andreipop

Hey, Andrei (the UBC grad) and founder of Human API here.

We still have a great group of people in Vancouver (and that office will be open indefinitely), however we've decided not to expand the team there right now. The biggest driver in this decision was communication overhead across the two offices -- it's certainly not an insurmountable task, however we can't ignore the benefits of having most people under the same roof.

I personally love Vancouver and some of our best team members are located there, so if we decide to expand across two offices again, we'll definitely start there.

Human API, (Palo Alto, CA), Full Stack Software Engineers

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Human API is building the universal health data API, data infrastructure & developer platform to make it really easy to integrate health data.

We are looking to add core full stack / data engineers to our fast growing team. We are well funded (Max Levchin, Andreessen Horrowitz, Eric Schmidt, among others) and based in downtown Palo Alto in sunny California.

More details: http://humanapi.co/aboutus

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Contact andrei@humanapi.co if you're interested.

Palo Alto, CA /// Human API (http://humanapi.co) /// FULL-TIME

We're an early stage health technology startup based in San Francisco. We are building the universal health data infrastructure to power the next generation of healthcare apps (and the developer tools to go along with it). We recently closed a funding round of $2.1M with some awesome investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Eric Schmidt, Thomas Korte, Alex Payne, Max Levchin, and a few others.

We are adding 4 more engineers to our core team to help us build out our infrastructure and continue to scale our API.

Job descriptions are here: http://humanapi.co/jobs

Happy to sponsor H1B / TN visas for awesome candidates.

If you're interested just send me an email to andrei@humanapi.co

Target buy price?

Is anyone operating a reliable bitcoin options market?

It is free for the end user to sign up and use as a personal API (and we already have around 50 or so services). What we charge developers for is building multi-user applications on top of it.

We are working on solving some of this, specifically for health data, at http://humanapi.co - you can connect your various data sources, and we then give you a central personalized API you can query.

(full disclosure, I am the founder of this company)

I was waiting for someone to do this...

Delian - love the initiative!

There are a few basic assumptions underlying your vision that may be useful to flush out further (I can tell you that, from similar experience, what you are going to bump in to is a fundamental lack of desire from the majority of the system to see change).

1. You are betting that Obamacare will actually drive the system towards "accountable" care -- we are a long way off from this unfortunately. I won't rehash it all here, but many ACOs are turning back from the model: http://www.hhnmag.com/hhnmag/HHNDaily/HHNDailyDisplay.dhtml?...

2. You are betting that patient engagement in their own health will be high, particularly for the high cost, at risk patients. This has been historically proven not to be the case. High touch intervention + technology works (i.e. take a look at the Diabetes Prevention Programs now being run digitally by organizations such as Omada) but technology by itself has had a pretty low hit rate with driving meaningful patient engagement for the at risk populations. For some reading on the challenges of adherence, check out: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1661624/

I really do think we need more people working on these problems, so keep at it, and if I can help at all please let me know!

(drop me a line at andrei@humanapi.co)

open in incognito window (cmd+shift+n)... yeesh.

HumanAPI (Funded startup) - Palo Alto, CA - http://humanapi.co/careers

HumanAPI is building the unified API for all human health data, and we are hiring another experienced engineer to add to the core team.

We started this company in late March this year, and are currently hard at work building the infrastructure to pull in and analyze health data from a wide variety of sources. Some of these include: wearable sensors, consumer health devices, smartphones, and genetic testing services (like 23&Me). We collect this data, normalize it, and have built an API to allow any application developer to easily and securely build applications with our service.

We are looking for a long term hire, and this position includes meaningful equity in an exciting, fast growing startup.

The person joining must be an opinionated, independent thinker and feel comfortable making big decisions. You have experience shipping real products to users. You are broadly curious, have probably had some side projects, and you have ideally hacked around with some hardware as well.

You are versatile across technologies and platforms, and can teach yourself what you don't know quickly. You don't identify with specific technologies as much as you identify with the problems that need to be solved.

Ideally, though not required, you have some experience with distributed database systems (cassandra, hadoop, hbase, etc.), security (HIPAA), and generally get excited about data, sensors, health, and how we can combine them to make people healthy at scale.

We are based in Palo Alto, California - the right candidate can work remotely for a time period, though we would like to get the whole team under the same roof soon.

Come help us build the human health data infrastructure layer.

To apply, send an email directly to andrei@humanapi.co with your background, some relevant links (github, linkedin, etc), and any questions you have :)

How did you find the house?

The two options for a highly valuable company are to either spend heavily to acquire high value users (i.e. Palantir, LTV:CAC ratio), or spend nothing to acquire ubiquitous users (i.e. Facebook, high viral coefficient).

Another important factor not mentioned here (but highly relevant towards a $100M valuation) is market size, which can often provide a restrictive upper bound if the product is too niche (in either case above).

I second this.

HumanAPI - Palo Alto, CA - Full-time (http://humanapi.co)

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HumanAPI is building the unified API for all human health data, and we are hiring another experienced engineer to add to the core team. Our mission is to collect, organize and make sense of all human health data.

We started this company in late March this year, and are currently hard at work building the infrastructure to pull in and analyze health data from a wide variety of sources. Some of these include: wearable sensors, consumer health devices, smartphones, and genetic testing services (like 23&Me). We collect this data, normalize it, and have built an API to allow any application developer to easily and securely build applications on top of the human body. Pretty cool, huh?

We are looking for a long term hire, and this position includes meaningful equity in an exciting, fast growing startup.

The person joining should be an opinionated, independent thinker and feel comfortable making big decisions. You have experience shipping real products to users. You are broadly curious, have probably had some side projects, and you have ideally hacked around with some hardware as well.

You are versatile across technologies and platforms, and can teach yourself what you don't know quickly. You don't identify with specific technologies as much as you identify with the problems that need to be solved.

Ideally, though not required, you have some experience with distributed database systems (cassandra, hadoop, hbase, etc.), security (HIPAA), and generally get excited about data, sensors, health, and how we can combine them to make people healthy at scale.

We are based in Palo Alto, California - the right candidate can work remotely for a time period, though we would like to get the whole team under the same roof soon.

Come help us build the human health data infrastructure layer.

andrei@humanapi.co

Curious what you learned from this experience, how old you are, and what you're doing now.

I love it, b/c I hate every single calendar app I've ever used to date.

Timeline on android version?

HumanAPI (Palo Alto), looking for another API hacker/engineer (http://humanapi.co). We are building the human health data infrastructure layer.

I know little about the space or problem you are solving, but will echo the sentiment that although 4 months may seem like a long time (even given the effort) it really is a drop in the bucket of what it takes to build a successful product/company.

My unsolicited advice is this: don't write it off as a failure unless you really don't care about the problem you are solving -- in which case go work on something you do.

Take a look at Yehuda's talk from Seattle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ed_o3_59ME - I think it explains a few things very well, and helped me out a ton

Pretty easy to turn this into a much more useable interface and expand it if people find it useful

Interesting.

I suppose if we look at it as a medium for art than it's different. I saw a lot of what I described as utilitarian.

I use Twitter in the same way - it serves a purpose: I can connect with people or groups I need to ask questions of. I can share interesting stories / ideas that I find. I use it as a portal to those blog posts you mentioned, not as a replacement for them.

Outside of the art angle, I don't see myself "tuning in" to thumb through random 6 second videos. The Tokyo taxi scene isn't very interesting to me outside of context within a larger story, EXCEPT as a piece of art I can perhaps appreciate for 6 seconds and move on.

Like I said before, could be just me, I'm glad people are finding and enjoying a creative outlet that clearly speaks to something they enjoy doing :)

I find the "shift" from traditional "scripted" TV to more home made videos vert interesting. I must say that the appeal escapes me.

I don't watch a lot of TV, but personally when I do I do it because it's a way to either: 1. escape 2. become informed

I can't imagine turning this on while I have breakfast, or "for fun" on a bus commute. I see the appeal in sharing snippets of my live in video format with people that may care about the banal day-to-day things (I think this is why I like Path so much - those closest to me may actually be interested in where I went for lunch today), but I don't understand the "hours" of "brilliant entertainment" that some people seem to get out of this.

I think many people watch TV because they need to unplug from their "normal" existence. Or because they seek to see something interesting, funny, or learn something new. I watch The Daily Show because it's funny, I watch BBC because it informs me, I watch Bloomberg because I learn something new. I don't see these need being replaced by vine.

Maybe I don't get it.

I think you are bang on about this.

The problem is one of identity. We will protect anything that we attach to our identity because we perceive any attack on it as an attack on us. To have intelligent, unemotional conversations that has to be decoupled.

In general it can lead to problems if we map our identity externally - whether to a programming language, or something else - of course this is easier to preach than to practice.

I think one place where a franchise differs is that you are buying the brand as well. People are more likely to go into a Subway than a Ma and Pa sandwich shop. People are no more likely to buy real estate (or web apps) from you because you read book X or went to seminar Y.

Where did you find stats on average cost of living above national average?

I think it's really hard to review it without understanding the goals of the project.

Are you trying to make money with it? Are you trying to grow it to 1M users? Are you trying to build a feature for Pinterest to buy?

You're getting a lot of different opinions here. Some are saying its a wonderful, social product with a lot of potential. Some are saying you aren't solving a real problem, which gives your project a fairly short shelf life.

It just depends on the goal, what do you hope to achieve with it? I've always had a hard time evaluating things without knowing this.

I'd love to have more employers pipe up and comment here.

I'm guessing that, although more challenging, changing gears is not altogether impossible (or even very difficult).

Certainly one should develop skills in an area that one is interested in impacting, but this kind of mentality breeds fear and risk aversion because new grads begin to see pursuing interesting opportunities as career risks versus character/skill building.

Agreed. would happily put up money on kickstarter to see this funded to the end.

You chose a great interface for display the data. I might add the numbers themselves, something I was curious about when browsing it.