Tomek on Software
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StopGHG - A Free Carbon Footprint Calculator
Lately I’ve been exploring the climate space with an eye toward areas where technology can help companies do their part to protect it. One such area is carbon footprint calculation. As a result, today we are shipping StopGHG - a free, self-service carbon footprint calculator for companies. Understanding your company’s...
StopGHG - darmowy kalkulator śladu węglowego
Ostatnio zainteresowałem się zagadnieniami związanymi z ochroną klimatu, w szczególności obszarami, w których technologia może wesprzeć firmy w jego ochronie. Pierwszy taki obszar to wyliczenie śladu węglowego. W rezultacie, dzisiaj wypuszczamy StopGHG - darmowy kalkulator śladu węglowego dla firm. Określenie śladu węglowego Twojej firmy jest niezbędne do opracowania strategii przewagi...
Launching GetGaap - a financial API for your app or spreadsheet
Today, I am launching GetGaap, a financial API for your app or spreadsheet. Using GetGaap, you can access data from the financial reports companies file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the US. GetGaap provides access to 100+ million financial facts from 18+ thousand companies filed using forms...
Letsgo - a starter kit for starting startups
New SaaS businesses cut corners that are hard to fix later. Today I am shipping LetsGo, an open-source project to address this issue: 47chapters/letsgo. When you start a new SaaS application, you often optimize for the time to market. In the process, many reduce the near-term work while creating technical...
Create a contact sheet photo collage poster
Creating a photo collage from your digital photos should be easy, right? It is unless you have very specific needs for how you want your collage to look like. In my case, I have just returned from a year-long, around-the-world travel with 25,000+ pictures, and I wanted to arrange some...
Scalable CRON job executor for AWS Lambda
Running scheduled jobs at scale in the cloud is an interesting problem to solve. In this post I will describe an architecture we came up with at Fusebit that allows us to execute a large number of arbitrarily scheduled CRON jobs in AWS using Lambda, SQS, and CloudWatch. The problem...
Embedded NPS widget with webtask.io
Net Promoter Score (NPS) has been an established tool for measuring customer loyalty since 2003. It is based on asking your customers a single question: how likely are they to recommend your product to others? Research shows that the answer is correlated to the future success of the product. In...
Build your own Twitter scheduler
Twitter is great for marketing your product or personal brand, but it has one disadvantage: you must actually tweet. In the next 2 minutes I will show you how to create a simple yet flexible (and free) Twitter scheduler that allows you to set up your tweets along with a...
How to build your own serverless platform
In this post I will provide a blueprint for building your own serverless platform, based on the lessons learned from working on Auth0 Extend in the recent years. Why would you want to build a serverless platform? The serverless (Function-as-a-Service) computation model is a powerful complement to the webhook-based extensibility...
Serverless webhooks to revolutionize the SaaS
In 2007, Jeff Lindsay introduced webhooks in his Webhooks to revolutionize the web article. Since then, webhooks have become the dominant mechanism for exposing events from web services. Fast forward to 2017, and a new, better pattern started to emerge: serverless webhooks. Webhooks (2007) This is how Jeff defined webhooks...