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johns

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About johns

Previously:

  Runscope (Co-founder, acquired 2017)
  Twilio (first Developer Evangelist)
  IFTTT
  Xamarin
twitter.com/johnsheehan

johnsheehan at gmail

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46568121

    I liked that idea but found it a little busy so I started working on the weather layout I always wish I had. Heavily inspired by Weather Line, Dark Sky, NOAA line view but attempti…

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    Show HN: A better macOS mailto: handler

    I rarely want to open a compose window when I click a mailto: link. I'd rather copy the email address quickly, search my CRM/help desk/internal admin, search Gmail, etc. So I made …

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    Comment #44329730

    Shout out to the OG Hurl HTTP tool https://web.archive.org/web/20100112040154/http://hurl.it/

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    Comment #44329709

    I also hated that Runscope changes weren't version controlled :) We had started work on that but then things went sideways.

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    Comment #41585564

    Reserved mine 2/29, received yesterday.

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    Comment #34557552

    Apple’s WeatherKit is actually pretty good at this. 500,000 requests free/month. Minimal attribution requirements.

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    Comment #34459335

    Try Mastoot

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    Comment #34382709

    While you wait for it to make it to the App Store, check out Mastoot (I’m unaffiliated, just a fan).

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    Comment #34236867

    The link should be updated to this.

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    Comment #33956084

    I had a base-hit acquisition and probably could have turned around and done another VC- or self-funded startup. The burnout was too much. After a hiatus I opened a bike shop this y…

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    Comment #33745924

    Hurl.it is not the same. All the posts from before Oct. 2021 are a different thing.

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    Comment #32628422

    This is not how it works

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    Comment #32196899

    As the purveyor of this shirt, it warms my heart to read this comment. We pretty much copied New Relic's model for this, and it worked really well. For awhile it felt like we were …

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    Comment #31782969

    This deserves a top-level comment. John Britton's NY Tech Meetup demo of Twilio[0] in 2010 is legendary. The CEO had been doing it in small groups for a little while, but the whole…

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    Comment #31782929

    This is the Twilio demo you should watch https://avc.com/2010/08/how-to-pitch-a-product/

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    Comment #31160742

    Will Norris who works on OSS at Twitter posted this[0]: "watch this space https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm " [0]: https://twitter.com/willnorris/status/1518694675909013504

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    Comment #30139135

    Did you try a tire bead jack? The Kool Stop one has worked wonders for me getting GPs on.

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    Comment #27161591

    I would recommend doing the opposite: interact more with the things you do like. “Like” generously, watch videos all the way through a few times, hit share, comment etc. I think th…

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    Comment #27161562

    Drumbeat was incredible. VB for the web.

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    Comment #27049457

    Yeah we were the original and trademarked the slogan and had to regularly send takedown notices over it.

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    Comment #27045352

    I can give some context on that. Go back to 2011, visual HTTP clients weren't that popular. Postman, Insomnia, etc. weren't around yet. Working at Twilio, we regularly needed to sh…