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look","updated_at":"2024-09-19T22:49:33Z","url":"http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/zocdoc-bucks-healthcare-blues-with-new-look-300221159.html"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"addorai"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["zocdoc"],"value":"Hi HN. Aravindh and Alex here, co-founders of Fable (https://www.tryfable.com). Fable allows product teams to collaborate on product specs, which it automatically syncs to issue trackers like Jira and Linear. Here's a demo video: https://www.loom.com/share/a34eebc263f949db90f2e17aa7ffe104
Product teams painstakingly craft their product specs to ensure they\u2019re building the right thing. Unfortunately, the pace of modern product development is so fast that the minute a product spec is written, it\u2019s no longer relevant. People waste time copy/pasting this content into issue trackers, because the engineers need tickets to work on. Worse yet, these stale artifacts result in bad decisions and ultimately the wrong product going out the door.
Alex and I have been PMs at companies of varying sizes and industries\u2014from Microsoft to Budweiser to Zocdoc. This idea came to mind when I was a PM at TpT (Teachers Pay Teachers). I was wasting hours copy/pasting from my spec into Jira, time that I could have spent doing more valuable things like talking to users. Then after creating those Jira tickets, I\u2019d get the link and paste it back in the spec. Problem was that I didn\u2019t have time to keep updating the spec, which is the only place that my teammates on marketing and sales looked at. They didn\u2019t want to go into Jira.
Fable gives product teams a place to collaboratively write their specs. What\u2019s unique is that once the spec is written, teams can push a button to sync the content with their issue tracker (currently Jira and Linear are supported but we\u2019re adding more). It\u2019s a two-way sync\u2014meaning if content changes in the issue tracker, it comes back to Fable and vice versa. You can start writing your spec in Fable, push a button to sync with the issue tracker, and maintain accuracy even as the content changes in the issue tracker.
Other document editors allow users to embed a Jira or Linear ticket, but it\u2019s not a two-way sync. Building two-way sync was an engineering challenge since we had to account for offline issues, errors, etc that could cause conflicts between the two versions. We\u2019ve designed our conflict resolution engine to be smart about handling these scenarios, and when we can\u2019t come to a decision on what the source of truth is, we prompt the user to select one.
We\u2019ve built Fable from the ground up for product teams, emphasizing ease of use (no complicated setup or learning curve) and speed (you don\u2019t have to wait a few seconds every time you want to edit a doc). The foundation is a powerful document editor built on Prosemirror. It allows users to dynamically embed content from sources including Figma, Google Drive, and Airtable.
Fable makes product definition a more collaborative process, involving teammates all the way from ideation to creating tickets on issue trackers, and letting everyone keep track of what is being built and its status. No more sales and marketing people going into the issue tracker and throwing their hands up because they don\u2019t know how to parse through all the tickets. Later, the Fable doc serves as a record of what was built, so teams can look back later to understand the thought behind live features.
We charge per \u201cmaker\u201d, meaning people who are actively creating content. This tends to the product manager, and sometimes also the designer and engineering manager. Anyone who just wants to view and comment on the doc (marketing, sales, etc) gets access for free.
We\u2019re looking forward to feedback from the community!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Launch HN: Fable (YC W21) \u2013 Collaborate on product specs, sync to issue trackers"}},"_tags":["story","author_addorai","story_29980162","launch_hn"],"author":"addorai","children":[29980263,29980725,29980842,29980857,29981011,29981207,29982367,29984995,29986054,29987529,29987777,29990550,30034527],"created_at":"2022-01-18T15:02:48Z","created_at_i":1642518168,"num_comments":21,"objectID":"29980162","points":58,"story_id":29980162,"story_text":"Hi HN. Aravindh and Alex here, co-founders of Fable (https://www.tryfable.com). Fable allows product teams to collaborate on product specs, which it automatically syncs to issue trackers like Jira and Linear. Here's a demo video: https://www.loom.com/share/a34eebc263f949db90f2e17aa7ffe104
Product teams painstakingly craft their product specs to ensure they\u2019re building the right thing. Unfortunately, the pace of modern product development is so fast that the minute a product spec is written, it\u2019s no longer relevant. People waste time copy/pasting this content into issue trackers, because the engineers need tickets to work on. Worse yet, these stale artifacts result in bad decisions and ultimately the wrong product going out the door.
Alex and I have been PMs at companies of varying sizes and industries\u2014from Microsoft to Budweiser to Zocdoc. This idea came to mind when I was a PM at TpT (Teachers Pay Teachers). I was wasting hours copy/pasting from my spec into Jira, time that I could have spent doing more valuable things like talking to users. Then after creating those Jira tickets, I\u2019d get the link and paste it back in the spec. Problem was that I didn\u2019t have time to keep updating the spec, which is the only place that my teammates on marketing and sales looked at. They didn\u2019t want to go into Jira.
Fable gives product teams a place to collaboratively write their specs. What\u2019s unique is that once the spec is written, teams can push a button to sync the content with their issue tracker (currently Jira and Linear are supported but we\u2019re adding more). It\u2019s a two-way sync\u2014meaning if content changes in the issue tracker, it comes back to Fable and vice versa. You can start writing your spec in Fable, push a button to sync with the issue tracker, and maintain accuracy even as the content changes in the issue tracker.
Other document editors allow users to embed a Jira or Linear ticket, but it\u2019s not a two-way sync. Building two-way sync was an engineering challenge since we had to account for offline issues, errors, etc that could cause conflicts between the two versions. We\u2019ve designed our conflict resolution engine to be smart about handling these scenarios, and when we can\u2019t come to a decision on what the source of truth is, we prompt the user to select one.
We\u2019ve built Fable from the ground up for product teams, emphasizing ease of use (no complicated setup or learning curve) and speed (you don\u2019t have to wait a few seconds every time you want to edit a doc). The foundation is a powerful document editor built on Prosemirror. It allows users to dynamically embed content from sources including Figma, Google Drive, and Airtable.
Fable makes product definition a more collaborative process, involving teammates all the way from ideation to creating tickets on issue trackers, and letting everyone keep track of what is being built and its status. No more sales and marketing people going into the issue tracker and throwing their hands up because they don\u2019t know how to parse through all the tickets. Later, the Fable doc serves as a record of what was built, so teams can look back later to understand the thought behind live features.
We charge per \u201cmaker\u201d, meaning people who are actively creating content. This tends to the product manager, and sometimes also the designer and engineering manager. Anyone who just wants to view and comment on the doc (marketing, sales, etc) gets access for free.
We\u2019re looking forward to feedback from the community!","title":"Launch HN: Fable (YC W21) \u2013 Collaborate on product specs, sync to issue trackers","updated_at":"2024-09-20T10:18:34Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"mrstrawberry"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["zocdoc"],"value":"I'll start. Here's what sucks about NYC:
1) Home
- Apartments are expensive. Can get 4x more space in Chicago for same price.
- Difficult to shop for home. Wanted a desk for my bedroom. None of the stores in the city, included Target, offered reasonable-priced desks that could fit. Had to buy online, which came with own issues.
2) Services
- Services are expensive. Want to get your hair dyed blond from someone you saw on Instagram? It's $600 and they ruin your hair.
3) Food
- Groceries are expensive and inconvenient. Get delivery or Whole Foods and pay 30-70% over Trader Joe's price. Or you need to walk/Uber to Trader Joe's, wait in line, then walk/Uber back. Local bodegas? Usually bad quality and high prices (eg watermelon is $25).
- Restaurants are expensive. Entree's in Manhattan are usually $25-35.
- Food isn't uniquely great. I recently went to a well-rated David Chang restaurant in Chelsea. Meh.
- Grocery delivery is usually done by foot. Sometimes this is great, sometimes it leads to food being delivered hours late, warm, and gross. This happens across platforms.
4) Transportation
- Can't have a car in Manhattan. Parking is $600/month in my building. Btw, the doorman gets 50%, so $300/month (yay!).
- Car rentals are quite expensive in the city. Want to rent a van to go camping? That's even worse.
- Uber and Lyft is extremely slow in the city. I generally prefer taxi's since drivers understand how to get around faster. They're also priced competitively.
5) Airport
- Traffic between airports is quite bad. Usually about an hour. Makes me jealous of the 20 min SFO commute.
6) Healthcare
- Want to book a doctor or therapist? Go to Zocdoc, enter your insurance, try to book - they call you in a day saying they're booked or don't take your insurance. Great healthcare providers are tough to find."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: What sucks about where you live?"}},"_tags":["story","author_mrstrawberry","story_18068058","ask_hn"],"author":"mrstrawberry","children":[18068297,18068299,18068338,18068350,18068399,18068402,18068410,18068411,18068438,18068446,18068449,18068490,18068518,18068526,18068529,18068530,18068537,18068543,18068561,18068566,18068601,18068631,18068663,18068664,18068679,18068703,18068712,18068730,18068746,18068751,18068832,18068865,18068876,18068909,18068927,18068943,18068955,18068976,18068977,18069090,18069137,18069151,18069224,18069360,18069823,18069895,18070359,18071332,18071483,18072293,18072733,18074016],"created_at":"2018-09-25T16:52:02Z","created_at_i":1537894322,"num_comments":124,"objectID":"18068058","points":50,"story_id":18068058,"story_text":"I'll start. Here's what sucks about NYC:
1) Home
- Apartments are expensive. Can get 4x more space in Chicago for same price.
- Difficult to shop for home. Wanted a desk for my bedroom. None of the stores in the city, included Target, offered reasonable-priced desks that could fit. Had to buy online, which came with own issues.
2) Services
- Services are expensive. Want to get your hair dyed blond from someone you saw on Instagram? It's $600 and they ruin your hair.
3) Food
- Groceries are expensive and inconvenient. Get delivery or Whole Foods and pay 30-70% over Trader Joe's price. Or you need to walk/Uber to Trader Joe's, wait in line, then walk/Uber back. Local bodegas? Usually bad quality and high prices (eg watermelon is $25).
- Restaurants are expensive. Entree's in Manhattan are usually $25-35.
- Food isn't uniquely great. I recently went to a well-rated David Chang restaurant in Chelsea. Meh.
- Grocery delivery is usually done by foot. Sometimes this is great, sometimes it leads to food being delivered hours late, warm, and gross. This happens across platforms.
4) Transportation
- Can't have a car in Manhattan. Parking is $600/month in my building. Btw, the doorman gets 50%, so $300/month (yay!).
- Car rentals are quite expensive in the city. Want to rent a van to go camping? That's even worse.
- Uber and Lyft is extremely slow in the city. I generally prefer taxi's since drivers understand how to get around faster. They're also priced competitively.
5) Airport
- Traffic between airports is quite bad. Usually about an hour. Makes me jealous of the 20 min SFO commute.
6) Healthcare
- Want to book a doctor or therapist? Go to Zocdoc, enter your insurance, try to book - they call you in a day saying they're booked or don't take your insurance. Great healthcare providers are tough to find.","title":"Ask HN: What sucks about where you live?","updated_at":"2025-10-11T21:03:02Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"sathackr"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["zocdoc"],"value":"Google ignores "must have" quotes
Zocdoc insists on giving me appointments weeks away even when I set a date range
Amazon insists on showing me products that they can't deliver tomorrow.
What happened to deterministic search parameter results? It's like every search function now just take what I ask for as a suggestion and then ignores it."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Why does every site's search now insist on giving me what I don't search for?"}},"_tags":["story","author_sathackr","story_43577316","ask_hn"],"author":"sathackr","children":[43577400,43577409,43577451,43577620,43577703,43577718,43577720,43577724,43577737,43577894,43578427,43578484,43581570,43583403,43587977],"created_at":"2025-04-04T01:07:48Z","created_at_i":1743728868,"num_comments":18,"objectID":"43577316","points":33,"story_id":43577316,"story_text":"Google ignores "must have" quotes
Zocdoc insists on giving me appointments weeks away even when I set a date range
Amazon insists on showing me products that they can't deliver tomorrow.
What happened to deterministic search parameter results? It's like every search function now just take what I ask for as a suggestion and then ignores it.","title":"Why does every site's search now insist on giving me what I don't search for?","updated_at":"2025-04-14T08:59:36Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"_mxcz"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["zocdoc"],"value":"Hi Hacker News! I\u2019m the founder of DocOne (https://docone.io). DocOne delivers the most relevant physicians for any medical condition based on expertise. We currently cover all US physicians and ~4500 conditions.
Why? The complexity of medicine is accelerating exponentially. Medical knowledge doubles every few months. To keep up, physicians are focusing on narrow groups of conditions. While there are only around 40 traditional medical specialties, in reality there are >500 ultra-specialties.
If there\u2019s one thing we\u2019ve heard over and over from physicians (when they refer their patients) and people (when they search for specialists), it\u2019s that they struggle to identify the right physicians. I\u2019ve personally experienced this. Old-school physician directories (hospital, insurance, 3rd party like ZocDoc and Healthgrades) are essentially phone books. They don\u2019t rely on expertise. They use patient reviews, which have no correlation with expertise. They often sell ads.
That\u2019s why we created DocOne. Our team has a background in data science and medicine. We capture and mine large-scale, up-to-date medical knowledge sources, and use data science (computational linguistics, NLP, shallow and deep learning language models, information retrieval) to build models of medical conditions and to rank physicians according to their relevance to any given condition. Instead of doing the traditional search by physician specialty, people can do a precise search by an individual condition.
We're excited to show you the free and open version of our platform. We've tested it with a narrow group of patients, but we're ready to open it up to a broader user base. To search, start typing a medical condition and select an option from the drop down menu. Search nationwide, or type in a zip code or city/state. Filter by specialty (the platform knows all relevant specialties for each condition, helping the user search for the right type of specialist).
We hope you\u2019ll take a moment to try docone.io and let us know how it goes. Excited to have your feedback! Please leave your thoughts and comments."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: DocOne \u2013 A Search Engine for Healthcare"}},"_tags":["story","author__mxcz","story_28177885","show_hn"],"author":"_mxcz","children":[28179389,28202145],"created_at":"2021-08-14T04:24:42Z","created_at_i":1628915082,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"28177885","points":5,"story_id":28177885,"story_text":"Hi Hacker News! I\u2019m the founder of DocOne (https://docone.io). DocOne delivers the most relevant physicians for any medical condition based on expertise. We currently cover all US physicians and ~4500 conditions.
Why? The complexity of medicine is accelerating exponentially. Medical knowledge doubles every few months. To keep up, physicians are focusing on narrow groups of conditions. While there are only around 40 traditional medical specialties, in reality there are >500 ultra-specialties.
If there\u2019s one thing we\u2019ve heard over and over from physicians (when they refer their patients) and people (when they search for specialists), it\u2019s that they struggle to identify the right physicians. I\u2019ve personally experienced this. Old-school physician directories (hospital, insurance, 3rd party like ZocDoc and Healthgrades) are essentially phone books. They don\u2019t rely on expertise. They use patient reviews, which have no correlation with expertise. They often sell ads.
That\u2019s why we created DocOne. Our team has a background in data science and medicine. We capture and mine large-scale, up-to-date medical knowledge sources, and use data science (computational linguistics, NLP, shallow and deep learning language models, information retrieval) to build models of medical conditions and to rank physicians according to their relevance to any given condition. Instead of doing the traditional search by physician specialty, people can do a precise search by an individual condition.
We're excited to show you the free and open version of our platform. We've tested it with a narrow group of patients, but we're ready to open it up to a broader user base. To search, start typing a medical condition and select an option from the drop down menu. Search nationwide, or type in a zip code or city/state. Filter by specialty (the platform knows all relevant specialties for each condition, helping the user search for the right type of specialist).
We hope you\u2019ll take a moment to try docone.io and let us know how it goes. Excited to have your feedback! Please leave your thoughts and comments.","title":"Show HN: DocOne \u2013 A Search Engine for Healthcare","updated_at":"2026-10-16T20:26:22Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"psychthrowaway"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["zocdoc"],"value":"I'm in the US. Like many other HN readers, I struggle with depression daily, and have also struggled with finding good help.
Finding and differentiating between medical professionals is hard. There aren't too many reviews and those that do exist usually skew negative (this is starting to change though). There are sites like Zocdoc and search engines from insurance companies, but they usually don't provide a whole lot of information on the competence of the professionals listed. It's a roulette as to how skilled they are. I've heard other ideas like reaching out to a local university, although I'm not sure how that works.
Is there a better way to find good psychiatrists/therapists/etc. than search engines and luck?
If you like your mental healthcare provider(s) - how did you find them?
Seeking help for mental health issues carries a bit of a greater risk than most other types of injury: say the wrong thing to the wrong person and you'll end up involuntarily committed to a hospital. That's not to say anyone reading shouldn't try, just that additional scrutiny is warranted.
Sorry for the throwaway, but I don't want to take any chances of being discriminated against in hiring decisions or otherwise, despite the law against it. Anyone who is nice enough to respond is kindly reminded of this possibility."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: What is the best way to find a good psychiatrist/therapist?"}},"_tags":["story","author_psychthrowaway","story_23534927","ask_hn"],"author":"psychthrowaway","children":[23535679],"created_at":"2020-06-16T01:10:09Z","created_at_i":1592269809,"num_comments":1,"objectID":"23534927","points":5,"story_id":23534927,"story_text":"I'm in the US. Like many other HN readers, I struggle with depression daily, and have also struggled with finding good help.
Finding and differentiating between medical professionals is hard. There aren't too many reviews and those that do exist usually skew negative (this is starting to change though). There are sites like Zocdoc and search engines from insurance companies, but they usually don't provide a whole lot of information on the competence of the professionals listed. It's a roulette as to how skilled they are. I've heard other ideas like reaching out to a local university, although I'm not sure how that works.
Is there a better way to find good psychiatrists/therapists/etc. than search engines and luck?
If you like your mental healthcare provider(s) - how did you find them?
Seeking help for mental health issues carries a bit of a greater risk than most other types of injury: say the wrong thing to the wrong person and you'll end up involuntarily committed to a hospital. That's not to say anyone reading shouldn't try, just that additional scrutiny is warranted.
Sorry for the throwaway, but I don't want to take any chances of being discriminated against in hiring decisions or otherwise, despite the law against it. Anyone who is nice enough to respond is kindly reminded of this possibility.","title":"Ask HN: What is the best way to find a good psychiatrist/therapist?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T06:24:02Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Regardsyjc"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["zocdoc"],"value":"Is there a service where you can easily find therapists that are covered by your insurance and schedule an appointment?
A friend needs help finding a therapist and I would love to know what would be the best way to help her. Zocdoc?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Best service to find a therapist?"}},"_tags":["story","author_Regardsyjc","story_18513690","ask_hn"],"author":"Regardsyjc","children":[18513799],"created_at":"2018-11-23T01:14:42Z","created_at_i":1542935682,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"18513690","points":3,"story_id":18513690,"story_text":"Is there a service where you can easily find therapists that are covered by your insurance and schedule an appointment?
A friend needs help finding a therapist and I would love to know what would be the best way to help her. Zocdoc?","title":"Ask HN: Best service to find a therapist?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T03:17:44Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"mirryanSALABS"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["zocdoc"],"value":"In June, the Silicon Alley Talent Fair brought over 1000 candidates from the nation's greatest schools to meet with over 100 NYC Tech Startups hiring for hundreds of positions. This event is back on Friday, November 11th, from 12-7pm. It is one of the most exciting recruiting events in NYC and an amazing opportunity for your students and alumni, especially those with degrees in computer science (but not exclusively).
We are reaching out to select Universities requested by the participating companies, which includes the likes of Meetup.com, 33across, Buddy Media, Shutterstock, Livestream, MLB Advanced Media, ideeli, ZocDoc and more. \nI hope you accept this invitation on behalf of your talented community. I have provided a little blurb below my signature that you may use in your outreach.
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