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Fair enough.

Rad! Do you have a screenshot? Love to see what that looks like.

Okay cool thanks!

:)

Thanks; we use the long-lasting cookie approach for a few things as well. We haven't gotten to the revoking of logged in sessions. Do you give them the ability to view all login sessions a'la Gmail?

Rad idea! I would include the example audios further up in the page (it was the first thing I wanted to see). The intro video is great, but I think you won't find many people interested in a 3+ minute intro video (I bounced super quick, once I realized it might not show me an example)

I think this is a pretty personal question regarding your finances and risk tolerance. There's always the risk that a contract is short lived, but that also exists within "secure" jobs. Obviously, there's a range of difference between the two.

That's often why contract work can pay better when it comes to hourly wages: there's more risk. If it were me, I'd try to have about 50% more in contract work wages lined up than for at least 6-months before leaving a "secure" job.

Interesting responses. I just find it convoluted. I typically don't know where to look for the information/data that I want. Often, the data I want is very basic (eg. traffic on a specific path over a period; time on site; bounce rates), but I guess given the nature of data and analytics, it's tough for them to organize everything into a simple UI/Ux

Mainly email/whatsapp/iMessage

If I reach out to support, will they be able to chat w/ me about what's actually happening? I'm pretty confused atm, and don't want to drown this thread with questions about what's actually taking place.

Can you clarify on the term "migrates" in the new title? If we use Stripe Subscriptions, do we need to migrate our system to the new Billing product?

Thanks for the clarification on the date of prices going up

I think it's because Stripe has for a long time branded themselves as being priced simply. Reading that there is a price increase, I think, warrants a noticeable reaction, since it could mean a new 0.5% cost for every business relying on them.

That can be a lot of money for some people, and in general, I'm a bit disappointed that I found out about the Billing product increase through HN. I would have expected to get an email from Stripe, maybe a month ago, saying "Hey: our rates are going up on 12 November"

Cool thanks

Thanks for jumping in here so quick. I'm sure it'll be a tough thread, but something about this response rubs me the wrong way. It doesn't seem like it's really addressing the change (eg. why is it worth _existing_ customers to be paying an extra 0.5%? The fact that Stripe added features for new customers doesn't really impact those of us who have been with you for 5-10 years). Additionally, I don't recall getting an email about the price increase.

I genuinely don't even know: am I going to be seeing this price increase? Would have liked getting an email about something like this, rather than finding out on HN, and now having to dig into things to figure out if I'm actually affected (which I presume I am).

To give you a comparison: if my bank or credit card company increased their rate, I'd expect to be (and am) notified of that.

My two cents :)

Nice. Eta?

Hey njn; apologies for the annoyance. My buddy Adam who I worked on it with reached out because we included d3 as part of the extension. Thought it would be useful, but apologies that you got annoyed by it :(

Hi all - Been working on this extension with my buddy Adam (for both Chrome and Firefox) for a while. I wanted to know which Open Source libraries pages were using, and pull in info/context/data from GitHub (and a couple other sources) based on those libraries.

The idea is pretty straight forward: you click on the Extension Icon, and it'll analyze the page you're on and show you the libraries, basic data from GitHub (like star-count and when it was last committed to), the location of the developer(s) (if shared), and the description.

Open to any feedback or questions :)

Okay great; I'll point her your way. Her name's Sham :)

Very cool idea Chris & Hamish A friend of mine runs "what happened last week?" (http://whathappenedlastweek.com/). She's got a journalism and economics background, and has a subscriber list of about 2,800 people, but has been struggling to find a way to monetize it. Would something like that be a good fit for your platform?

Are the streams or mp4 files being uploaded anywhere? Any transparency you can offer about this not potentially causing privacy issues?

Interesting view; I suppose if you look at HN as an extension of YC, then you're right: it would make sense that HN tends to focus/cater more to the growth/funding points of view.

For me, HN has become a source of news/ideas related to innovation (with an obvious leaning towards digital/technological innovation).

I guess, given how I see this community (and use it for access), it's refreshing to see an article like this :)

Rarely comment, but definitely identify with this. Given HN's general focus on growth and funding, I think it's great/important for an article/concept like this to be given some reach.

I find that there isn't enough critical thought given to why one ought to pursue an aggressive growth strategy. And that generally, staying small is seen as a failure to grow, rather than a conscious effort to grow in line with ones own life. Going from 3 to 100 employees in a (relatively) short period will naturally have a large impact on one's personal life and mental/emotional state. I think it's important to ask, before one ventures into that kind of adventure, whether or not you're okay risking mental/emotional (and arguably physical) stability in place of the adventure, and the potential financial windfall.

There's nothing wrong with saying no to that risk. This is a short life we have, and spending it chasing growth to keep up w/ the momentum of the extremes of capitalism doesn't need to be your game ;)

[edit] Prefer my last paragraph be written as: There's nothing wrong with saying no to that risk. This is a short life we have, and if you're spending it chasing growth to keep up w/ the momentum of the extremes of capitalism, it doesn't need to be your game ;)

Awesome well done @hme Big fan of services that plug into your own billing system (rather than acting as a proxy).

We tested a few commercial options out there (Filepicker most recently), but the issue consistently ended up being that uploading is such an important part of our app, that if it's down even for 20-30 minutes a month (which they all were), it's a big headache, and results in cancelled accounts.

We ended up plugging in the AWS JavaScrpt S3 SDK. We trust their uptime much more, and browser support is pretty widespread. It came with it's own headaches (namely, client side clocks being out of sync, and AWS rejecting uploads due to some security checks), but once we got everything figured out, it became incredibly stable.

It works by uploading files directly to your S3 bucket. Setup wasn't seamless (notably, setting things up with AWS Incognito), but in the end, we're incredibly happy we went this way.

We still use 3rd parties for resize images that are uploaded (namely, Cloudinary, which has been fantastic), but decoupling the upload logic from the usage logic has helped tremendously, and affords us reliability in that we control where the file is stored, how it's name, and are not tethered to a 3rd party (other than AWS).

Eid Mubarek Mohamed. Reach out if I can help with anything product/tech related :)

Correction: Ahh I see what you're saying and agree. I wouldn't think about using a service that carried with it so much inherent uncertainty.

Pricing is linked to in the footer: https://www.getonboarded.com/pricing

Would love to read more about the inside of paper like this, from the perspective of the technologists. What is the interaction like between product developers and journalists/editors? How does the back-and-forth go? Does the editorial process for interactive components match (in rigour) that of the written-side?

Really great dylan. Addressing the overhead of DNS settings, and a cumbersome flow for getting a site up (especially for people who aren't too familiar with routing, etc.)

I'd promote the email-address thing a bit more. Often people want a branded email address, but don't know exactly how to go bout it. That would stand out to me (eg. plug-and-play with your existing gmail)

Best of luck!

Awesome stuff @hhaidar! I'm sure a bunch of people will love the fact that logs and data exist on their servers. I'm sure it'll resolve some privacy/internal regulation concerns.

Also, hi from Toronto! I work out of CSI at Bloor + Bathurst. Nice to see another Torontonian on here :)