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How this gets posted on HN is beyond me, perhaps that's where the isolation of modern life leads to.

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I think there is a wide gap between public surveillance and private surveillance.

Smart glasses record in private settings and the biggest point of contention is that they "stealth" record. If someone recorded you with their phone, you'd immediately notice whereas it's hardly noticeable with smart glasses. Worse, people at Facebook are able to visualize scenes from people's home unbeknownst to them.

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[inserts image of a smiling Mark Zuckerberg walking in the middle of unsuspecting attendees wearing VR headsets]

That image always felt dystopian to me

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A family member has one and I didn't notice until they had to charge their pair. The little circles are subtle giveaways otherwise they look like regular pair of glasses. When everything is always on, I'd like to keep my house "off" and those things are a direct violation of that.

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I let it work all night, wake up and eat klocs for breakfast.

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Or when you are driving, someone sends a yes-no question where the answer is no.

Siri: Would you like to answer?

Me: Yes

Siri: ...

Me: No + more words

Siri: Ok (shuts off)

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7 miesięcy temudiscuss

  Location: San Francisco Bay Area
  Remote: Preferred
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Typescript (Node, Express, Svelte), Rust, Postgres, AWS and related technologies
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaspotaire/
  Email: [email protected] (forwards to my address)

I am transitioning out of my role of CTO and am exploring opportunities. I have 15 years of web experience building CMS and CRM for small and large companies.

As a co-founder (as well as my prior years), I wore many hats and spent countless hours as a result I can architect and design large codebases, hire and retain talent, lead and manage teams and set company-wide goals. I built and managed an engineering team located all around the globe and built a platform empowering small and medium businesses to run their operations; the company is entering a new phase of growth and it is the right time for me to find opportunities that aligns with my personal goals.

I am looking for a role at an established company. The bigger the problem, the more exciting. A perfect role for my profile may be one that blends my experience of building a successful B2B2C startup (building teams, product and software) and my experience of building B2B tools at a large company (Twitter).

If you need someone that can be an immediate value-add, bringing a ton of firepower, solving big problems and rallying teams to move mountains: hit me up!

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  Location: San Francisco Bay Area
  Remote: Preferred
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Typescript (Node, Express, Svelte), Rust, Postgres, AWS and related technologies
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaspotaire/
  Email: [email protected] (forwards to my address)

I am transitioning out of my role of CTO and am exploring opportunities. I have 15 years of web experience building CMS and CRM for small and large companies.

As a co-founder (as well as my prior years), I wore many hats and spent countless hours as a result I can architect and design large codebases, hire and retain talent, lead and manage teams and set company-wide goals. I built and managed an engineering team located all around the globe and built a platform empowering small and medium businesses to run their operations; the company is entering a new phase of growth and it is the right time for me to find opportunities that aligns with my personal goals.

I am looking for a role at an established company. The bigger the problem, the more exciting. A perfect role for my profile may be one that blends my experience of building a successful B2B2C startup (building teams, product and software) and my experience of building B2B tools at a large company (Twitter).

If you need someone that can be an immediate value-add, bringing a ton of firepower, solving big problems and rallying teams to move mountains: hit me up!

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2 lata temudiscuss

Engineers in LATAM are increasingly popular for that reason; the timezone difference is about four hours from PST and about one hour from EST.

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I am using Google Chrome on Mac, and it literally crashes when I click on the submit button, so I assumed the server crashes. Tried about 5 times across multiple days, and I have never been able to sign up.

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I am unavailable to sign up on lemmy.world; the websocket connection closes and reconnects, no error, any ideas?

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If you sort the reviews by Most Recent, you'll see many one-star reviews. Perhaps not enough to skew the main score, it is cached or some other reason.

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> sleep time counts toward the 'hours played' in the steam profile

That's surprising; when I exit a game, it briefly shows the wrong total and immediately recalculates the value.

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Calling someone a pedophile without proof is genuine criticism?

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4 lata temudiscuss

Same boat! I picked up a Steam Deck, was desperately looking for a multiplayer game I could play 20-30 minutes in the day, and found Deep Rock Galactic. I only play when my wife watches a TV show or in bed.

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Exactly! You bring a great point with promo panels where the difference between the amount of time put into building a promo package and the amount of time the panel spend on it can be considerable (my experience at Twitter).

I think when it comes to per-seat pricing, it's good to remember that engineers don't put the credit card in. The person with the credit card will want to know ROI before investing. The engineers will want to try out first as a group and if their experience is positive (some of it might be subjective) then they'll need to build a case for why the company should pay for your product and that's where analytics can be leveraged for sales.

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> - It sounds like you’re micromanaging your team’s metrics at a rate that’s fractional to one contributor’s hourly cost even though you don’t understand what helps them to be productive. Don’t do that.

You are seeing micro-management where I am looking for visibility and automation. I physically cannot micro manage my team.

> - You’re asking for a Show HN to eliminate its price tag and give you everything the poster finds valuable for free, and offer an entirely different product. I’m pretty sure you’re not the audience for this product.

  1. OP said feedback was welcome.
  2. I already pay for those features on Github. I suggested a different path to a bigger price tag.
  3. I realize I am not the target audience. Simply providing a different perspective.

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> How does the metrics shown in the action help you?

We've mostly looked at "Total reviews" and "Total comments". When I put the action in place, I told the team that the goal was for everyone to contribute to the process.

I was expecting to look at the stats, make some observations and action items and bring it up during our 1:1. I didn't even need to do that. Everybody took it to heart and contributed in different ways. Our most junior engineer ended up contributing in the most meaningful way and set a new standard for how far we take testing.

At this point, it's pretty clear that I see this more as a tool for individuals. For me, I am a bit constrained on time, I can check the table, notice a variation in the number (the action doesn't show variation so I do it out of memory) and decide to take an hour to explore the contributions. The goal being: how can I help them grow?

As an IC, I perhaps could project myself a bit based on my experience, if I am a junior engineer then I can see who comments the most, explore their comments and learn from them. As a tech lead, I'd want to make sure the tone of the comments are constructive (ie. definitely not toxic).

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Hence my suggestion, if your product saves me $500/seat/month then I'll gladly pay $50/seat/month.

Wordpress is a great example, rather than build another Wordpress, solve one problem Wordpress doesn't solve (example: Elementor) and do it far better (depth vs breadth).

We are using this Github Action (https://github.com/flowwer-dev/pull-request-stats) for now, it adds stats to every PR, it has helped the team visualize their contributions and how critical it was for us moving forward and as a manager/tech-lead it helps me identify areas of improvements at the individual level. I think it's a simple idea with a lot of depth.

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4 lata temudiscuss

I am a bit at odd with the pricing. My team has 6 engineers and base price for Github is $24. Your product would increase our bill by $48, an increase of 200%. $48 is nothing compared to the salaries of 6 engineers but I am not convinced the feature set would make my team more productive.

If you told me that your solution help my team ship faster and saves an hour per engineer per week then that's easy math: your product pays for itself.

Suggestions:

  - Make all base features free (the ones on your site currently)
  - Add analytics to your product, collect data and put it behind a paywall (entirely or partially by truncating historical data)
  - Iterate on premium features that improves critical metrics
  - Offer analytics with a trial of 2 to 3 months, enough time for graphs to speak for themselves
  - Make sure the gains are seen by the manager or business owner or whoever is the person in charge

Pricing can be based on the average of hours saved.

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