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gjcourt

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About gjcourt

Currently Coinbase; Ex. Stripe, Disqus; Co-founder Memorang

Recent public activity

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    Comment #24860381

    I few years back I co-founded Memorang[0] to do exactly this. While I'm no longer affiliated with the company, it technically is a free solution, albeit geared mainly towards medic…

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    Comment #12407916

    Memorang ( https://www.memorangapp.com ) | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | ONSITE or REMOTE | $70-120K + 0.5-2.0% We’re a profitable, investor-backed ($500K seed round) startup in …

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    Comment #12019248

    Memorang | San Francisco | https://www.memorangapp.com/jobs | full-time, onsite/remote We merge the concepts of an adaptive study tool, spaced repetition, a gamified community, cro…

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    Comment #10779290

    Love slate, switched to it after ShiftIt went unmaintained a few years back, though it looks like ShiftIt is back in active development. Slate config is really nice, you'll feel at…

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    Comment #10727955

    Sounds good. We'll probably make a post in our blog ( http://blog.memorangapp.com ) so stay tuned. To that note, each individual study set has some decent metrics on where you stan…

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    Comment #10727722

    Awesome! Love to hear positive feedback :-)

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    Comment #10727620

    We're not an open source tool so unfortunately no. I should say that we reached profitability only a few months after launch and our team has experience in 4 other startups before …

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    Comment #10727575

    Awesome! I personally use our platform for things like expanding my multiplication table chops (out to 20) or learning about cooking temperatures http://www.memorangapp.com/flashca…

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    Comment #10727411

    We allow for private content, but that's a premium feature since it's against the ethos of our platform.

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    Comment #10727359

    We do have a fully-featured API, in fact our mobile apps are built on top of the same API as the website. At the present it's not documented, this will be happening as fast as we c…

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    Comment #10727288

    A friend and I decided to build an Anki replacement a few years ago, it's now located at https://www.memorangapp.com and has a loyal following of 10s of thousands of users. Anki is…

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    Comment #10493976

    Memorang | SF/Remote | Software Engineering | VP Product, Content | https://www.memorangapp.com/jobs Memorang is an all-purpose learning tool that helps students from middle school…

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    Comment #8975502

    Beginning Javascript with DOM scripting

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    Comment #8975003

    This guy literally "wrote the book" that taught me javascript. One of the best resources that I've ever used to this day. Kudos on the new job.

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    Comment #2338741

    Given Moki's powerful search and the ability to track movies/tv I think that they have a clear advantage in the space. I track TV with Moki and it has helped me find new relevant c…

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    Comment #1866770

    great iteration, the search is really fast, and I like how you can easily thumbs up/down items (way better than starring imo)

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    Comment #1541578

    I can't really take the credit for it, but when I was small, my parents started me on piano lessons. My dad always told me "The secret to life is in your music". I now have a skill…

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    Comment #1508721

    Great story :-) As someone that just had to quit (albeit under much less extreme circumstances) I find the points that you make at the bottom ringing very true, especially "No one …

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    Better Beginner's Health and Fitness Guide

    This is scooby. Scooby changed my life.

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    Comment #1393767

    MIT is a beacon of intellectual integrity. As such, it is the duty of the institute to let her go. Condoning her actions would be condoning fabricated information, and thereby unde…