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meisterbrendan

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About meisterbrendan

zero-to-one ux designer in sf -usually I help startups design the first versions of products (and figure out if the product is worth building in the first place) -currently exploring some new ideas -besides tech, I'm in love with architecture, solo travel, getting less bad at cooking, and painting -aspirational dog owner but I travel too much

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47926503

    "Nobody reasonable"??

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    Comment #47926457

    Random idea: What if all the activity notifications arrived at the same time, eg 8pm every day? If any interactions depend on people being synchronously online together, notificati…

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    Comment #27752095

    Visual chat | CTO Unusual opinion alert: We think the future of chat starts with a better GIF camera. What we’ve built so far is basically like GIPHY or TENOR but all the GIFs are …

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    Comment #26037974

    Can I use this to send to any location or do I just get it for one city? I can’t take straight razors in my carry on so I’d like mine delivered in advance of some travel.

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    Comment #23503198

    I'd love someone qualified to answer this... feel like this happens to me all the time

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    Comment #23189026

    not hot dog

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    Comment #23185824

    Posted this on another thread, but posting again here. If you're building something and want help, or looking for an idea to help build, add yourself/idea to this list: https://bma…

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    Comment #23184357

    Yo this is super cool

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    Comment #23184165

    super cool. what are you doing with it? what are you trying to make?

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    Comment #23184095

    Damn! Sounds super worthy. Wish I could help--rock on!

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    Comment #23184079

    That sounds dope! Need help with it? What kind?

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    Comment #23174073

    Very cool! Wasn't familiar with them before. Thanks for the link! Same general space but I'm thinking about it from a social angle more than a work angle... might be the same probl…

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    Comment #23174041

    Yo I'm a UX designer. Hit me up I advise early stage people on flows all the time.

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    Comment #23173620

    Say more about that?

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    Comment #23173615

    Like what?

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    Comment #23173612

    So the Zoom feature is cool. It's made for task-oriented things, like an activity divided into small groups and the person organizing it is the organizer of the event. It's highly …

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    Comment #23172999

    I'm a designer here in SF. I'm VERY EARLY in exploring an idea. The problem: calls where I'm trying to catch up with more than 5 or so friends aren't great. If you think about an a…

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    Got fired? Ready to start a startup/new project?

    With all the layoffs from Uber, Lyft, AirBnB and others, I'm guessing a lot of great people are about to build new projects and startups. Want to post below what you're working on …

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    Comment #21407476

    Can you talk more about how those laws work in Denmark? I’m extremely interested in the idea that a society has incentivized both a robust free press and accountability to speak th…

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    Ask HN: I’m an American and I want to hire a non-US employee. Any advice?

    I’m an American looking at building out my team by hiring foreign (non-US) contractors and then, if we work well together, making them full time employees. These team members will …

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    Comment #14422161

    do these units trigger the NIMBY impulses of neighbors? It seems like a great way to increase density in otherwise restrictive development environments, but could also see pushback…

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    Comment #11517759

    so glad he posted these. been waiting for it.

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    Comment #11500225

    For markets with <200m of funding, a few big rounds could skew the entire market as being way up or down.

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    Comment #11089083

    You're mostly right. There is a lot more sophistication now, but most of the advances facebook has made are in two areas: -Mobile. Making messaging a central strength of the platfo…