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Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by jbob2000 »

I need an easier way to send my clients quotes, invoices, and reminders.

Quickbooks is nice if you're an accountant who likes entering stuff into tables. But I am not an accountant and I'm bad about keeping on top of my accounts. It takes too many clicks to send a stupid little invoice once in a while.

This is a space that could really use chat bot support. I want to quickly type something or go through a wizard to do my accounting. "Hey Accounty, can you send Client B an invoice for The Big Package at $200 for 12 months? Make it recur annually". And Accounty goes and sets everything up and sends the emails. No interface. Completely automated. When an account is overdue, it'd message me and say "Hey, Client A is overdue, shall I send a reminder?" If someone replies to the invoice email, it'd say "Hey, Client C replied to the invoice and asks 'Can I pay later?', how do you want to respond?". Wire that up Siri or some other speech to text engine and I can do my accounting on the drive in to work.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by marcofatica »

ellius wrote: post #66

I do fraud investigations for a bank. We spend an insane amount on labor costs because all of our transactional data resides in different systems. Want to review credit card data? Go pull system X. Want to review wire transfers? Go pull system Y. Etc etc. some of these things have to be separated out of necessity (e.g. card data is stored in a particular way due to regulations), but I would easily pay 10k / y to be a…

how are these systems implemented? are they all proprietary systems? do you have access to the back-end data?

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by jackgolding »

ellius wrote: post #66

I do fraud investigations for a bank. We spend an insane amount on labor costs because all of our transactional data resides in different systems. Want to review credit card data? Go pull system X. Want to review wire transfers? Go pull system Y. Etc etc. some of these things have to be separated out of necessity (e.g. card data is stored in a particular way due to regulations), but I would easily pay 10k / y to be a…

This is Robotic process automation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_process_automation that all the big consultancies are pushing

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by marcofatica »

deepnotderp wrote: post #74
Tomminn wrote: post #70

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I'm interested in this field. What are the current pain points with EDA tools? And are we talking device level, process level, circuit level or all levels?

Pretty much everything. There's a landmine of bugs in even the best EDA software. I'd just like for the software to run nicely once, like TensorFlow... sigh. If you're thinking getting into this field, I might suggest a modular software architecture where the non-proprietary parts are open source and everything NDA-sensitive is kept closed source (pretty much anything the foundry touches/provides).

what are some or one of the largest offending bugs or class of bugs?

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by jackgolding »

fairpx wrote: post #87
TomMarius wrote: post #86

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I'd be very happy if you sent me a message about your model, my address is marius@tolud.com. We tend to describe ourselves as "the tech team for your (tech) startup", our goal is to be a one stop shop for tech-heavy startups and companies. We work with Node.js, TypeScript and React/React Native. We've created a bunch of quite unique libraries and components that help us develop a lot faster and with less bugs (I can…

You can find my contact info in my profile. Basically in short, what's worked for me is side project marketing: - Create a tiny free product, that solves a tiny problem for your target customer - Promote your side project. Since it's free and frictionless, it's so much easier to have it spread on the internets. - On that side project, there should be an email subscription form somewhere and your main service as an up…

really like the idea of your company - hope I can use it one day!

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by tommynicholas »

thisisit wrote: post #77
tommynicholas wrote: post #22

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Think about running your own Superset instance. Could be the solution and IMO it's much better than Tableau.

Is Superset mature enough? We have been exploring a lot of BI tools so much so that we near scraping the bottom of the barrel. But Caravel/Superset never came up because it is still under incubation and that doesn't go well with the enterprise managers. It doesn't help that there have been constant name changes.

It's great and IMO pretty damn mature. They use it widely in prod at Airbnb so the only ways in which it's not "mature" are in customizability.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by deepnotderp »

Tomminn wrote: post #75
deepnotderp wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty much everything. There's a landmine of bugs in even the best EDA software. I'd just like for the software to run nicely once, like TensorFlow... sigh. If you're thinking getting into this field, I might suggest a modular software architecture where the non-proprietary parts are open source and everything NDA-sensitive is kept closed source (pretty much anything the foundry touches/provides).

Super super interesting. So this is the case for the big expensive commercial products like those that come out of shops like Synopsys? It strikes me that helping to improve (device side) EDA is probably a pretty sound investment of my time, since I've got some phys chops and it's pretty important to the global economy.

Oh, believe me, in many ways it's worse with the big expensive tools because those are produced for only a few companies.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Post by thisisit »

tommynicholas wrote: post #97
thisisit wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is Superset mature enough? We have been exploring a lot of BI tools so much so that we near scraping the bottom of the barrel. But Caravel/Superset never came up because it is still under incubation and that doesn't go well with the enterprise managers. It doesn't help that there have been constant name changes.

It's great and IMO pretty damn mature. They use it widely in prod at Airbnb so the only ways in which it's not "mature" are in customizability.

What kind of customization?
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