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We have a flagship React Native application we've been working hard on, and are about to begin building out our smart contracts and the corresponding ecosystem.

We have two roles open on the engineering side, an experienced React Native engineer and a DeFi native Solidity developer.

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Double take moment, used to work for Xero during uni ~5 years ago in Auckland.

Great people and company to work for, since then they've continued to grow massively and everyone I worked with then is now team/country/region lead.

Fingers crossed they're back up and running soon.

This is a nice article, echoes my thoughts a little better than the other post [1] on thd front page right now.

That said, there are strong competitors to Google Analytics, that's the one take I don't agree with.

With Portabella (https://portabella.io) we've gone the restricted free tier route. As a bootstrapped company we have to make that tradeoff between wanting users but also safe guarding against abuse.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26059517

Cool product, I think I've seen it pop up on HN before. How do you balance user privacy while collecting data on usage? Do you have your own privacy-friendly event tracking system, maybe something self hosted?

Are you referring to the analytics tracking (a la Google Analytics) or enforcing limits on user activity?

For a GA alternative there are many and what you should look for is an analytics provider (if you don't want to self host) that rotates salts. Basically user ip hashed with a random salt that changes every 24 hours is good enough to protect user privacy while allowing you to not count every page view as a unique session.

Of course everyone is counted as a new visitor after 24 hours.

On the rate limiting side, great question. I'm currently writing a series of blog posts around creating your own privacy friendly products (Part 1 is targeted at apps, part 2 will be SaaS) where I'll cover this in detail.

Here's a few key takeaways, if you can provide something without collecting any user data, do it. However for anything involving payment you need to at least know the users email (leaving aside cryptocurrency, I'm a big fan but it's difficult to accept as a bootstrapped business). Additionally rate limiting based on usage (which you therefore need to track) is kind of a given. The best we can do here is make sure user data is encrypted.

Thanks for the detailed answer, I was refering more to the analytics and tracking side of things, seeing how often a certain feature was used for instance while maintaining a users privacy and anonyminity. But I was interested to read how you implemented the rest too and the overall approach.

I run a business that competes with those companies you mentioned, it's called Portabella (https://portabella.io), an end-to-end encrypted and privacy friendly alternative.

We have a free plan that basically locks you down collaboration wise (limits inviting anyone to your projects).

We haven't had many people convert yet (https://portabella.io/open) but I'm starting to think it'd be better to offer no free plan but a 7 day free trial

Hey HN, recently I shipped PrivaNote (https://privanote.xyz), and also took some time to write a tutorial on how it works.

When looking for new apps to use, I always have a preference for them to be end-to-end encrypted. Hopefully this shows people how easily it can be done and inspires them to create their own.

Portabella (https://portabella.io) is my primary focus (side project wise) right now.

The long and short of it is: privacy friendly and end-to-end encrypted project management. Think Asana/Trello/Jira but end-to-end encrypted.

A few cool things;

- it's an open startup, meaning all our interesting metrics (user sign ups, MRR, etc are public)

- we're about to release our SDK which means more cool projects can integrate with it. It's also how we built our feedback widget (https://portabella.io/feedback), the widget just consumes the SDK

- we offer a 70% discount for non profits and students. Additionally we'll price match based on local purchasing power if our plans are too steep.

Check it out!

Ha, I made something similar last year https://github.com/AlexBHarley/skipper.

It adds a keyboard shortcut to take you to the next top level comment. I think it's broken now because I did it in a really hacky way.

When you get tired of a comment chain in a thread click two (or three, I forgrt) keys and bam, you're into the next conversation.

I'm doubling down on what I believe in after 2020. I started too many things and wasn't able to commit to them properly.

Highest priority is growing https://portabella.io, we're on the brink of MRR and 2020 was about getting the base features out the door. Content marketing, tutorials, guides will be the goal for me here.

https://block-hooks.com is my other focus, I think it has real potential to take off given the growing ecosystem.

Don't think it matters so much but when negotiating salary, abuse it!

One definition of seniority I use:

- requires a base level of knowledge. 5 years at least of development but less if you've done tons of side projects / overtime / etc

- You need to know how things work across the stack and be proficient in a few places. That's where the deep knowledge comes from

- be a leader when it comes to planning, as a senior you can reason about the project well and make longer term plans about it

Portabella (https://portabella.io) is privacy friendly project management. Think Trello/Asana but end-to-end encrypted with no third party tracking.

Hasn't made any money yet but I think it's on the brink

I've also worked on Block Hooks (https://block-hooks.com) but that's very early days. I expect as the Celo ecosystem grows I'll get customers.

If you will ever be able to integrate git into it, portabella might catch good traction with privacy freaks that self-host their gitlab/bitbucket instances.