austinhutch

Location: Chicago, IL USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: n/a

Resume / CV: I do Shopify store builds, Shopify apps and integrations

Email: austin+hn @ aloagency.com

HN: Modern web development is defined by javascript frameworks, server side rendering is dead.

Also HN: Your site uses javascript? Unacceptable.

A month or so back I tried experimenting with Airtable based on glowing reviews on HN and elsewhere. I really hated the on-boarding process which forced me into a template (contact list, schedule, todo) when I just wanted the equivalent of a blank google sheet. The concept of structured data collection in a user interface that anyone can ramp up on is very compelling but I didn't even pass go.

If you're anything like me this may have been inspired by some plugins you absolutely hate. My advice would be to get a couple of 1 star reviews up, knowing which to avoid is maybe more powerful than the plugins to install! Keep up the good work :)

There may be no company I trust less to be open and honest about this than Uber. The arms race between companies will likely keep the most important lessons from this event proprietary. I'm very much not looking forward to hearing execs answer for this as I'm sure it will have the same amount of humanity as the rest of their comms.

They ran a poor test and / or the internal politics were always going to prove out a certain result. There is value to qualitative research and I doubt the answer was to do a better job of A/B testing.

These kinds of stories don't get made into blog posts because they don't help sell any kind of narrative. Novice eCommerce store owners will focus on the "top 10 things you can do to increase conversion" from blogs like the one mentioned above.

At a large scale page load time would have a discernible impact on your bottom line, but for most it is a premature optimization (as long as you aren't trying to deliver 10mb webpages).

This book is very much aligned with the topic presented in the article if you want to examine how similar services are springing up in the west https://www.amazon.com/Outsourced-Self-Happens-Others-Lives/...

I was skeptical until I experienced an ad in my feed which in my estimation could only attribute to data captured by a conversation had hours earlier. Of course there is the possibility of coincidence but I find it hard to believe.

I took advantage of the option to see why I was shown the ad, and was told demographic information, as well as a data partnership with DLX. I would like to know if others who see and ad they suspect was displayed due to microphone captured data have this DLX data supplier source in common.

When you say "trust symbol" do you mean the "verisign" logos and similar? If so - do you have real data to prove these make a difference in conversion rate? I have clients that come to me parroting the same tips and I imagine they are all reading the same nearly identical blog posts out there making this claim.

But did you see his inauguration crowds? How about those millions bussed into New Hampshire to illegally vote?

lmao the mental olympics needed to arrive at the conclusion "data collection to improve advertising efficiency" is noble.

His personal website isn't a business looking for an exit... weird comment

This is the same issue I have run into with my clients most frequently. It seems like they are not interested in fixing this issue sadly.

I created something similar for a less demanding government form and comparing it to TurboTax is by far the easiest way to help people understand the value behind what the tool does.

I made a TurboTax like website to help make a claim against the TSA in this situation: http://TSAClaim.com, it will render a completed SF-95 form that you email to the TSA.

I was extremely disappointed reading the thread yesterday and the overall handling of the situation on the side of YC. This apology and outcome is about as good they come though.

I thought this was happening to me on another site, but it turned out I had developer tools on (disabling cache). Might be what you're seeing.

The people search is something I've wanted for a while now, you've done a fantastic job in executing it!

After Kimono got shut down, I think a self-hosted open source version would be extremely popular. I want to build my own solution, but the API functionality and pagination / AJAX loaded data would be too difficult.

Hi HN, here's the accompanying blog post that talks about the project: https://medium.com/@austinhutchison/citizen-experience-sf-95...

The experience filing a claim with the TSA is painful, I've tried to make it less so. Hope to get some great feedback.

For execution time, a higher score would mean a shorter timeline (the task list is a 10)

Lean Domain Search is a fantastic site and is my go to for generating ideas for domain names. Thanks for your service and for building a great site!

I loved Kimono! It had the best interface and most flexibility for this type of service. A bittersweet congratulations to the team.

I won a free Apple Watch, and wore it for a while but decided to switch back to the Fitbit Charge HR after two months. The most valuable features to me are its consistent heart rate tracking and long battery life. I don't miss any of the features of the Apple Watch, other than maybe the ability to control Spotify from my wrist.

Why complain at all?

Your contribution to this thread was to mock the author's efforts and then to make some claim about what "basic" SEO knowledge is. HN is a place where experts, apparently like yourself, come to share their expertise. I hope you'll consider that in your future comments.

This is a cool post, but I hope it doesn't get him blackballed by any of the mentioned companies.

If he were to come back to the USA and then subsequently be detained, I would join the hopefully overwhelming protests in favor of his release. I am hoping if such a time comes, that there will be a historic level of demonstration advocating for his freedom.

Aren't the collection programs that are related to the pause concerned with phone records?