Hacker News: shaaaaawn

Antitrust Lawsuit filed against rent-setting software Yardi

shaaaaawn — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 23:04:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230908181182/en/Hagens-Berman-Antitrust-Lawsuit-Accuses-18-Property-Management-Companies-and-Yardi-Systems-of-Rent-Price-Fixing-Scheme-Affecting-Millions-of-Renters

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37578289

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Metaquarium – A Digital Aquarium Screen Saver for 2023

shaaaaawn — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 20:34:48 +0000

Article URL: https://y2k.metaquarium.xyz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36156977

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by shaaaaawn in "I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you don't have to"

shaaaaawn — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:11:18 +0000

This post hits close to home and could not be more accurate satire of the pains of property management. I spent a number of years building a competitor to RealPage's Resident Portal, ActiveBuilding (shoutout https://henrihome.com).

RealPage and Yardi dominate the industry with some of the worst software imaginable. The price fixing and competitiveness in the industry is a feature not a bug.

ActiveBuilding basically built thefacebook.com for residents where the sticky feature was online rent payment. They of course got bought by RealPage which continued to operate it as is for a long time with few improvements, but landlords were tied to the ecosystem and didn't really care about the resident experience as long as they could pay rent online and submit maintenance requests. Also who the F decided that they don't need spaces in Product names over there?! ActiveBuilding RealPage.

Rant over

New comment by shaaaaawn in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2020)"

shaaaaawn — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 00:54:04 +0000

Location: Los Angeles

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Typescript, Angular, Node, NestJS, Ionic, Firebase, Shopify, MySql, MongoDB, PostgreSQL

Website: https://shawn.digital

Resume: https://my.indeed.com/p/shawnp-igkxdou

GitHub: https://github.com/shaaaaawn

E-Mail: shawn (at) shawn.digital

About: Full Stack Engineer specializing in eCommerce Applications and Real Estate/Fintech SaaS.

New comment by shaaaaawn in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2020)"

shaaaaawn — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 17:01:15 +0000

7 years of Experience at Startups in various Technology Roles and 10+ years of Project Management Experience. SME in the Banking, Real Estate, and eCommerce Industries.

Location: Los Angeles

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Javascript, Typescript, Angular, Node, etc..

Résumé/CV: https://bit.ly/39guEhd

Email: shawn@shawn.digital

Website: https://shawn.digital

Warez Wars – Wired – 1997

shaaaaawn — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 06:10:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/1997/04/ff-warez/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17309677

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by shaaaaawn in "I've spent the last two years building a new email client"

shaaaaawn — Wed, 02 May 2018 15:22:25 +0000

Love the work you put into this and the detail put into describing the features. One thing missing from the site. Why did you make it?

Timelapse of WannaCry Infections

shaaaaawn — Tue, 16 May 2017 03:58:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/12/world/europe/wannacry-ransomware-map.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14347277

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Inside an Instagram Bot Farm

shaaaaawn — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 21:03:31 +0000

Article URL: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/inside-an-instagram-bot-farm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13118314

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

What was your favorite dial-up modem?

shaaaaawn — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 06:14:58 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12741509

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

What Alma Mater's are most common among YC Alum?

shaaaaawn — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 02:24:47 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12279946

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

FiveThirtyEight's Election Forecasting Model

shaaaaawn — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 02:11:55 +0000

Article URL: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-users-guide-to-fivethirtyeights-2016-general-election-forecast/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12240750

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

HTML.next (W3C)

shaaaaawn — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 21:37:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/next

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12151099

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

Zenefits Adjusts Valuation to $2B

shaaaaawn — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 23:23:16 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/30/zenefits-revalues-itself-at-2-billion-giving-later-shareholders-more-ownership/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12012669

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

What Is a Progressive Web App

shaaaaawn — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 18:11:04 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.ionic.io/what-is-a-progressive-web-app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12003453

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

RetailMeNot Purchases GiftCard Zen for $22MM

shaaaaawn — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 01:34:09 +0000

Article URL: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/retailmenot-inc-acquires-secondary-gift-card-marketplace-giftcard-zen-inc-provides-preliminary-first-quarter-financial-results-and-updates-fiscal-year-2016-guidance-300248079.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11452028

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by shaaaaawn in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)"

shaaaaawn — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 20:11:03 +0000

Envida Group | Scottsdale, AZ | Full-time | ONSITE | Rails or JS Developer

We're building enterprise residential real estate technology to help apartments and managed communities better communicate with their residents. Our platform allows communities to streamline communications & operations such as maintenance requests, rent payment, package notifications, etc. We are in a closed beta and are looking for developers to add to our small fun team.

Our stack is mainly Ruby on Rails, Ionic/Angular, React JS. Our office is located at the Scottsdale Airpark. We are looking for onsite employees only. Email Shawn Partridge at shawn@envidagroup.com if interested

Outer Space Treaty

shaaaaawn — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 05:56:00 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11395256

Points: 33

# Comments: 15

Commit Logs from Last Night

shaaaaawn — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:27:08 +0000

Article URL: http://www.commitlogsfromlastnight.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11012233

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

NNSA/U.S Air Force complete test of non-nuclear B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb

shaaaaawn — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 03:32:57 +0000

Article URL: http://nnsa.energy.gov/mediaroom/pressreleases/b61-b61-12-lep-life-extension-program-snl-lanl-sandia-national-laboratory

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10585742

Points: 2

# Comments: 1