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tobowers

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Founder and CEO of Quorum Control

Topper Bowers is an entrepreneur and engineer with over 20 years experience building software people want. He combines deep technical knowledge with proven executive skills. He consistently pursues tech that betters people’s lives—whether he’s designing user interfaces, managing world class teams, or building high volume distributed systems for large nonprofits and Fortune 50 companies. He’s a former Y-Combinator founder (Summer 2012) with deep knowledge of distributed systems and distributed ledger technology.

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tobowers··on Hunala aims to be ‘Waze for coronavirus’
*more about well being
tobowers··on Hunala aims to be ‘Waze for coronavirus’
It’s not about well being than pure physical risk so small numbers are still helpful.
tobowers··on Hunala aims to be ‘Waze for coronavirus’
Our team is building https://birdlevel.com/ which lets HR teams get actionable insights into the well being of their employees. I'd love to explore integrating Hunala data and inferences into an office-localized experience for teams.
tobowers··on Why we rolled our own consensus algorithm
Absolutely. That’s the “perhaps 3” part of the above. Avalanche is really interesting. Can’t wait to see Ava.
tobowers··on Amicus (YC S12) Cofounder's Thoughts on New Republic Article
Link to previous discussion of this topic (pre New Republic): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8080442
tobowers··on How to Succeed in Silicon Valley Without Really Trying (YC S12)
Some discussion around this topic previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8080442
tobowers··on Amicus (YC S12) Cofounder's Thoughts on New Republic Article
link to original article HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8283583
tobowers··on How to Succeed in Silicon Valley Without Really Trying (YC S12)
Hi! I posted a few thoughts on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8284370
tobowers··on Introducing ClusterFsck: Filebased S3 Configuration Kontrol
And, importantly, has ACL controls built in so it's easy to add/remove access to team members.
tobowers··on Ask HN: How to charge for a white-label web app?
I would go tiered. Per-chat session is great until you try to collect on someone who has a $0.025 bill. I'd start with a small monthly fee ($30/mo) + per chat session. If that doesn't seem to be capturing the hearts and minds of your licensees - then go into a tiered approach for "capped chat sessions" with overages.