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Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Re: Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Post by mavsman »

DanielCampion wrote: post #3

Hey HN! We’re Daniel and Brian from Sitenna ( https://sitenna.com/ ). Sitenna is a marketplace connecting wireless carriers, tower providers and real estate owners. Think booking.com for telecom cell sites. Currently, it takes wireless telecom carriers up to 24 months to deploy a site because the process is based on screenshots, maps, emails, PDFs and spreadsheets. This is a particular issue with the advent of 5G whi…

It’s tough to tell if I’m in the target market for this (I just own one piece of land with a house on it) and what kind of benefits and drawbacks I’d get from this if so. This isn’t something I’d ever considered so maybe that means it’s already not for me?

Re: Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Post by NWMatherson »

lxe wrote: post #116
NWMatherson wrote: post #8

We are building ContainIQ ( https://www.containiq.com/ )! We provide Kubernetes native monitoring instantly with pre-built dashboards and easy to create monitors. A one-line install that takes 5 minutes to set up and it just works. By using eBPF we’re able to correlate kernel-level metrics with Kubernetes objects. Our current users are using our product to track and get alerted on things like p95/p99 latencies, Kuber…

Nice! Would be cool to see a demo dashboard without "booking a demo"

You are right! We are looking into launching a live demo version that users can play around with.

Re: Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Post by pcthrowaway »

jonxwang wrote: post #4

Shimmer ( https://shimmer.care ) offers guided video support groups for people struggling with their mental health. Shimmer matches members with shared identities and experiences and places them in small groups that meet for weekly support sessions along with a qualified peer coach. During the rest of the week, members have access to our Community Platform (a mobile app and web app) to leverage resources like communi…

This is probably a great idea for people in marginalized groups who feel crowded out in group therapy settings.

But how do you address the potential for groups of white men that lack diversity to breed toxic attitudes? I say this as a white man who would be reluctant to go to such a group out of this concern.

Re: Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Post by yroc92 »

Eiriksmal wrote: post #103
skeeter2020 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disclosure: I work for an established (maybe?) competitor to this idea; I say maybe because it's really not clear what you do until I read most of this thread, nor how you do it (or what's planned vs. available). First, Welcome! This is a huge arena and I think there's a million, nuanced areas for companies to tackle and really focus on amazing merchant experiences. THis is a very big (and growing) pie. Second, I thi…

What are some competitors in this space? I would be a customer of one of these businesses.

Me as well!

Re: Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Post by gregwebs »

NWMatherson wrote: post #85
gregwebs wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does this compare to using metadata (eBPF bases metrics).

Could you expand on what you mean a little? We’re a full service platform that collects, stores and visualizes the data for you.

Sorry got autocorrected on my phone. Netdata

Re: Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Post by wild_buckeye »

kyrilku wrote: post #7

Beau ( https://beau.to/ ) is a no-code tool that helps businesses automate customer interactions and onboarding. Customers use our software to collect documents, manage payments, send messages and more. For example, tax advisors use Beau to collect documents and send reminders, and immigration consultants use us to automate repetitive client-facing processes. Currently, businesses use a mix of form builders, website…

This looks really cool. I think there's a definitely need for a lightweight onboarding/CRM tool that non-technical people can easily start using, without having to dive into something more intimidating like Salesforce or Dynamics 365. I love the design of the website too!

I'm not sure if this is intentional, but the "Try for free. No credit card required" panel towards the bottom of the page looks like it's covering some of the sample use cases.

Re: Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Post by villasv »

joaquinolmedo wrote: post #6

Hi HN, we're the founders of Filadd ( https://courses.filadd.com/ ). 80% of students in LatAm (Latin America) need private tutoring classes to prepare for university admission exams. The system is centralized and extremely high-stakes: exams only happen once a year and based on your score on the exam you can basically choose your university. If you don’t get the desired score, go home and come back the next year. So…

The education market in Brazil has been on a strong consolidation trend in the past decade, having a few institutions owning the vast majority of students being approved in top exams (IME, ITA, federal universities, medicine).

I realized early on the sad reality that the ones getting approved weren't really paying the bill (80%+ discounts for promising candidates), while struggling students trying for the third consecutive year were closer to full price. It felt just and meritocratic when I got in the special few, but the selection bias for privilege was tragic: almost all of them were rich. Yet another wealth transfer from the poor to the rich.

I hope this marketplace will undo the consolidation trend and lower the prices a bit, but I won't bet on it.

Re: Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Post by joaquinolmedo »

villasv wrote: post #128
joaquinolmedo wrote: post #6

Hi HN, we're the founders of Filadd ( https://courses.filadd.com/ ). 80% of students in LatAm (Latin America) need private tutoring classes to prepare for university admission exams. The system is centralized and extremely high-stakes: exams only happen once a year and based on your score on the exam you can basically choose your university. If you don’t get the desired score, go home and come back the next year. So…

The education market in Brazil has been on a strong consolidation trend in the past decade, having a few institutions owning the vast majority of students being approved in top exams (IME, ITA, federal universities, medicine). I realized early on the sad reality that the ones getting approved weren't really paying the bill (80%+ discounts for promising candidates), while struggling students trying for the third conse…

For Medicine Admission it's very common what you have described: most students sit for 3 times or more until they get the score (this a reason why in Argentina there are so many Medicine Brazilian students, it's free and there is no admission) Our personalized courses and prices approach will undo this consolidation.

Re: Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

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Post by Syntaf »

skeeter2020 wrote: post #86
harrisonjackson wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At first I thought this was so you could sell retail products through all these different platforms. I was thinking.... WHY?! But it is actually for ecommerce plugins/apps/add-ons and the customers are those companies making shopify plugins so they can develop once and deploy everywhere. Echoing other comments - a more clear description / example or word other than "App" might help. I think Add-On or Plugin might be…

Disclosure: I work for an established (maybe?) competitor to this idea; I say maybe because it's really not clear what you do until I read most of this thread, nor how you do it (or what's planned vs. available). First, Welcome! This is a huge arena and I think there's a million, nuanced areas for companies to tackle and really focus on amazing merchant experiences. THis is a very big (and growing) pie. Second, I thi…

As someone who also works in this space, the idea of a single source of truth for products alone is nuts. That doesn't mean I'm not rooting for Apollo though, and I hope they find a way to bring everything together.

Feels like nowadays every ecommerce platform has their own idea of how a product is structured, from variants to modifiers to attribute sets to tags and even the nitty-gritty like fulfillment rules.

Just when you think you've nailed down a universal model you'll look at bringing on another integration that brings a unique twist to your constraints. The sheer bullshit alone that you have to put up with when working alongside all of these integrations can drive a developer mad. There have been many times when integrations release critical bugs or become flakey and we end up on the hook after the dust clears and the customers data is not malformed. BigCommerce specifically loves to surprise it's developers with API deprecations on a moments notice, what a joy to be at the mercy of.

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