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chuckouelleton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)

Snipcart | Québec City | Remote or on-site | Full-time

Snipcart is a developer-first, HTML/JS shopping cart platform with a set of APIs & webhooks to enable e-commerce on any site.

We are looking for a full stack developer with experience in ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET MVC, C#, JavaScript, Backbone.

Details: https://snipcart.com/jobs/full-stack-developer

chuckouelleton Ask HN: Should we or should we not hire a developer evangelist for our product?

We hadn’t considered bringing a user in the loop; clever advice. We’ll keep this in mind as we move forward in our decision process. Cheers!

chuckouelleton Chart.js 2.0 Released

Looks amazing! We've been using it for almost a year now, we'll most likely updgrade to the v2 as soon as we can!

chuckouelleton Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web Developers

We received some mentions in the last minutes, and we just reviewed our account settings, nothing seems problematic on our end. Weird indeed. But thanks for the feedback!

chuckouelleton Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web Developers

Charles, Snipcart co-founder here. As mentioned by the end of the post, we're actively looking to expand our analytics game a bit. Piwik seems like a good place to start, so thanks for sharing. Cheers!

chuckouelleton Show HN: Moltin – eCommerce Back End as a Service

Charles from Snipcart here. Pricing is indeed always a delicate matter in the e-commerce world. You'll always have customers preferring a model over another. We believe the Moltin pricing will make a lot of sense for some people, but others might prefer the no-risk percentage model. I'd say it strongly depends on the merchant's business model. Side note: the guys at Moltin really have a kickass website.

chuckouelleton ReText – Markdown Editor with Live Preview

I mostly use StackEdit https://stackedit.io/

By far the most elegant markdown editor I found.

chuckouelleton Microsoft Azure Outage

FYI We had to reboot some virtual machines via the portal due to the issues in East US yesterday but since then they all work.

chuckouelleton An earth-cooled beer dispenser

It is https://snipcart.com

We are seeing a lot of activity on the website since it's on HN ;)

chuckouelleton How Azure Web Sites Sucked in Production

Our SaaS is on Azure Websites until day one and it has been a pleasure to use, since they added the Always On feature and the new SQL Database pricing tier that allows you to have more robusts SQL databases everything runs very smoothly and fast. We can deploy several times a day without having any downtimes, load balancing, etc.

chuckouelleton Stripe Checkout

If you need a more advanced shopping cart, there is Snipcart that can connect to Stripe, https://snipcart.com

The cart is fully responsive so it works on mobile as well!

I am one of the founders, let me know if you have any questions.

chuckouelleton Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

https://snipcart.com

It is a shopping cart service developed for developers and web design agencies.

This is the a side project we have with the team @ spektrummedia.com.

We are up and running since last August, we won the site of the day on Awwwards.com back in August and then we have a lot of traffic and we are getting new customers everyday.