Upsolve (YC W19) | Senior Software Engineer | Remote US | Full Time | https://upsolve.org Upsolve is a nonprofit that helps low-income and working-class families improve their financial situation through free online…
We review the web presence of a business as our core product offering for payment processors, etc. as they look to onboard ecomm merchants. This (and techniques like it) make a great way to find scummy actors and have a…
I've found rapidfuzz to be a good, digestable C/Python integration. It's especially nice as the algorithms implemented in C frequently have good pseudocode or other language representations, so you can reference really…
Seriously. As an engineer and engineering leader, I cannot maintain focus to code, sit in meetings, and a variety of other tasks for more than 2-3 hours without a break. It is good to get up, move around, catch up on…
ZoomInfo is in the same general area on quality and the price per record is competitive, but they have historically required a high minimum annual spend and have a reputation for litigiousness. There are a few other…
For a typical db.t3.xlarge instance, you're talking about 29c/hour vs 27.2c per hour. That's $157.68 as the total difference for one year's runtime, when the whole instance cost for postgres would be $2540.4 for the…
Generally speaking, it's inadvisable to 'discard' migrations with django. If the migration set is getting too large, the general practice is to 'squash' migrations, which is a django-supported function for merging the…
I think this is a really naive idea, I think you're seriously underestimating the level of complexity in a real estate transaction. You're dealing with what is for many people is the most impactful and expensive…
Our latest release should have more clear language on airports and 'All London Area Airports' as opposed to 'City of London Airports'. The point about multiple airlines should also be addressed. Your point about at a…
Thanks. Our roadmap isn't currently public, but this is on it. That being said, this is a medium-term priority, so definitely not something coming in the next couple weeks.
Works in all Chromium browsers actually. Support for Firefox and Safari is on the way, but does require some more work.
As a simple example, United probably isn't going to offer a flight where one leg is on United and another is on American. Yet, it might be substantially cheaper or less painful to take that flight. Certain codeshares…
Your gut reaction is not wrong. That being said, I think it's wise to pick the right time to leverage this capability. Our resources are extremely limited at the moment in comparison to one of the most aggressively…
I don't know which is the biggest, there are a lot of known unknowns still floating around. Will we run out of money before we monetize? Will we have to deal with constant lawsuits? Will other innovators in the space…
I don't think this is a big city thing. I live in a medium sized city in the states and I hate going to the airport. 20-30m commute there, parking, walk, wait in line, go through the scanner, inevitable pat downs, cinch…
Thanks for the feedback. Re: codes: yup, that's a bug and will be fixed (or at least the obvious one will be...) Re: performance - this is on our radar, and we'll keep chipping away at making things a little better as…
We don't handle the booking, we redirect you to the travel site that we found the best price on. Many online travel search agencies and metasearch sites can put together itineraries the airlines don't offer directly.
There are a few reasons: 1.) When a user reports an issue to us, it is much easier to find any issues in our error reporting stack. if we have their name and email address attached to the issue as opposed to asking them…
I think I've gotten them all. Appreciate you bringing this to my attention!
Candidly, the Firefox extension framework is significantly nicer. Blam'ing chrome.runtime.lastError. There's a lot of small amounts of work to get everything working right using the webext module. We're slowly chipping…
The short answer is because certain airlines behave in ways I can best describe as 'scummy'. Some airlines are now demanding anti-consumer provisions when they do deals with travel sites, such as insisting that sites…
A big part of why we're crowdfunding is to be able to grow the team and support more platforms (e.g. Desktop Firefox & Safari, mobile devices)
There shouldn't be any reference to a subscription. Can you let me know where you saw one? We used to have this setup as a paid extension, but pivoted away as that business model didn't work as well as we'd have liked.…
I tested locally with noscript installed. After giving the extension permissions to run scripts, everything worked for me. If you've blocked FlightPenguin, chrome extensions, or any of the sites we collect data from,…
Adding alliances is on our near term roadmap. Should be live before the end of the month. Feel free to drop me an email (max AT flightpenguin DOT com) and I'll let you know when it's out.
Upsolve (YC W19) | Senior Software Engineer | Remote US | Full Time | https://upsolve.org Upsolve is a nonprofit that helps low-income and working-class families improve their financial situation through free online…
We review the web presence of a business as our core product offering for payment processors, etc. as they look to onboard ecomm merchants. This (and techniques like it) make a great way to find scummy actors and have a…
I've found rapidfuzz to be a good, digestable C/Python integration. It's especially nice as the algorithms implemented in C frequently have good pseudocode or other language representations, so you can reference really…
Seriously. As an engineer and engineering leader, I cannot maintain focus to code, sit in meetings, and a variety of other tasks for more than 2-3 hours without a break. It is good to get up, move around, catch up on…
ZoomInfo is in the same general area on quality and the price per record is competitive, but they have historically required a high minimum annual spend and have a reputation for litigiousness. There are a few other…
For a typical db.t3.xlarge instance, you're talking about 29c/hour vs 27.2c per hour. That's $157.68 as the total difference for one year's runtime, when the whole instance cost for postgres would be $2540.4 for the…
Generally speaking, it's inadvisable to 'discard' migrations with django. If the migration set is getting too large, the general practice is to 'squash' migrations, which is a django-supported function for merging the…
I think this is a really naive idea, I think you're seriously underestimating the level of complexity in a real estate transaction. You're dealing with what is for many people is the most impactful and expensive…
Our latest release should have more clear language on airports and 'All London Area Airports' as opposed to 'City of London Airports'. The point about multiple airlines should also be addressed. Your point about at a…
Thanks. Our roadmap isn't currently public, but this is on it. That being said, this is a medium-term priority, so definitely not something coming in the next couple weeks.
Works in all Chromium browsers actually. Support for Firefox and Safari is on the way, but does require some more work.
As a simple example, United probably isn't going to offer a flight where one leg is on United and another is on American. Yet, it might be substantially cheaper or less painful to take that flight. Certain codeshares…
Your gut reaction is not wrong. That being said, I think it's wise to pick the right time to leverage this capability. Our resources are extremely limited at the moment in comparison to one of the most aggressively…
I don't know which is the biggest, there are a lot of known unknowns still floating around. Will we run out of money before we monetize? Will we have to deal with constant lawsuits? Will other innovators in the space…
I don't think this is a big city thing. I live in a medium sized city in the states and I hate going to the airport. 20-30m commute there, parking, walk, wait in line, go through the scanner, inevitable pat downs, cinch…
Thanks for the feedback. Re: codes: yup, that's a bug and will be fixed (or at least the obvious one will be...) Re: performance - this is on our radar, and we'll keep chipping away at making things a little better as…
We don't handle the booking, we redirect you to the travel site that we found the best price on. Many online travel search agencies and metasearch sites can put together itineraries the airlines don't offer directly.
There are a few reasons: 1.) When a user reports an issue to us, it is much easier to find any issues in our error reporting stack. if we have their name and email address attached to the issue as opposed to asking them…
I think I've gotten them all. Appreciate you bringing this to my attention!
Candidly, the Firefox extension framework is significantly nicer. Blam'ing chrome.runtime.lastError. There's a lot of small amounts of work to get everything working right using the webext module. We're slowly chipping…
The short answer is because certain airlines behave in ways I can best describe as 'scummy'. Some airlines are now demanding anti-consumer provisions when they do deals with travel sites, such as insisting that sites…
A big part of why we're crowdfunding is to be able to grow the team and support more platforms (e.g. Desktop Firefox & Safari, mobile devices)
There shouldn't be any reference to a subscription. Can you let me know where you saw one? We used to have this setup as a paid extension, but pivoted away as that business model didn't work as well as we'd have liked.…
I tested locally with noscript installed. After giving the extension permissions to run scripts, everything worked for me. If you've blocked FlightPenguin, chrome extensions, or any of the sites we collect data from,…
Adding alliances is on our near term roadmap. Should be live before the end of the month. Feel free to drop me an email (max AT flightpenguin DOT com) and I'll let you know when it's out.