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- The person you replied to only commented about burnout, not about who deserves healthcare.
- Because homeless people wearing their company’s merch, in your minds, would further degrade the company’s image? Or something else? I’m an anonymous internet stranger, but I invite you to think about what you’re actually saying, and whether it reflects true views you wish to hold.
- We search for universal, objective, pithy summaries of messy, complicated situations. Both of the following seem to be true:
1. It would be effectively impossible for someone from a disadvantaged background to start Amazon, Microsoft, or Facebook.
2. Bezos, Gates, Zuck are extraordinary business people who achieved what 99.9% of their peers would be unable to achieve from the same starting point.
I'm not sure why we keep debating whether these guys are good or bad, impressive or not, as some sort of universal truth.
- Thanks for the reply. I'll flesh out my thought process in case it's helpful. My immediate reaction was excitement about the abstraction. An example use case is joining my users to their corresponding Stripe Customers in SQL. The kinds of queries I can reasonably write depend on implementation details of the connector. For example, if Stripe has a bulk customer lookup (list of customer IDs -> Customers), and the connector uses it, I can estimate I'd be able to query on the order of 500 Users at a time in a performant way. But if the API only supports looking up one customer at a time, that 500 User query kicks off 500 API requests, which isn't going to work.
You're right -- it's not unexpected -- maybe more like a leaky abstraction.
- Sorry I couldn't figure this out from the docs, but Stripe data is queried "live" from Stripe, right? The abstraction is great, but won't this lead to unexpected N API calls when joining across my domain + Stripe?
- It's funny to observe the tide shift against Stripe on HN in recent years. I think they are a phenomenal, once in a generation company. Their APIs are beautiful (still, even though fewer people agree these days) and the use cases that can be built upon those APIs are endless and amazing. I always felt the pricing was a steal for what the product delivered.
Their support, on the other hand :(. ! Maybe it will get better with advances in LLMs, because I'd be shocked if I was ever talking to a human.
- Do you mean "heel"?
- This looks cool. Congrats on the launch and progress so far!
As one piece of feedback, the docs could be better. For example, at https://docs.tryvital.io/api-reference/data/workouts/#stream, I see "Get Daily Activity for user_id", but the endpoint seems to actually return time series data for a single workout. I see a bunch of oversights of this flavor.
Similarly, I'm not sure how pagination works or should work. In one list query, I see a result set of size 100. I'm not sure whether this is because only 100 items were pulled from the provider, or whether I can see more using pagination. Maybe this is in the docs, but I haven't seen it.
It would be good to have some provider-specific documentation to answer questions are set expectations around things like 1) how much historical data is available 2) details about the integration and its stability. For example, I assume with Peloton you are logging in with my credentials and using their internal API. Is this against their terms of service? Is there a risk of this breaking if they change their internal API, which obviously doesn't have the same governance considerations a public API would?
Nice work overall!
- I find it hard to evaluate "no code" as a monolith. In some cases, if you can't think like a programmer, the fact that your "code" doesn't look like "code" isn't going to help you. However, (having clicked through to your twitter), I am familiar with Courier, and agree it is brilliant[1][2].
[1] No affiliation
[2] I've built complex notifications systems myself and think Courier is a beautiful solution for coders and non coders alike.
- That's for usage, but aren't auth requests going to Kable too?
- Hey Colin
> We also support auth across N subdomains
I read this to mean you support a session on a.domain.com being valid for b.domain.com -- but you still don't support the same email address tied to different users at different subdomains, correct?
- Nice launch. How does this compare to clerk.dev?
- FYI your API docs page (https://docs.rownd.io/apiandsdks/#/rest) linked from the footer is throwing 500s.
- Interesting. I've had the opposite experience. Stripe is my favorite company, and I look to them constantly as inspiration for how to do things in my business, but their support is comically bad -- wrong, clueless, and, in some cases, actively misleading.
The developer chat room is awesome and helpful. Maybe that's what you're talking about?
- Surely the publication's location and readership are the salient factors, and not the article's topic? Or should the article be in Italian because it is about Italy?
- This is really cool! I would have liked to have incorporated this into my vaccine appointment slot finder tool a few months ago. I like using git commits for change tracking too. Seems not dissimilar (though not identical) to what they're doing at Dolt (https://www.dolthub.com/).
- I have mixed feelings about pricing that scales with revenue. Most pricing ends up working this way, but at least when it's expressed as seats or usage it's a bit easier to justify the price tag. Revenue scaling pricing reads to me as "We'll give you the same thing, but you're making more, so pay us more." I simultaneously understand it, and it feels dirty to me, hence the mixed feelings.
If you suspect anything is exaggerated, you can look to dozens of videos posted online of how these people act and speak. They roll in caravans of unmarked SUVs. Last week they rolled up to an elementary school (https://www.reddit.com/user/rubinass3/comments/1ol319f/ice_d...).
[Here](https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1986936912134000877) is a particularly hard to watch video of ICE tackling a nonverbal man.
Things feel bad to me in a way (I suppose I'm fortunate to be able to say) they haven't until now. I normally can see the "other side" of issues but I can't fathom how this is what anybody wants. I'm angry and I'm sad.
If there's a silver lining, the community is fired up. The mayor of Evanston talked with an awesome woman who was detained while peacefully protesting (https://danielbiss.substack.com/p/daniel-biss-talks-with-det...). It's a weird and sad time.