Bryan Helmig is a co-founder and CTO at Zapier, jazz/blues musician and fine beer and whiskey lover.
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Automate your work with Zapier
Engineering insights
At Zapier we're always looking to add little touches that make working with web based software a little less painful: call it a rounding of the edges. All those minor little setbacks and annoyances introduce artificial barriers that turn off users.
By Bryan Helmig
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2 min read
Engineering insights
I won't rag on Unleashed too much as their API is in beta, but there are a few problems that exhausted a lot of my time that I thought I'd cover in a quick post.
By Bryan Helmig
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1 min read
How we work at Zapier
In the tradition of recapping YC experiences, especially around the acceptance process during the beginning of a new YC batch, I thought it would be fun to quickly recap what we did prior to our YC S12 funding.
By Bryan Helmig
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3 min read
Engineering insights
It hasn't been that long ago when I installed my first Python build. In fact, the earliest record I have of an earnest attempt at coding is dated April 19th, 2009 (an autogenerated Django manage.py).
By Bryan Helmig
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2 min read
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