>It feels you are seeking validation on a compensation scheme that's at least equal that most corporations and bring nothing new to plate, nor is any more fair than what everyone else is doing.

I think this is a great point, because exec's are not included in this pricing calculator. I think they totally should be.

From the article and some other links I think the company is doing a great marketing campaign during a time where salaries and pay is a hot topic.

I do not think salaries should be paid based on location, especially if the team is remote. Everyone is in the room (zoom room) and they should be paid on their skillset and value they bring to the team. Using location allows the company to focus on cost. This points to the fact they will be located in LOW cost of living locations, using fair calculator is the justification for lower salaries. Which links back to

> If we start giving crazy high US salaries by default in remote, I'm personally afraid we're going to replicate the San Francisco phenomenon over and over, to cities elsewhere in the world.

We should be giving employees higher salary based on the value they bring to the company. If the engineer from Argentina is more productive and bringing more value to the team but they are paid much lower than a team member in the US, this will cause internal conflict but the only person gaining is the company from the margin they will make from that employees contribution to their overall cost.

Yeah, OP seems to not understand why San Fransisco(and tech hubs in general) real state is hot. I'm line with you, this is just a marketing piece, with low effort, made up excuses for why not paying people in 3rd world countries fairly.

Congrats on quitting your job! Thats a goal of mine as well, and I really like NsLookup and how the page is structured. I have used domainbigdata.com a lot and like how they show Other TLDs.

I've been trying to find tools that would show other domains that are owned or associated with the domain that was searched. I work with a lot of sales leads and I think having information on other domains a company owns is super powerful for mapping companies and also understand company acquisitions, most companies transfer ownership of domains when they are purchased.

I have a question and ask:

1. There are quite a few tools online that do the same thing, long term what is your goal to differentiate? or where do you want to focus?

2. Other TLDs or Other Associated Domains, is this something that you would be able to find?

3. Can you determine from a DNS search if a domain is owned by a company or by a non-corporate entity (Blog, personal)?

Also from your blog post, I don't know if you were looking for any responses but:

Plan B - Stage 2: Sell an API to visitors.

>I would purchase and use this for a email verification process. I would rather go with a smaller company than large

Plan C - Stage 1: Make a one-off DNS dataset, give it away to founders, and find out how they'd use it and what they need.

>I would use this with Email Domain verification and Email format Verification. I worked with data teams that had to find emails formats & domains, if they had the domains it would save a ton of time and cost. As an end user how I think about this cost is I if I find a domain and run a MX or DNS check on it I will save the results and try now to run it on that domain again. That is why I like this plan, but the API would be super helpful as well.

Thanks for your kind words :)

> long term what is your goal to differentiate? or where do you want to focus?

Most other tools have clunky UX, dated design, or are painfully slow. I'm differentiating in ease of use, clarity and speed. Still a lot to be done, but I think I'm already doing okay compared to other sites.

> Other TLDs or Other Associated Domains, is this something that you would be able to find?

Since GDPR, nearly all WHOIS queries get their owner details purged. You also can't link it based on resolving IP addresses, as many sites use a shared CDN. There might be some signals left, but definitely not enough to give any kind of meaningful coverage to make it useful.

> Can you determine from a DNS search if a domain is owned by a company or by a non-corporate entity (Blog, personal)?

No, for the same reason as above. Here you could scrape the site and look for 'about' sections and do some ML, but that'd be quite involved.

> I would purchase and use this for a email verification process.

What would you like to use DNS for in email verification?

> Email format Verification As in, detect 'firstname.lastname' for 'john.doe@company.com'? There's already a SaaS that does just that: https://hunter.io/

> I'm differentiating in ease of use, clarity and speed.

FWIW I've worked for a small company for the last ~15 years and this is basically our differentiator. Most of our products weren't the first in their market, and we don't have all the bells and whistles, but we really focus on making an easy to use, non-frustrating user experience.

Thanks for the validation :) Crazy that lack of frustration can be a differentiator.

Builtwith.com is excellent for domain association. They have some very good common keys like GTM container, GA etc.

I found a study recently that points to the Mississippi river as one of the main contributors to the red tide. The extra nutrients that are coming down the river and going into the gulf is the problem.

IF you're looking to get into cardio I would recommend:

- Treadmill on an Incline of 11 and then depending on your level of comfort, put the walking speed to 3 and do quick sprints for 30seconds or longer. Rest and repeat. This is something that keeps me entertained and also is really tough, I will try to do this for 15 minutes.

Since you are focused on lowering your resting heart rate, I would look into Heart Rate Training, where your focus is to keep your heart rate below a threshold and as you continue running you will be able to run faster below that threshold. This also helps with Preventing Injuries which has always happened when I tried to rush my progress: https://marathonhandbook.com/heart-rate-training-zones-for-r...

One of the things that has really helped me lately has been a proper warmup before working out. Sitting all day makes my hips and glutes super tight, so unlocking them has really helped with injury prevention as well.

- Stair climbers are my next go to for a hard but great workout. - Ellipticals are also easy on the knees but are a little boring for me.

I'm not sure if you were doing guided meditation at the time, but that has really helped me.

I do know what you mean about having trauma flashbacks, and you can get stuck in this loop. Meditation has thought me to not attach, recognize the thought, and start over. I use Waking Up with Sam Harris and I think that has really helped me from not attaching to the thoughts when they come up, and he will usually come back and refocus me.

I had problems with applying Jon Kabbat Zin, with guided meditation, and yoga (they call it 'yin' yoga here, where you stay for extended periods of time in poses, which is amazing for relaxation and stress-release and to get into a meditative state and that's where I went wrong :-)

I found I just need someone looking over every minute or so, whether I am in a bad way, and just talk to me, or just touch me (one teacher does a 'pose correction') to snap me back. It's even OK to have small trauma surfacing up, if it stops fast... It's hard to explain and it sure sounds sect-like but approaching that stuff in small doses is actually OK. Just not alone.

I talked about it to a friend long-time teacher in Qi-Cong (sorry for the bad spelling) that told me he always kept a look on his students for that kind of overwhelming reaction. So maybe it's not just me and meditation or yoga...

EDIT: thanks for the recommendation, will try.

I have a feeling they are going to be shifts to have people either level up wiht their technical skills and work on advanced problems and some people who cannot level up but can still be used in lower level data work where automation is really difficult.

That is too much data to parse for a simple website scrape.

I do think Common Crawl has a lot of potential for people to use instead of scraping, but I think its for larger projects. It gave me the idea to look at the links to ID if they are a business or non-business website

One of the products on that page is already discontinued: Google Music.

I was so bummed when that happened, I loved being able to upload my own music and have Google music update the metadata and allow me to bring it everywhere. Kind of a data hoarder

You can upload your own music to YouTube music, and the music I had previously uploaded to Google music was migrated over at some point (but I think there were manual steps involved, which may no longer be available).

You are not overreacting, I think you should listen to the signals. BUT I communicate to your boss and your team on boundaries and anything else you feel.

I was in a similar situation where I was pulled into calls right away, but I was dealing with fires and clients. I communicated to my boss and it helped. I had the most growth at that company, but a lot of the major red flags that showed up during my first week were the same problems I was dealing with when I left.

I used them at my last Startup, I setup the company on them and it was pretty easy.

The only negative, we were not assigned a CX or Account manager. In order to get ahold of someone you have to reach out to a chat support which is outsourced and then you will be put into contact with someone. We had a small plan so that could have been the reason.

I would totally use them again, it also showed me how easy it was to get insurance if I wanted to start my own company.

Compared to Trinet or ADP, I would go with Justworks. I haven't used Gusto so I can't really compare them.

Justworks also will only work with employees based in the US.