brettcvz

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• Ask HN: Success using Claude Code to build iOS apps?

  by brettcvz on 8/15/2025, 12:37 AM with 0 comments

• The Great PowerPoint Panic of 2003

  by brettcvz on 6/24/2025, 7:44 PM with 0 comments

• Reach out to people who publish

  by brettcvz on 4/2/2025, 6:15 PM with 1 comments

• In EdTech, you either bet on teachers or you have to build one

  by brettcvz on 1/29/2025, 3:00 PM with 0 comments

• The Making of Community Notes

  by brettcvz on 1/17/2025, 4:20 AM with 0 comments

• OpenAI email archives from Musk vs. Altman

  by brettcvz on 11/26/2024, 8:04 PM with 0 comments

• Measure Schools on Student Growth

  by brettcvz on 6/2/2024, 4:18 AM with 17 comments

• Why do people spend time learning?

  by brettcvz on 3/6/2024, 6:09 AM with 0 comments

• Pepfar and the Costs of Cost-Benefit Analysis

  by brettcvz on 2/4/2024, 6:31 PM with 0 comments

• US Coldest Day of the Year Map

  by brettcvz on 12/8/2023, 8:22 PM with 0 comments

• Age that kids acquire mobile phones not linked to well-being

  by brettcvz on 11/29/2022, 5:43 PM with 0 comments

• Art Made with Artificial Intelligence Wins at State Fair

  by brettcvz on 11/26/2022, 5:36 AM with 50 comments

• Tips for kicking off a new product

  by brettcvz on 8/11/2021, 10:10 PM with 0 comments

• A16Z Survey on Remote Work

  by brettcvz on 6/15/2021, 5:48 PM with 0 comments

• Clever (YC S12) Acquired by Kahoot

  by brettcvz on 5/6/2021, 2:18 PM with 0 comments

• Outschool is the newest edtech unicorn

  by brettcvz on 4/14/2021, 2:22 PM with 0 comments

• Challenging the Link Between Childhood TV Exposure and Later Attention Problems

  by brettcvz on 4/12/2021, 9:05 PM with 0 comments

• One of World’s Greatest Hidden Fortunes Is Wiped Out in Days

  by brettcvz on 4/5/2021, 3:29 AM with 0 comments

• NASA discovers six-star system

  by brettcvz on 2/2/2021, 6:08 PM with 2 comments

• New lines of business in established companies: stages of development

  by brettcvz on 10/23/2020, 1:54 PM with 0 comments

• Creating new lines of business in established companies

  by brettcvz on 10/15/2020, 3:25 PM with 0 comments

• Treehouse

  by brettcvz on 8/11/2020, 4:14 PM with 0 comments

• Create change within your locus of control

  by brettcvz on 8/2/2020, 9:27 PM with 0 comments

• Oakland group sends proposal for first Black-owned team in NFL history

  by brettcvz on 6/24/2020, 5:21 PM with 0 comments

• Common patterns for organizing PED teams

  by brettcvz on 5/23/2020, 5:55 PM with 0 comments

• State your main point first

  by brettcvz on 5/16/2020, 4:06 PM with 0 comments

• Avoid single-pronged decision making

  by brettcvz on 5/12/2020, 3:25 AM with 0 comments

• Time, cost, quality: choose 2

  by brettcvz on 5/3/2020, 8:03 PM with 0 comments

• Advice for friends of struggling founders: make them feel loved

  by brettcvz on 4/28/2020, 2:51 AM with 0 comments

• A Failure, but Not of Prediction

  by brettcvz on 4/15/2020, 3:40 PM with 0 comments

• Explaining tradeoffs in terms of business impact

  by brettcvz on 3/28/2020, 11:00 PM with 0 comments

• UpNext – an ePaper digital calendar for your desk

  by brettcvz on 3/19/2020, 3:26 PM with 60 comments

• An opinionated framework for project metrics

  by brettcvz on 3/3/2020, 4:42 PM with 0 comments

• Don't use low-fidelity prototypes to test desirability

  by brettcvz on 2/21/2020, 4:15 PM with 1 comments

• Customer needs first, business needs second

  by brettcvz on 2/4/2020, 1:41 AM with 0 comments

• Motivation as Persuasive Memory

  by brettcvz on 1/27/2020, 4:01 PM with 0 comments

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• by brettcvz on 1/27/2020, 4:00 PM with comments

• You need to make sure the whole thing makes sense

  by brettcvz on 1/23/2020, 4:04 PM with 0 comments

• Three paths to a first job in Product Management

  by brettcvz on 1/13/2020, 4:15 PM with 0 comments

• Managing product requests from customer-facing teams

  by brettcvz on 1/5/2020, 6:39 PM with 29 comments

• A Clever Way to Measure How Students Actually Use Edtech

  by brettcvz on 1/17/2018, 3:02 PM with 6 comments

• Show HN: Soundbyte – a speaker with a computer inside

  by brettcvz on 7/24/2016, 11:09 PM with 0 comments

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• Introducing Do – a new class of apps by IFTTT

  by brettcvz on 2/19/2015, 2:00 PM with 2 comments

• Identify issues instead of providing solutions

  by brettcvz on 2/6/2015, 3:26 PM with 0 comments

• You can only make time

  by brettcvz on 1/23/2015, 4:24 PM with 0 comments

• Yo Channel

  by brettcvz on 7/1/2014, 4:00 PM with 27 comments

• Two years, 100 Million files

  by brettcvz on 4/14/2014, 9:56 PM with 3 comments

• Making a computer "blank screen" if certain noise levels are reached

  by brettcvz on 12/20/2013, 11:06 PM with 0 comments

• DeskConnect - The missing link between your devices

  by brettcvz on 9/8/2013, 2:23 PM with 0 comments

• Ink offers sponsorship to work on open-source apps

  by brettcvz on 9/5/2013, 4:44 PM with 0 comments

• Announcing the Ink mobile framework

  by brettcvz on 8/15/2013, 4:19 PM with 18 comments

• Filepicker.io Rebrands As Ink, Raises $1.8M

  by brettcvz on 6/18/2013, 3:44 PM with 30 comments

• Strong Opinions, Weakly Held

  by brettcvz on 5/14/2013, 6:45 PM with 2 comments

• Show HN: Codeblock.js - Editable, runnable javascript code blocks

  by brettcvz on 5/13/2013, 5:06 PM with 15 comments

• Filepicker.io + Zencoder

  by brettcvz on 3/21/2013, 4:08 PM with 20 comments

• Filepicker.io Launches new Mobile Web experience

  by brettcvz on 3/4/2013, 5:45 PM with 3 comments

• Using 'debugger' to help in javascript debugging

  by brettcvz on 2/18/2013, 7:55 PM with 17 comments

• 3D portraits created based on DNA

  by brettcvz on 2/18/2013, 12:55 AM with 0 comments

• What startups are looking for in student hires

  by brettcvz on 2/6/2013, 8:52 PM with 0 comments

• User testing at startups

  by brettcvz on 1/29/2013, 6:55 PM with 6 comments

• Filepicker.io Has Stolen My Heart

  by brettcvz on 1/3/2013, 6:30 PM with 0 comments

• When Apps Meet Cloud Storage: Tectonic Shift Ahead

  by brettcvz on 12/4/2012, 5:57 PM with 6 comments

• A Paradigm Shift in Cloud Storage

  by brettcvz on 11/29/2012, 7:46 PM with 3 comments

• Startup Events

  by brettcvz on 11/13/2012, 4:56 PM with 5 comments

• Create the future of the Web with Filepicker.io (YC S12)

  by brettcvz on 9/29/2012, 9:19 PM with comments

• Translatr: Document Translation as a Service

  by brettcvz on 9/26/2012, 10:00 PM with 2 comments

• Filepicker.io launches Django, Rails, PHP, Phonegap libraries

  by brettcvz on 9/24/2012, 6:48 PM with 40 comments

• An Insider View of Y Combinator’s Boot Camp for Startups

  by brettcvz on 8/14/2012, 3:42 PM with 0 comments

• Filepicker.io partners with Aviary

  by brettcvz on 8/10/2012, 5:15 PM with 10 comments

• Nobody will win the storage war

  by brettcvz on 8/8/2012, 6:59 PM with 28 comments

• Filepicker.io now supports Instagram, Flickr and Video Recording

  by brettcvz on 8/7/2012, 8:54 PM with 26 comments

• Show HN: Spreadsheets in the browser with Box, Dropbox support

  by brettcvz on 8/1/2012, 5:16 PM with 13 comments

• A Day without Programming

  by brettcvz on 7/27/2012, 7:04 PM with 20 comments

• Ask HN: Good Hackathon Prizes

  by brettcvz on 7/26/2012, 8:04 PM with 10 comments

• Passing Pointers

  by brettcvz on 7/23/2012, 8:32 PM with 35 comments

• Filepicker.io (S12) Smooths Cloud Storage for Mobile Devs

  by brettcvz on 7/12/2012, 7:41 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Emacs in the browser with Dropbox, GDrive, Github, etc.

  by brettcvz on 7/6/2012, 6:45 PM with 5 comments

• Why Files Exist

  by brettcvz on 6/29/2012, 7:13 PM with 90 comments

• Sunglass.io Public Launch, democratize 3d design

  by brettcvz on 6/28/2012, 7:36 PM with 5 comments

• Mimetypes versus Extensions

  by brettcvz on 6/16/2012, 7:50 PM with 1 comments

• Warn HN: Bugs caused by overly aggressive A/B Testing

  by brettcvz on 6/15/2012, 7:10 AM with 0 comments

• by brettcvz on 6/15/2012, 3:50 AM with comments

• ShowHN: Filelinker - simple sharing of online files

  by brettcvz on 6/12/2012, 6:47 PM with 0 comments

• Ask and you shall receive: Filepicker.io now supports IE, Mobile

  by brettcvz on 4/21/2012, 7:14 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Silly website ideas

  by brettcvz on 4/8/2012, 7:42 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Web applications over desktop versions

  by brettcvz on 1/10/2012, 7:02 PM with 0 comments