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andrewmlevy

196 karma · joined February 27, 2009

co-founder/CEO of Aircover - real-time, in-meeting sales tools & insights

co-founder/CEO of Crittercism - Mobile Application Performance Management (acquired by VMware)

YC alum from Summer '09

Lightspeed summer program '09

AngelPad alum from Winter '11

@andrewmlevy

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andrewmlevy··on San Francisco institution 'heartbroken and furious' after erasure of public art
>> done without proper legal arrangements

This is a completely fair assumption in San Francisco of all places.

andrewmlevy··on iPhone Duo
Love the FaceTime camera behind the display
andrewmlevy··on Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)
relevant! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM4tPXaLYz8
andrewmlevy··on I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
This was my first thought as well
andrewmlevy··on Homeschooling hits record numbers
Lots of examples, gender identity and requiring ethnic studies (focusing on white male privilege, settler/colonial, putting groups into binary oppressor/oppressed). Also issues with requiring those classes vs not.
andrewmlevy··on Launch HN: Mosaic (YC W25) – Agentic Video Editing
obligatory https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
andrewmlevy··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)
Aircover AI | Sr. LLM Infrastructure Engineer and Sr. Flutter Engineer | San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Orange County - Hybrid or Seattle (remote)

Aircover is building the future of human-to-human conversation, powered by AI. Our software is being used at scale by the Fortune 1000. We're at the bleeding edge and need individuals interesting in working on net-new problems.

Sr. LLM Infrastructure Engineer - https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3798186325

Sr. Flutter Web Engineer - https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3960268320

https://www.aircover.ai/careers

andrewmlevy··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)
Thanks!
andrewmlevy··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)
Aircover.ai | Hiring Sr. Backend LLM Engineer | West Coast USA, Remote

- We're building the future of human-to-human conversation

- We're well funded and have strong traction

- More details here: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3798186325/

andrewmlevy··on Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service
It's a smart move for Google to leverage their huge captive audience on YouTube to drive adoption. With Amazon's similar position with AWS and Twitch I'd be surprised if we didn't see a similar offering from them.
andrewmlevy··on Welcoming Fabric to Google
Check out Apteligent, better crash reporting as well as performance data, user behavior and business impact. As a bonus your data doesnt go into Twitter or Google's ad networks and it's COPPA compliant.
andrewmlevy··on Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat
We decided to build our own dashboard since Google's is updated only about once a month. It also doesn't include data from non Google Play devices:

https://data.apteligent.com/android/

andrewmlevy··on Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat
We just analyzed Android manufacturers [1] and found they tend to update in two groups: 3 months after release (Motorola, LG, HTC) and 6 months after release (Samsung, Sony, Huawei). This of course ignores Nexus devices by those manufacturers.

[1] https://www.apteligent.com/2016/08/apteligent-data-report-an...

andrewmlevy··on Real-time crash reporting tool Sentry raises $9M
I'm the co-founder of Apteligent. David, I'm surprised you would describe our solution as "high level passive analytics" unless you haven't tried it yourself.

I would say the difference is our deep focus on mobile user experience vs Sentry's focus on cross platform error reporting. To understand your users this also means you need more data than just crash. For example: app load times, network data, UI latency, etc.

andrewmlevy··on Android No Longer Fragmented
To be clear, there is still fragmentation among devices, this shows that 93% of usage occurs on 3 operating systems vs on iOS where 2 operating systems have 97% of usage. The gap has closed significantly.
andrewmlevy··on Department of Homeland Security Devices on SF Streets
DHS isn't trying to hide what they are, I saw a man wearing what looked like a construction vest standing next to that exact unit. On the back it read something like "Air Purity Inspector"
andrewmlevy··on UserVoice + Crittercism: integrated support & crash reporting for app developers
Andrew from Crittercism here -- excited about this partnership. Funny enough when our company first launched we had two products: crash reporting and an in-app support forum (competitive to UserVoice!). We quickly realized our core competency was on the mobile performance monitoring side and decided to open up our platform on the support side.
andrewmlevy··on Google offers tool to bridge Android and iOS app dev
If you're doing game development, check out cocos-2dx. It's a c++ port of the cocos2d-iphone framework. Here's some more info: http://www.cocos2d-x.org/projects/cocos2d-x/wiki
andrewmlevy··on Crittercism raises 5.5m Series A from Google Ventures, Shasta, and Opus
thanks :) btw lookcraft is looking great!
andrewmlevy··on Do iOS apps crash more than Android?
I mention this in the article, but I want to re-emphasize how the approval time is a huge factor. We've had Android developers submit fixes the same day they've discovered a bug on our platform, while iOS devs wait in the queue. You could argue this allows buggier apps to be submitted in the first place, but this sample is taken from devs who use our service and obviously care about producing high quality apps.

(To be fair the iOS approval process has sped up considerably, even with the number of submissions growing)

andrewmlevy··on Crashlytics, A Crash-Reporting Solution For Mobile Developers, Raises $1 Million
Congrats guys, welcome to the space!

-Team Crittercism

andrewmlevy··on AngelPad Opens Up Its Summer 2011 Applications
I completely agree :) great folks all around -- top notch founders and advisors.
andrewmlevy··on Spend the Summer at Lightspeed
This is a great program, I did it concurrently with YC s09. They're not really an incubator - John, who runs the program, wants to give smart grads the freedom to get a taste of what its like to be an entrepreneur. Several partners act as mentors but its really about giving you the space and money for a summer to see if you can make something happen.

What do they get? They get to know really smart entrepreneurs at the beginning of their career. I highly recommend you apply.

andrewmlevy··on How to get 4 to 5 stars on the App Store
You should check out my startup http://www.crittercism.com Its like Uservoice but for mobile apps. If a user submits a bug and you fix it the library lets you prompt affected users to leave a good review.
andrewmlevy··on HTML5 3D demos
anyone else think HTML5 minecraft?
andrewmlevy··on Joe Nocera on Hurd & HP
I used to work at HP -- it was a very depressing work environment. As the article mentions, Hurd was absolutely despised and his "cost cutting" was very much ridiculous. The employees were left with nothing, salaries/jobs were cut, even seemingly cheap luxuries like tea and water. We moved buildings twice during my tenure there, each time to a smaller workspace.

As an outsider before I joined, I can say its reputation far exceeds reality. Leaving for YC was a no-brainer. On a sidenote it seems the only ones left are the "lifers," all of the younger engineers have moved on. Short the stock.