griffinkelly

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Co-founder of TRAC, W16. Founder of Flashframe. VP of Engineering at Caper, W16. International Enterprise Solutions at Instacart, S12. CEO of Grapes Studio.
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Comment · 2 months ago
There's regular DEN to COS flights by United, every hour on the hour. Sometimes can be faster than driving, would be a great one to replace. Also ORD to MKE. A lot of small routes that are about 100 miles that are equally inconvenient to drive.
Comment · 4 months ago
Tax Rails | Ruby on Rails Engineer | Full-Time | REMOTE (UTC−8 to UTC+2) | $85k – $125k + Equity + benefits | https://taxrails.com

Tax Rails is building TurboTax for payroll taxes — we simplify the payroll tax processes like e-filing and election filings into clean APIs. We're hiring a senior Rails engineer (4–10 yrs) to own features end-to-end: modeling gnarly tax workflows, document generation, e-file pipelines. Care about correctness — in tax, "mostly right" isn't right. No tax background needed.

Email griffin [at] taxrails [dot] com with a short note, resume, and something you've built.

Comment · 5 months ago
I very recently started reading Meditations after having read Aristotle, Plato, but never any of the stoics. I think he's the one leader that come's closest to Plato's philosopher king. While he surely wasn't a perfect leader, its a great insight into how he thought about ruling and how he was trying to be a better person/leader.
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Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah, that's the idea here. You can vibe code, and then the usual places where folks get stuck, you can jump in and use the drag and drop.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think that's the best part of what we've built--while you still can use an LLM to do that. You can also just use the drag and drop editor to figure it out and make that change without spending AI credits to do so. You also can just edit the code directly and make the change too in our editor.
Comment · 1 year ago
To build off of what artf said, the biggest thing against WP is really pricing. From speaking to folks, they get nickled and dimed for plugins. They also cant migrate to less expensive options.

I think we've taken the best parts of what folks like Lovable have created (one click deployment and chat to do anything), but built the drag and drop functionality into it-- which is something people have come to depend on. From what I've seen, the uptake of AI into the non-ai site builders has been very slow because they all have proprietary JSON formats.

Comment · 2 years ago
Second the recommendation for Kanary. Formerly had a lot of inbound spam, has seriously cut it.
Comment · 2 years ago
Having worked predominantly in startups, we've almost always been cash-constrained in hiring. Some of the best hires I've found are highly motivated fresh grads or recent grads. I always look for the desire to prove themselves and take charge and full responsibility of a project; a majority of the times, money is secondary to these folks to the ability to make a difference and prove you're capable of completing something difficult. And ultimately, that's always something a startup can offer a young employee. That said, I've often had to teach them foundational things, but the desire to learn and get moving quickly outweighs any cons.

When I've been at big companies, it's all about experience and grey hair, and people become more motivated by money and low risk. I find many times, the quality of the average person at a big company is lower than the average startup fresh grad.

Comment · 3 years ago
I'm in the Air National Guard, and its very much a thing. Typically at the beginning or end of a brief/meeting when you're about to go out and do something.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's been funny to me that the mileage calculations oftentimes have no tie to the trip mileage--I'm a civilian pilot and often track the flight via foreflight. I'm a frequent filer on United, and I've often wondered the crazy math they come up with to get the number of 'miles' I earned--as the article says I think its purely based off of dollars now despite United also having 'premier qualifying points' which is directly tied to dollars spent.

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