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Penny AI | Django/ML/Data/Frontend/Product | Full Time | Squamish and Vancouver B.C.

Penny is a virtual sales assistant developed to help social sellers get ONE MORE SALE. We just closed our 27 million Series B and are looking for great people to come join our amazing team.

For more information check out https://getpenny.com/careers/

Revenue is the best indicator for value, not profit which is artificially driven down for tax purposes.

Wrote a script to sort tattoo artists coming to a convention by Instagram followers. Saved me wading through dozens of artists to find one that suits my style.

After having spent the last 3 years in insurance with Allay trying to take on employer health insurance costs by making it easier for smaller groups to become self insured, I have found that the regulations are cumbersome but not huge blockers. The regulations are there to protect people and for the most part do that job correctly.

The hard part about this industry is that there is no single incumbent to disrupt, but thousand of very small businesses who have personal relationships with their clients. Also whereever you jump into the process, you have to deal with companies who do not value technology as much as the HN crowd would. These companies still print out PDFs and have automated very little of their business. No matter how fast you make your software, you are the behest of the companies below and above you in the chain.

If anybody wants to nerd out on the insurance industry, my contact is in my profile.

While travelling through Thailand, I discovered that the country thrives on terrible instant Nescafe. Open to international expansion?

Any recommendations on investment books?

Looks sweet. Small spelling mistake

'available to you as and Android app on Google Play Store'

Should be

'available to you as an Android app on Google Play Store'

Could someone purchase one of these vehicles today and still be considered for the buyback program?

Broken code.

I just had a conversation concerning building a tech community in the Yukon. The main question that came up was whether you need developers first or the infrastructure (i.e. incubators, capital.. etc) . I am in the boat that you need a few developers first to drive the community and the rest would follow.

Thoughts HN?

I have. From what I have seen, it does not support e-mail notifications out of the box.

Any recommendation for a notifications framework that supports multiple backends? I would also like to have the notifications saved in the database. Is there a standard out there for this type of action?

Nice work. How well does it work on mobile?

What are Apples rules about by bypassing their payment system? Does it only work for physical goods?

What are other examples of companies that have agreements with Comcast?

How does submitting your site to these services affect SEO?

Any YC alums care to give my application a once over?

I wonder if Docker will ever take over from Vagrant.

Do you pay for software?

I wonder how much all the cameos cost?

I commute daily from Squamish to Vancouver. I am originally from Toronto and found commuting around that city a lot more challenging than Vancouver.

Does anybody know their strategy here?

Would you look for anything in particular when choosing a newbie? Maybe expeirence in used cars or insurance?

Other than Facebook, does anybody have HipHop running in production? Any big caveats?

In general, is this a good practice? You do loose the ability to re-use endpoints on mobile.

Plans on releasing it for your other tiers?

A little off topic, but will Heap release an export API?

I use Selenium tests that run on a cron job to check for elements on third-party websites. This works great and I am able to keep the extension mostly up to date. One of the issues I have come up against is when a third-party A/B tests. I usually have to hack around and find an account with the B portion to make sure everything works.

Do you know of any other services which offer greater insight into topics that are of interest to you?

To qualify for the olympics, Paul needs to come within 10 mins of the top finishing skier in an international event. I am rooting for him!