aheppy

Accredible | Software Engineer - Ruby | Cambridge, UK | Full-time | ONSITE

At Accredible (https://www.accredible.com) we're making education count for careers. We believe that we're all lifelong learners and wherever, however you learn it should be recognized by employers. We're building credentials (certificates, badges, blockchain) for the information age.

We are a small, profitable team and we've scaled revenue over 2.5x this year. We're keeping the quality bar high and every team member is able to have a gigantic impact. We make decisions democratically and place a lot of trust & autonomy in team members.

Technologies we use:

* Ruby on Rails * PostgreSQL * ElasticSearch * Redis * AngularJS * AWS

Apply here: https://accredible.breezy.hr/

I've used Namecheap for many years and have found them very reliable and their customer service responsive.

I was a long time iOS user from the 3G to the 5S. At that point I decided to try the Pixel 1 and I really preferred the Android experience. It's clear that the quality of the UX is subjective and it takes a little time to get used to the nuances of a new OS but 18 months on I'm still very happy with the move to Android.

The main concern I have is for device lifetime. It's hard to know anything more than an anecdote until a particular model is too out of date for the information to be useful but my Pixel broke within a year. I was given a free replacement under warranty but I don't have that same feeling of long-term hardware lifetime I got from Apple.

There have been similar experiments & results posted before. Seems like a consistent issue with the platform: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16075325

Thanks for pointing that out! We didn't check things out on mobile so we'll add a notice for mobile users in the short term and look at real support in the longer term.

Thanks for the thought on layers. We're hoping to add more shapes/images to the left hand side including things like icons so I hope it'll make more sense then. With the current set of mostly pre-made badge SVGs you're absolutely right!

In terms of making money, we provide a badging and certification service at https://www.accredible.com. We're aiming to keep this tool free so that it can be useful to people getting started. It's something we want to keep improving and it seems a shame to lock it down to our customer-base.

We made a free to use SVG badge designer. Would love to hear some feedback!