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gregsadetsky

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About gregsadetsky

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Cofounder of a web mapping startup acquired by Apple.

Received awards from the US Coast Guard and the Governor General of Canada for creating a map that helped rescue 1,700 people during Hurricane Harvey.

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Currently refurbishing laptops with robots! https://www.reviserobotics.com/ (YC W25).

Also worked on Disco, an open source self-hosting software: https://disco.cloud/

See my talk about it at the Recurse Center: https://youtu.be/z2lP7C8VT6M

And this (slightly less chaotic) Devtools FM episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr3JJpbCRP0

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And even more stuff that's wildly out of date - https://greg.technology

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