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Launch HN: Text Blaze (YC W21) Programmable snippets to automate tedious typing
Hi HN! We’re Scott and Dan of Text Blaze (<a href="https://blaze.today" rel="nofollow">https://blaze.today</a>). Text Blaze lets you create programmable text snippets that you can insert anywhere in Chrome by typing a brief shortcut.<p>Before Text Blaze, we designed and built internal tools for thousands of sales and support reps at Google. As much as we tried though, our tools could never automate all repeated work for all users. We saw that there were always tech savvy reps who would build additional scripts to fill gaps and help save even more time. With Text Blaze, we wanted to create something for those kinds of reps to speed up and automate their boring repetitive work (and make it super easy for them to share with teammates).<p>Text Blaze snippets help users to do this. You can start by taking all the repetitive messaging that they have and making it insertable with a few keystrokes. Many of our users easily save hours a month of typing just doing that.<p>Technical users can go much further though. Our snippets can include form fields like text boxes or drop down menus in them and have dynamic fields with formulas. Users can use this to:<p>- calculate a 15% service charge automatically when entering a price in a snippet text field.<p>- or automatically pulling in the name of contact when sending a message in LinkedIn,<p>- or saving data to a Google Spreadsheet every time they use a snippet,<p>- or create patient diagnostic templates where the snippet may include a drop down to capture whether the patient is a smoker. If (and only if) the answer is yes, a follow up question and text box (number of cigarettes a day) will appear.<p>Think of Text Blaze a little like Zapier meets Emmet. Some of the ways people use Text Blaze have amazed us. For example, the Customer Success department at a European delivery company, uses Text Blaze to standardize their comms with customers and drivers and automate much of the related processes. For example, their snippets read conversations with drivers in Intercom and automatically send a summary of the required information to a rep in the relevant Slack channel.<p>Our most common users of Text Blaze are in customer support and recruiting, but we’re also seeing a lot of adoption in other areas like education (especially with the increased levels of remote learning with Covid).<p>Text Blaze is free to use for many use cases and we have paid versions with additional features and improved collaboration for teams.<p>Want to try Text Blaze out? You can get started by installing our extension from the Chrome Web Store (<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-blaze/idgadaccgipmpannjkmfddolnnhmeklj" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-blaze/idgadac...</a>).<p>We’re a Chrome Extension as we see more and more users are spending all their time in Chrome and we want to be able to closely integrate with the different web applications they use.<p>We would love your feedback on the Text Blaze here and your experiences with tools for end-user automation in general. What’s worked for you and where are there opportunities to improve existing approaches?
Launch HN: Text Blaze (YC W21) Programmable snippets to automate tedious typing
Hi HN! We’re Scott and Dan of Text Blaze (<a href="https://blaze.today" rel="nofollow">https://blaze.today</a>). Text Blaze lets you create programmable text snippets that you can insert anywhere in Chrome by typing a brief shortcut.<p>Before Text Blaze, we designed and built internal tools for thousands of sales and support reps at Google. As much as we tried though, our tools could never automate all repeated work for all users. We saw that there were always tech savvy reps who would build additional scripts to fill gaps and help save even more time. With Text Blaze, we wanted to create something for those kinds of reps to speed up and automate their boring repetitive work (and make it super easy for them to share with teammates).<p>Text Blaze snippets help users to do this. You can start by taking all the repetitive messaging that they have and making it insertable with a few keystrokes. Many of our users easily save hours a month of typing just doing that.<p>Technical users can go much further though. Our snippets can include form fields like text boxes or drop down menus in them and have dynamic fields with formulas. Users can use this to:<p>- calculate a 15% service charge automatically when entering a price in a snippet text field.<p>- or automatically pulling in the name of contact when sending a message in LinkedIn,<p>- or saving data to a Google Spreadsheet every time they use a snippet,<p>- or create patient diagnostic templates where the snippet may include a drop down to capture whether the patient is a smoker. If (and only if) the answer is yes, a follow up question and text box (number of cigarettes a day) will appear.<p>Think of Text Blaze a little like Zapier meets Emmet. Some of the ways people use Text Blaze have amazed us. For example, the Customer Success department at a European delivery company, uses Text Blaze to standardize their comms with customers and drivers and automate much of the related processes. For example, their snippets read conversations with drivers in Intercom and automatically send a summary of the required information to a rep in the relevant Slack channel.<p>Our most common users of Text Blaze are in customer support and recruiting, but we’re also seeing a lot of adoption in other areas like education (especially with the increased levels of remote learning with Covid).<p>Text Blaze is free to use for many use cases and we have paid versions with additional features and improved collaboration for teams.<p>Want to try Text Blaze out? You can get started by installing our extension from the Chrome Web Store (<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-blaze/idgadaccgipmpannjkmfddolnnhmeklj" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-blaze/idgadac...</a>).<p>We’re a Chrome Extension as we see more and more users are spending all their time in Chrome and we want to be able to closely integrate with the different web applications they use.<p>We would love your feedback on the Text Blaze here and your experiences with tools for end-user automation in general. What’s worked for you and where are there opportunities to improve existing approaches?
Launch HN: Text Blaze (YC W21) Programmable snippets to automate tedious typing
Hi HN! We’re Scott and Dan of Text Blaze (<a href="https://blaze.today" rel="nofollow">https://blaze.today</a>). Text Blaze lets you create programmable text snippets that you can insert anywhere in Chrome by typing a brief shortcut.<p>Before Text Blaze, we designed and built internal tools for thousands of sales and support reps at Google. As much as we tried though, our tools could never automate all repeated work for all users. We saw that there were always tech savvy reps who would build additional scripts to fill gaps and help save even more time. With Text Blaze, we wanted to create something for those kinds of reps to speed up and automate their boring repetitive work (and make it super easy for them to share with teammates).<p>Text Blaze snippets help users to do this. You can start by taking all the repetitive messaging that they have and making it insertable with a few keystrokes. Many of our users easily save hours a month of typing just doing that.<p>Technical users can go much further though. Our snippets can include form fields like text boxes or drop down menus in them and have dynamic fields with formulas. Users can use this to:<p>- calculate a 15% service charge automatically when entering a price in a snippet text field.<p>- or automatically pulling in the name of contact when sending a message in LinkedIn,<p>- or saving data to a Google Spreadsheet every time they use a snippet,<p>- or create patient diagnostic templates where the snippet may include a drop down to capture whether the patient is a smoker. If (and only if) the answer is yes, a follow up question and text box (number of cigarettes a day) will appear.<p>Think of Text Blaze a little like Zapier meets Emmet. Some of the ways people use Text Blaze have amazed us. For example, the Customer Success department at a European delivery company, uses Text Blaze to standardize their comms with customers and drivers and automate much of the related processes. For example, their snippets read conversations with drivers in Intercom and automatically send a summary of the required information to a rep in the relevant Slack channel.<p>Our most common users of Text Blaze are in customer support and recruiting, but we’re also seeing a lot of adoption in other areas like education (especially with the increased levels of remote learning with Covid).<p>Text Blaze is free to use for many use cases and we have paid versions with additional features and improved collaboration for teams.<p>Want to try Text Blaze out? You can get started by installing our extension from the Chrome Web Store (<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-blaze/idgadaccgipmpannjkmfddolnnhmeklj" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-blaze/idgadac...</a>).<p>We’re a Chrome Extension as we see more and more users are spending all their time in Chrome and we want to be able to closely integrate with the different web applications they use.<p>We would love your feedback on the Text Blaze here and your experiences with tools for end-user automation in general. What’s worked for you and where are there opportunities to improve existing approaches?
Show HN: QuikPub – Write, Publish and Share rich text via short URLs
Show HN: QuikPub – Write, Publish and Share rich text via short URLs
Show HN: QuikPub – Write, Publish and Share rich text via short URLs
Launch HN: MagicBell (YC W21) – embedded notification system for your product
Hey everyone! I am Hana, and along with my co-founder Josue, we are excited to launch MagicBell (<a href="https://magicbell.io" rel="nofollow">https://magicbell.io</a>). You can embed MagicBell in your web/mobile application to show users workflow notifications in-app and real-time. If the user is not online when you send them a notification, we can send them an email (or text). For example, a project management app can use MagicBell to show new tasks assigned to a user or tasks due soon. A code collaboration app will notify users of pull-requests that need their review. These notifications keep the workflow moving.<p>Building a notification system is challenging. We built robust email notifications at my last startup SupportBee [0], and it took us weeks to nail down the threading, reply by email, unsubscription links, and notification preference management. When we wanted to add an in-app inbox, I felt that we were building a mini email client into our app. A well designed in-app experience needs real-time updates and state management (read/unread/archived) apart from a lot of UI polish.<p>Not only do we save you months of work to begin with, but we also have an extensive product roadmap with features like email templates and grouping of notifications. Your customers will get a better experience each day without you having to invest in the development effort. Apart from customer-facing features, we plan to add a debug interface and analytics so you can get more visibility into your notifications.<p>Our embeddable notification inbox is written using React and MobX, and we use Ably.io for real-time updates. We offer a React SDK [1] that lets you build a custom interface, and we use Storybooks to test our UI. Fun fact: you can see the entire catalog of React components we offer [2]. We extracted the network layer of our embeddable into a Javascript package so customers not using React can use that to build a custom interface [3]. We'll work on Vue & React-Native SDK next. Our backend is hosted on AWS.<p>Thank you for reading. Please try out our product and send us your feedback, questions, and ideas. If you have built a notification system at work, we’d love to hear about your experience!<p>[0] <a href="https://www.indiehackers.com/post/ama-i-am-a-transgender-entrepreneur-and-i-bootstrapped-to-over-40k-mrr-9f0f615f3a" rel="nofollow">https://www.indiehackers.com/post/ama-i-am-a-transgender-ent...</a> [1] <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@magicbell/magicbell-react" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/package/@magicbell/magicbell-react</a> [2] <a href="https://magicbell-react.netlify.app/?path=/story/magicbell-introduction--page" rel="nofollow">https://magicbell-react.netlify.app/?path=/story/magicbell-i...</a> [3] <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@magicbell/core" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/package/@magicbell/core</a>
Launch HN: MagicBell (YC W21) – embedded notification system for your product
Hey everyone! I am Hana, and along with my co-founder Josue, we are excited to launch MagicBell (<a href="https://magicbell.io" rel="nofollow">https://magicbell.io</a>). You can embed MagicBell in your web/mobile application to show users workflow notifications in-app and real-time. If the user is not online when you send them a notification, we can send them an email (or text). For example, a project management app can use MagicBell to show new tasks assigned to a user or tasks due soon. A code collaboration app will notify users of pull-requests that need their review. These notifications keep the workflow moving.<p>Building a notification system is challenging. We built robust email notifications at my last startup SupportBee [0], and it took us weeks to nail down the threading, reply by email, unsubscription links, and notification preference management. When we wanted to add an in-app inbox, I felt that we were building a mini email client into our app. A well designed in-app experience needs real-time updates and state management (read/unread/archived) apart from a lot of UI polish.<p>Not only do we save you months of work to begin with, but we also have an extensive product roadmap with features like email templates and grouping of notifications. Your customers will get a better experience each day without you having to invest in the development effort. Apart from customer-facing features, we plan to add a debug interface and analytics so you can get more visibility into your notifications.<p>Our embeddable notification inbox is written using React and MobX, and we use Ably.io for real-time updates. We offer a React SDK [1] that lets you build a custom interface, and we use Storybooks to test our UI. Fun fact: you can see the entire catalog of React components we offer [2]. We extracted the network layer of our embeddable into a Javascript package so customers not using React can use that to build a custom interface [3]. We'll work on Vue & React-Native SDK next. Our backend is hosted on AWS.<p>Thank you for reading. Please try out our product and send us your feedback, questions, and ideas. If you have built a notification system at work, we’d love to hear about your experience!<p>[0] <a href="https://www.indiehackers.com/post/ama-i-am-a-transgender-entrepreneur-and-i-bootstrapped-to-over-40k-mrr-9f0f615f3a" rel="nofollow">https://www.indiehackers.com/post/ama-i-am-a-transgender-ent...</a> [1] <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@magicbell/magicbell-react" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/package/@magicbell/magicbell-react</a> [2] <a href="https://magicbell-react.netlify.app/?path=/story/magicbell-introduction--page" rel="nofollow">https://magicbell-react.netlify.app/?path=/story/magicbell-i...</a> [3] <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@magicbell/core" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/package/@magicbell/core</a>
Launch HN: MagicBell (YC W21) – embedded notification system for your product
Hey everyone! I am Hana, and along with my co-founder Josue, we are excited to launch MagicBell (<a href="https://magicbell.io" rel="nofollow">https://magicbell.io</a>). You can embed MagicBell in your web/mobile application to show users workflow notifications in-app and real-time. If the user is not online when you send them a notification, we can send them an email (or text). For example, a project management app can use MagicBell to show new tasks assigned to a user or tasks due soon. A code collaboration app will notify users of pull-requests that need their review. These notifications keep the workflow moving.<p>Building a notification system is challenging. We built robust email notifications at my last startup SupportBee [0], and it took us weeks to nail down the threading, reply by email, unsubscription links, and notification preference management. When we wanted to add an in-app inbox, I felt that we were building a mini email client into our app. A well designed in-app experience needs real-time updates and state management (read/unread/archived) apart from a lot of UI polish.<p>Not only do we save you months of work to begin with, but we also have an extensive product roadmap with features like email templates and grouping of notifications. Your customers will get a better experience each day without you having to invest in the development effort. Apart from customer-facing features, we plan to add a debug interface and analytics so you can get more visibility into your notifications.<p>Our embeddable notification inbox is written using React and MobX, and we use Ably.io for real-time updates. We offer a React SDK [1] that lets you build a custom interface, and we use Storybooks to test our UI. Fun fact: you can see the entire catalog of React components we offer [2]. We extracted the network layer of our embeddable into a Javascript package so customers not using React can use that to build a custom interface [3]. We'll work on Vue & React-Native SDK next. Our backend is hosted on AWS.<p>Thank you for reading. Please try out our product and send us your feedback, questions, and ideas. If you have built a notification system at work, we’d love to hear about your experience!<p>[0] <a href="https://www.indiehackers.com/post/ama-i-am-a-transgender-entrepreneur-and-i-bootstrapped-to-over-40k-mrr-9f0f615f3a" rel="nofollow">https://www.indiehackers.com/post/ama-i-am-a-transgender-ent...</a> [1] <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@magicbell/magicbell-react" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/package/@magicbell/magicbell-react</a> [2] <a href="https://magicbell-react.netlify.app/?path=/story/magicbell-introduction--page" rel="nofollow">https://magicbell-react.netlify.app/?path=/story/magicbell-i...</a> [3] <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@magicbell/core" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/package/@magicbell/core</a>
Launch HN: MagicBell (YC W21) – embedded notification system for your product
Hey everyone! I am Hana, and along with my co-founder Josue, we are excited to launch MagicBell (<a href="https://magicbell.io" rel="nofollow">https://magicbell.io</a>). You can embed MagicBell in your web/mobile application to show users workflow notifications in-app and real-time. If the user is not online when you send them a notification, we can send them an email (or text). For example, a project management app can use MagicBell to show new tasks assigned to a user or tasks due soon. A code collaboration app will notify users of pull-requests that need their review. These notifications keep the workflow moving.<p>Building a notification system is challenging. We built robust email notifications at my last startup SupportBee [0], and it took us weeks to nail down the threading, reply by email, unsubscription links, and notification preference management. When we wanted to add an in-app inbox, I felt that we were building a mini email client into our app. A well designed in-app experience needs real-time updates and state management (read/unread/archived) apart from a lot of UI polish.<p>Not only do we save you months of work to begin with, but we also have an extensive product roadmap with features like email templates and grouping of notifications. Your customers will get a better experience each day without you having to invest in the development effort. Apart from customer-facing features, we plan to add a debug interface and analytics so you can get more visibility into your notifications.<p>Our embeddable notification inbox is written using React and MobX, and we use Ably.io for real-time updates. We offer a React SDK [1] that lets you build a custom interface, and we use Storybooks to test our UI. Fun fact: you can see the entire catalog of React components we offer [2]. We extracted the network layer of our embeddable into a Javascript package so customers not using React can use that to build a custom interface [3]. We'll work on Vue & React-Native SDK next. Our backend is hosted on AWS.<p>Thank you for reading. Please try out our product and send us your feedback, questions, and ideas. If you have built a notification system at work, we’d love to hear about your experience!<p>[0] <a href="https://www.indiehackers.com/post/ama-i-am-a-transgender-entrepreneur-and-i-bootstrapped-to-over-40k-mrr-9f0f615f3a" rel="nofollow">https://www.indiehackers.com/post/ama-i-am-a-transgender-ent...</a> [1] <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@magicbell/magicbell-react" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/package/@magicbell/magicbell-react</a> [2] <a href="https://magicbell-react.netlify.app/?path=/story/magicbell-introduction--page" rel="nofollow">https://magicbell-react.netlify.app/?path=/story/magicbell-i...</a> [3] <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@magicbell/core" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/package/@magicbell/core</a>
Show HN: Remarkbox – Hosted comments without ads or tracking
Show HN: Remarkbox – Hosted comments without ads or tracking
Show HN: Remarkbox – Hosted comments without ads or tracking
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Launch HN: Tint (YC W21) – Embed insurance into any product
Hi HN! We’re Matheus & Jérôme and we’re the co-founders of Tint(<a href="http://www.tint.ai" rel="nofollow">http://www.tint.ai</a>). We help companies add insurance to their products.<p>Many companies, such as marketplaces, merchants, and travel agents could include insurance as part of their products and services to make them more valuable to their customers. For example, insurance will be included when you rent a campervan for a weekend trip at Outdoorsy, to protect you if anything goes wrong. Our platform provides everything that is needed: software, access to insurers, compliance—everything required to manage risk and protect users, profitably.<p>We met in 2014 when we were early employees at Turo, the car-sharing startup. While there, we saw the potential that insurance products have and also saw how hard it was to fully capitalize on it. Turo has an obvious and pressing need for insurance, but to fill it, they had to build their own systems, find insurers to back the program, and ensure compliance with state laws. None of this was their core business. We got inspired by the problem and by the opportunity to solve it, so we decided to create Tint.<p>Here is a real example from Riders Share, one of our clients: you go to their website/app to rent a motorbike for the weekend and find an awesome Harley Davidson. You proceed to checkout, see a few protection/insurance options, select one, and book the trip. You won't notice, but Riders Share's app has used Tint to risk-score the transaction, decide if it should be confirmed, and calculate how much the protection should cost.<p>Now, imagine you are a developer working on this project and need to add insurance to the product. What do you do? Instead of reinventing the wheel and adding more lines of code to maintain, you can leverage our APIs to integrate all the touchpoints required to sell insurance to your users (risk selection, quotes, issuing policy, claims, …). All the logic for the API responses is configured from our app so your insurance team can easily iterate on the next versions of your insurance product. Oh, and we also train machine learning models so we can recommend ways to improve its performance.<p>We're live in production and have helped our clients embed hundreds of thousands of insurance policies. While our tech applies to any insurance use case, we are initially targeting marketplaces that embed insurance.<p>We'd love to hear any of your ideas or experiences in this space.<p>Thanks, Matheus + Jérôme
Launch HN: Tint (YC W21) – Embed insurance into any product
Hi HN! We’re Matheus & Jérôme and we’re the co-founders of Tint(<a href="http://www.tint.ai" rel="nofollow">http://www.tint.ai</a>). We help companies add insurance to their products.<p>Many companies, such as marketplaces, merchants, and travel agents could include insurance as part of their products and services to make them more valuable to their customers. For example, insurance will be included when you rent a campervan for a weekend trip at Outdoorsy, to protect you if anything goes wrong. Our platform provides everything that is needed: software, access to insurers, compliance—everything required to manage risk and protect users, profitably.<p>We met in 2014 when we were early employees at Turo, the car-sharing startup. While there, we saw the potential that insurance products have and also saw how hard it was to fully capitalize on it. Turo has an obvious and pressing need for insurance, but to fill it, they had to build their own systems, find insurers to back the program, and ensure compliance with state laws. None of this was their core business. We got inspired by the problem and by the opportunity to solve it, so we decided to create Tint.<p>Here is a real example from Riders Share, one of our clients: you go to their website/app to rent a motorbike for the weekend and find an awesome Harley Davidson. You proceed to checkout, see a few protection/insurance options, select one, and book the trip. You won't notice, but Riders Share's app has used Tint to risk-score the transaction, decide if it should be confirmed, and calculate how much the protection should cost.<p>Now, imagine you are a developer working on this project and need to add insurance to the product. What do you do? Instead of reinventing the wheel and adding more lines of code to maintain, you can leverage our APIs to integrate all the touchpoints required to sell insurance to your users (risk selection, quotes, issuing policy, claims, …). All the logic for the API responses is configured from our app so your insurance team can easily iterate on the next versions of your insurance product. Oh, and we also train machine learning models so we can recommend ways to improve its performance.<p>We're live in production and have helped our clients embed hundreds of thousands of insurance policies. While our tech applies to any insurance use case, we are initially targeting marketplaces that embed insurance.<p>We'd love to hear any of your ideas or experiences in this space.<p>Thanks, Matheus + Jérôme
Show HN: Osso – Open-source SAML SSO service
Show HN: White-Label TikTok