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Co-founder SteadyMD (acquired), Zumbox, and Academy123 (acquired).

In 1995 I built my first commercial software product, a shareware add-on for AOL v2.5

E-mail is my username @ yarone.com

Twitter: @yarone ICQ: 104006 :-)

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yarone··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)
SteadyMD (steadymd.com) | Senior Software Engineer | Remote | Full Time

SteadyMD powers telehealth for leading digital health companies, labs, pharmacies, large employers, hospitals and health systems, and other healthcare innovators.

The company offers a 50-state clinician workforce, clinical operations, legal and regulatory guidance, and supporting product and technology.

For the doctors, nurses, and therapists behind its telehealth platform, SteadyMD provides an opportunity to build an online practice in areas ranging from urgent care to mental health therapy.

The company raised a $25M Series B in March 2021. Investors include Lux Capital, Pelion Venture Partners, Acrew Capital, Sound Ventures, NEXT VENTURES, Anne Wojcicki, and Tim Draper.

Learn more and apply here: https://apply.workable.com/steadymd/j/F72EEDC138/

yarone··on Google Docs in a clean-room browser
Like the Lotus 1-2-3 date workaround for Excel: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
yarone··on 20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?
Ha, thanks for this.
yarone··on Vintage technology and why some people still use it
Psion 5 had one of the best tiny keyboards of all time. Amazing little device.
yarone··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
SteadyMD | Remote | Full Time | https://www.steadymd.com/platform/

We power telehealth for leading healthcare organizations, in all 50 states.

Hiring in all areas in our Engineering department. info@steadymd.com

yarone··on 26 Years of Delphi
Tried Delphi a million years ago. Was too in love with Visual Basic 3.0. Couldn't do it.
yarone··on I built that “so-and-so is typing” feature in chat (2014)
Lots of "Live chat" customer-support type systems do it this way. You can see what your prospective customers are typing as they type. Every character, backspace, etc.

A bit creepy and violates privacy expectations, I think.

yarone··on Launch HN: Slapdash (YC W19) – A uniform, low-latency interface for cloud apps
Great job with the description above; sounds incredible. Installing and playing with this now. Nice work, congrats.
yarone··on What happens when you load a URL? (2015)
Reminds me of "I, pencil":

"A charming story which explains how something as apparently simple as a pencil is in fact the product of a very complex economic process based upon the division of labor, international trade, and comparative advantage."

https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/read-i-pencil-my-family-t...

yarone··on Chat Bubble Blindness
I think the execution of the the chat bubble (a circle with a strange looking chat icon plus happy face) is not great.

Perhaps "blindness" is an issue. But also the chat bubble execution itself. Do visitors understand what it is?

I wonder what would happen if there were a persistent chat bubble with the text "live chat" or "chat now" "questions?"

In contrast, "Live Chat & Support" in the primary navigation is extremely visible and clear.

yarone··on Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies
I am a big fan of Wave Video Maker which looks similar, at a glance. I will take a look at this. Congrats and good luck.
yarone··on What Is Good Retention: An Exhaustive Benchmark Study
The graphic on this post is excellent. It summarizes retention benchmarks for different categories of services.
yarone··on Show HN: RoughNotation – create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page
Displays are really wide today. Most web pages are relatively narrow, content-wise.

Opportunity to use the empty space for markup.

yarone··on A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub
RE: the experience of the author. He knows tech too.

He helped my startup immensely (Academy123) when he worked at TechSmith by providing us with a special version of the Camtasia SDK.

yarone··on Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic
Ahh, I've got fond memories of VB3 thru VB6...
yarone··on Launch HN: Trustle (YC W20) – On-demand child development experts for parents
Congrats, really interesting!
yarone··on Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention?
Contact Lenses. My favorite and most day-to-day useful technology.
yarone··on A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals (2017)
Yes
yarone··on Apple’s all-new iCloud for Windows app, now available in the Microsoft Store
Really?
yarone··on Animals are no less emotional than we are
> emotions are subconscious predictions produced by the brain

Thank you for sharing. Such an interesting thought.

yarone··on Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public
RocketChat too
yarone··on Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second year in a row
My (newly substantiated) reason for choosing a hotel room: - Security

Just stayed in an AirBnb that was broken-into during our stay. Window smashed, laptops stolen when we were gone for a couple hours.

It feels like we were watched when we arrived, were observed to leave, and then robbed.

We were shaken and ran-off to a hotel.

Really appreciated the hotel staff, secured elevator, anonymity of it all (lots of undifferentiated rooms in a long hallway), deadbolt, additional locks.

At this moment, feeling like I'll never stay at an airbnb again.

yarone··on Your.MD raises $10M to grow AI-driven health information service and marketplace
This is a systemic problem in healthcare. Doctors do not have time to listen to their patients. Typical primary care doctor has 2,500 patients, sees 25-30 per day. Typing / interrupting them within 30 seconds.
yarone··on Enveloupe: An API for snail mail
Years ago there was postful: http://postful.com/

And postal methods: http://www.postalmethods.com/

yarone··on Surgeon warns that swallowing a button battery could be lethal
Maybe a (partial) solution would be to make the batteries taste bad? Some coating on the outside that makes them taste immediately revolting and increases the likelihood of they'll be spit out
yarone··on Submit.co – Where to get press coverage for your startup
If you're going to use Muckrack, you should pay for it.

HN users might be interested in knowing that Muckrack was built by Greg Galant, who brought us the excellent and free VentureVoice podcast, where he interviewed dozens of top startup founders: http://www.venturevoice.com/library.html

yarone··on Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend for the long term?
I'm a fan of Backblaze. Been using them for about 6 years. They meet all of your requirements. They don't make it particularly easy to access your files from another device (not a great cloud interface like Dropbox), which is probably one way they keep costs low ($5 per month, unlimited storage).
yarone··on Tone: An experimental Chrome extension for instant sharing over audio
I guess this is like how the Square device and modems work, except the tones are played out loud?
yarone··on Show HN: Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring?
LA-area tech community has been growing incredibly over the last few years. Lots of early stage startups; some are now maturing like Dollar Shave Club and Lynda.com
yarone··on The myopia boom
I was outside for hours every day. Played soccer, ran track, ran x-country.
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