Willing to relocate: Only in Texas (San Antonio, Austin, Houston)
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Android, Java, iOS, Swift (beginner), Git/Github
Résumé/CV: Upon request
Email: aschuenemann at gmail
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I'm a full-stack developer, primarily in Ruby on Rails. I've also built apps in Android (Java) and currently learning iOS (Swift).
I've been a full-time entrepreneur and freelancer for the past 4 years. I've co-founded two startups, the most recent being in the edtech space called TeachTag.
If I understand this correctly, Brightwork is essentially acting as a middleman between APIs and the developer. Are you creating new API auth tokens on behalf of each user or are you using only one token and using that to make all of the API calls? If it's the latter, how do you handle rate limiting?
Is this concept against the terms of third party APIs like Twitter/Facebook?
Advertisements (specifically online advertisements) are used by companies looking to reach their target market. For example, fantasy sports sites advertise on ESPN.com because a lot of sports fans go there.
How will you get sports fans to visit listing-platform.com?
Phrasing matters. If someone applies with a project management app you can say "Seriously? Another project management app? How is this different than X, Y, or Z?" or you can say "How is this different than X, Y, or Z?"
The former puts the applicant on the defensive whereas the latter encourages discussion.
I think a mini application with a few questions from the normal YC app as a comment would be helpful. I see a ton of Show HNs in which I have no idea what the product does (either because the website copy is vague/confusing or because I don't know the market). Having a comment template or something reviewers can look at without have to ask the same questions in every thread would be great.
This is interesting, but dangerous. Smokers make up 90% of lung cancer deaths [1]. At some point you have to acknowledge that smoking definitely does something to influence lung cancer.
For those that don't know about the Phil Ivey "hack," here's basically what he is accused of:
A certain card manufacturer had a defect in which there were tiny deviations in the designs on the backs of their cards.
What they would do was the dealer would show all cards face down and Ivey and his accomplice would have the dealer rotate the cards so that the designs were all the same way. Then as they would play, they would have the dealer rotate the numbers 6, 7, 8, and 9 (which are the good cards in Baccarat).
This way they could spot all of the good cards face down based on the designs on the back. Ivey made sure to request a card deck shuffler to ensure the cards weren't rotated during shuffles.
Ivey won tens of millions of dollars doing this and is now being sued by several casinos even though he never touched the cards, didn't have any kind of cheating device, and had the casino agree to every move he did.
If reddit figures out how to get past the legal and technical hurdles this brings, I'm very excited to see what comes of it and if other online communities will do something similar. Communities which produce a lot of content/value for free such as open source developers can begin getting equity in the companies they are helping.
I'm skeptical about a few things - mostly regarding the dial. They are trying to replace pinch-to-zoom, but how does it know where to zoom? Also, the main UI screen with all of the apps looks ridiculous. They don't want you touching the watch, unless it's to click on a tiny app icon?
Remote: Yes, preferred
Willing to relocate: Only in Texas (San Antonio, Austin, Houston)
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Android, Java, iOS, Swift (beginner), Git/Github
Résumé/CV: Upon request
Email: aschuenemann at gmail
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I'm a full-stack developer, primarily in Ruby on Rails. I've also built apps in Android (Java) and currently learning iOS (Swift).
I've been a full-time entrepreneur and freelancer for the past 4 years. I've co-founded two startups, the most recent being in the edtech space called TeachTag.
List of stuff I've built: http://www.aschuenemann.com/projects.html
Willing to do full time, part time, freelance, or consulting work.