif app makers and hopefully will have something put together soon!

(for the interested, we're currently built on node and express, which has been really great for prototyping and building out new endpoints that require lots of processing. our previous website, http://meshu.io, was built on python/django)