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corywatilo
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About corywatilo
Orange County, CA -> Fulltime RV life -> Tampa, FL
Side things: RV Envy [6], Posthaven [2]
Previously:
- Brand & Design @ PostHog [1] - Designer #1 at Heap [3] - Co-founded Preact (acq. Spotify 2016) - FolioHD [4] - Brightback [5] (acq. Chargebee 2022)
I also designed the Kelley Blue Book Price Advisor - that half pie chart-looking thing that tells you what you should pay for your next car!
Blog: https://watilo.com | Portfolio: https://cory.watilo.com | @watilo, @ninepixelgrid
[1] https://posthog.com [2] https://posthaven.com [3] https://heap.io [4] https://foliohd.com [5] https://brightback.com [6] https://rvenvy.com
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Socials: - x.com/ninepixelgrid (design) - x.com/watilo (personal) - instagram.com/watilo - github.com/corywatilo
Interests: Remote Work, Startups, UI/UX Design, Web Development, Travel, Open Source, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Digital Nomad
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i have spent nearly half my life listening to the voice of John C. Dvorak on a nightly basis as i went to bed. literally since i was in college – around 2008 – i started listening …
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Comment #45219269
I'll consider a refresh button just for you. Thanks for the kind words.
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Comment #45219230
Hi, OP here. I was employee #13 at PostHog, joining as a designer (who now moonlights as a design engineer). I'm responsible for the website. I've been part of crafting the brand f…
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Google raising Nest Aware Plus pricing by 25%
via email: Thank you for being a Nest Aware subscriber. We wanted to let you know that the price of your Nest Aware Plus subscription ... will soon increase from $150 a year to $20…
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Comment #44122346
how do i learn more?
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Comment #43375193
lol wow nice catch
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Comment #42311187
We emailed back and forth several times. CEO was on the thread, was aware of my concerns, chose not to do anything. The result of the back-and-forth was the proposal I shared in th…
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Comment #42308134
I'm allergic to sales calls. =] Plus, when has jumping on a "quick call with sales"[1] ever resulted in paying less money? [1] posthog.com/sales
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Comment #41709224
We (at PostHog) have a very unique implementation of Inkeep in our community forums[1], and it's been a lot of fun working on a custom solution with the Inkeep team. Our ultimate g…
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Comment #41436881
Not seeing the first two but feel free to send screenshots to @posthog and I'd be happy to take a look. As for cookie banners, that's something we can both agree on. ;)
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Comment #39984665
https://posthog.com/docs/billing/limits-alerts
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Comment #39795811
Alternate title: "How to scare an engineer in three words"
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Comment #36486427
Same has happened here with our 2-year old, except we didn't get to it in time and have had the fire department show up on more than one occasion before we figured out what was hap…
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Comment #36360704
Will take a look, thanks for the heads up!
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Comment #35169093
This is really well done. Paragraph view really helps to visualize it. CSS Font Stack [1] used to be the place for this, but that site hasn't changed in decades. The one piece miss…
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Comment #35017934
Which logo?
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Comment #34957448
Some of it was sourced from posthog.com
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Comment #34614669
Try to solve user problems? (Maybe they were, just not ours.)
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Comment #34614636
IIRC they had recently added a user cap on self-serve customers which was new and led to this. The new pricing deck they sent was "It will be $3,500/mo, but until the end of the mo…
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Comment #34614533
Netlify lost my trust a year ago when they tried to increase our company's pricing more than 10x. (We were paying ~$200/mo, then they tried to force us into a $2,500+ plan because …
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Comment #34552670
Here's something I'm just starting on: Find your dream RV. http://rvenvy.com With more people than ever working remotely, many are interested in ending their lease and exploring Am…
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Comment #33005725
Upwork just doesn't care. I was on the receiving end of one of these recently. I was looking for US-based contractor, found someone whose profile looked legit, and reached out. In …