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I'm working on a "low code" web app that helps developers build web apps (not marketing or blogs or e-commerce sites). Create your data models in the app and get an API, a database…

TBH I didn't dig all that deep. Once you look at the size of the market (~6000 US hospitals, most of them in groups [0]), annual subscription (would need to be some fraction of wha…

I agree with everything you said. We're in the ACA space, so this should been right up our alley (government puts new legislation in with penalties to force employers to do somethi…

I did some research into this for my current employer and the challenges are pretty well laid out here: the penalties are minimal ($300 / day or $~110,000 per year), the data is ke…

My understanding is that the bonuses were paid out in the final stages of the negotiations for the bailout package.

This is great. How do they deal with the on-going maintenance of the tools they build? Do they move to the main product team or does the internal systems team continue to maintain …

I find it humourous that the latter is "normal". Netflix and online streaming really have changed our perspective; I'm not even that old (30!) and I wouldn't call "watch any show a…

Just show up - I started this last year going to the gym - if I didn't feel like going to work out, I just went to the gym and messed around, did whatever I felt like, even for 15 …

Two reasons in my experience: first, reproducability gets orders of magnitude more complicated as you grow. One person can do something over and over with no documentation, a few p…

Plus kids clothes! My wife and I do about half of our clothes shopping for our 2.5 year old at Value Village and bring stuff there that we or she don't use anymore. She doesn't car…

Technically, of course you can, but practically, if someone sued, you would probably have a hard time convincing others that you are complying with your own policy. It's probably e…

This is spot on. I would add that as a manager, it is my job to foster good relationships with other managers and use those to remove bottlenecks for my team. I spend a good portio…

There are definitely valid criticisms on the application of zero tolerance policies; I agree that bullying in school is a go to for overreaching. But sexual harassment and harassme…

That's the issue, right? Everyone wants "diversity", but no one wants quotas or hard lines that could discriminate against other groups. I think you need to do your best to root ou…

While there are some concrete next steps in here (hire a COO, management training, HR training, the "Rooney Rule"), what is the goal and how do these steps connect to it? As far as…

As someone on the hiring side of the table, I rarely care about how technically complicated it was and more about WHY it was hard, how you figured it out, and how you avoided it in…

As with any interview, I like to make it as personal as possible. Tell me about something you have architected and why you've architected that way. I will ask probing questions abo…

In my experience this goes hand and hand with getting your messaging right. If you have a product people love then you can work to articulate what they love about it and your marke…

Having helped a company that went through our accelerator to get a start-up visa for the three founders, the deal isn't great, but it is a more direct path to citizenship. You do n…

I've thought about this on and off for a few years and have one thought: e-mail will find a way out of the inbox. It is now an almost ubiquitous way to deliver something to a conta…

FWIW I second this, it looks beautiful, but setting up a site on my VPS takes work; even if it's 20 seconds to download and install, I have to set up configs, DNS, directories, etc…

An account service network for developers: http://www.gowalli.com/ We connect freelance developers (and small shops) to a professional account service person (we're recruiting AS p…

Hey HN, Developer here. I would certainly appreciate any and all feedback. As a consistent over-developer, I am trying a more minimal MVP approach to see if there is interest in wh…