Amazing. I've been using repl.it to teach my cousins how to code and it just completely eliminates the burden of having to learn git, terminal, build processes so we can make cool things as quickly as possible.
I feel like you could teach programming with real languages at a much earlier age with tools like Repl.
Check out Kepler (https://kepler.space) -- they're doing great work in satellite constellations to provide constant access to the internet in underserved parts of the world. I can vouch for the founders and team.
Oh wow, that was fast. :) Thanks gurubavan, that sounds very interesting. Do you know them personally or so? Have you worked with them?
I'll definitely check them out!
Yes and yes. Feel free to DM me on twitter (same username). Also check out Ginkgo Bioworks (http://ginkgobioworks.com/), one of the top 100 YC companies. They're working on some really hard problems.
You know, I might do just that. Thank you!
Also, biology and biotech used to be in the 4th or 5th place on my list of interests but it became 1st or 2nd during the previous 2 years.
Both companies have fascinating ideas/goals. Just fascinating!
The part that's a bit sad (to me) is that I'm new in biology (although I'm constantly reading about many things there) so I'm not sure if I would ever manage to find my place in a company in that field :(
p.s. I just remembered that a year ago I watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSZidU6R_mU - Reshma Shetty, Founder of Ginkgo Bioworks at the Female Founders Conference
Tell them that you're really focused on customer development or building product right now (which I'm sure you are anyway) and that you'll reach out to them later ahead of fundraising. You don't owe them anything!
Great question! As a team of software engineers and data scientists, we relied on observability tools like Datadog to build reliable infrastructure for products, but were really surprised that it didn't exist.
We're not 100% sure you can't just use Datadog for this, but it seems to be shoehorning a technology to a usecase its not designed for.
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I feel like you could teach programming with real languages at a much earlier age with tools like Repl.