October 2019
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Launch HN: Zeroheight (YC S19) – design docs that stay up-to-date
2 by jdelafargue | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN! We’re Jerome and Robin, the founders of zeroheight (S19) zeroheight is an online editor that lets companies create a wiki site to document their design process. The documentation is integrated with their design tools so that it’s always up-to-date, which enables large design and development teams to stay on the same page, ship faster and deliver consistent user experiences. Documentation is the first piece of the puzzle – our vision is to enable any company in the world to have a "design system": a system of reusable UX and front-end components, tools and guidelines. We want companies that don’t have the resources of design giants like Salesforce, IBM and Shopify to be able to create design systems which are just as powerful e.g. https://ift.tt/1MLRahW (Salesforce), https://ift.tt/2Qkhk5G (IBM), https://ift.tt/2ovyryH (Shopify) Our startup journey started 4 years ago at a YC Startup School event in London – it was the final push of inspiration we needed to make the jump and quit our Big Finance Co programming jobs :) We joined Entrepreneur First (a pre-seed incubator) with a list of startup ideas (including some really bad ones!) and spent most of our time emailing people and going for coffees. For two coders who were excited to code and build a product, this was a tough reality check of what starting a startup can be like in the beginning! At the time, one problem that really resonated with people was that the design-development handoff process was pretty painful. This was something we had experienced at work: designers sending manually annotated PDF specs and PNG assets as email attachments etc. We thought it was an exciting space, so we went ahead and built a design-to-development handoff tool. The problem was that there were already some great products in the space that had a head start – such as Zeplin (YC S15) :) – so despite gaining some customer traction, it wasn't enough for us to raise money. This led us to go back to basics: talk to users... So we went for coffee with our customers to figure out what other problems we could solve in the space and built the following series of insights: - Good design is now the default, most products need a great user experience to compete - Because of this, companies are spending a lot more resources on design/UX and growing their design teams rapidly - In order to be able to collaborate at scale, design teams have started adopting a component-based workflow – similar to how engineers have worked for years - But breaking designs down into components is not enough. In order to successfully collaborate at scale, designers and front-end coders need written documentation on _how_ to use the components. The design components are the lego bricks and the design documentation is the much needed lego instruction manual. So what’s the problem? We dug deeper and found that there are two hurdles that tend to prevent companies from creating successful documentation for their design system. 1. Companies that _do_ have the front-end engineering resources to build custom design documentation in-house (or leverage a tool like Storybook) often end up with engineer-driven documentation that is up-to-date with production code, but is hard for non-technical designers to contribute to. This leads those designers to create their own, separate documentation, which in turn causes fragmentation between design and development teams — one of the problems that having a design system is trying to combat in the first place! 2. Companies that _don't_ have the spare front-end engineering resources to build custom docs use tools like Confluence, Google Docs, Notion etc. but these types of wiki tools aren't built for purpose and the documentation can easily end up out of sync with the latest designs and code Based on this we built a minimal yet powerful editor (in the spirit of Dropbox Paper or Notion) that makes it very easy for anyone to document their reusable UX components, tools and guidelines (their “design system”). The editor is integrated with both design and development tools so that the docs stay up-to-date. On the design side we provide Sketch, Figma and Adobe XD plugins to sync UX components and styles. Designers can update the designs inside the docs at the click of a button without having to leave their design tools. On the engineering side we offer Codepen-like interactive previews as well as the ability to embed Storybook stories – so designs and front-end code can live side-by-side in the docs. In order for it to be easily accessible by the entire company (and possibly made public), the documentation can be published as a standalone website and shared with anyone using a link (or protected with a password) To get a better idea of what a zeroheight docs site looks like when shared, check out this example site from one of our users (https://ift.tt/2JDwOfN) or our demo site (https://ift.tt/324i7c9) That’s all for now... we’d love to hear your thoughts on what we’re building in the comments below! PS: if you’re a full-stack / front-end engineer in London that would like to help us build zeroheight I’d love to connect :) PPS: our office is nice and leafy → https://ift.tt/2BZEtkv

October 31, 2019
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Continue reading 2020 Chevy Corvette awarded to World Series MVP Stephen Strasburg

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October 31, 2019
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Show HN: I created a (hopefully fast) C++ lib to find words in ASCII sequences
2 by waffenklang | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi, to provide a bit context, I'm the author of a small causal android game called "Squabbel"[1] which is a modern take on a merge of tetris and scrabble. Its core is based around the idea to find strings within a sequence of characters, which is accomplished by using a deterministic finite automaton. Currently I'm working on the successor of Squabbel and I was optimizing the internal search engine and refactored the code to a c++ library which is now available on github https://ift.tt/2ps9FpU The search times are to my needs pretty good and I would love to get some feedback on the performance. Thanks. [1] https://ift.tt/2WtR09p

October 30, 2019
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Show HN: I Created Micro CRM, the CRM for People Who Hate CRMs
3 by charly1811 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hello Community! My name is Charles-Eugene Loubao, I am a software developer who recently turned into an Indie Maker and I am sharing my new product with you today. Micro CRM is a Customer Relationship Managment web app built to be easy to use and intuitive. Most CRMs can be complicated to use and come with an expensive price tag. Micro CRM is built to fill that need for a much simpler and cheaper contact managment platform that offers compeling features without being overwhelming. What can I do with it ? - Keep all your contacts in one place - Timestamped notes can be used to keep track of events associated with your contacts, or as a call log. By getting the Premium Plan you also can also: - Import your existing contacts from Excel CSV files - Organize easily with tags - Create email reminders to help you remember follow-ups What's next ? Micro CRM is in it's early days and I am planning on adding the following features: - Search - Sorting and Filtering - Custom fields - Contact attachments (files, links, images, etc) - Team Collaboration - Possible Integrations (email, calendar, Slack, etc) How much does it cost ? Micro CRM is free to use for manual entry and simple contact managment. The premium plan is $5/month and for a limited time I am offering a free 30 days trial with no credit card required when you create your account. Head to https://microcrm.cc and create your free account today!

October 30, 2019
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Show HN: Beating Hinton et al.'s capsule net with fewer params and less training
4 by fheinsen | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hello HN, I recently posted a work-in-progress paper, along with code necessary for replicating all its results, at: https://ift.tt/36cfoki Among other things, the code in this repo outperforms Hinton et al.'s recent state-of-the-art result in visual recognition[0] while requiring fewer parameters and an order-of-magnitude fewer training epochs . Most of the original research we do at work tends to be either proprietary in nature or tightly coupled to internal code, so we cannot share it with the world. In this case, however, I was able to remove all traces of internal code and release this as stand-alone open-source software without having to disclose any key IP. I've reached out to academics in different groups for feedback, and the response so far has been positive, although most have only skimmed the paper. It will likely take a few weeks to get proper feedback from academia. In the meantime, I figured there are a lot of super-smart, knowledgeable people on HN who would love to take a look at this and share their thoughts. Please feel free to ask questions. Let me know what you think! [0] https://ift.tt/36kuG6i

October 30, 2019
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Show HN: We've built graphics comparison tool
2 by Arek_Lysakowski | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi, I wanted to share with You our project (https://comparere.io/). We have built a website for comparing graphics and designs. The concept is simple, you have to just drag'n drop two designs you are having trouble to pick from. The idea has emarged when we stumbled across many different facebook groups for graphic designers, where they used to sometimes ask the community for help to decide which design is better. I had similar problem too. Hopefully this tool will help graphic/ux designers build/create projects that will appeal to more audiences. We are looking forward to read about your impressions. Any criticism will be appreciated.

October 29, 2019
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Launch HN: Carve (YC S19) – Rent Cars from Local Dealerships
1 by amosgewirtz | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN! We're Amos and Sam, co-founders of Carve. ( https://ift.tt/2khVLny ) Carve is a car sharing marketplace where you can rent cars from local dealerships. So if you don’t own a car but need one for a few days, you can get a car that fits your needs at a reasonable price. We built this product because when we moved to New York after college, we both gave up cars, and even though most places we needed to be were easily accessible via Subway or Lyft, there were still lots of things we wanted to do that we couldn't using public transit or ride share apps. When it came to leaving the city to ski in Vermont or hike upstate, for example, the existing options were all either expensive (Zipcar, Car2Go), inconvenient (Avis, Hertz), or inconsistent (Turo, Getaround). Sam and I are both from the Midwest, so neither of us are strangers to car dealerships—drive ten miles in any direction from our childhood homes and you'll see massive lots filled with cars waiting to be sold. We started speaking with these businesses and realized that keeping all those cars sitting around is really, really expensive. Compounding this problem is the fact that new cars sales are falling and dealership inventory levels are historically high. In response to the issues that dealerships face and the slate of bad rental options, we built a platform on which dealers can list their cars to be rented. It's good for dealers because they can offset financing costs and depreciation of idle inventory without much effort. For renters, it means a short-term rental option that’s on average 30% cheaper any other comparable option, offers a wider selection of cars, and allows for human-free pickup and drop off. It works as follows. First, browse our site for a car. Once you make a reservation, we'll email you an Uber voucher for $20 off your trip to and from the vehicle pickup location (a 24-hour valet lot in the city). When you arrive at the pickup location, show the attendant your reservation email and they'll fetch you your car. Once you’re done with the car, drive back to lot and hand the keys to the attendant. Use the Uber voucher to call a car to bring you back home. At the moment, we're only operating in San Francisco, but we'll be expanding soon to Oakland and LA. If you're in SF, try us out and use the promo code HN10 to get 10% off of any rental! We’d love to get some feedback and are happy to answer questions!

October 28, 2019
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Continue reading Toyo Tires will bring another wild catalog of rides to SEMA

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October 27, 2019
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Launch HN: Mutiny (YC S18) – Website Personalization for B2B Companies
3 by jalehr | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hello everyone! We're Jaleh & Nikhil, the founders of Mutiny (https://ift.tt/343xxP5). We help companies personalize their website for each visitor to close more sales. We are built for b2b companies that are actively growing their website traffic. For the majority of these companies, 97-99% of their visitors don’t convert to a trial or sales conversation. Typically the number 1 reason is that when potential customers come to their site they don’t understand why the product is great for them. This happens because customers from different industries and company sizes are looking for different things when they land on a website and are motivated by different social proof. Mutiny enables b2b companies to dynamically customize the website’s message, images, and call-to-action to match the visitor. For example, one of our customers Amplitude, a product analytics company, changes its website’s customer logos on their pricing page and signup form to match the visitor’s industry. This specific personalization generates 54% more leads. Another customer Carta, an equity management product, changes their homepage headline and messaging to highlight product features that matter most based on the visitor’s company size. They have seen 80% more leads in their smaller customer segments as a result. Mutiny was inspired by our own experience. Nikhil & I were early Gusto employees and helped grow the company from 500 to 50,000 customers such as startups, restaurants and accounting firms. I led marketing & quickly learned that the same marketing message did not work for all the businesses we served, resulting in low conversion rates. This problem got worse as we started to spend more on advertising/content and attracting customers who had never heard of us before. Personalizing the buyer experience helped increase conversion rates, but doing it well required a lot of expertise and engineering work. And after speaking with other marketers and growth teams we realized that virtually every B2B company serves multiple audiences with different needs, but doesn't have sufficient engineering support to personalize their experience. Here’s how it works: Set up: User adds the Mutiny javascript to their website and defines their website conversion events in the Mutiny UI. 1. Understand visitors: We have pre-built data integrations (e.g. Clearbit, Segment, Salesforce, UTM) to identify visitors by their industry, company size, funnel stage, advertising campaign, free user v/s paid user and more. We also display how many visitors fall into each segment and what their conversion is. 2. Prioritize the highest impact segments: Mutiny analyzes visitor traffic, conversion & CRM data to recommend the best audience segments for personalization. It then suggests personalization playbooks that fit with the recommended segment & walks the user through best practices for personalizing each segment’s experience. 3. Personalize any website element: Users can load any page on their website inside Mutiny’s visual editor, and change any html element such as text, image or call-to-action for that segment. 4. Measure results: Every Mutiny experience has an automatic control group that never sees personalization, allowing users to measure the impact of personalized experiences compared to non-personalized. Mutiny is being used by Brex, Segment, Elastic, Amplitude, Carta & others who are seeing 40-200% more leads with Mutiny. Our detailed case studies including screenshots of personalized web pages are available here: https://ift.tt/2N3gLJ2 We have released 30+ personalization playbooks that we have seen work well across b2b companies here: https://ift.tt/2pS5Z0E. If you are a smaller startup with little website traffic, but are actively reaching out to potential customers through email or LinkedIn, check out the “ABM” (Account based Marketing) playbooks. We are super excited to be on HN today and will be around all day to hear about your experiences, any ideas, and feedback you might have.

October 24, 2019
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Show HN: Tab Sharing Without Screencasting
4 by jessegee | 4 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I've developed a Chrome extension that provides tab-sharing functionality without the use of screencasting. The product works by keeping the DOM on a mirrored page in sync with the driver's display. This is achieved by listening for DOM events on the driver's page and relaying them to the mirror as display instructions (e.g. add/remove a node, change attribute, scroll page, etc.). While the mirrored page gets the DOM structure directly from their peer via a WebRTC connection, the bulk of the resources and visible content (e.g. images, fonts, stylesheets, etc.) are downloaded directly from the site being browsed. There are two significant advantages of this technology: 1) Because each peer is rendering the same DOM with all images downloaded from the same source, they see identical, full-resolution displays of the same web page. In contrast, screencasting over limited bandwidth connections often appears as jerky, low-resolution representations. 2) As the peer-to-peer messages sent to maintain page sync tend to be small, the application does not require significant upload bandwidth and can be more performant for users with slower internet connections. To check it out, you will need to create an account, link up with another user, and install the extension. Instructions for doing this can be found at https://ift.tt/2Byn4iK I hope you give it a try and I'd be eager to hear any thoughts, suggestions, or requests!

October 21, 2019
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WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co plans to build a new family of premium electric pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant beginning in late 2021, possibly reviving the imposing Hummer brand on some of them, several people familiar with the plans said. The so-called BT1 electric truck/SUV program is the centerpiece of a planned $3 billion (2.3 billion pounds) investment in the Detroit-Hamtramck plant to make electric trucks and vans, and part

Continue reading Hummer EV could be part of GM's move into electric trucks and SUVs

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October 18, 2019
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Show HN: Simple K8s controller for email/Slack notifications for Velero backups
2 by SkyLinx | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi! Since Velero doesn't have notifications built in yet, I wrote a stupid simple Kubernetes controller in Ruby (!) that implements email and Slack notifications for when a backup or restore is started, and when it's completed. It's very simple but it solves a need I had and other may have too :) https://ift.tt/2VVpdyn

October 18, 2019
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Continue reading 2019 Aston Martin designed by Daniel Craig is this year's Neiman Marcus car

2019 Aston Martin designed by Daniel Craig is this year's Neiman Marcus car originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 18 Oct 2019 09:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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October 18, 2019
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Launch HN: Multis (YC S19): online business bank account for cryptocurrency
7 by tsahaghian | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, We're Théophile and Thibaut, and we're building Multis ( https://multis.co ): an online bank account designed for companies holding cryptocurrency. We're helping them store it, spend it and earn interest. We have been in this industry for the past 3 years. Thibaut used to lead sales at Stratumn, a Nasdaq-backed company helping companies securing their shared workflows through cryptocurrencies. Théo built several decentralized applications before starting the company in 2018. Wallets are the cornerstone of the industry: you need them to store and transact with cryptocurrencies. But these wallets are not designed for business. You cannot perform simple business operations like running a payroll, paying vendors, or earning interest, which you can currently do from your modern business bank account. Cryptocurrencies - and particularly stablecoins - are a reliable, fast and cost-efficient medium of exchange. It’s a technology that enables anyone to move value and assets across borders, with no intermediaries. We believe it can help companies save a lot, since most of them are now actively transacting with partners abroad, from suppliers to foreign contractors. The number of companies building and transacting with cryptocurrencies is growing (e.g. Stateofthedapp listings grew by 250% since 2017), despite still being in its infancy. Most of these companies are operating in the cryptocurrency industry, or are e-merchants willing to reduce payment fees and optimize working capital. These companies struggle to manage their assets and make the most of them. They typically have between 5 and 10 wallets, none of them being designed for a business environment. This makes business spending and accounting still to painful and time-consuming. And cryptocurrencies sit idle, because there are just too many frictions. We realized what was really needed: an application to manage cryptocurrency the same as a modern online business bank account, with features and financial services powered by both crypto and traditional currencies. In short, a crypto-first bank. Here are our main features today: - Store - multi-user wallet with dashboard and transaction history - Pay - spending policies and streamlined payment flows (1) - Exchange - swap 70+ tokens with ethers, dollars and euros (2) - Earn - savings account yielding interest on stablecoins (3) - Soon: EUR and USD bank accounts We will make revenues through commissions on financial services like fiat ramps, and through monthly subscriptions for premium features like accounting exports or fiat accounts. Our goal of making a unified front end that works like a business bank account is challenging to achieve because the various back ends are very heterogenous: - we have two databases: the Ethereum blockchain and Cloud Firestore - we have two backends: smart contracts and Firebase Cloud functions - we have two authentication systems: private keys stored on individual wallets (we're self-custodian) and email addresses - we have two authorization systems: the multisignature contract owners and the owner/guest roles in our security rules - we have two type of assets: cryptogoods and traditional currencies - we will have two storages: IPFS and Firebase Storage You can read more here about our architecture (4) and our approach to security (5). Cryptocurrency is still a recent technology that generates understandable skepticism.The ICO craze did not help. We feel that payment is becoming a tangible use case though, and companies ranging from Facebook to JP Morgan are now actively investing in it. We believe more will join. There are still many uncertainties about regulations, accounting, and each new SEC or FinCEN guidance make the teams' hair turn grey. But things are moving forward on the ground, despite the excess of hype in the space. We want to make Multis useful, so we have one question: what would be the key features and financial services you would expect as a company? They don't have to be related to crypto directly. We'd also love your feedback, your questions and your ideas. Thanks! (1) https://ift.tt/33Hgh1U... (2) https://ift.tt/35FssOI... (3) https://ift.tt/33IWjUN... (4) https://ift.tt/2oPkUs7... (5) https://ift.tt/2VMFR35

October 17, 2019
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