Stuff You Should Know - How autopsies work

A collection of post-mortems & lessons from failed startups

Hey there HN – I'm Mohamed, CEO here at Posterity. I've seen a lot of threads lately discussing how stuff can be transferred safely to significant others and spouses. A key aspect of that transfer is often timing, and the ability to only disclose information if and when necessary. This is basically what Automations are about; web-hooks triggered in the event something happens, and which can serve as a reliable signal because we verify every death manually. Today, it's available via IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/posterity), and we'll be launching standard HTTP web-hooks very soon as…

Hiten Shah & Steli Efti on learning from what went wrong

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