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ramoq··on Show HN: Pixelblock – block email open tracking images in Gmail
if you have any feedback or suggestions, let me know. I moved this to replit a while back and it's really easy to iterate now.
ramoq··on Show HN: Vantage – Enrich your calendar invites with LinkedIn profile data
let me fix that now
ramoq··on Show HN: Vantage – Enrich your calendar invites with LinkedIn profile data
- Worth mentioning that this is free chrome extension - built entirely with Replit :)
ramoq··on Tarteel – AI-powered Quran companion
great product built by a great team. I personally haven’t used it, but many of my friends do and praise it.

Congrats to the Tarteel team. Allahumma Baarik

ramoq··on Crypto collapse: Binance is not so fine, FTX Delaware vs. FTX Bahamas
this article is misleading, not very good journalism to be honest. I’m not a crypto bull or bear, but looking at how the “facts” are presented in this article you can clearly see the bias.
ramoq··on UK energy bills are soaring to record highs
Lex Fridman’s podcast had an ex-CIA agent on it recently and he mentioned how bcs of issues like this in Europe the war in Ukraine has to end by the fall. His words were “NATO needs Russian sanctions lifted”. He implied the war will be over by the fall (in his assessment).
ramoq··on It’s not still the early days of blockchain
I wonder if this will be one of the “Show HN: Dropbox” type threads in a few years…
ramoq··on U.S. Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield personal data
you have to watch the video of the actual court proceedings. a core issue is that LinkedIn knew hIQ was scraping their website and allowed them to do this until they started launching similar features. hIQ has a strong argument around this point and evidence proving so.

video: https://youtu.be/tvLdJujOp8k

ramoq··on [dead]
pretty impressive structures
ramoq··on 17-16783 HiQ Labs, Inc. V. LinkedIn Corporation
this is an incredibly interesting case. Highly recommend anyone involved with public data to watch this video.

Note: Mods - I submitted this late at night, but if you could bump this to front page tomorrow, I'm sure it would be very useful watch for many startup founders/employees :)

ramoq··on PixelBlock – Gmail extension that blocks email open tracking
It's actually open source. You can find it on github. Or you can view source yourself.
ramoq··on PixelBlock – Gmail extension that blocks email open tracking
I think the point of the extension is that you can keep images _on_ and not have to worry about people tracking your opens. I would imagine the majority of Gmail users keep images on
ramoq··on PixelBlock – Gmail extension that blocks email open tracking
I hope this hits the front page as I feel this is an essential extension for email privacy that many people are unaware of.
ramoq··on PixelBlock – Gmail extension that blocks email open tracking
extremely beneficial extension, you'd be surprised how many marketing emails are tracking when you open the email
ramoq··on Front (YC S14) Raises $66M
Front is probably doing 7MM ARR (I highly doubt more than that)
ramoq··on YC List
An oldie, but great resource.
ramoq··on Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO
Pitching this as the biggest tech IPO since Snapchat isn't very impressive. Kind of shocked they used that comparison.
ramoq··on Ask HN: Should we get rid of YC-company job postings?
I disagree, I don't think that's the purpose of HN.
ramoq··on How Condo Flippers are making a killing in Toronto
One the most neat-flowing articles I've read.
ramoq··on Postal: Open source mail delivery platform, alternative to Mailgun or Sendgrid
Question: if all these companies monitor outgoing SMTP traffic, how are people sending billions of spam messages a day? What's the loophole?
ramoq··on Dropbox is the fastest SaaS company ever to reach $1B ARR
I'd be interested to see the breakdown of consumer vs. business in that run rate (probably 80/20)
ramoq··on In Canada 50Mbps internet now considered a basic service
Mods: I submitted this article (link to the exact same article, exact same url), before dgudkov. How did this submission get accepted as being unique?
ramoq··on Fitbit is reportedly buying Pebble for around $40M
Interesting part here is: "...the acquisition is a “small amount” but there’s no word on exactly how much, or indeed how little. Further, The Information said that the deal will see Pebble and its products closed down over time..."
ramoq··on Twilio S-1
Authy (YC) acquisition was a bust.
ramoq··on Curing Our Slack Addiction
I think I'll stick with email from now on.
ramoq··on Mixpanel Lays Off 18 Employees
Curious to know which Sales reps got let go. SDR's or AE's? or a mix?
ramoq··on RNTS Media buys mobile ad network Heyzap (YC W09) for $45M
They had $13MM in annual revenue (in 2014) and were acquired for $45MM (~3.5x). Interesting.
ramoq··on PixelBlock – Stop people from tracking your email opens
Thanks for posting ibejoeb!
ramoq··on PixelBlock – Stop people from tracking your email opens
unfortunately not, adblock blocks ad related media only. This is one of the few tools that will intelligently block people from tracking your email views/opens
ramoq··on Ask HN: Share the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system
Here's a good one from FamilyLeaf's YC app: "We used a comedy twitter account to get meetings with tech superstars who wouldn't have returned our emails. In the week before our YC interview, we started @YC_Y_U_NO as a joke with the tech communityand ended up featured on TechCrunch -- and more importantly (coupled with serendipitously meeting FredWilson at the airport, who tweeted out Readstream) used cold DM's to build relationships with brilliant startuppeople, angel investors, and VCs (along with more than a few YC alums/Garry and Harj)."
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