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jaredtkingon Ask HN: What do devs use for quickly setting up a feedback form?

Yeah I agree. When I first started using them it was a single price point for multiple products and didn’t realize the new pricing was higher.

jaredtkingon Ask HN: What do devs use for quickly setting up a feedback form?

I really like Feature Upvote, featureupvote.com

jaredtkingon Show HN: Invoice Dragon – An open source app to create PDF invoices

Thanks for the shout-out! We have a free API as well for generating invoice PDFs: https://invoice-generator.com/developers

jaredtkingon Parler shuts down as new owner says conservative platform needs big revamp

Buying data panels of web browsing history from web browser extensions is one technique that is possible.

jaredtkingon I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now

30% of the new hire's first year salary

jaredtkingon Ask HN: What are you using for public documentation these days?

We recently switched from a custom markdown setup to Archbee (https://archbee.io) for our user and developer documentation. Our team loves it!

Here is our Archbee-hosted site: https://docs.invoiced.com/

jaredtkingon The Covid Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language

I live in the US and have a deaf mother-in-law. This is true here too.

jaredtkingon EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen

My company, Invoiced, supports routing payments across different processors/merchant accounts. There are many interesting use cases for it within the billing space beyond just cutting transaction costs.

One common use case we see is trust accounting for lawyers. The gist of it is that trust and operating funds are stored in separate bank accounts, depending on the context of the bill. It’s a legal requirement that can result in disbarment if not followed properly.

Another scenario we run into is with insurance billing where policy payments need to go to different bank accounts or even be handled by a different processor, depending on the policy.

I know of other software systems that can do payment routing as well.

jaredtkingon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)

Invoiced is a startup that helps companies modernize and automate their billing processes. We work with companies that have high-volume or complex billing processes that have recently outgrown/broken their current billing system.

We are looking for both backend and frontend engineers that are passionate about delivering high-quality, testable code (because who likes getting a bill for the wrong amount?). The ideal candidate should be comfortable shipping production-level code in a fast-moving environment. We are currently a team of two developers supporting over 15,000 businesses that rely on our software to get paid.

What we use: PHP (Symfony 4), MariaDB, Redis, AWS, AngularJS

Reach out to us at founders@invoiced.com

jaredtkingon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)

What we use: PHP (Symfony 4), MariaDB, Redis, AWS, AngularJS

Reach out to us at founders@invoiced.com

jaredtkingon Ask HN: Do you read the article or the comments section first when browsing HN?

HN comments first. I read the article before contributing to the discussion though.

jaredtkingon With state budget in crisis, many Oklahoma schools hold classes four days a week

The Oklahoma state government is grossly incompetent (I grew up here). A few years ago they cut the oil and gas production tax down to as low as 1% for the first 3 years. After a new well has been in production for 3 years the tax rate goes back up to 7%. The problem with that is that most of the production happens in the first 3 years. When the normal tax rate kicks in the wells are mostly dry!

And yet to this day, with the school system falling to pieces, the state government is still debating [0] whether to re-impose this tax on oil and gas producers. Keep in mind that this tax cut directly benefits companies like Devon that have an $18B market cap, as well as other larger out-of-state producers. As a comparison, neighboring Texas seems to tax oil and gas production at 4.6% [1]. It's a very shameful situation.

In my opinion this is the crux of the problem. Law makers have messed up priorities. In an ironic twist some oil and gas producers are even asking for the tax to be raised [2]. Even they know it is too generous.

[0] http://newsok.com/article/5548887 [1] https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/crude-oil/ [2] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma/articles/20...

jaredtkingon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

Invoiced is a startup that helps companies modernize and automate their billing processes. We work with companies that have high-volume or complex billing processes that typically break other billing systems.

We are looking for employee #1, a top-notch backend engineer, that will help us grow and keep up with customer demand. The ideal candidate should be comfortable shipping production-level code in a fast-moving environment. We are currently a team of two developers supporting over 5,000 businesses that rely on our software to get paid.

What we use: PHP, Go, AWS, Git, AngularJS

We want to hear from you: founders@invoiced.com

jaredtkingon Germany threatens to fine Facebook €500,000 for each fake news post

> Who decides what is fake or what isn't ?

Ministry of Truth?

jaredtkingon Yik Yak fires 30 of 50 employees

I would assume the board seats that the investors get in return for their investment provide this kind of protection. If the founders do not want to raise another round then the investors can boot the founders out and replace them with someone that will play ball. With board control then this might be more implied versus explicitly defined in the fundraising terms.

Disclaimer: I've never been in this situation personally

jaredtkingon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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jaredtkingon Snowden: Stop Relying on Facebook for Your News

I'm in a similar boat as you having quit Facebook several years ago after the revelations about the emotion manipulation experiments they were running. At first I did not understand why people were so polarized about the candidates. Now I'm attributing this mainly to being cut off from Facebook.

EDIT: By polarized I mean intense hatred, coming from both sides

jaredtkingon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

Thanks! Listening to users and iterating.

jaredtkingon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

You are looking at our paid service, invoiced.com. Invoiced saves your invoices online, and does much more, whereas invoice-generator.com only generates PDF invoices.

jaredtkingon Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

https://invoice-generator.com

I made this 4 years ago for those times when you just need an invoice. Today 10s of thousands of individuals and businesses use this each day to get paid. It's free to use with no login required. Instead it uses localStorage to remember data.

jaredtkingon Web of Trust caught selling private browsing history of millions

There definitely needs to be more awareness about this. Just from a quick read of the WOT forum it seems most users are completely shocked that their data was being sold, even though this is outlined in the WOT terms of service.

Here is what the WOT terms of service say about sharing their users' browsing data:

  The information we collect is aggregated, non-personal non-identifiable information which may be made available or gathered via the users' use of the WOT Utilities ("Non-Personal Information"). We are not aware of the identity of the user from which the Non-Personal Information is collected. We may disclose or share this information with third parties as specified below and solely if applicable. We collect the following Non-Personal Information from you when you install or use the Product or use the WOT Platform:
  
     Your Internet Protocol Address;
     Your geographic location (e.g., France, Canada, etc.);
     The type of device, operating system and browsers you use;
     Date and time stamp;
     Browsing usage, including visited web pages, clickstream data or web address accessed;
     Browser identifier and user ID;

jaredtkingon Lessons from a Failed Tech Startup

Do you mean Accounts Receivable or have I misunderstood you?

jaredtkingon The Ad Blocking Wars

SEO (the white hat kind) is one such alternative.

jaredtkingon The Past, Present and Future of Sketch

He does address this later in the paragraph.

  In the beginning, Adobe introduced subscriptions as an alternative
  to the normal paid upgrades. Then a few years after that, they
  switched to subscriptions only–that was another one of our biggest
  sales days. We could clearly see people don’t like the idea of
  subscriptions if they don’t perceive a very obvious justification for it.

jaredtkingon Stripe now supports ACH payments

Our startup, Invoiced, does exactly this. You can easily send invoices through our API [1] that customers can pay from the email. Now that Stripe ACH payments have been released we will be supporting it in the near future.

[1] https://invoiced.com/docs/api/#send-an-invoice

jaredtkingon Mixpanel Lays Off 18 Employees

This. We use Mixpanel's free plan and were recently hit up by their sales team. It's unfortunate because Mixpanel is an amazing product that we would be happy to pay for, but it's just too expensive relative to the value we get out of it.

jaredtkingon Ask HN: Free/Open-Source Invoicing Software?

May I recommend our free invoicing app? We built https://invoice-generator.com for your use case. No sign up required, unlimited, and we don't mine your data (cannot say this for all free invoicing apps). If you are crafty or want more then we have a free API also [1].

[1] https://github.com/invoiced/invoice-generator-api

jaredtkingon We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent

I've had a similar experience on Linode as well. In fact, in the few months that I have been using Digital Ocean for a personal server they have had more outages than the past ~2 years on Linode.

jaredtkingon Stripe Dashboard for iPhone

I'm curious how this affects other services as well. Control announced today that they raised $1.5M. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/GetControlApp/status/608355729725091841

jaredtkingon Show HN: API for generating invoices on the fly

Thanks! This is exactly the type of use case we were hoping people would use it for. Hit us up at hello at invoiced.com if you have any questions.