mayel's comments

On: Bonfire – working to build safer, more open federated tools and communities

[mayel]

One other connection is using Elixir in our stack, but it's a coincidence.

On: Springpad is shutting down

[mayel]

I always preferred Springpad's UX and way of structuring data over Evernote's. Not sure why everyone is obessed with the later.

[andy_ppp → mayel]

Marketing... Springpad for me is much better. Maybe we can recreate it with The Drogulous as a backend?

On: Ask HN: Your preferred cloud API for voice/SMS and why?

[mayel]

At Babelverse, we first used Tropo's APIs to hack together a crisis-response tool - literally overnight - post-Japan earthquake & tsunami. We've been quite happy with it since then.

On: The US Census now has an API

[mayel]

Here is a quick example I put together this weekend (using data from their Excel files, not the API - didn't know about it!) http://babelverse.com/linguistics/funfacts/

Looking forward to many more visualizations and analysis thanks to the API :)

On: Babelverse - people powered real-time interpretation of the spoken word

[mayel]

I'm co-founder of Babelverse, and would like to take the opportunity to invite rockstar rails and/or VoIP specialized guys who like what we're doing to get in touch!

On: Consider buying a scenic French village and make into a startup/hacker haven?

[mayel]

more actual data, anyone? http://hackfwd.tumblr.com/post/17652295684/europe-embraces-e...

On: Google switches GTalk's VOIP protocol to Jingle

[mayel]

Check out http://babelverse.com/ A startup coming out of Greece btw :)

On: The OpenFund - Making Startups Happen

[mayel]

Congrats George! keep up the good work...