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New comment by gms in "Glaze by Raycast"

gms — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:24:34 +0000

Does it generate native apps, or just Electron?

New comment by gms in "Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact"

gms — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 16:05:44 +0000

That's how the world works. No country produces everything.

New comment by gms in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

gms — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 05:33:27 +0000

No. It's a similar situation with certain AI features from Google.

New comment by gms in "I drank every cocktail"

gms — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 01:44:44 +0000

I also found this to be a fun read! Was intending to skim but ended up reading the whole thing. The level of care shines through - nice work.

New comment by gms in "Amazon Just Happens to Hold Book Sale During Independent Bookstore Day"

gms — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 19:46:57 +0000

No, there is a difference. Burglary involves coercion. The choice to shop at small/big bakeries is yours alone; no one is forcing you to pick one.

New comment by gms in "Ask HN: How Do You Handle "Power-Users" on an Unlimited Plan?"

gms — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 23:39:57 +0000

This is a common rite of passage for early-stage startups :)

The answer may sound glib but I don't mean it as such: don't have an unlimited plan and migrate existing customers off it.

New comment by gms in "Ask HN: VC Firm suggesting my cofounder should get more equity in next round?"

gms — Fri, 24 May 2024 05:33:50 +0000

At the end of the day it's just a VC's view. This doesn't count for much.

You two can easily tell him no thanks and move on.

New comment by gms in "Ask HN: VC Firm suggesting my cofounder should get more equity in next round?"

gms — Fri, 24 May 2024 00:56:49 +0000

Some arguments here from a bygone era (none are convincing to me): https://hbr.org/2016/02/the-very-first-mistake-most-startup-....

We have the same model as you at the company I co-founded. The only valid worry that comes to my mind is a 50-50 split with no person designated as the boss. But you already have that part sorted.

New comment by gms in "Ask HN: VC Firm suggesting my cofounder should get more equity in next round?"

gms — Thu, 23 May 2024 23:18:17 +0000

At least amongst Bay Area startups at your stage, a 50/50 split is common. It has its advocates (YC amongst them) and detractors.

Given how common this is, it's peculiar that this VC is bringing this up so early in the lifetime of the company. CEOs often get different refresher packages as the company grows and assembles a board, but you're not at that stage yet.

If your co-founder is happy with the current arrangement then he can just tell the VC no thanks and everyone can move on. It's your company, not your VC's.

More generally, the most troublesome part of all this is that, at your early stage, every minute spent talking about this is a minute not spent on your product and customers.

New comment by gms in "Show HN: Polytomic Connect – API for two-way ETL and data syncs with customers"

gms — Sat, 04 May 2024 06:44:53 +0000

Sorry, my fault for being unclear.

Meaning, sometimes people set up one-way syncs only. Our syncs don't have to be two-way.

New comment by gms in "Show HN: Polytomic Connect – API for two-way ETL and data syncs with customers"

gms — Wed, 01 May 2024 17:01:56 +0000

That's no problem for us. We'll just resume where we left off when it comes back on.

New comment by gms in "Show HN: Polytomic Connect – API for two-way ETL and data syncs with customers"

gms — Wed, 01 May 2024 15:10:32 +0000

(Polytomic co-founder)

Haha! I’ve been in this market for over ten years now. The term ‘CDP’ is notoriously ill-defined.

More generally, we move data in all directions, rETL is just one part amongst many others.

New comment by gms in "Show HN: Polytomic Connect – API for two-way ETL and data syncs with customers"

gms — Wed, 01 May 2024 15:08:21 +0000

Each integration is supported as both a source and a destination. So you can have two one-way syncs set up between systems A and B, thus moving data in two directions.

New comment by gms in "Show HN: Polytomic Connect – API for two-way ETL and data syncs with customers"

gms — Wed, 01 May 2024 01:32:15 +0000

(Polytomic co-founder here)

QuickBooks Online. All the applications we support are cloud versions.

New comment by gms in "Show HN: Polytomic Connect – API for two-way ETL and data syncs with customers"

gms — Wed, 01 May 2024 01:31:14 +0000

(Polytomic co-founder here)

Each sync in Polytomic is one-way so we're not forced to deal with collisions all the time.

But you can, on a per-field basis within a sync config, declare that field not to be synced if the destination system already has a value in the corresponding field.

This setting is a proxy for deciding where your source of truth is for each field if you are indeed setting up two-way syncs.

Most customers are pulling data into their data warehouse, then syncing from queries that generate other values back into other systems. This issue doesn't come up there. But customers of ours doing two-way syncs between, say, HubSpot and Airtable or such do need to decide where the source of truth is for each field.

New comment by gms in "Show HN: Polytomic Connect – API for two-way ETL and data syncs with customers"

gms — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 22:06:37 +0000

Hopefully the links below are helpful!

Our clients come in multiple languages. You can see the list here: https://apidocs.polytomic.com/guides/native-clients.

You can see here for sample code: https://apidocs.polytomic.com/guides/code-examples/overview.

The full API reference is here: https://apidocs.polytomic.com/api-reference.

New comment by gms in "Show HN: Polytomic Connect – API for two-way ETL and data syncs with customers"

gms — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 21:50:10 +0000

Wow thank you Noa! Hope you are well!

New comment by gms in "Show HN: Polytomic Connect – API for two-way ETL and data syncs with customers"

gms — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 21:00:12 +0000

What are you looking for exactly? Happy to answer questions or point you to the right place.

New comment by gms in "Show HN: Polytomic Connect – API for two-way ETL and data syncs with customers"

gms — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:43:59 +0000

(Polytomic co-founder)

Thank you for the kind words Ani!

New comment by gms in "Show HN: Polytomic Connect – API for two-way ETL and data syncs with customers"

gms — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:41:36 +0000

(Polytomic co-founder)

Thank you, whoever you are! :D Hopefully we can continue serving you.