I suspect the sleep.me chilipad systems (ooler/dock pro) would work pretty well with adjustable beds since they just run a pair of insulated water hoses to a capillary tube network in a mattress pad. Further, if the hose routing didn't work for you out of the box with those you could DIY something else pretty easily since they use off the shelf connectors (https://www.cpcworldwide.com/General-Purpose/Products/Multil...)
I'm less familiar with their latest generation which uses WiFi, though there [seems to be an API](https://docs.developer.sleep.me/api/
) available for it now.
I hit a similar problems when sending automated internal emails to a Google Groups address at my company. The problem was fixed by adding the following footer: "To unsubscribe, email <my-email-address>."
Uh oh. I created an "unsubscribe" filter a while ago to get rid of spam. It's been great for keeping my inbox clean but I just don't see stuff with an unsubscribe line anymore.
We're trying to build a system where companies feel comfortable giving cards out to all of their employees and then adjust the limits upwards as they build trust internally. The ad-hoc requests features from this example might be best for new/temporary employees or large purchases. Over time I'd hope that most employees will actually have a monthly budget and thus a greater degree of autonomy.
We actually use the interchange revenue that would be going towards rewards points to pay for the costs of building/running the product. There may be enough left over to do a rewards program in the future, but for now the product is the points. :)
Really, off of debit transactions? I thought interchange is only 0.05% + $0.21, which doesn't seem like enough to power rewards ever. These days I thought it's only credit cards that can support rewards (closer to 2% interchange).
Interesting! But wait a second... how does this work with prepaid cards? Do companies need to preload funds onto the cards before employees can spend them?
E.g for an employee to spend up to $5,000 on a trip, would the company have to preload $5K onto the card? Or alternatively would employees have to get approval for each expense in advance of spending it?
I'm a founder at KarmicLabs. I used to expense stuff on my personal card at a previous company, but I don't think the points made up for the times I lost receipts or didn't bother to expense small stuff. YMMV.
Karmic Labs | San Francisco (SoMa) | Onsite | Backend (Systems/API), DevOps, Frontend
We're building the first extensible payment card platform for teams.
It's called Dash and it's powered by Mastercard. Dash is designed to help teams distribute funds in real-time and communicate about spending (auto-magic-accounting). We're also building real-time APIs to allow others to build plugins for new and interesting use cases, and accounting.
We value:
* Shipping product, delighting our users, elegant systems, and each other.
* Using first principles, code reviews, testing, collaboration, and mentorship.
We're looking for someone who is excited by:
* Bringing new ideas and abstractions into an existing industry currently dominated by older products and larger companies.
* Forming clean architectural patterns and beautiful APIs to handle messy, underspecified payments backends and communications problems.
* Having the opportunity to step up as tech-lead or to own parts of the codebase.
We're currently building with Python 3, Flask, React, Postgres, and AWS.
Our team includes experience from the founding teams of Netscape and Pinterest, executives from Visa and American Express, a seasoned venture capitalist, two high school dropouts, and a Physics PhD. Standard startup perks included (competitive salary, insurance, home cooked meals, etc..)
We are a small, diverse team working to revolutionize the way teams communicate about money and expenses, from our small office in the South of Market area of San Francisco. We’re looking to expand our team with dynamic, creative, focused individuals, who can learn new frameworks and systems quickly, and who can contribute their input and ideas into our company and our platform.
We believe that everyone in the workforce should get a smart debit expense card from their employer, and that every business owner should understand their expenses as they happen. We're building a debit card platform that allows small businesses to have dynamic financial controls and trust levels, accountability by default, and real-time expense management. Our private beta went live with Mastercard at the end of last year.
We're a small team from a diverse set of backgrounds (Pinterest, V.C., Netscape, Thoughtworks, Amex...) based in our converted-Victorian office in SoMa.
We strive to have an open and accepting culture. On the technical side:
* We're building our APIs with Flask on Python3 and using Postgres, Redis, Nginx, and AWS.
* We're building our Web apps with AngularJS and Sass (mobile app as a web/native hybrid).
* Our web infrastructure is deployed with Ansible an uses Nginx, Sentry, and an ELK stack for logging.
* We use Git + Phabricator for code reviews and TeamCity for CI. We like linters and unit tests.
We're looking for:
* Design, UI/UX - We care deeply about UX and are looking for a designer who has a passion for building great interfaces.
* Frontend - We're looking for the type of person who reads all of the new browser API specs and is excited by ServiceWorkers. * Backend - Do you have a passion for building well factored code and designing great APIs?
* DevOps - We're obsessive about infrastructure automation.
Want to help businesses by solving company expenses? Send us an email: jobs at karmiclabs dot com; be sure to tell us a bit about yourself and include a link to something that you're proud of. (Alternately, check us out on AngelList: https://angel.co/karmic-labs-1/jobs )
