I'm getting married in May in Sonoma. I will have somewhere around 150 guests which is sizable. I've already booked pretty much every service needed for the wedding: venue, caterer, photographer, videographer, DJ, wedding planner, florist, hairdresser, makeup artist etc.
Feedback:
1. I'm the groom. The truth is, weddings are really for brides. Yes, we're both getting married, but it's all about the bride. My fiancée is a typical SF professional. I can tell you right now she would be skeptical about a "bidding" process. Believe it or not, the wedding planning process for her is fun. It's a lot of work, but "curating" her own wedding is enjoyable. Although I can totally understand why from a groom's perspective we just want to 99designs the problem away. :)
2. I'm not sure how you will convince the better vendors to join your program. It sounds like this is a great platform for up and coming wedding vendors, but once they get good - they won't need your service anymore. They'll have clout on Yelp or theknot or weddingwire. And people that are looking for good vendors will go seek them out.
3. Putting down a credit card is a scary thing - most of the contract stuff comes way later. Many of our vendors went through honeybook.com. What's to stop them from just going outside of your system and giving the bride and groom a better deal? How do you ensure you will have lock-in?
4. Maybe you'll charge money for the bidding process? Or try to place ads?
This is a great space to disrupt...I hope a product like this becomes popular at some point because weddings can be really tough to plan.
I work on a very special team in Product Marketing. We build some demonstrations and prototypes that showcase our upcoming technologies. The team is small and we are looking for a senior developer that will help us streamline our development processes and help us build really cool demos.
This job is not for everyone. We operate very much like a startup and have lots of space for innovation. Because we are not within R&D we don't have to deal with red tape, bureaucracy, or politics. It's a cool gig...you will get to travel a few times a year.
Places we go: London, Paris, New York, Munich, Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore, Boston, Las Vegas, and more...
Our headquarters is located in San Francisco near the Ferry Building.
My team is hiring a front-end UI developer/designer to work in Product Marketing. We build cool demos that leverage the latest technologies out there such as backbone.js, CoffeeScript, etc. We also build a ton of our apps on Heroku, our new Ruby cloud. :)
You'll be working out of our HQ which is pretty much located in the best part of the financial district across the street from the Ferry Building and close to transportation.
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We want someone who is passionate about technology but also has a bit of an "edge" for business. If this sounds like you, send me your resume: [email protected]
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I used to work at NVIDIA as a hardware engineer and would go to nearby university career fairs to recruit new college grads. There's no absolute rule regarding GPA but generally 3.5 was the minimum cut off.
NVIDIA was also the only company I knew of that required candidates to take a written exam on the spot at the career fair. Scary stuff. The problem is there are too many applicants to look at so any kind of filter (administered fairly) is better than none at all.
Okay I just created a typical route I usually create in gmap-pedometer using single clicks. Feedback:
1. The routes don't follow the street...this is good when I go off the road but not so good when I am 100% roads. I like how gmap follows the street as much as possible until you switch it to "off road" which lets you route wherever you want.
2. I really like your elevation chart. Nice job. What would be even better is if the elevation chart had an X-axis that mapped the elevation to the current distance in the run. That way I know that the hill will hit me at mile 4, etc.
3. Public link to route should automatically highlight and copy for me. (click to copy)
Additional ideas for features:
-let me drop a note at a certain place along the route to share info
-let the community specify areas of high traffic, tourists, etc.
-share routes with the community, get feedback
-one problem which I haven't thought about too much yet. when we share routes with each other, everyone has a different "starting" location. it would be good if your site knew my starting location and then when I viewed someone else's route it would automatically re-route and re-calculate the fastest way for me to join his route and at which point to join.... I hope that makes sense.
I use gmap-pedometer to route all of my runs. I probably use it about 2-3 times a week so I've been waiting for someone to build something a bit more versatile and possibly even let me create routes from a mobile phone (this would be a cool feature and differentiate for you).
I've been staring at your site for the last 2 minutes and I can't figure out how to create a route. I think I glanced at one of the comments here and they said single click to drop a marker.... I'll give that a shot. But if I can't figure out how to create a route within 5 seconds you need to find a better way to communicate it.
> People lose their kids in places like supermarkets all the time ... I haven't (yet) but it's a possibility (because kids by definition don't stay put) and I'd appreciate that if you found my child instead of stealing it from me to sell it to the highest bidder, you'd return it to me, because otherwise I might just burn down your house with you in it :)
Please, let's not compare our children with iPhones. Maybe choose a better analogy?
> Yeah, it's a bad analogy because for most people a phone is not equal to a child, but for passionate engineers the line is kind of blurry, isn't it?
Yes, it is a bad analogy, so why did you use it? If you are going to claim that passionate engineers equate products to living humans, at least qualify that by saying "a small proportion".
> No, the attitude is that it's not OK to steal property, even if that person you're stealing from is drunk ... and to make matters worse the buyer also made the story public, for no public good whatsoever.
The guy who had the phone tried to return it. He did more than most people would. On top of that, he was unable to get any contact information off the phone because they wiped it.
Yes he could have returned it to the bar but who knows how trustworthy those bar owners are?
I believe the press has the freedom to print whatever they want so long as they are following first amendment rights. I feel neutral to the entire situation. Of course it's crappy that the guy's identity was outed but at the same time it was completely within Gizmodo's rights to do so. For that I am voting you backup.
It's vague for a good reason. We don't want someone who has been coding in only one language for the last 5 years. We need someone entrepreneurial...more like a jack of many trades.
I know there are people like that out there and I'm willing to wait to find someone good.
Salesforce.com - Looking for a disillusioned web developer that just spent a year or two bootstrapping own startup but now wants to save some money, get some health insurance, and live in San Francisco.
Build cool demos with me and then one day...go back to the startup world.
#9 Employers don’t care what college you got your degree from, only that you have a degree. Why go into debt paying for university when it won’t help you in the long run?
I've always wondered what good it would do me to know that I have a certain percentage chance of getting Alzheimer or Parkinson disease. In some situations I could understand the use (certain highly predictable cancers), but in most cases I don't see the point.
I already live a healthy lifestyle. I eat right. I don't smoke. I exercise 2-3 times a week. I don't think I could try much harder.
To me it's kind of like trying to figure out when I'm going to die. Why do I want to know this? Just let me live my life.
These are some reasons why I don't think people buy these kinds of tests. That and the fact that it costs $500!
Feedback:
1. I'm the groom. The truth is, weddings are really for brides. Yes, we're both getting married, but it's all about the bride. My fiancée is a typical SF professional. I can tell you right now she would be skeptical about a "bidding" process. Believe it or not, the wedding planning process for her is fun. It's a lot of work, but "curating" her own wedding is enjoyable. Although I can totally understand why from a groom's perspective we just want to 99designs the problem away. :)
2. I'm not sure how you will convince the better vendors to join your program. It sounds like this is a great platform for up and coming wedding vendors, but once they get good - they won't need your service anymore. They'll have clout on Yelp or theknot or weddingwire. And people that are looking for good vendors will go seek them out.
3. Putting down a credit card is a scary thing - most of the contract stuff comes way later. Many of our vendors went through honeybook.com. What's to stop them from just going outside of your system and giving the bride and groom a better deal? How do you ensure you will have lock-in?
4. Maybe you'll charge money for the bidding process? Or try to place ads?
This is a great space to disrupt...I hope a product like this becomes popular at some point because weddings can be really tough to plan.