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Thanks! We actually found a really good adviser that is a general contractor in the area which has been super helpful. He's definitely ahead of the curve in terms of technology adoption in this space but we all feel this is where things are heading.

Co-founder here. If you want to check out the automated scheduling, click the link for the demo. Both of the sample projects are being scheduled using the scheduler. Edit the tasks to change the duration or other restrictions and the schedules will all be automatically updated.

Happy to answer any questions about how we built it, our tech stack, or what it's like doing a startup with your wife :)

After going through two remodels that lived up to the old adage of 50% over time and 50% over budget, my wife and I decided that there had to be a better way. We created LevelStory to provide more transparency in the process for clients while at the same time reducing mistakes and increasing margins for contractors.

While we built it with general contractors in mind, we think it would work great for the do-it-yourselfer as well. Priced affordably with no monthly fees, you can track all the details on your own schedule.

After going through two remodels that lived up to the old adage of 50% over time and 50% over budget, my wife and I decided that there had to be a better way. We created LevelStory to provide more transparency in the process for clients while at the same time reducing mistakes and increasing margins for contractors.

I've learned a lot from these forums over the years and am excited to finally be able to do our own Show HN. Happy to answer any questions about what it's like doing a startup with your wife, our somewhat unusual tech stack (we bet on Neo4j early), or advice on how to make sure you end up with a good contractor for your next project.

Uber doesn't make enough from fares to be profitable, they use investors' money to heavily subsidize them. Once the investor money runs out, Uber won't be able to pay drivers unless they jack up prices considerably. Once they are no longer price competitive, customers will move to other services.

Turns out the car service business isn't very sticky at all (even the drivers work for multiple companies...). Drivers start to leave and the downward spiral begins. They just couldn't get to self driving vehicles fast enough - which may be why they were trying to borrow technology from Google.

I'm pretty sure Amazon already does this - prices are different based on your location and purchase history at the very least. Sometimes its obvious but other times they will just push a different seller to the top of the list which effectively changes the price. You can chalk it up to their 'dynamic pricing' but it always seems to favor me over my wife (the majority of our purchases go through my account).

Zillow is a Seattle company, or are all tech companies just considered to be part of Silicon Valley now?

This was a similar promise with the Angular digest cycle. I'll take verbose boiler plate over that any day.

I've been a part of many usability studies with 'drag and drop' editors and as easy as we tried and make it, it was still coding. People with coding experience do well, people without coding experience struggle. The other interesting thing we learned is that the macro writer and macro user are very often not the same person. Power users create macros that other users then take advantage of. Needing a physical hardware device for these types of macros might make this type of sharing much harder.

Unfortunately that is also the case with Angular v2. The API surface is enormous.

Not yet. Seems like there is a loose plan to start implementing some of those optimizations once fiber lands in React 16.

Would be great if you took a few minutes to improve the article then. Reducing the cultural bias of Wikipedia happens the same way as improving Wikipedia in general, one article at a time.