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guymorita

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About guymorita

Software Engineer @ Block, Co-Founder @ Eden, Software Engineer @ Hipmunk, Creator of recommendationRaccoon

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    Comment #47566725

    Works great! Have used on many trips. Clean no frills UX

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    Comment #32349348

    Awesome. Looks like a great way to save redundant dev hours creating internal tools

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    Comment #9621491

    Thanks! We'll check it out

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    Comment #9619833

    Sounds great! Let us know when you arrive!

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    Comment #9619425

    Thanks so much for your question Jordigg. I’m one of the co-founders at Eden. Each of the founders have been serving as tech support for their families for their whole lives. Half …

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    Comment #9619135

    Thanks for the feedback, flipmonk. What's your OS / Browser / Resolution? Maybe I can repro.

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    Comment #7683084

    Agreed. That's also why implementation is king. We were building an app 2 years ago that was exactly like 4snaps (finally climbing the charts) but we didn't keep with it or ever do…

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    Comment #7682563

    The reasons that they email you are only the reasons they're fine with being public. They don't accept people for tons of other more subtle reasons, not the least of which are the …

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    Comment #7681240

    Wasteful would be not giving the interview every ounce of effort that we had. I have a passionate hate for the Caltrain and didn't want any additional reason to stress on the morni…

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    Comment #7681215

    Thanks for the advice Paul. Overall it was a great experience interviewing with you guys and meeting amazing founders from all over the world. We'll be seeing you in 6-12 months =)…

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    Comment #7678433

    It's not a 'special' kind of interview in the type of questions or the general format. I'd say it's special in the little amount of time you have and how you get cut off mid-senten…

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    Comment #7678396

    Lots is a relative statement and it doesn't mean expert. To put it in perspective collectively we have 6 years of running startups (both exited), 1 year of product, 2 years of mana…

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    Comment #7678386

    Absolutely and the interview at YC was a wake up call. We set the frame poorly and dove off into misc questions about implementation for 5 minutes. If we had described the pain poi…

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    Comment #7678373

    Agreed. You generally don't get off more than a couple sentences before they fire more questions off. They're looking for concise answers.

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    Comment #7678356

    Good thoughts. Yeah, we led with a high-level description of the product (it went much better during the second interview). When they asked followup questions, we dug into the pain…