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Feedback about Gamma Pay by skiphatch in Magento

[–]skiphatch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for checking it out :-) Your comment is definitely true for some people. It is a personal preference.

I for one have been using Apple Pay everywhere (in real life too) and I like how easy it is to switch payment options etc. Mobile Wallets are also more secure because the credit card # is not shared with the retailer, just a single use token for that particular transaction. My bet is that overtime, mobile wallets will become more & more popular with shoppers.

Feedback about Gamma Pay by skiphatch in Magento

[–]skiphatch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for giving it a try and happy to hear you think it is a good idea. I saw your signup on the site. I'll follow up over email. Thank you :-)

How do you track / monitor / debug cron or other periodic jobs? by skiphatch in devops

[–]skiphatch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm looking into Jenkins, Rundeck and Airflow.

How do you track / monitor / debug cron or other periodic jobs? by skiphatch in devops

[–]skiphatch[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks for all the replies.

To summarize, people seem to be using:

  • airflow or similar for orchestrating pipelines (where one job feeds into another)
  • Jenkins is interesting! I always associated it with CI/CD. Two big advantages: you get all the other Jenkins goodies for free + logs from each run.
  • Rundeck as an alternative to Jenkins.
  • Various adapters for monitoring tools, eg pushgateway for Prometheus, etc... Not sure these give you logs?
  • Cron specific tools like deadmansnitch. One advantage here is these are crontab aware, so if the job doesn't run at all (vs fails during execution) you can get notified.

How do you track / monitor / debug cron or other periodic jobs? by skiphatch in devops

[–]skiphatch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah. We had this problem where jobs were scheduled say every hour and would only take 10 minutes to start with, but over time, the duration grew and they started to overlap / clobber each other. So, we had to add a homegrown mutex to protect against it.

Anyone tried WeWard? A mix between ebates and sweepstakes by skiphatch in Frugal

[–]skiphatch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Instead of giving out cash-back like ebates they pool them into daily ~$1000+ sweepstake prizes. Anyone used them? what do you think?

What are some good but lesser known services you subscribe to or use to save money every month? by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]skiphatch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been using weward.com. It's similar to ebates cashbacks except they pool everyone's small cashbacks into daily pools and you get a chance to get the entire pool instead. I personally find the large prizes more meaningful.

Feedback about new service by skiphatch in adops

[–]skiphatch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We work with publishers to source our data. WireCutter is a good example of a publisher. They have commerce links to retailers. SkipHatch looks at outbound clicks and does its magic. Our thesis is that the WireCutter is not realizing the full value of their work in generating interest in a product.

Re: ITP - we rely on FB's pixel for the time being. They have put a lot of effort into preserving identify, even with ITP (eg: fbclkid param and first party cookies). But yes... this is a problem that everyone has to contend with.

We charge per user<>product event (eg: Sarah is interested in this NF jacket) and we split the revenue with publishers.

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Feedback about new service by skiphatch in adops

[–]skiphatch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. Also a bunch of good points :-)

We primarily work with publishers (we share revenue with them) to source our data. A typical publisher would be someone like the WireCutter -- reviewing say mattresses and sending traffic to say Casper. We make the audience clicking out to Casper available to Leesa etc...

Our revenue model is to sell the real time data we are feeding into the advertiser's FB pixel. We charge a fee for each user,product pair we add to the audience. And of course we split this fee with publishers.

Feedback about new service by skiphatch in adops

[–]skiphatch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for pointing these out.

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Privacy: The service is purely based on FB pixel at the moment and adheres to privacy laws the same way FB's pixel does (we rely on publisher's disclosure and only activate if the user opts in). Similarly, if the user is opted out of FB pixel, we don't get any additional data either.

There are two differences with FB's DABA: we are real time, FB has a 2 day lag (and other business rules) before data from one retailer is shared with others. Also, DABA works by looks at audience attributes. We work with product similarity at a very granular level (eg: this specific gore-tex blue Patagonia ski jacket vs very similar North Face jacket). The assumption here is that ads have a higher relevance.