Bryan Helmig

Bryan Helmig is a co-founder and CTO at Zapier, jazz/blues musician and fine beer and whiskey lover.

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Software For Humans: Eliminate Annoyances

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

2 min read

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API Quirks: Unleashed Software

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

1 min read

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3 Dudes from Missouri Built a Product, Found Paying Customers, and Got Into YC

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

3 min read

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Learning to Hack: the Tipping Point

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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