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CuriousPerson23on Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

You can reach out to me at ori @ culture [and then the word] science and .io. Sorry for the crazy anti-spam format :)

CuriousPerson23on Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

We're actually working on a product to help with this. More generally, we're focused on the massive impact meetings have on our day/team and how we can get the most from them. One of our main benefits to start is that we automatically send a simple prompt to meeting attendees after a recurring meetings to rate the meeting, and then give you a view of that rating over time. You can log in and view the most time consuming meetings for the team and how their ratings are changing over time. This way, if a recurring meeting started as useful but is no longer serving it's purpose, it becomes easy to detect and eliminate. If anyone would be interested in joining our beta program, we're offering the tool completely free in exchange for feedback. Let me know!

CuriousPerson23on Launch HN: Explo (YC W20) – Customer-facing dashboards and reports

Hi Explo team. Congrats on the launch! My previous company and my new company both provide insights as a service, so customer facing dashboards are the core product, and therefore this is very interesting to me. A few questions for the team:

1. I see that startups pay $500/month. How do you compare that to Metabase which is $85/month (or $385 if you remove the Metabase attribution)?

2. Do you, or do you plan to, offer the ability to embed individual charts instead of whole dashboards?

3. Do you support custom chart creation via python/R?

4. Do you think Explo is a fit for our use case or a different tool: we're experts at SQL, good with Python, and looking to rapidly create and embed customer facing charts?

CuriousPerson23on Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B

A lot of the giant companies are really concerned about anti-trust. Microsoft is under pressure too, but there would be an uproar if Google or Apple bought given their pressure around the app store. Having access to the code that writes the apps would be tough to pull off...

CuriousPerson23on Launch HN: StartPack (YC S20) - Helping Global SMBs Access US Banking & Payments

Hi Arjawn. Congrats on the new business, its a well needed area. Do you have any thoughts on StartPack vs Firstbase.io and Stripe Atlas?

CuriousPerson23on Self-driving vehicles against human drivers: Equal safety is far from enough

Hasn't there been only 1 fatal accident? If not, I can't imagine there have been >5, so seems unfair and misleading to make bold claims like that. I think the courts will rule, and if the system misunderstood something, the manufacturer will be at fault.