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We went through the first YC Fellowship class, where we launched automated contractor scheduling. Today we are excited to…",{"value":56,"source":50,"evidence":57},"Businesses with hourly employees; maker targets 50 to 150 employees per location, e.g. couriers, call centers",[58],{"id":59,"by":11,"text":60},"11213019","Restaurants are an interesting vertical because their technology is largely horizontally-integrated and heavily reliant on the POS system. 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I've been thinking about this a lot - where I currently work (I work as a night receptionist at a hotel) -- there's been a few... challenges with scheduling. I ended…",{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},"11212871","raywu","We have been looking for a solution. Can you talk more about compliance?",[93,104,111],{"value":94,"source":82,"evidence":95},"No demo, code or screenshots in the post; hard to judge without signing up",[96,100],{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"11212802","buckbova","Wouldn't consider this a \"show hn\". There's no code, demo or even screenshots I could see.",{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"11213329","ProAm","Some sort of demo would be nice, Im not going to sign up for something when I have no idea what it is (beyond a text description).",{"value":105,"source":82,"evidence":106},"Schools market is hard to sell to and already saturated by incumbents",[107],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"11222375","DataJunkie","Yeah anything with schools is a nightmare. 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