How do you see `netlify dev` comparing to `firebase serve`? The `--live` feature sounds great and I can imagine the config variables are handled better, but otherwise I'm anticipating a similar experience. Is that correct or am I missing something core?
To add an interesting layer, financial institutions are investing in these solutions. Goldman previously invested in Plaid, and Fidelity invested in Quovo which takes a similar approach.
At some point I think it's on the banks to offer OAuth APIs, then Plaid can swap out one-by-one (if it hasn't already started).
Nylas is facing the same challenge in the email space. They have oauth for gmail, but user/pass for Exchange/SMTP.
I love content like this. I've found my knowledge becomes more specialized as I age, and content like this gives me an opportunity to grok other specialities with relative ease.
For whatever reason (I'm a software engineer), I particularly enjoy content about everyday physical goods. Knife steel has just been added to my bookmark list, but here are a couple more I think are worth sharing:
Any chance Stripe lifts some restrictions on prohibited businesses soon? Virtual cards can be particularly useful in travel, but that use case on Stripe has long been considered prohibited:
https://stripe.com/us/prohibited-businesses
Interesting to see Rails simultaneously embracing React with the Webpacker gem while also trying to offer a better solution in Turbolinks + Stimulus.
DHH's complaints here about React (and Redux especially) resonate with me, but I have a hard time believing a React-less approach is the best solution. I'd rather Rails roll its own enhancement of Redux - and perhaps CSS management - alongside a handful of component generators that make everything from "Javascript sprinkles" to SPAs easier to manage in Rails.
I may be mistaken, but I think the meat of this will be in post 2?
It sounds like your taking React's render() and replacing it with ERB. But, how are you giving the ERB file access to state and props?
I suppose if it's done well, this would make it easier for Rails devs to adopt single page apps. It sounds like you're abstracting away a lot of React and creating a Rails-ier API to it.
I believe the 3% could still be shouldered by the business, if I'm swiping with them. Venmo would just be sitting in the middle of the transaction so they can prompt me to charge my friends.
I think this is possible with Marqeta today: www.marqeta.com
We are looking for a talented front-end engineer with experience in Javascript, HTML, and CSS3 (JQuery and/or React a plus). Initial engagement would be for two months, but you can consider this as a direct audition for a full-time position as a Lead Front-End Engineer.
You will report directly to the CTO, who is an experienced engineer focused on technical architecture, product management, and back-end development. You will turn our strong product vision first into living, breathing prototypes and finished products.. You recognize that you are joining a young startup, and sometimes that means being flexible with development priorities, and ready to compromise on perfection if necessary.
As our first full-time Front-End Engineer, we expect you to bring a passion for understanding our customer and delivering a superior experience for them. This is an ideal role for you if you are an experienced engineer who is eager to test yourself against the hardest front-end problem in the world (making people care about financial planning). We are heavily focused on consumer engagement and view our front-end experience as the most critical differentiation for the business. We are building a top-tier engineering team that will help us revolutionize the financial advice industry--you can expect to work alongside a team that is as talented and hard-working as you are.
About Harbor
Harbor is improving America's retirement security. We are building software to make high-quality financial planning accessible and affordable to the 65% of Americans who are not receiving any today.
We provide our users with a beautiful, online experience to design a financial plan that would cost thousands of dollars from a professional advisor. To enable that, we are developing a financial planning platform that is automated (where possible), intuitive, and educational to use. We are maniacally focused on making it easier for the average American to actually think about their finances, and are building a best-in-industry user experience to achieve that.
We are an early-stage start-up with a powerful mission and a small but high-calibre founding team: 3 co-founders educated at Harvard and MIT, extensive professional experience in financial services, management consulting, and engineering, and are one of 10 teams in the Techstars Chicago accelerator program.
Note: following the program's completion in October, we will relocate to Boston, New York, or San Francisco, depending on what's best for the business.
If interested, please contact [email protected] with your resume and a little about yourself.
We are committed to building a top-tier engineering team that will help us revolutionize the financial advice industry. As Head of Engineering, leading this team and the development of our technology will be your primary responsibility. You will ensure our software remains scalable and stable as usage grows and our product iterates, expands, and improves.
You will report directly to the CTO, who is also responsible for product management and technical recruiting. You will work with the CTO to identify personnel and other engineering needs as they come up.
You are an experienced technical leader and engineer, and have worked in both ideal and non-ideal environments. You recognize that you are joining a young startup, and sometimes that means choosing good over great.
You are ultimately responsible for taking command over the engineering team, the code architecture, and the technologies in use. By the end of the year, you are likely to be overseeing at least 2 additional full-time engineers.
About Harbor
Harbor is improving America's retirement security. We are building software to make high-quality financial planning accessible and affordable to the 65% of Americans who are not receiving any today.
We provide our users with a beautiful, online experience to design a financial plan that would cost thousands of dollars from a professional advisor. To enable that, we are developing a financial planning platform that is automated (where possible), intuitive, and educational to use. We are maniacally focused on making it easier for the average American to actually think about their finances, and are building a best-in-industry user experience to achieve that.
We are an early-stage start-up with a powerful mission and a small but high-calibre founding team: 3 co-founders educated at Harvard and MIT, extensive professional experience in financial services, management consulting, and engineering, and are one of 10 teams in the Techstars Chicago accelerator program.
Note: following the program's completion in October, we will relocate to Boston, New York, or San Francisco, depending on what's best for the business.
If interested, please contact [email protected] with your resume and a little about yourself.
Harbor is bringing back the pension (or something like it). We make it easy to build a retirement portfolio that incorporates guaranteed lifetime income, because we think that's the best way for every American to build a secure retirement.
We're hiring developers to join us for Techstars in Chicago this summer. Remote and/or Interns are ok.
Front End - We need a Javscript developer to take ownership over our front end codebase. It's currently built with jQuery, though we're strongly considering a move to React.
Back End - Ruby on Rails - Help develop the architecture for our own tools, as well as build out integrations to our financial partners.
To me, the Kapor's are effectively claiming Uber has breached their trust.
They also indicate they have been a "team player" during prior incidents:
"As early investors in Uber, starting in 2010, we have tried for years to work behind the scenes to exert a constructive influence on company culture. When Uber has come under public criticism, we have been available to make suggestions, and have been publicly supportive, in the hope that the leadership would take the necessary steps to make the changes needed to bring about real change."
So it's hard for me to fault them here.
For the sake of more thought provocation, what do you think about YC's "Founder Ethics" rules, and how would you want YC to respond if Uber were a YC company?
http://www.ycombinator.com/ethics/
I really like the idea of a pledge for founders but worry about the particular features available here.
The biggest red flag for me is that Founder's Pledge is touted as "completely free," but makes no mention of investment options being available for your assets.
So, while it may not be deducting an administrative fee, keeping your charitable assets with them is akin to leaving your 401(k) assets in cash, which will normally result in you having less funds to donate than if you had used a traditional Donor Advised Fund.
Unless a founder plans on distributing all of their charitable assets immediately (which I believe is atypical), I hope Founder's Pledge discloses that it may be in their best interest to transfer their funds to a Fidelity Charitable or Schwab Charitable DAF where assets can grow.
I wonder what you feel companies should do in the event of a strong pivot: reincorporate or retain their cap table?
Based solely on this post, it seems beneficial to reincorporate in order to retain an undiluted cap table.
However, that seems contradictory to YC's thesis of investing in teams instead of ideas. If a team's first idea isn't successful, I imagine YC would want to retain its stake in whatever their new venture is.
Also - is there any chance you've previously used pre-accelerators as a positive indication? "Letting up" on your standard assessment of a team simply because they had gone through a pre-accelerator could also explain this trend.
Ahh I tried doing this with Stripe and Stripe Checkout on StripePal.com but they wouldn't let me do it because money services businesses aren't allowed :(
I really like this concept though. If I wasn't paranoid about frozen assets I would be happy to use it.