Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Show HN: Europe Covid-19 cases at a glance https://bit.ly/2NVZ6Hr
Show HN: Europe Covid-19 cases at a glance https://bit.ly/2DA8eMM February 2, 2021 at 09:36PM
Show HN: GPT-3 Demo https://bit.ly/3rfNgGr
Show HN: GPT-3 Demo https://bit.ly/3jcaafl February 2, 2021 at 08:33PM
Show HN: Snazzy AI – Generate Copy with GPT3 https://bit.ly/3tk3SyC
Show HN: Snazzy AI – Generate Copy with GPT3 https://bit.ly/3pIMX6S February 2, 2021 at 07:29PM
Launch HN: Routable (YC S17) – Scale payouts without building in-house tools https://bit.ly/3areN10
Launch HN: Routable (YC S17) – Scale payouts without building in-house tools Hey HN! I’m Omri and I co-founded Routable ( https://bit.ly/3ape40l ) with Tom Harel. We are a business payments platform built to make bill payments and mass payouts fast and seamless, especially as your company scales. We were in YC's S17 batch, but are doing a Launch HN now because we recently completed a huge integration with NetSuite, which will help larger enterprises automate their business payment workflows. Tom and I started working on Routable in early 2017. The idea was sparked while we were eating hummus in Tel Aviv. When we first met up, we had no intention of spending years of our lives trying to figure out how to make bill payments and invoicing easier. But we realized after a three hour conversation that at our two different marketplace companies we had both spent 40% of our engineering resources on building internal tooling to pay out sellers, drivers, restaurants, etc. After we realized we'd experienced the same pain at different startups, we asked ourselves, “what did we do wrong?” Was there a solution that worked across finance, engineering, and operations that we were simply not aware of? To find out, we interviewed over 300 people - CFOs, VPs of Finance, Heads of Engineering, you name it - to understand how businesses scaled their business payouts and invoicing (think: growing from 1,000 payments per month to 400,000+ payments per month). The two main answers we received were: (a) Like us, they'd spent thousands of hours and engineering dollars to build an in-house internal tool, on top of processors, and wrote their own custom integration to an ERP; or (b) they hired an army of overqualified individuals to run daily data entry across thousands of bill payments and invoices (which was tedious, not to mention very expensive). These conversations confirmed what we had suspected: There was no tool for easy payments that worked across multiple departments. We realized that what we had built at our marketplace start-ups could potentially help hundreds of other companies. In 6 weeks we spun up a Routable MVP and were making money for customers. Today, we're deployed across some of the largest marketplaces and gig economy companies. We’ve focused on working with engineering and finance departments as much as possible to save them from building custom in-house solutions. Our recent integration with NetSuite has been by far the hardest we’ve done – especially since we built it on top of a SOAP API and extended native functionality with SuiteScript – but it was worth it, because we gained a deep appreciation for how complex enterprise business payment operations can be. To make sure we “got it right,” we again did plenty of customer development interviews to best understand what data needs to go into and out of NetSuite, and made sure to record each interview so we could share their unique pain points with our engineering team. Before we wrote the first line of code, we interviewed a bunch of NetSuite users and learned what was lacking in other NetSuite integrations out there: tools that only synced in one direction, needing to recreate fields multiple in different platforms, processes that were breaking because the workflow had changed in your ERP, but not in your AP software. The one thing we learned throughout this whole process is that once you build an integration to an ERP, you’re never really done, so we expect as a team to forever tinker on sending data back and forth with the goal of continuously improving our integration and hopefully saving our customers 30 seconds to 10 minutes of work at a time. Thank you for reading this story - I hope it was interesting. We’d love to hear your feedback about Routable, your experiences in this space, and answer any questions you have! February 2, 2021 at 07:05PM
Show HN: Collect Customer Feedback with a QR Code https://bit.ly/3rcSkLO
Show HN: Collect Customer Feedback with a QR Code https://bit.ly/2NUofSN February 2, 2021 at 06:36PM
Launch HN: Zaraz (YC W20) – Use third-party tools without slowing your website https://bit.ly/36yGxj0
Launch HN: Zaraz (YC W20) – Use third-party tools without slowing your website Hi HN! We're Yair and Yo'av of Zaraz ( https://bit.ly/2YCkMKP ). We make websites faster by loading their third-party stack in an optimized way. By “third-party” we mean utilities or additional products you add to your website (eg. analytics), not things you build your website with (eg. React). Before we started this we worked on opposite sides of this battle for third-party inclusion: Yair was working for the folks asking to implement just-one-more analytics tool, while Yo'av was a developer trying (and often failing) to push back. Avoiding bloat to begin with would be preferable, but anyone working for even a medium-sized company knows how hard that is - usually when a higher up agrees to try or add a new tool, resistance is futile. Hence the question becomes, can you do it without harming your performance? The average US top 5,000 website loads 22 different third-party tools - analytics, customer success, marketing and whatnot. We wrote a bot that scanned these websites and discovered that third-parties account for 40% of their “Time to Interactive”, and other metrics like TBT, FCP, FID and CLS were hurt in a similar way. From the user perspective, the page usually behaves exactly the same without these tools (...except 40% faster). These new metrics are becoming more popular for two reasons. Firstly, users actually feel them - unlike events such as "DOMContentLoad" & "Load" that can be triggered long before the user can actually do anything, these metrics provide a much better proxy to the real user experience. Secondly, with Google soon penalizing slow websites, they're becoming more and more important for SEO. We see the growing popularity of these metrics as a good thing. We want a faster web. Nowadays, the most common way to integrate a third-party into your website is either to just paste its `
Show HN: HTTP2SQL – Query any SQL database directly from an HTTP request https://bit.ly/2Mr5vKo
Show HN: HTTP2SQL – Query any SQL database directly from an HTTP request https://bit.ly/3tsmtZJ February 2, 2021 at 02:52PM
Show HN: Cardi – store your notes for free in AWS DynamoDB https://bit.ly/2MKu5pw
Show HN: Cardi – store your notes for free in AWS DynamoDB https://bit.ly/3tmdSaE February 2, 2021 at 02:15PM
Show HN: LAN Party VPN – Run a VPN on Top of Discord https://bit.ly/3rfBGuY
Show HN: LAN Party VPN – Run a VPN on Top of Discord https://bit.ly/3oAP7UE February 2, 2021 at 12:48PM
Show HN: Incidents.sh – A modern “days since last incident” timer https://bit.ly/3cxFTGd
Show HN: Incidents.sh – A modern “days since last incident” timer https://bit.ly/36R3m1N February 2, 2021 at 11:50AM
Show HN: PrivaNote – offline first, end-to-end encrypted notes https://bit.ly/3awFnpE
Show HN: PrivaNote – offline first, end-to-end encrypted notes https://bit.ly/36xazna February 2, 2021 at 09:21AM
Show HN: Swap Faces with Emojis (With AI) https://bit.ly/3cFvXKO
Show HN: Swap Faces with Emojis (With AI) https://bit.ly/39CGqos February 2, 2021 at 09:19AM
Show HN: An Index for Data Sets on Ethereum https://bit.ly/2YCK2k4
Show HN: An Index for Data Sets on Ethereum https://bit.ly/2YzztOC February 2, 2021 at 09:14AM
Monday, 1 February 2021
Show HN: Time tracking with plain text files https://bit.ly/2LdWALQ
Show HN: Time tracking with plain text files https://bit.ly/3oCEzVa February 2, 2021 at 12:59AM
Show HN: I wrote a rust program to translate images into textual line art https://bit.ly/3thfv9w
Show HN: I wrote a rust program to translate images into textual line art https://bit.ly/39Bxi3E January 31, 2021 at 08:19AM
Show HN: Blogline – A blogging app with privacy in mind. Should I bother? https://bit.ly/3oIX5eh
Show HN: Blogline – A blogging app with privacy in mind. Should I bother? https://bit.ly/3an4lre February 2, 2021 at 12:29AM
Show HN: Gistfinder. CLI tool to fuzzy-search your gists from the terminal https://bit.ly/3pAVmsS
Show HN: Gistfinder. CLI tool to fuzzy-search your gists from the terminal https://bit.ly/3asMCyL February 2, 2021 at 12:27AM
Show HN: Only Sheets, Sell Access to Any Google Sheet https://bit.ly/39Chai5
Show HN: Only Sheets, Sell Access to Any Google Sheet https://bit.ly/2MhkJ4N February 1, 2021 at 11:59PM
Show HN: LogoMor: a 3D Logo interpreter and visualizer https://bit.ly/3rasJmK
Show HN: LogoMor: a 3D Logo interpreter and visualizer https://bit.ly/3ao8xqT February 1, 2021 at 11:49PM
Show HN: ZeroAndy – Watch clips from small Twitch streamers https://bit.ly/3aEcmsb
Show HN: ZeroAndy – Watch clips from small Twitch streamers https://bit.ly/3thM9Ih February 1, 2021 at 11:02PM
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