Hacker News: togasystems

Squamish BC company Penny AI raises $27M

togasystems — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 17:08:02 +0000

Article URL: https://getpenny.com/blog/2022/06/01/penny-ai-raises-27-million-series-b/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31584883

Points: 4

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New comment by togasystems in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)"

togasystems — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 17:01:17 +0000

Penny AI | Django/ML/Data/Frontend/Product | Full Time | Squamish and Vancouver B.C.

Penny is a virtual sales assistant developed to help social sellers get ONE MORE SALE. We just closed our 27 million Series B and are looking for great people to come join our amazing team.

For more information check out https://getpenny.com/careers/

New comment by togasystems in "Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B"

togasystems — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:09:48 +0000

Revenue is the best indicator for value, not profit which is artificially driven down for tax purposes.

New comment by togasystems in "Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?"

togasystems — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 19:27:09 +0000

Wrote a script to sort tattoo artists coming to a convention by Instagram followers. Saved me wading through dozens of artists to find one that suits my style.

New comment by togasystems in "Thoughts on Insurance"

togasystems — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:24:25 +0000

After having spent the last 3 years in insurance with Allay trying to take on employer health insurance costs by making it easier for smaller groups to become self insured, I have found that the regulations are cumbersome but not huge blockers. The regulations are there to protect people and for the most part do that job correctly.

The hard part about this industry is that there is no single incumbent to disrupt, but thousand of very small businesses who have personal relationships with their clients. Also whereever you jump into the process, you have to deal with companies who do not value technology as much as the HN crowd would. These companies still print out PDFs and have automated very little of their business. No matter how fast you make your software, you are the behest of the companies below and above you in the chain.

If anybody wants to nerd out on the insurance industry, my contact is in my profile.

New comment by togasystems in "Launch HN: Sudden Coffee (YC W17) – Instant coffee that doesn't suck"

togasystems — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 21:42:27 +0000

While travelling through Thailand, I discovered that the country thrives on terrible instant Nescafe. Open to international expansion?

New comment by togasystems in "YC’s Summer Reading"

togasystems — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 19:40:34 +0000

Any recommendations on investment books?

New comment by togasystems in "Conditional Action Programmer"

togasystems — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:31:19 +0000

Looks sweet. Small spelling mistake

'available to you as and Android app on Google Play Store'

Should be

'available to you as an Android app on Google Play Store'

New comment by togasystems in "Volkswagen's U.S. diesel emissions settlement to cost $15B"

togasystems — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 23:26:57 +0000

Could someone purchase one of these vehicles today and still be considered for the buyback program?

New comment by togasystems in "Ask HN: What code do you frequently read?"

togasystems — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 02:14:24 +0000

Broken code.

Check out these 5 startups from AngelPad’s 8th batch

togasystems — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 01:31:34 +0000

Article URL: http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/20/check-out-these-5-startups-from-angelpads-8th-batch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8920948

Points: 4

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New comment by togasystems in "The ArcticStartup guide to Estonian startup scene"

togasystems — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 19:44:44 +0000

I just had a conversation concerning building a tech community in the Yukon. The main question that came up was whether you need developers first or the infrastructure (i.e. incubators, capital.. etc) . I am in the boat that you need a few developers first to drive the community and the rest would follow.

Thoughts HN?

New comment by togasystems in "Awesome Django – A curated list of awesome Django apps and projects"

togasystems — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:41:52 +0000

I have. From what I have seen, it does not support e-mail notifications out of the box.

New comment by togasystems in "Awesome Django – A curated list of awesome Django apps and projects"

togasystems — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:25:39 +0000

Any recommendation for a notifications framework that supports multiple backends? I would also like to have the notifications saved in the database. Is there a standard out there for this type of action?

New comment by togasystems in "Show HN: PanoPanda – service for sharing panoramas"

togasystems — Tue, 20 May 2014 19:40:44 +0000

Nice work. How well does it work on mobile?

New comment by togasystems in "Achieving 1.26% mcommerce conversion rate on a mobile ad network"

togasystems — Fri, 02 May 2014 23:40:51 +0000

What are Apples rules about by bypassing their payment system? Does it only work for physical goods?

New comment by togasystems in "Comcast response to Netflix"

togasystems — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:49:02 +0000

What are other examples of companies that have agreements with Comcast?

New comment by togasystems in "[dead]"

togasystems — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 02:21:49 +0000

How does submitting your site to these services affect SEO?

New comment by togasystems in "Last Minute Advice for YC Applicants"

togasystems — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:10:06 +0000

Any YC alums care to give my application a once over?

New comment by togasystems in "Vagrant Cloud"

togasystems — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:29:09 +0000

I wonder if Docker will ever take over from Vagrant.