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Re: Launch HN: Charge Running (YC W21) – Social running app with real-time coaching

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Post by SkyPuncher » Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 11:51 PM UTC

mknippen wrote: post #42

SkyPuncher wrote: post #38

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You can buy it directly from healthcare.gov. I did it for 3 years as a contractor. It really wasn't that hard.

I agree, purchasing it was not the hard part. It was the cost changing by state, specifically for Illinois. I was previously employed by a company in the state of Michigan, and to match the same coverage was not even possible on healthcare.gov. The closest thing was nearly double the price, and when you're going through your first pregnancy, you take a ton of other factors into account. In hindsight we probably didn'…

> I was previously employed by a company in the state of Michigan, and to match the same coverage was not even possible on healthcare.gov. The closest thing was nearly double the price, and when you're going through your first pregnancy, you take a ton of other factors into account.

Well that should be expected since your employer is not longer covering part of the plans cost.

Re: Launch HN: Charge Running (YC W21) – Social running app with real-time coaching

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Post by mknippen » Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 5:41 PM UTC

SkyPuncher wrote: post #61

mknippen wrote: post #42

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I agree, purchasing it was not the hard part. It was the cost changing by state, specifically for Illinois. I was previously employed by a company in the state of Michigan, and to match the same coverage was not even possible on healthcare.gov. The closest thing was nearly double the price, and when you're going through your first pregnancy, you take a ton of other factors into account. In hindsight we probably didn'…

> I was previously employed by a company in the state of Michigan, and to match the same coverage was not even possible on healthcare.gov. The closest thing was nearly double the price, and when you're going through your first pregnancy, you take a ton of other factors into account. Well that should be expected since your employer is not longer covering part of the plans cost.

The bigger change was the difference per state, nearly double. (I paid it 100% out of pocket after I left my employer)

Re: Launch HN: Charge Running (YC W21) – Social running app with real-time coaching

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Post by mknippen » Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 5:43 PM UTC

perfmode wrote: post #60

mknippen wrote: post #55

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Great question. We built the app in Native Swift, with UIKit, since when we started SwiftUI was not yet available. Since the release of iOS 13, we've built all of our new screens in SwiftUI, so we're now more than 50% on the new framework. The Android application is in Kotlin

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