Thanks! We totally agree. Maybe if people are interested, we'd open source it or build a tool that makes it super easy for other companies to share this data also.
I'm one of the founders of ofCourseBooks. Happy to answer any questions people might have.
We built this to help encourage ourselves to, not only be more transparent, but to not just sit in front of the computer all day, as is easy to happen while coding up new features. We also have any updates posting to slack to easily show how people are doing. It's turned into a fun little competition between us founders.
I'm one of the other cofounders (currently the step winner, ha) - I'm happy to chime in too, although Zack was the one who programmed the page, I just made it look pretty (so I could get back to getting all my steps).
Yeah, that would be my guess. Even still, there are things you can do to equalize the sound of two different audio streams (as in a Skype call, where each side presumably records its own input channel). It sounded to my ear as if one person had recorded in mono and the other had recorded in stereo. I could be wrong about that, but if that had been the case, you can mix both streams to mono for a relatively decent fix.
Hey Jon. I don't check HN comments very often. Keith was unable to record the audio on his side, plus he didn't have headphones or a microphone. On top of all that, we had to use Google Hangouts instead of Skype, which would have improved the audio at least a little bit. Overall, I think it turned out pretty good for how little I could control myself. Even Nate's episode was bad IMO because the room was so noisy and we were far from the mic. It's hopefully going to get a lot better!
This is a great episode. Daniel is still figuring things out, but there were so many great nuggets in there that I didn't care it wasn't the smoothest interview.
Just curious, what is the actual pain point for you? Is it the actual paying of the bills, remembering to pay them, splitting them between people, or something else?
for me its the amount of bills I actually have and trying to keep track of all of them.
I have about 16-17 bills monthly (mainly because I own two homes) but I have to remember to login to each of those accounts and make sure all of the payments went through even if they're on autopay, I'm also anal enough that I like to check every single bill to make sure there are no charges I did not make etc.
I'm making my version of this now and hopefully launching soon to some feedback.
“While I am sure that there has always been a tempt for people to spend their time on insecurity work, new technology and ubiquitous online access has made it easier now than ever before. Data that COULD make you feel more at ease is now always at your finger tips. Much like a drug that promises instant gratification. And therefore, we always have a desire to access it - again and again. Why? Because, deep down inside, we are always wondering what we are missing. We want to feel safe.”
— Reduce Your Level of Insecurity Work (http://the99percent.com/tips/5810/reduce-your-level-of-insec...)
