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dhruvkaran

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I make things. Like you do.
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dhruvkaran··on Show HN: Discipline.io – Make binding commitments to your better self
Does it allow bitcoin lightning channels for commitments?
dhruvkaran··on Outbound (YC W15) Helps Businesses Message Customers Over Both Email and Mobile
Integration usually takes about 20 minutes. The product will give you copy-paste instructions in various languages once your campaign is setup.

If you're hooked up with Segment.io, it's just a flick of a switch.

And of course if you need any help, you can always write in to support [at] outbound.io and we'll be right on it.

dhruvkaran··on Outbound (YC W15) Helps Businesses Message Customers Over Both Email and Mobile
That does seem cool. It's a convenient wrapper on our API. I'll check it out.
dhruvkaran··on Outbound (YC W15) Helps Businesses Message Customers Over Both Email and Mobile
What kind of zapier integration would be most useful? Would it be best if we hooked up with salesforce, or other larger providers? Or just expose zapier hooks for our APIs?
dhruvkaran··on Outbound (YC W15) Helps Businesses Message Customers Over Both Email and Mobile
Hey guys, I'm one of the founders at Outbound. We're trying to build the most developer friendly marketing automation solution -- so we appreciate any feedback from the community. Happy to answer any questions.
dhruvkaran··on Moscow subway sells free tickets for 30 sit-ups
What if you generated electricity and stored it into a battery and then the transit system just paid an equivalent amount for the electricity?
dhruvkaran··on How RethinkDB Works – 7pm tonight at SF Data Engineering
Why is RSVP gated on a person?
dhruvkaran··on Skeuocard
Thank you for sharing this. It's beautiful.
dhruvkaran··on Why Travis Kalanick is going to be a Transportation Rockefeller
True today. But Uber's value is in the human component and the alternative's cost of ownership. Google and Elon Musk look well positioned crush Uber in the 5-yr timeframe.
dhruvkaran··on Do_good.js
Most entities that have a large enough footprint to make this kind of a thing useful care a lot about speed and their users :) Why not just have a chrome extension that does good on all sites?
dhruvkaran··on Ask HN: If you were starting your career today, which language would you learn?
Learn the languages which are easy to keep in your head. Python, Go and JavaScript. Then spend most of your time learning _techniques_, not _tools_. Pickup some mapreduce, do a project with service oriented architecture, that kinda thing.
dhruvkaran··on Show HN: Outbound - A single events API for emails, push, sms, and voice
We guess Sparrow (acquired by Google now) just started a paper plane trend!
dhruvkaran··on Show HN: Outbound - A single events API for emails, push, sms, and voice
Thank you for your feedback. We've heard feedback on that page and the work is in progress.
dhruvkaran··on Show HN: Outbound - A single events API for emails, push, sms, and voice
We are working on a non-google signup flow. Most SMBs in our test group seemed to be ok with Google login. This has changed as our acquisition channel changed. Stay tuned for more updates.
dhruvkaran··on Show HN: Outbound - A single events API for emails, push, sms, and voice
Valid concern.

We started building this a few weeks ago. Pricing is something that's relatively tricky in the SaaS world. We are excited to show you our work while we figure that out.

Please get in touch and we will be happy to walk you through the pricing possibilities.

dhruvkaran··on Show HN: Outbound - A single events API for emails, push, sms, and voice
The service in free only in early beta. We will be introducing our pricing tiers relatively soon. Please get in touch with founders@outbound.io for more details. We are happy to talk through the possibilities.
dhruvkaran··on Show HN: Outbound - A single events API for emails, push, sms, and voice
The service in free in beta. We will be introducing our pricing tiers relatively soon. Please get in touch with founders@outbound.io for more details.
dhruvkaran··on Show HN: Outbound - A single events API for emails, push, sms, and voice
All good points.

We are figuring out our pricing schemes and will definitely be charging for the service. While we figure it out, it'll remain free.

Multiple people have asked for us to white label the providers. But the providers have built a great suite of tools which provide you delivery insights. Once we can roll in that value, we will look into it again. For now, we will be focussing on a more streamlined flow to create your own provider accounts. But we do take your point of there being friction in creating other accounts and will be working on that.

dhruvkaran··on Show HN: Outbound - A single events API for emails, push, sms, and voice
Fixed.
dhruvkaran··on Show HN: Outbound - A single events API for emails, push, sms, and voice
The service is already available as a segment integration :)
dhruvkaran··on Backwards Compatibility Is For Suckers
"The fundamental problem with BC is that it relies on the concept that code will be correct when it's written." -- Really? I thought it only means that the _interface_ is correct when introduced. Not even that. It means that the interface is supported for a while.
dhruvkaran··on Tesla Battery Swapping Tech For Long Trips Without Charging Stops
Elon Musk will find every single excuse we use to not go electric and squash it. And then he'll lower the price. And then he'll lower it again. Exciting times!
dhruvkaran··on Wood Egg (my new company)
Is there a way to get a preview before buying? I'd love something like this. :)
dhruvkaran··on Ask HN: How do you inspire programmers to work with older tech?
You show them traction. Show them the money, the business model and sell the dream. That said, if you like someone, be open to their ideas about using new tools. Just make sure they have an incremental plan, not shotgun re-write.