Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | mva's commentslogin

Usabilla - https://usabilla.com/jobs - Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We are looking for Full Stack developers and experienced Front-end Developers.

Stack: AWS, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Go, AngularJS, PHP (Symfony 2). Awesome team & most beautiful office in Amsterdam (https://instagram.com/usabilla/)


Would be great if I could adjust the bass myself a bit. Some songs are now just a bit too much. Furthermore vocals are missing that spark and sound quite dull. I have the idea that you are boosting the mids which pushes high freqs a bit to the background.


If you click the Icon and then on Sound Engine, you can select from different virtualization engines.

My default engine does a 1.5 gain on <200 Hz. If you don't like that, choose "Hajo's echo-free 5.1 system without bass boost" or one of the "(ear plugs)" NEW AUDIO TECHNOLOGY engines. Those don't apply my Headphone Equalizer.


Actually I also just remembered that I do, in fact, reduce the highs a bit on both "Hajo's" virtualization engines to make them sound closer to my living room stereo system. The "NEW AUDIO TECHNOLOGY / Music" engine should give more highs at the expense of also introducing a bit more room echo.


"Video conversations with up to 8 people for free."

Guess there will be a paid plan later which allows more people.


Usabilla - Amsterdam - The Netherlands

We build cutting-edge feedback technologies. We have just reached a record exposure of 2 billion monthly Live Feedback button displays – serving an international client base, including big online players like Booking.com, Vodafone, T-Mobile and Spilgames. Time to expand our team with highly motivated and skilled web developers.

We use: PHP / Symfony 2, Go, NodeJS, Javascript, MongoDB, AWS

http://blog.usabilla.com/hiring-skilled-web-developers-amste...


What would be the difference from tools like http://tinypng.org and http://www.jpegmini.com/main/shrink_photo ?


Exactly what I was thinking. JPEGmini works better in my tests.


We handle all the major web image formats, with a single API. That would be the major difference. We also offer more features like image resizing, WebP compression and SVG optimization. Again, with a single API.


I think he meant that the actual conversion to a paid customer. Of course you will get more sign ups (we saw the same at Usabilla), but that doesn't mean those additional sign ups will convert into a paid customer.

We have seen as well that there is less dedication from a customer when they sign up without a credit card. People sign up and forget about it, because it isn't paid anyway (even when you send them regular update emails). When requiring a cc for sign up the user is more motivated to actually trial the product and see if there is a fit.

It basically shifts the drop by sign ups from the actual users who want to use your product for a longer period.

Above is all from B2B experience. B2C can be totally different.


Amsterdam, Netherlands, sales executives, Usabilla.com

We are looking for full time ambitious native speaking sales executives, who can actively sell our SaaS-tools Usabilla Live and Usabilla Survey in the UK, Germany and France.

Usabilla is a fast growing Software as a Service company that offers website feedback tools to big online players like: Vodafone, Booking.com, Tele2, G-Star and T-Mobile. By continuously innovating our frameworks and using the highest possible technical solutions, we make sure that we keep ahead of the leading edge of the technology curve and remain the standard in user feedback.

Full job description: http://blog.usabilla.com/we-are-looking-for-sales-executives...

Apply or more information: jobs@usabilla.com


First, people seem to think EC2 saves you time and hassle. Compared to collocated servers, this is true. But compared to dedicated servers, managed or unmanaged, it simply isn't. Hardware fails? They'll replace it (at no cost).

I totally disagree. OK, maybe it takes a bit more time to set everything up, but when you have it all up and running (AMI's, Autoscaling, etc.) you have a robust setup that can scale when you scale (up or down). Adding a new instance literally only takes some minutes. Try that with a dedicated setup. It's more expensive for sure, but comes with a lot of flexibility.

What I see as an EC2 (or AWS in general) issue / challenge is that it's hard to switch providers. When you use S3, SQS, Cloudwatch, Elasticache, Cloudfront, DynamoDB, SES, Route53 your code is totally integrated / adapted to AWS. You can't take your code and deploy it on a different setup elsewhere.


In that case I would say you have architected an app for aws, then, and we should be careful not to do that for portability's sake. Http://www.12factor.net/backing-services


I was quite astonished when reading about their insane growth. Most of the companies we talk to in The Netherlands (Telco's, E-commerce, Banking / insurance, travel) are using VWO, Sitespect and last week I heard two clients talk about Maxymiser. Not one time I heard them talk about Optimizely. Seems there is still a lot of room for growth (at least in NL).

We (usabilla.com) are using Optimizely with great satisfaction though!


We're thrilled to have opened our first international office in Amsterdam! We have a phenomenal team of sales and support folks who speak many of the languages out there. Our hope is to delight our European customers as much as we've delighted customers back here in the U.S.

Here is a video of the office in Amsterdam: https://vimeo.com/63432751 Come by and visit!


Or upload it to youtube and split it up, so it's scrollable (wasn't able to scroll in the 30+ minute video now).


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: