Put another HomePod in the same room, and the two automatically detect and balance each other — for sound that’s even more lifelike.
AirPlay 2.
Add HomePod to more rooms.
When you add HomePod to multiple rooms, the speakers communicate with each other through AirPlay 2 — so you can play your music all around the house. You can also control any other AirPlay 2‑compatible speakers."
They discussed multi-room audio during iOS Homekit updates and Airplay-2. The HomePod is listed as supporting Airplay-2 at bottom of page. Maybe I missed it, but there was less about multi-zone and grouping different speakers to different zones.
We have SaaS aimed at developers[1] (platform for coding/hosting chatbots) and have tried 3 major prongs to getting our first 100 users (in order of usefulness)
- Meetups
- Content marketing
- Adwords
By far the best is our meetup group. We host a weekly meetup[2] series where we go through the platform and framework and help people write their first bots. It's nice because it also allows us to see how people are using our platform and where the rough edges are. This has been invaluable in quickly fixing small bugs that are meaningful to new devs. Some stuff we wouldn't have even noticed through analytics. We're working on getting better follow-up engagement. We have about 5-10% come back week after week.
We write entries on our blog[3] and post links to a few places (FB groups, twitter) and it's helped out too with recognition. Though our conversion from people signing up for an account from the blog is about 3%. We try a mix of posts that range from non-developer focused to developer focused. We host on medium and have had success with medium's tags and getting readership from other medium articles and the suggested articles bar on the bottom.
Adwords is almost useless at this point, though neither of us has had any prior experience so it could just be us not using the tools to their full potential.
Finally we've gone to 1 conference, NY Techday a few weeks ago. We handed out ~150 business cards and >250 stickers. I think we may have generated 3-4 leads. It was exciting that a few people recognized us from the blog and posting in FB groups, so that was a good reinforcement to keep posting on the blog.
> Adwords is almost useless at this point, though neither of us has had any prior experience so it could just be us not using the tools to their full potential.
For our B2C company, AdWords turned out to be a stable revenue driver for us. I had little experience in it (I'm a software engineer) and it took about $3k burned over 60 days to really understand how to build a profitable acquisition model using AdWords. I bought a couple books and worked on a bunch of multi-variant testing. I eventually obtained a sustainable and predictable process of obtaining revenue.
Never use AdWords Express, spend about 160 hours minimum of learning how marketing and PPC works, and use only data to drive decisions. ROI comes 4 months later when first starting out. If you're an engineer, AdWords API is a really useful to combine CRM and user data to discover new keywords and personas.
We're having great luck using traefik (https://traefik.io) as a kubernetes ingress, we just couldn't get nginx working well and ever since the switch it's been rock-solid.
Traefik is amazing - you can add it as a service with almost no config and get http2, https (with good defaults), letsencrypt and auto-discovery of services
Traefik was written before haproxy had hot reloading configuration in 1.7
It does one thing and does it well - auto configured and discoverable lb and proxying designed to run in container environments
Easy to get running, easy to know everything it can do and without much effort it gets a lot accomplished
Not that nginx and HAProxy still don't have their place, but if you want to front a docker swarm or k8 stack traefik is just easy whereas nginx/haproxy have to be configured for that task
We decided to give everyone a laptop so hopefully we just need to hand her the wifi password and she can enjoy the unboxing and new laptop smell!
Great idea on giving an industry/market intro! I was also thinking of trying to give a large overview on a whiteboard of the architecture of the entire system then slowly cover each area so she has an understanding of how her pieces will interact with everything else.
Do you feel it's important to have a production-running commit (no matter how small) in the first week to start feeling ownership?
Regarding production-running commit - No, not really. She should definitely be working on something serious before the end of the first week, but it doesn't have to de deployed necessarily. Depends on the type of product you have. If it's a SaaS with rolling release, sure why not.
Fynd — NYC, NY — Frontend web dev (fullstack) — ONSITE Full-time or Intern
Fynd is the personal shopper for everyone. People hate having to open tabs with different online stores and browse page after page of results. Fynd curates the best fashion stores from around the web and gives everyone a personal shopper that you control with a simple set of likes.
We’re looking for employee #1. Fynd is seed-funded and we have a prototype that we’re getting great responses to. You’ll be our second developer and will have a significant say in the product and the technologies we use. If you’ve been dreaming of being part of a startup from the very beginning, here’s your chance. Compensation includes base salary, benefits and significant equity.
We’re looking for a front-end engineer, especially if you can go full-stack. We’re a dynamic fast moving team and need someone who can completely own parts of the product and knows when to go with the stable and proven tech, and when to go with newest and shiniest.
Do you have strong opinions on developing for the web in 2016? Do you care deeply about usability of the web? Do you love data? Love fashion?
While I was traveling in Patagonia I was using Instagram to tell a visual story with some pretty long captions, but internet was spotty or non-existent. Since Instagram didn't have a draft feature and I kept having to keep notes and remember to post them along with the photos (this never worked out very well). So when I came back to the states I decided to write this quick little utility hoping it would help some other people traveling in spotty internet areas.
I also never knew which hashtags were popular so I wrote a little hashtag exploration feature that shows how many posts a hashtag has and similar hashtags to the selected one.
Finally there's a quick map feature that let's you quickly (re)set the location of the photo.
I agree this is a bit of a stretch as an example, but yes people do drop stuff on climbers. Still an interesting story and maybe a good sign that even the smallest objects (drones or boulders) can lead to a runaway effect on a cliff. Thankfully though, it does have to be a "one in a million" coincidence to hurt someone.
