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Re:Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to ... by dang on Friday March 20, 2020 @03:04PM (#22640525)
This is about an unrelated company. See downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22626922
Re:Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to ... by jeromegn on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:51AM (#22626279)
(Disclaimer: I am a Fly.io founder)

I don't recall us being at Hack Arizona, certainly not me. I googled it and all it yielded was this HN post.

Your comment couldn't be further from the truth. I can't speak for whoever used these words (if they did), but I think we have pretty great work/life balance.

We all have families of our own and recognize they are far more important than our business. These things happen, such is life. Your kid gets sick, you want to care for them. Time off is always paid and we encourage people to take some. People often find it hard to take time off, but we've been good at it.

Nobody, generally, works more than 40 hours a week. I say "generally" because these past few weeks have been more intense given the end of our YC adventure, demo day, virtually meeting with investors and this Launch HN post. In normal times, I might work a few hours on a weekend but only if that brings me joy.

... and of course we're very flexible on work schedules because we're a remote-only company. Some weeks this might mean working only a few hours here and there because of life activities or the need to take time off. Other weeks, it might be the opposite. We recognize and embrace that.

Re:Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to ... by Aearnus on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:50AM (#22626922)
Hey! I want to formally apologize -- the company I heard presenting had a name very, very similar to yours. Definitely was not the same company. Unfortunately it's past the 2 hour mark to delete comments on HN, but consider this my retraction of what I said above. Really sorry about the mix up, and what you have going here seems very impressive. Definitely seems like a fantastic attitude towards workers' health and happiness.
Re:Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to ... by dang on Thursday March 19, 2020 @01:41PM (#22629781)
I've reopened your comment for editing if you want to edit it.
Re:Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to ... by paulintrognon on Thursday March 19, 2020 @04:02AM (#22625485)
I don't know if that makes a company to avoid, but that's certainly a good point of awareness to raise.
Re:Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to ... by dang on Friday March 20, 2020 @03:03PM (#22640517)
Re:Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to ... by Aearnus on Thursday March 19, 2020 @04:08AM (#22625512)
As a developer by trade, it was definitely raising a LOT of red flags for me. I don't blame you for taking it with a grain of salt, though.
Re:Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to ... by ignoramous on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:28AM (#22626156)
> "we're not coworkers, we're family", "our developers love to work, they do it out of love", virtue signaling, etc, etc. The whole shebang.

It is a filter. If it keeps you away from them, the filter worked? Fwiw, a younger me would find this proposition very attractive.