Launch HN: Exams, tasks, K8, eCommerce, cell sites, health, data quality, travel

79% of young adults with mental health issues do not have access to care; the most common alternative, teletherapy, is expensive ($150/session), has significant churn (40% drop off after first visit), and lacks diverse representation (average age of 51 and 80% white). We've developed a curriculum incorporating material from expert group therapists at UCSF. This has led to a number of great outcomes including: providing care at a fraction of the cost of therapy ($50/month or $12/session), an 80% 4-month retention rate, and a diverse set of highly experienced facilitators that members can relate better to. If you're interested in trying Shimmer, you can sign up for a consultation call or a wellness workshop (both for free) directly on our website. Shimmer is led by three founders with extensive experience across healthcare and engineering. Having seen firsthand the severe effect that mental health issues have had on loved ones, we left previous roles (graduate programs at Berkeley MBA/MPH, UCSF MD and Salesforce SWE) to dedicate ourselves to improving the accessibility and affordability of mental health care.

The thing is if you're having say, 10 people for a 1 hour session, that gives each person about 6 minutes to share. But really more like 4 - 5 minutes after overhead. I think that is still worth _something_ (12 dollars per session sounds about right, edit: you may be able to go a few dollars higher), but you are basically trading off quality and cost here. It's going to be hard to actually build a connection and make it meaningful.

(edit: to be clear - the cost here isn't necessarily the lever - whether you charge 5 dollars per session or 25 dollars per session - you will need to make the 1 hour meaningful for the 10 people who are in the meeting, which will be the hard part IMO)

1) we do breakout rooms so members have more time to talk with one another. 2) groups are capped at the 8 person mark. 3) depending on the week, not everyone is always hoping to chat/share, sometimes members just wish to listen that day.

Seriously folks, wonderful work - this is really cool.

How will you continue to find and supervise good group leaders as you draw more users?

The best of luck!

We use maps and workflow tools to reduce the time it takes to deploy a new site by up to 75%, saving tens of thousands of dollars. Wireless carrier radio planners can easily search, identify and acquire sites for deploying antennae whilst the tower providers and real estate owners can market and monetise their assets to the telecom market.

I (Daniel) have worked in telecoms my whole career and worked in more than 30 countries. The same issue exists in every market so there is a rather big opportunity ($40B is spend on wireless infrastructure globally per year!) if we can get some solid product market fit. We’d love to speak to any of you that are curious about what we’re doing or if you have any ideas/challenges for us.

Is Sitenna US only? My FIL works on the telecom industry in South America doing location scouting for antennas, data centers, etc. He would really love something like this.

“Send a clients” typo on home page. Client should be singular.

Pricing page: not clear I could swipe plan cards to right. When attempting to swipe, could not get second card to come into view. Recommend letting them flow beneath.

Yes! I couldn’t believe how inefficient the process of sending dozens of documents over email to my immigration lawyers was. Glad to see someone working on that problem.

Beautiful landing page, too.

I'm very skeptical about most startups business models but looks like you folks check two important boxes of my imaginary list:

[x] solving a real problem

[x] plenty of room to grow (generalist b2b)

I hope to see more of Portão 3! Best of luck for you :)

As a previous corporate traveller, I agree with your value proposition. As a software engineer I was astounded by the very lacking systems we have here in South America. Most of the travel stuff was managed via email!! I absolutely hated every single second of having to manage my travels while working, since it meant digging through emails and even spam folders...

On another note, I'm based in Chile, and already have good connections with managers in key companies that may be interesting for you. If you're looking to expand to Chile, let me know so we can setup some talks ;)

My linkedin is in my profile.

Are you planning to open to the rest of the countries? Have you already customers in Chile, Argentina, Mexico?

Thanks!

If you look at the top right hand corner, you’ll see a globe icon. That icon handles translations - the site is available in Brazilian Portuguese, English and Spanish.

I have to say this is not intuitive and we actually purchased new domains for other countries yesterday and we will have dedicated websites for a lot of countries coming this weekend.

But yes, we do have customers in Brazil where we were born, but Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia and Peru too!

I’m on GKE. How does this compare against Cilium and the new Dataplane V2? https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes...

Sounds like you have more work curating dashboards at the least. And maybe this bolts on to the standard kube-proxy dataplane so folks don’t need to change that?

Exactly we bolt on to the standard kube-proxy setup. We put a lot of effort into ensuring that everything works right out the box.

One question about containiq though which I could not figure out with the skimming of the link. How it compares to (istio + prometheus + grafana)?

The amount of 1/2 broken prometheus/grafana setups we see is crazy.

From a feature perspective there is some overlap (ex pod/node CPU and memory). But we have features that you can't get from the solutions you mentioned (ex service latency, latency by URL path (coming soon!). And have a lot more in the roadmap too. :)

We are also housing and managing the data for our users.

If you are out there to replace existing monitoring stack like ELK, Prometheus-grafana, victoria metrics, i think it will be an uphill battle proving your value because there is high switching cost.

Also, In most of the organisations, core resources that people care about are well monitored. Just my 2 cents.

[1] https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-kubernetes-app/

https://pixielabs.ai/

We have decades of experience with enterprise data and find that this approach towards data quality addresses a huge gap in data platforms. Detecting and investigating data quality issues is extremely tedious, time-consuming and expensive. Using Telmai, companies like Dun & Bradstreet and Myers-Holum are able to find and resolve such issues across millions of records in minutes. Ask us anything!

I wanted to give some feedback on the pricing page: it's very vague, to the point I don't know how much I will end paying if I go over the 500k values (is that the free tier?).

Also, this is only for data monitoring, or can be used for stuff like server monitoring too?

I also took a quick look at your API documentation, and I couldn't figure out how I'd use this.

I run several popular Shopify and WooCommerce apps right now. Their primary integration point with the store is via injecting a script tag into all pages, using Shopify's ScriptTag API or WordPress's wp_head hook.

I couldn't find how I'd do this using Apollo.

A few comments & questions:

1. https://tryapollo.com fails to provide a secure connection?

2. Viewing https://docs.tryappollo.com/docs/introduction on mobile leads to the sidebar getting hidden - may want to copy your ToC into the How To Use This Doc section to not make it look like you have three doc pages total ;)

3. https://docs.tryappollo.com/reference#fetch-products - do I provide a "cursor" or a "page"?

4. The "media" object type is not separately documented. Based on the "Create a product" form it's {src:string, type:string} - what are the valid string values for "type"?

5. When I update a product, do I have to include all fields, or can I include only those I wish to update?

6. How do I append another product photo? How do I insert one? How do I remove one?

7. https://docs.tryappollo.com/reference#fetch-variant goes to the wrong spot on the page, it goes to Collections API section.

8. Ditto all questions for products also for variants (page vs cursor, media & how to do narrow updates to it).

9. https://www.tryappollo.com/pricing - your pricing page has as of right now no clear indication of your intended business model. Charge a fraction of revenue? Fixed $x/install? Something else?

10. Continuation of service: building an app is a non-trivial commitment. What happens if things don't work out for appollo?

Thanks!

2. Thanks for the feedback!

3. Yep! it is a cursor that we return to you after your first query

4. Thanks, we'll better document that! The type values are IMAGE & VIDEO

5. No only the newly updated values

7. Ah weird, which browser you using? for me it works.

8. Ditto all questions for products also for variants (page vs cursor, media & how to do narrow updates to it).

9. Atm we are discussing pricing based on customers needs, on a direct call with them

10. We are committed to making this work. If not we are open to many arrangements including helping customers run Appollo on-prem.

Phew! Thanks for all the questions haha!

BTW what happened to the live stream application/idea?

https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/

Fantastic website by the way. How are you planning to reach out to students in high school? The Pre-U market in Chile at least is brutal, and there are so many competitors that I imagine it might be hard to get some market-share.