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seatgeek.com

Company blog · seatgeek.com/blog · on HN as jack7890programmingdata

seatgeek.com is the company blog at seatgeek.com, writing about programming and data. Since 2009, 39 different Hacker News readers have linked it 206 times, most often “Using A Kalman Filter To Make Sense Of Noisy Data”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

No feed foundVisit the blog
206mentions?
1recommend?
39HN people?
2009–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 23 in 2012

Rarely recommended · 1 of 33 sampled comments recommend it?

Why HN links it

Mostly linked for SeatGeek job postings and ticket pages; the company's dev blog is linked for engineering topics such as HTML5 canvas map rendering, deal score math, and fuzzy string matching.

Recommended for · 1 comments
Called 'an awesome writeup' for the post on HTML5 canvas map interactions.1

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 33 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The author on HN?

jack7890 · 1,973 karma · member since 2008

Currently having a blast as the founder of SeatGeek. Personal links here: http://jackgroetzinger.com Get in touch at jack@seatgeek.com.

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

Most-linked posts?

  1. /jobs
    4 people · 32 mentions · first linked 2014-08-28
  2. Using A Kalman Filter To Make Sense Of Noisy Data
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-05-09
  3. Yak Shaving: Adding OAuth Support to Nginx via Lua
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-12-03
  4. Henceforth, All Job Applicants Must Hack Into Our Backend (Dev Challenge)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-25
  5. /
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-06
  6. /senators-at-flyers-tickets/4-11-2015-philadelphia-pennsylvania-wells-fargo-center/nhl/2220894/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-19
  7. Announcing Soulmate, a Redis-backed service for fast autocompleting
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-14
  8. OpenCV Face Detection For Cropping Faces
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-19
  9. FuzzyWuzzy: Fuzzy String Matching in Python
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-08
  10. /
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. jack7890 · 2016-11-01
    SeatGeek — New York, NY — Full Time — We're a mobile marketplace for tickets and live events. Web Engineer — We're looking for someone who loves building for the web. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for grabs. Details here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs/software_engineer iOS Engineer, marketing roles, and lots more here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs

    Comment linking /jobs

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”
  2. jack7890 · 2010-09-10

    Submitted We Built Interactive Seating Maps Using Raphael; Please Give Us Feedback as a story · 217 points

    HN discussion
  3. jack7890 · 2017-10-02
    SeatGeek — New York, NY — Full Time — We're a mobile marketplace for tickets and live events. Web Engineer — We're looking for someone who loves building for the web. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for grabs. Details here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs/software_engineer iOS Engineer, marketing roles, and lots more here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs

    Comment linking /jobs

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”
  4. chrisvoll · 2011-07-08

    Submitted FuzzyWuzzy: Fuzzy String Matching in Python as a story · 150 points

    HN discussion
  5. jack7890 · 2015-07-01
    SeatGeek — New York, NY — Full Time — We're a search engine for tickets and live events. Web Engineer — We're looking for someone who loves building for the web. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for grabs. Details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/ Marketing Coordinator — We're looking for someone who's bright and analytical. Experience…

    Comment linking /jobs/marketing_coordinator

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”
  6. acslater00 · 2011-08-23

    Submitted SeatGeek Blog: What An Earthquake Does To Page Load Time as a story · 123 points

    HN discussion
  7. josegonzalez · 2011-12-07
    When I saw this page committed, I smiled quite a bit. http://seatgeek.com/404 (Image: http://d2o7bfz2il9cb7.cloudfront.net/main-qimg-e859ed4563650... )

    Comment linking /404

    on “Mint.com turns 404 ad page into date ad for developer”
  8. ericwaller · 2011-02-14

    Submitted Announcing Soulmate, a Redis-backed service for fast autocompleting as a story · 97 points

    HN discussion
  9. jack7890 · 2016-06-01
    SeatGeek — New York, NY — Full Time — We're a mobile marketplace for tickets and live events. Web Engineer — We're looking for someone who loves building for the web. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for grabs. Details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/ iOS Engineer, marketing roles, and lots more here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs

    Comment linking /jobs

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”
  10. jack7890 · 2012-05-09

    Submitted Using A Kalman Filter To Make Sense Of Noisy Data as a story · 89 points

    HN discussion
  11. jack7890 · 2017-07-04
    SeatGeek — New York, NY — Full Time — We're a mobile marketplace for tickets and live events. Web Engineer — We're looking for someone who loves building for the web. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for grabs. Details here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs/software_engineer iOS Engineer, marketing roles, and lots more here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs

    Comment linking /jobs

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”
  12. josegonzalez · 2010-11-19

    Submitted Open The Beers And Wait To Be Showered With Job Applications as a story · 75 points

    HN discussion
  13. jack7890 · 2017-11-01
    SeatGeek — New York, NY — Full Time — We're a mobile marketplace for tickets and live events. Web Engineer — We're looking for someone who loves building for the web. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for grabs. Details here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs/software_engineer iOS Engineer, marketing roles, and lots more here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs

    Comment linking /jobs

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”
  14. philipcristiano · 2013-06-19

    Submitted OpenCV Face Detection For Cropping Faces as a story · 72 points

    HN discussion
  15. jack7890 · 2016-10-03
    SeatGeek — New York, NY — Full Time — We're a mobile marketplace for tickets and live events. Web Engineer — We're looking for someone who loves building for the web. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for grabs. Details here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs/software_engineer iOS Engineer, marketing roles, and lots more here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs

    Comment linking /jobs

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”
  16. arlog · 2012-12-11

    Submitted SeatGeek Launches iPhone App as a story · 54 points

    HN discussion
  17. sddamico · 2020-08-04
    Company: SeatGeek ( https://seatgeek.com/ ), App ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seatgeek.a... ) Job: Android Engineer ( https://grnh.se/ormck1 ) Location: New York, NY Allows Remote: in the US Visa: No SeatGeek’s mission is to help the world experience more live – concerts, sports, theater, and more – and our Android app is vital to making that vision a reality. Our humble, yet bold goal since w…

    Comment linking /jobs

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”
  18. kessler · 2010-10-25

    Submitted Henceforth, All Job Applicants Must Hack Into Our Backend (Dev Challenge) as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  19. jack7890 · 2017-12-01
    SeatGeek — New York, NY — Full Time — We're a mobile marketplace for tickets and live events. Web Engineer — We're looking for someone who loves building for the web. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for grabs. Details here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs/software_engineer iOS Engineer, marketing roles, and lots more here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs

    Comment linking /jobs

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)”
  20. acslater00 · 2013-02-06

    Submitted The SeatGeek Event Recommendations API as a story · 38 points

    HN discussion
  21. jack7890 · 2017-05-01
    SeatGeek — New York, NY — Full Time — We're a mobile marketplace for tickets and live events. Web Engineer — We're looking for someone who loves building for the web. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for grabs. Details here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs/software_engineer iOS Engineer, marketing roles, and lots more here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs

    Comment linking /jobs

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)”
  22. ericwaller · 2010-10-21

    Submitted Announcing DJJob, a PHP port of delayed_job as a story · 38 points

    HN discussion
  23. jack7890 · 2017-09-01
    SeatGeek — New York, NY — Full Time — We're a mobile marketplace for tickets and live events. Web Engineer — We're looking for someone who loves building for the web. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for grabs. Details here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs/software_engineer iOS Engineer, marketing roles, and lots more here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs

    Comment linking /jobs

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”
  24. ryanb · 2011-09-19

    Submitted Hiring Challenges Shouldn't be Limited to Developers as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  25. jack7890 · 2016-07-01
    SeatGeek — New York, NY — Full Time — We're a mobile marketplace for tickets and live events. Web Engineer — We're looking for someone who loves building for the web. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for grabs. Details here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs/software_engineer iOS Engineer, marketing roles, and lots more here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs

    Comment linking /jobs

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”
  26. kessler · 2010-12-13

    Submitted Why we built Deal Score: A concert ticket is not like an airline ticket as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  27. jack7890 · 2016-05-02
    SeatGeek — New York, NY — Full Time — We're a mobile marketplace for tickets and live events. Web Engineer — We're looking for someone who loves building for the web. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for grabs. Details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/ iOS Engineer, marketing roles, and lots more here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs

    Comment linking /jobs

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”
  28. bplesser · 2011-07-21

    Submitted How to Measure PR Coverage as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  29. jack7890 · 2016-08-01
    SeatGeek — New York, NY — Full Time — We're a mobile marketplace for tickets and live events. Web Engineer — We're looking for someone who loves building for the web. Everything else (professional experience, where in the stack you fit, the languages you've used) is up for grabs. Details here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs/software_engineer iOS Engineer, marketing roles, and lots more here: https://seatgeek.com/jobs

    Comment linking /jobs

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”
  30. chadburgess · 2010-07-31

    Submitted A-Rod's 600th HR Landing Spot Projection at Tropicana Field as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion

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