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I've saved so much time using CommonPaper at my company. Many agreements are still negotiated, but even the cover-page concept makes it that much easier to understand what is being argued.

Congrats on the launch Michael. I dreamt of this back when I was an SE at RJMetrics :)

We've been using CommonPaper for our contracts and NDAs since we started selling. It's been super useful during negotiations and makes it way easier for clients who don't have lawyers to understand what's going on in the terms.

Congrats team on the launch!

As far as I know, the APIs TOS are for 'apps' in slack, which this isn't. This app runs on top of a database that has messages. Getting message data into the database is not against the terms of service either.

Hi, app author here. When I wrote the readme I wasn't expecting anyone to think about it outside of my company. You can host this on Heroku, that's what I'm doing. Just make sure to add the environment files in the settings. Then you can either build the a jasnonette app or use the relevant Jason apps and point the url to <your-heroku-url>/jsonette.json

I think it was more about ignorance about how it affects the flavor of the brew. People are generally good about making a new pot after they kill it.

That's roughly the amount of time it takes for our coffee pot to brew 12 cups of coffee. So it posts immediately that a pot is brewing to save people a walk to the kitchen, and again when the pot is done.

Thanks for the question about this. For some context we drink a lot of coffee at my office. We have two pots (bold & light roasts). People never know when coffee is ready or brewing without going to the kitchen. We have a #coffee channel so people can post that they are brewing, but then we had issues with people stealing cups before the pot was done (don't do this). So this app gives an interface for people to just click their face and the bot will handle it from there. It says that a pot is brewing, and 12 minutes later will post that the pot is ready.

To your point, it is just a mobile app with a slack integration. I built it to test out jasonette, which was a great experience, but I have no delusions of grandeur here.

Thanks for posting this Ethan. Jasonette made creating this app a breeze for a 'non-dev' like myself.

I went to a Bible College for a year and a half before dropping out. The dropout was not really due to a lack of interest in the subjects, but just a really poor work ethic on my part.

I landed a job in medical magazine recruitment advertising sales after a friend referred me in. I had no idea what I was doing, but I did well after some sales training. Eventually I decided to change jobs when I discovered that the magazine distribution numbers were wildly lower than what I was quoting to my clients. My company was lying to the advertisers. I took a short term gig as a cold caller at a financial advisor firm, working for my father-in-law's team. I ended up staying there for 3 years, passing the 7 and learning that I have no passion for finance.

While I was at the firm, I attended a lot of networking events and hosted a few myself. I met many people in the Philadelphia area who were involved in the tech scene and discovered where my passion really lied. I tried to get a startup running, but I didn't have the technical chops yet. Eventually, I quit the financial job, took an all commission job selling credit card machines to brick&mortar stores, so I could find a job at a startup where I could learn. Side-note, it's not a great idea to quit your job 1 week before your twins are born. Even when it all works out in the end, the stress is unbearable.

After 6 months of selling and searching, I ended up working at an online ticketing company as a salesperson. I worked there for about 3 months, and became the top salesperson before they laid off the entire sales team, because it was an experiment that didn't work out. Startups, huh?

I was unemployed, with 3 kids, a mortgage and nowhere to earn. I started leaning on my contacts pretty heavily. Luckily, the CEO of the ticketing company wrote us all pretty great references, and reached out to his network to get us jobs. I ended up as an Analyst at RJMetrics, where I am currently. I've been here nearly 4 years now, and I've learned a lot being here. I've been able to build and launch multiple internal technical projects, while starting the sales organization here.

I can see how you feel that way. The way I saw it, I made a joke to my friend, and took it too far by making the joke reality.

Hey, I take offense to this comment ;) Just kidding of course being rejected is a great motivator for some. Having devs reject ideas inspired me to learn to program, and realize that there are a ton of bad ideas, and only a few deserve the time it takes to build.

Ha, yes I think I posted when I was highlited on Nitrous's blog. I'll update if it takes off, or gets shuttered, freeing up some AWS juice for all of you.

http://blog.nitrous.io/2013/10/15/built-on-nitrous-io-pet-si...

Thanks for the thoughtful response and resources. I've done some of these, like emails, and started/stopped others. I'll look into the podcast, I can never listen to enough :)

I've thought about that. To keep on heroku free, I removed churned clients data. I'll keep that in mind, thank you.

I have, but not seriously.

App is petsitterspal.com

When I was cramming for the series 7 (in a different life), I would use spreeder.com. I would cycle through chapters and pretty much memorize them before moving on.

When I tried the same site for reading blog content and short stories, however this method falls flat. I found it great for memorizing but not for absorbing or following a narrative.

I don't know if your reference was intentional or not, but check out our old logo:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=rjmetrics%20swoosh&...