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jwomers

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About jwomers

Engineer turned entrepreneur working on profitable internet products, now https://PyUp.io . Prev @kickstarter @travelground. Feminist. (He/him)

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    Hi! What a great personal project! I was trying to scrape a page and use GPT to analyze it, and then send me an email IF there was a certain type of (fuzzily defined) content on th…

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    Comment #22129556

    On the surface your thought might seem valid, but it is not. The reason a community like WomenMake is valid and important while something like MenMake is not, is because women have…

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    Comment #17191342

    Any service that stores/indexes information linked to a domain could use this to increase the recognition factor for the customer when listing a set of domains. A great example is …

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    Comment #16747249

    Contact info summary is great. Something I'd love to have is exporting friends' birthdays into my calendar. That and contact info is really all I need from Facebook.

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    Comment #14702961

    Great post. Here's a similar post from my wife on being a "Women In Tech": https://medium.com/@kawomersley/why-talking-about-diversity-...

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    Comment #13302284

    Kickstarter | Full stack, iOS, Android, Designer | Vancouver, BC | https://www.kickstarter.com/jobs Kickstarter is opening an office in Vancouver, BC. The team's focus is on resear…

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    Yes they are - I've seen another version of that chart and it was annotated with those dips being holidays.

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    Comment #11088159

    Those salaries are low and that's a problem, but a nice 2 bed place in SF 10 min from downtown is what - $5000-7000/mo? The rent relative to income seem similar/worse in SF?

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    Comment #10983645

    This is a seriously great list of high-impact possibilities - I especially like the alternatives to university. Your thinking is clear and logical. +1

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    Comment #10649408

    I totally agree with this. It creates amazing short-term opportunity for many, but possibly at large cost to society long-term. I also find it interesting that the two examples you…

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    Comment #9334840

    That's an interesting point that we haven't encountered at all. I think open source projects aren't always set up for receiving money (and thus causing tax issues) whereas musician…

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    Comment #9334719

    Thanks Matt! Give it a try and let us know how we can make it better!

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    Comment #9334716

    Hey detaro, thanks for the comments. Artists can sign up and claim tips directly, we send the money and that's it! You can always see the status of your tips, and can also claim th…

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    Comment #9334688

    Hey afandian, It's a similar concept, although tip4commit was causing issues with gaming/controller what gets works on, where as Huzza is for tipping songs and musicians that alrea…

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    Comment #9334620

    Great! Let's us know if you have any feedback, we're building Huzza for you!

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    Comment #8720021

    Thanks! Two ways: 1) The default currency is Bitcoin, so fees are so low we can achieve this. 2) With both Bitcoin and Credit Cards, we have a topup model where you topup with, say…

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    Comment #8719379

    As the digital media world continues towards free (journalism first, and more recently musicians releasing their music for free) we need a new way to reward or compensate creators.…