Does it allow bitcoin lightning channels for commitments?

I was initially thinking about doing it crypto-based, but that makes onboarding and the UX more challenging. A fee-less solution like LN could make sense.

Integration usually takes about 20 minutes. The product will give you copy-paste instructions in various languages once your campaign is setup.

If you're hooked up with Segment.io, it's just a flick of a switch.

And of course if you need any help, you can always write in to support [at] outbound.io and we'll be right on it.

What kind of zapier integration would be most useful? Would it be best if we hooked up with salesforce, or other larger providers? Or just expose zapier hooks for our APIs?

Hey Dhruv! The cool thing is if you expose some triggers and actions via an app, your users can decide how to hook it into other apps (like Salesforce, etc.)

Perhaps things like:

- Trigger when a message is opened

- Trigger when a message is sent

- Trigger when a new contact is added (if you have lists)

etc. Happy to answer any questions, you can also shoot me an email. https://zapier.com/developer

That does seem cool. It's a convenient wrapper on our API. I'll check it out.

Hey guys, I'm one of the founders at Outbound. We're trying to build the most developer friendly marketing automation solution -- so we appreciate any feedback from the community. Happy to answer any questions.

What if you generated electricity and stored it into a battery and then the transit system just paid an equivalent amount for the electricity?

Or you could set up a treadmill, and you get a kilometre of free train transport for every kilometre you walk on the treadmill. Call it performance art.

Interesting idea, but I don't think many metro systems are set up to easily sell 'a kilometer' of transport?

Just make it work out on average.

I think you phrased this a little too glibly, but it's a very good point. You can tune two systems to have roughly the "exchange rate" that you'd like to see (unless each is highly sensitive to the other), even if there's not a direct point-for-points correspondence, but it's not necessarily easy to think of that.

Do you mean it's possible without changing the existing ticket systems, or that it's possible to adapt the ticket systems so it could work? For instance, the systems I've used sell tickets either by zone (unlimited travel within a region for x time) or by train station, where the difference between stations varies widely but the cost between stations doesn't.

I think you can mostly make it work for any existing ticketing system.

By `mostly work', I mean `good enough for an art project'.

Why is RSVP gated on a person?

to keep out recruiters

Thank you for sharing this. It's beautiful.

True today. But Uber's value is in the human component and the alternative's cost of ownership. Google and Elon Musk look well positioned crush Uber in the 5-yr timeframe.

What is Elon going to do? If you're talking about the Hyperloop, you're deluding yourself if you think that's going to be wide spread in 5 years. It'll take at least 10 for a functional scale prototype and then decades of NIMBY (Not In My BackYard) battles to get them built around the country. Even after that, it'll be like an airport. You can't have a hyperloop with 37 stops...it'll only be so fast and easy if it has a minimum amount of stops. At which point, Uber can help close the loop from hyperloop stop to your home or office.

He has the ability to sell cities a whole electric cab platform, with hailing and payment system built right into the car itself.

and who has the logistics technology and user base to power that? Uber.

Sure, but it's more like Tesla would buy Uber, not Uber would rocafella out and buy Tesla, along with the roads. Plus, outside of SF, Uber isn't really taking off.

Joint venture? They both have what the other needs. And $125Million in revenue says Uber is taking off in more than SF.

$125M means they have 1/4 the SF Taxi market revenue.

Do you have a source for that? I tried googling and couldn't find a solid number on Taxi revenues by city.

Uber will never have the user base unless their pricing matches the price for a normal cab ride.

It already does in SF.

Except for when it surges 2x, which is most weekends - when you are most likely to want a ride.

Most entities that have a large enough footprint to make this kind of a thing useful care a lot about speed and their users :) Why not just have a chrome extension that does good on all sites?

This is an excellent point, doing away with a lot of the ethical concerns of the original project.

At this point, though, I'd be tempted to just remake the whole thing as a proper program, if we're going to be asking people to download it anyway.

Learn the languages which are easy to keep in your head. Python, Go and JavaScript. Then spend most of your time learning _techniques_, not _tools_. Pickup some mapreduce, do a project with service oriented architecture, that kinda thing.