Watershed VS Buy For Life

We use DuckDB extensively where I work (https://watershed.com), the primary way we're using it is to query Parquet formatted files stored in GCS, and we have some machinery to make that doable on demand for reporting and analysis "online" queries. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Watershed (https://watershed.com), platform for enterprises to reduce carbon emissions. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Here's why I'm asking — Watershed, a new carbon accounting tool that recently raised $60m, was spun out of Stripe. Patch.io, an API-first offsets marketplace, has strong ties to Plaid. And Bend, a CO2e emissions data API that I'm working on, grew out of Abacus, an expense management app. Source: about 2 years ago

Your best bet with your current skillset (assuming you're more SWE-oriented) would be to join forward-looking startups and companies in the climate space. There's plenty of startups that are in need of engineers, and it would surprise you that a lot of them are relatively well-funded (e.g. https://watershedclimate.com/, funded by Stripe founders and Kleiner Perkins). Alternatively, you can probably join as a SWE... Source: over 2 years ago

There are software companies working on this already, checkout https://watershedclimate.com/. Source: over 2 years ago

Creator of the buyforlife.com site here :). Source: about 2 years ago

Very cool, that is actually how buyforlife.com started too - as a simple list :). Source: over 2 years ago

Same experience here. To solve that, I built a crowdsourced website that collects all sorts of high-quality and durable products: https://buyforlife.com. Source: over 2 years ago

That's why I built buyforlife.com to tackle these issues. The goal was to build a sort of "Productpedia", where people can search and filter through the most durable products of the world, constantly updated and maintained by the community. I stopped working on it because I was busy with other work and it never really gained sustainable traction. Source: over 2 years ago

Buyforlife.com and recorank.com use early versions of reviewr.ai. More will emerge in the near future. Source: almost 3 years ago