anaskar

Interesting re: Comfort in False Negative Zone

Put another way "Hire for strength not lack of weakness." Put yet another way, the strengths can yield asymmetric upside, while the weaknesses, if truly known and not deal-breakers, could have limited downsides, especially if it's a weakness like "doesn't have x years of experience"

This is awesome. Congratulations on the launch. I can see a number of use cases for Marketing, CS, and Sales orgs

love this! needed this at the last company I worked out. Was always surprised how manual and generally not secure the whole process seemed to me.

thanks! so far the companies we’ve talked to are delaying full-blown reviews as long as possible because of the stage of company they’re in.

We certainly do work very closely with each company to work through their product and integrate as seamlessly as possible. whereas we don’t offer an official security review as of now, it is something we’re considering for the future. would love to chat, DMing you now!

thank you! We’re starting out of the gate with COPPA and will fast-follow with GDPR so we currently cover the United States (in English).

re: spoofing. this is a tough problem to solve and no existing solution guarantees this. we would be able to see suspicious behavior though like multiple verification attempts, time between submission and verification, etc.

Changing regulations is tough. We work with a privacy lawyer to keep us abreast of changing policy and have researchers maintain a database of applicable state, federal, and international laws as well as recent lawsuits.

Financial KYC is interesting for sure. Right now we’re focused on child privacy and very much believe there’s a lot of work to be done there still.

thanks! the laws do change across country lines. while we’re focused on the U.S. right now, we’re actively researching applicable laws in other jurisdictions.

congrats on the launch! this is a really neat implementation and i'm a big fan of honey as well. really slick.

quick note. may want to clean up the testimonials. all 3 are 5 stars, have 3.4k cred, and were posted 2 hrs ago. coincidence or not, comes across as a bit fake.

I was JUST talking about how I wish it was easier to collect customer insights and share them out more broadly in internal newsletters. Kudos. Nailed a serious serious pain point.

Sounds a bit like the Lindy Effect. The idea that the future life expectancy of an idea is directly proportional to its current age.

In this case, old books that have lasted till the present day have a lot higher likelihood of having staying power in the future.

What's the service? If it's a local one, you're way better off doing it in a market that you are familiar with (your hometown). Not sure what you really mean by "not known for startups" and that shouldn't matter. If your app provides a useful service, people will use it.

There are many other unknowns launching in a city you are entirely unfamiliar with, especially if you have to move there.

It comes back to what the app actually does. Do you have to be in the city to launch it? Is there an offline component of it? If the answer is yes, stay home.

Congratulations on the launch. This is a rare instance where the combination of cost, technology, and ease of use makes this solution 10x better than the status quo and a no-brainer.

How extensible is this to other tests? Is it just a matter of pilots and trials or are there certain tests that are too sensitive for computer vision to reliably assess?

What % of the diagnostics market is urine-based versus blood-based?

This is great! This is sort of like how Clear brokers deals with airports to expedite security, except for more interesting and complicated airport processes.

Could have used this coming back from Rome to the United States via Spain. Ended up going through customs 4 times just to make a transfer.

Curious how difficult it was to do this for 500+ airports so quickly, especially since you're a private company and operating beyond security gates in an era of permanently heightened security.

from what I've seen at Google specifically, when hiring for team talent, acquihires are typically performed in a binary fashion -- they take everybody who wants to go, without going through the regular screening process.

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While this is exciting, this is not always a good thing.

Two years ago, we tried this at Homejoy as an incentives for the cleaners to get 5 stars.ie. If you get 5's on your appointment, we'll pay you out the same day. We did this manually via Stripe, of course.

Efficacy of the incentive aside (it didn't actually have an impact on 5s), we cut this program for two reasons:

1) Transaction cost, as many users pointed out

2) Unpredictability - most of the workers on our marketplace preferred the predictability of weekly or biweekly payouts, even if the size of those payouts varied. It's hard enough for people to manage personal finances on a regular schedule without the added headache of getting money instantly, or daily.