Hacker News: MichaelAP

New comment by MichaelAP in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

MichaelAP — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:10:45 +0000

As a former Sendgrid Customer, the big thing that no one has commented on is that Sendgrid's internal "Reputation Score" is complete BS. We had a 98% score, and all the meanwhile our Gmail and Microsoft reputations had been tanking. It took us over a year to switch providers and rebuild a proper reputation with new IPs, and better sending patterns, unsubscribe policies, etc.

Monitor Gmail's & Microsofts actual Postmaster tools, use a tool like MXToolbox for blacklist monitoring. Sendgrid's internal scoring is completely broken, and they don't care.

Sendgrid/Twilio has given up.

New comment by MichaelAP in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)"

MichaelAP — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 17:27:27 +0000

RealScout | Multiple Roles: (1) React Native iOS/Android Engineer (2) Product Manager | Fully Remote across US

RealScout is a rapidly maturing start-up with proven product/market fit, looking to scale the business and technology platform to continue our expansion. RealScout’s goal is to provide better transparency between real estate agents, brokers, home sellers, and home buyers to bring efficiency to the $1 trillion residential real estate marketplace.

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The React Native (iOS/Android) Developer role will be spearheading development in our existing Mobile iOS and Android Apps. They’ll be primarily focused on bringing feature parity from our web apps to our mobile UI. Additionally, this role will involve working alongside our web developers to develop a seamless cross-platform experience. They’ll have ownership of architectural decisions, be responsible for key mobile usage metrics, and a leadership role in helping guide our mobile strategy.

Apply @ engineering-jobs@realscout.com

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As Product Manager, your goal will be to enable success for real estate agents and their clients by working with our engineering team to develop the next big features in residential real estate technology. You will work closely with our in-house engineers to make evidence-based decisions that will shape our priorities, product quality, and go-to-market strategies.

Apply @ engineering-jobs@realscout.com

New comment by MichaelAP in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)"

MichaelAP — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:00:37 +0000

RealScout | Software Engineer - Platform/Integrations | Ruby on Rails/GraphQL | Fully Remote across US

RealScout is a rapidly maturing start-up with proven product/market fit, looking to scale the business and technology platform to continue our expansion.

RealScout’s goal is to provide better transparency between real estate agents, brokers, home sellers, and home buyers to bring efficiency to the $1 trillion residential real estate marketplace.

The Software Engineer - Platform/Integrations role will focus on building out the features and integrations that power our core platform. Ensuring that our customers have a seamless experience using RealScout with their multitude of software tools will be key. Additionally, this role will build internal and external tools that allows our team to manage and support a rapidly growing user base

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

- Minimum 2+ years of experience with medium-to-large production applications built with Ruby & Rails

- Experience with software design and development in a test-driven environment

- Experience with a variety of SQL data stores such as PostgreSQL. Other systems like ElasticSearch a plus.

- Familiarity with Javascript and React.

- Familiarity with GraphQL. Apollo knowledge a bonus

Apply @ engineering-jobs@realscout.com

New comment by MichaelAP in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)"

MichaelAP — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 19:21:43 +0000

RealScout | Software Engineer - Platform/Integrations | Ruby on Rails/GraphQL | Fully Remote across US

RealScout is a rapidly maturing start-up with proven product/market fit, looking to scale the business and technology platform to continue our expansion.

RealScout’s goal is to provide better transparency between real estate agents, brokers, home sellers, and home buyers to bring efficiency to the $1 trillion residential real estate marketplace.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

- Minimum 2+ years of experience with medium-to-large production applications built with Ruby & Rails

- Experience with software design and development in a test-driven environment

- Experience with a variety of SQL data stores such as PostgreSQL. Other systems like ElasticSearch a plus.

- Familiarity with Javascript and React.

- Familiarity with GraphQL. Apollo knowledge a bonus

Apply @ engineering-jobs@realscout.com

RealScout Lands $1.1M From DCM, Formation 8 For Collaborative Real Estate Search

MichaelAP — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 01:15:34 +0000

Article URL: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/22/salesforce-zillow-realscout-lands-1-1m-from-dcm-formation-8-for-a-more-personal-collaborative-real-estate-search/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6261151

Points: 1

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New comment by MichaelAP in "Rise of the Popped Collar Programmer"

MichaelAP — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:56:29 +0000

You have to hope that this is just a stage that new programmers go through, rather than a specific type of programmer. As they're challenged to iterate and scale with these undeveloped tools, they'll have to learn from their mistakes, and will hopefully grow from that. Still, as programming becomes more accessible (through tools like CodeAcademy) the sensationalism surrounding new technologies/frameworks will probably increase.