Bryan Helmig is a co-founder and CTO at Zapier, jazz/blues musician and fine beer and whiskey lover.
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Software For Humans: Eliminate Annoyances
At Zapier we're always looking to add little touches that make working with web based software a little less painful: call it a rounding of the edges. All those minor little setbacks and annoyances introduce artificial barriers that turn off users.
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3 Dudes from Missouri Built a Product, Found Paying Customers, and Got Into YC
In the tradition of recapping YC experiences, especially around the acceptance process during the beginning of a new YC batch, I thought it would be fun to quickly recap what we did prior to our YC S12 funding.
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3 min read
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First Time Node.js or: How I Built a Simple Instant Message API in an Evening
With the news that Tropo is shutting down their instant messaging API, we're in a pickle. We're already using IM to get instant notifications of the things that are important to us internally, and we have a bunch of people using it too.
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2 min read
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Async Celery by Example: Why and How
Let's start with our example. You want your web apps users to be able to do something. Excellent: so you write some code that does it for them.
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