<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: corywatilo</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=corywatilo</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:41:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=corywatilo" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by corywatilo in "John C. Dvorak has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i have spent nearly half my life listening to the voice of John C. Dvorak on a nightly basis as i went to bed.<p>literally since i was in college – around 2008 – i started listening to the No Agenda Show. i'd play the podcast in one ear with the other on my pillow with a 30-minute sleep timer and play it over several nights until the next episode came out.<p>my outlook, my ideology, my perspective on life was partly formed by this man's words.<p>thanks for everything, John.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:58:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014030</link><dc:creator>corywatilo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by corywatilo in "Why our website looks like an operating system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'll consider a refresh button just for you. Thanks for the kind words.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:38:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45219269</link><dc:creator>corywatilo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45219269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45219269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by corywatilo in "Why our website looks like an operating system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hi, OP here. I was employee #13 at PostHog, joining as a designer (who now moonlights as a design engineer). I'm responsible for the website. I've been part of crafting the brand for 4.5 years – joined when the company just started monetizing.<p>There are only two of us who work on the website, myself and a front end engineer. (He was hired to work on the website and doesn't directly work in the product.)<p>We've spent roughly half of the last six months on this site. Other than our incredible graphic designer, no other resources were brought in.<p>A lot of our time is spent on brand-related side quests – they're consistently a net positive for the brand. You can see some examples under "Some things we've shipped" at <a href="https://posthog.com/teams/brand">https://posthog.com/teams/brand</a><p>This was a passion project of mine. I'm the one who ultimately chose to spend time I did on it. I think what we built is really cool, and I hope it serves as inspiration for other designers to think outside the box when it comes to solving their unique challenges.<p>Every company operates differently. Yes, many companies do have employees with too much time on their hands. Others do waste a lot of money in advertising. And a lot of companies are stagnating.<p>But I can assure you, PostHog is none of those.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:32:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45219230</link><dc:creator>corywatilo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45219230</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45219230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech Billboards Are All over San Francisco. Can You Decode Them?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/business/tech-billboards-are-all-over-san-francisco-can-you-decode-them.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/business/tech-billboards-are-all-over-san-francisco-can-you-decode-them.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785293">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785293</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:12:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/business/tech-billboards-are-all-over-san-francisco-can-you-decode-them.html</link><dc:creator>corywatilo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google raising Nest Aware Plus pricing by 25%]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>via email:<p>Thank you for being a Nest Aware subscriber. We wanted to let you know that the price of your Nest Aware Plus subscription ... will soon increase from $150 a year to $200 a year (plus applicable taxes).<p>This new price will go into effect on your first bill that occurs on or after August 15, 2025...<p>https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/13856600</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44585226">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44585226</a></p>
<p>Points: 11</p>
<p># Comments: 7</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:09:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44585226</link><dc:creator>corywatilo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44585226</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44585226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by corywatilo in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>how do i learn more?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 01:49:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122346</link><dc:creator>corywatilo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122346</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by corywatilo in "Show HN: Pi Labs – AI scoring and optimization tools for software engineers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>lol wow nice catch</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2025 21:11:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43375193</link><dc:creator>corywatilo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43375193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43375193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by corywatilo in "My domain registrar (DNSimple) tried to 5x the cost of my reseller plan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We emailed back and forth several times. CEO was on the thread, was aware of my concerns, chose not to do anything. The result of the back-and-forth was the proposal I shared in the post.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:47:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42311187</link><dc:creator>corywatilo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42311187</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42311187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by corywatilo in "My domain registrar (DNSimple) tried to 5x the cost of my reseller plan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm allergic to sales calls. =] Plus, when has jumping on a "quick call with sales"[1] ever resulted in paying <i>less</i> money?<p>[1] posthog.com/sales</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://watilo.com/my-domain-registrar-dnsimple-tried-to-5x-the-cost-of-my-reseller-plan">https://watilo.com/my-domain-registrar-dnsimple-tried-to-5x-the-cost-of-my-reseller-plan</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42307604">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42307604</a></p>
<p>Points: 86</p>
<p># Comments: 54</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:01:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://watilo.com/my-domain-registrar-dnsimple-tried-to-5x-the-cost-of-my-reseller-plan</link><dc:creator>corywatilo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42307604</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42307604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by corywatilo in "Launch HN: Inkeep (YC W23) – Copilot for Support (think Cursor for help desks)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We (at PostHog) have a very unique implementation of Inkeep in our community forums[1], and it's been a lot of fun working on a custom solution with the Inkeep team.<p>Our ultimate goal was to make our experience <i>explicitly not</i> feel like you're talking to AI.<p>So rather than trying to intercept questions from being posted to our forums, we trigger Inkeep _after_ a question is posted. If we're able to find an answer with a high degree of confidence, our "AI user" (Max) will show an answer within about 30 seconds.<p>The OP can then provide feedback that we're using to train further answers.<p>If the answer is marked as helpful, we display the answer publicly (and disclaim it as an AI response)[2]. If the answer is marked as _unhelpful_, the answer only shows to the OP and we review the feedback to figure out how we can improve (ie: do our docs need to be improved so Inkeep has better source material?).<p>It's been fun getting creative with the Inkeep team on a solution that worked for our specific use case. I'm planning on rolling out Inkeep more broadly in other areas of our site as we verify that our highly confident answers are genuinely useful to our users.<p>IMO Inkeep has been the first AI solution that hasn't sucked – and that's high praise coming from me!<p>[1] posthog.com/community
[2] <a href="https://posthog.com/questions/autocapture-event-bubbling">https://posthog.com/questions/autocapture-event-bubbling</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:54:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41709224</link><dc:creator>corywatilo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41709224</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41709224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by corywatilo in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not seeing the first two but feel free to send screenshots to <firstname>@posthog and I'd be happy to take a look.<p>As for cookie banners, that's something we can both agree on. ;)</p>
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<p><a href="https://posthog.com/docs/billing/limits-alerts">https://posthog.com/docs/billing/limits-alerts</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 21:49:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39984665</link><dc:creator>corywatilo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39984665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39984665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by corywatilo in "Pure CSS Website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Alternate title: "How to scare an engineer in three words"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:11:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39795811</link><dc:creator>corywatilo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39795811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39795811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by corywatilo in "Android’s emergency call shortcut is flooding dispatchers with false calls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same has happened here with our 2-year old, except we didn't get to it in time and have had the fire department show up on more than one occasion before we figured out what was happening.<p>There were also a handful of times we could hear a voice coming through the wife's phone where we narrowly avoided a few more visits.<p>This was all before we discovered how she actually calling 911. It's shocking to me Google didn't make more of a deal about this new "feature" when they rolled it out.<p>This definitely should have been opt-IN, not opt-out. Sure smells like a classic example of tech PMs making idealistic decisions that affect people in the real world without thinking through all of the consequences.</p>
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<p>Will take a look, thanks for the heads up!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:40:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36360704</link><dc:creator>corywatilo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36360704</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36360704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by corywatilo in "Show HN: Modern Font Stacks – New system font stack CSS for modern OSs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is really well done. Paragraph view really helps to visualize it.<p>CSS Font Stack [1] used to be the place for this, but that site hasn't changed in decades.<p>The one piece missing for me is the percentage adoption by platform (like in the above referenced site). Regardless, this is still replacing CSS Font Stack for me.<p>The irony is that they were both created by people named Dan.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.cssfontstack.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.cssfontstack.com</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2023 14:46:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35169093</link><dc:creator>corywatilo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35169093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35169093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by corywatilo in "Developer marketing for early-stage startups – what we’ve learned"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Which logo?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2023 03:42:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35017934</link><dc:creator>corywatilo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35017934</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35017934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by corywatilo in "Launch HN: Infisical (YC W23) – Open-source secrets manager for developers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some of it was sourced from posthog.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:25:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34957448</link><dc:creator>corywatilo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34957448</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34957448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by corywatilo in "Netlify acquires Gatsby"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Try to solve user problems? (Maybe they were, just not ours.)</p>
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