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Parabol

Company blog · parabol.co/blog · on HN as jrhusneyproductivityprogramming

Parabol is the company blog at parabol.co, writing about productivity and programming. Since 2018, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 77 times, most often “Scaling GraphQL with Redis Consumer Groups”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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77mentions?
7HN people?
2018–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Parabol's site appears on HN through a job posting for an open-source multiplayer app for remote team meetings, and through a link to its agile statistics page. The comments do not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Parabol is a Free Agile Meeting Tool for Remote Teams. Seamlessly integrates with Atlassian Jira, GitHub, Slack, and Mattermost. Free and Open-Source.

The author on HN?

jrhusney · 44 karma · member since 2015

Founder parabol.co [ my public key: https://keybase.io/jrhusney; my proof: https://keybase.io/jrhusney/sigs/egf3kZmAwYoFyhJM-B5IDAxWBDZKcBV24NFNZcvL_xY ]

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /join
    3 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2019-11-05
  2. Scaling GraphQL with Redis Consumer Groups
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. Parabol | Remote | Full-time | https://parabol.co Get paid to write customer-facing, open-source software that helps teams work from home. As a team of 6, we've built an app with 40,000 active users and plenty of VC funding. Tech stack: K8S, NodeJS, Typescript, GraphQL, React Two-minute Demo: https://parabol.co/retro-demo Repo: https://github.com/ParabolInc/parabol Roles: - Senior Frontend Developer: https://www.par…

    Comment linking /join

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)”
  2. Submitted Nesting GitHub's API in Your GraphQL Schema as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. Parabol | Brooklyn, NY | Full-Time, Onsite or Remote | https://www.parabol.co Parabol makes software for distributed organizations. We enable cross-functional collaboration and clarity by syncing teams in a single daily dashboard with a weekly ritual. Our embedded prioritization process improves team transparency, efficiency, and operational growth. To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whethe…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)”
  4. Submitted Better Standups in 57 Questions as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Parabol | Remote | Full-time | https://parabol.co We build meeting software that guarantees meetings are as short as they are productive. Everything we do is open source, from our code to our company. Tech stack: K8S, NodeJS, Typescript, GraphQL, React Two-minute Demo: https://parabol.co/retro-demo Repo: https://github.com/ParabolInc/parabol Senior Frontend Developer: https://www.parabol.co/join/senior-frontend-deve…

    Comment linking /join

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”
  6. Submitted Scaling GraphQL with Redis Consumer Groups as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Parabol | Senior Designer | Remote | Full-time | https://parabol.co Join us to design an open-source, multiplayer app that helps remote teams have their best meetings and discussion threads. As a small and growing team, we’re serving over 50,000 users and are backed by Slack Fund, Haystack, and CRV. Senior Designer: https://www.parabol.co/join/senior-designer Two-minute Demo: https://parabol.co/retro-demo Repo: http…

    Comment linking /join

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)”
  8. Submitted Why Agile is loved, loathed, and lasting as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Parabol | Remote | Full-time | https://parabol.co We build agile software that guarantees meetings are as short as they are productive. Everything we do is open source, from our code to our company. Tech stack: K8S, NodeJS, Typescript, GraphQL, React Two-minute Demo: https://parabol.co/retro-demo Repo: https://github.com/ParabolInc/parabol Senior Frontend Developer: https://www.parabol.co/join/senior-frontend-develo…

    Comment linking /join/data-architect

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”
  10. Submitted Scaling GraphQL with Redis Consumer Groups as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Parabol | REMOTE (we've been fully-remote 5 years!)| Full-time | https://parabol.co The Parabol meeting app makes everybody feel like any meeting was worth the time invested. We're creators of an open-source ( https://github.com/ParabolInc/action ) retrospective and check-in meeting app that integrates with the tools teams already use, such as GitHub, Slack, and Jira. Roles: - Senior Frontend Developer: https://www.…

    Comment linking /join

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)”
  12. Parabol | Remote | Full-time | https://parabol.co Get paid to write customer-facing, open-source software that helps teams work from home. Tech stack: K8S, NodeJS, Typescript, GraphQL, React Two-minute Demo: https://parabol.co/retro-demo Repo: https://github.com/ParabolInc/parabol Senior Frontend Developer: https://angel.co/company/parabol/jobs/722246-senior-frontend... Other roles available at https://www.parabol.c…

    Comment linking /join

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)”
  13. Parabol | REMOTE or Los Angeles, CA | Full-time | https://parabol.co Parabol is making sure everybody feels like a meeting was worth the time invested. We're creators of an open-source ( https://github.com/ParabolInc/action ) retrospective and check-in meeting app that integrates with the tools teams already use, such as GitHub, Slack, and Jira. Latest Announcement: https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/05/slack-fund-hayst…

    Comment linking /join

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)”
  14. Parabol | Remote or Los Angeles, CA | Full-time, Remote-OK | https://parabol.co Parabol is making sure everybody feels like a meeting was worth the time invested. We're creators of an open-source ( https://github.com/ParabolInc/action ) retrospective and check-in meeting app that integrates with the tools teams already use. Latest Announcement: https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/05/slack-fund-haystack-and-cr... – Slack…

    Comment linking /join

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)”
  15. Parabol | REMOTE or Los Angeles, CA | Full-time | https://parabol.co We're building a future where teams can work remote and every meeting is worth the time invested. Every line of code you write will be open-source: https://github.com/ParabolInc/parabol Our company is open-source, too: https://focus.parabol.co/20-000-is-real-love-b81a3bed0cdc Our tech stack is fresher than your side project (Typescript, React, Grap…

    Comment linking /join

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)”
  16. Parabol | Remote | Full-time | https://parabol.co We build agile software that guarantees meetings are as short as they are productive. Everything we do is open source, from our code to our company. Tech stack: K8S, NodeJS, Typescript, GraphQL, React Two-minute Demo: https://parabol.co/retro-demo Repo: https://github.com/ParabolInc/parabol Senior Frontend Developer: https://www.parabol.co/join/senior-frontend-develo…

    Comment linking /join/data-architect

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)”
  17. Parabol | Remote | Full-time | https://parabol.co Agile meeting software for teams that hate meetings Built in the open, open-source, 100% remote, Equal pay across the globe. Tech stack: K8S, NodeJS, Typescript, GraphQL, React Two-minute Demo: https://parabol.co/retro-demo GitHub: https://github.com/ParabolInc/parabol Principal Full-stack Developer: https://www.parabol.co/join/principal-fullstack-developer Senior Fr…

    Comment linking /en/join/devops-architect-1

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)”
  18. You know that feeling of "we always complain about the same things, but it never gets any better?" Your question is at the heart of making it possible to escape stagnation and actually evolve the way a team works together. Sharing knowledge isn't just a matter of tooling, but a matter of principle. Because we want the knowledge we share to not just float out there as a "lesson", we want people to use the lessons and…

    Comment linking /blog/async-decision-making-slack

    on “Ask HN: How does your company keep track of lessons learned?”
  19. Data from lots of people who think Scrum is great and love it: > https://www.parabol.co/resources/agile-statistics/#agile-eff... It's the Internet. You can find a few thousand (or few million) people who love or hate anything. What's your point?

    Comment linking /resources/agile-statistics/

    on “Scrum is a cancer”
  20. Parabol | Brooklyn, NY | Full-Time, Onsite or Remote | https://www.parabol.co Parabol makes software for distributed organizations. We enable cross-functional collaboration and clarity by syncing teams in a single daily dashboard with a weekly ritual. Our embedded prioritization process improves team transparency, efficiency, and operational growth. To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whethe…

    Comment linking /

    on a deleted thread

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