A real-time quoting system for intermodal shipments, that added millions in booking revenue every year.
Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
621–630 of 759 posts
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#622I helped to design a visa targeting remote workers and corresponding program for a South American government in an effort to drive more sustainable tourism to the country in the wake of the covid pandemic. They implemented the visa idea but not the program (which was focused on creating more of a concierge service for newcomers and helping integrate them into local communities, eg. volunteering at a local makerspace…
That sounds like an amazing idea, especially what you cal the concierge service. It's a shame that didn't end up getting implemented. Where would I be able to learn more about the visa?
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#623Most impactful, in order: 1. Was the intern that coded the mechanism to open/close the LIDAR cover on the Mars Phoenix Lander, so it runs on another planet. I also did circuit work, and other tasks for the CSA’s contribution to that mission. That was also the internship where I (re)met my wife. 2. Was on the Android team that brought video to Instagram back in 2013. We brought gyro stabilization to the iPhone, couldn…
Can you talk about the AB software? At least in generic terms?
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#624Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am appalled by the lack of statistical awareness of this comment.
I am astonished by lack of PR impact proportionality intuition of this comment :) (its not like we are talking here about black swan events - and one is more than enough for profits go down the drain)
I greatly enjoyed this comment.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#625I built something for a friend (on demand payment button generator, email template). It's the backbone of his business/able to rent a storefront in a mall. Pretty cool, like it's a piece of crap on my part but works for him.
Professionally medical stuff.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#626Let's Encrypt (along with the coauthors of https://abetterinternet.net/documents/letsencryptCCS2019.pdf and many other contributors). Now the world's largest public certificate authority!
I built a WordPress plugin that helps you to generate free SSL certificate using Lets Encrypt. At it’s peak, it was being actively used by 50,000+
[https://wordpress.org/plugins/ssl-zen/]
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#627Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#628I love the quality of HN. Only on HN will you get the kind of responses here - the creator of the first wifi node, creator of let's encrypt, creator of getElementsBySelector, etc. Amazing.
My small contribution - if you live in Sydney and get an Opal card as a student or other concession, my code is in there doing all the checks with various external services. It's not a big thing but nice to know when your software has been used by a large majority of the people you meet.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#629Re: Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
#630I built the first "post-play" experience for Netflix. It made it so that Netflix would automatically start playing the next episode of the show you are watching after a 15 second count down. We built it in the Silverlight player on the web because it was the fastest way to A/B test new features at the time. Before post-play, you had to open the episode menu and click on the next episode to play it. We didn't want to…
I hate, loathe, and despise that fucking thing! It prevents me from being able to see the credits! Sometimes I want to know who played what part! I'm okay with an optional prompt that lets me skip the credits if I want to, but that should NEVER be the default!!!
I'd love it if it waited until the video's actually done, like on YouTube.
Note: I work at YouTube :P