Mike Knoop
About me
Last updated Oct. 31, 2022
From St. Louis, now bay area
Learned to program on
TI-83+ calculators
Mechanical Engineering ('11)
@University of Missouri
Co-founder
@Zapier
, making automation work for everyone
Working on AI stuff
Recent
A “
Chief Hole Filler
” mindset
Scaling remote product teams
(YC Podcast interview)
Finding product market fit at Zapier
(Interview)
Designing a remote culture
(Interview)
Career advice
from plinko
Archive
Zapier
Scaling Zapier's product org beyond one team
How
Zapier got its name
Why the
Zapier color is orange (#ff4a00)
Reverse engineering
“SafeGuard” as a workaround for TI
“TestGuard”
Won a
community bounty
by reverse engineering some HTC dialer software
Pioneer DVR harddrive recovery tools
Old side projects
Facebook side business
UX analysis of
credit card forms
An
LXML parser exploit
Startup PR Generator
a parody startup weekend project
GraphMon
for Facebook platform monitoring
AIMwhois
my first web app
KnoopVsZombies
— an open source
Humans vs Zombies
game engine which powers
Mizzou HvZ
,
Truman HvZ
and
BSU HvZ
Other
How to give a talk
Hack my personality
How to make
8BitDo controllers work with iOS
Mike Knoop
Co-founder
@Zapier
working on AI stuff
San Mateo, CA
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