andrewbalitsky
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BeatGig | JS/React developer & PHP/Laravel developer | FULL-TIME, REMOTE (founders from east coast US) |
https://www.beatgig.com |
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beatgig/id1355182285BeatGig is a two-sided marketplace (responsive web and iOS app) for premium live music. We streamline the booking process for buyers and musicians (including their managers and agents) by providing them a single destination to connect, contract, and book live shows. Our premium artist marketplace spans all genres and levels of the music industry, from independent bands and DJs to major headlining artists represented by the biggest talent agencies in the world. We started our marketplace with college buyers (fraternities and sororities) and quickly grew to over 100 colleges around the country. We are now eager to expand into new markets (bars, clubs, and festivals). Mission statement aside, we are a tight-knit team that launched in 2016 and recently raised seed stage capital from angel investors. We are now hiring for two roles to grow our distributed engineering team from 1 (myself, CTO) to 3 engineers.
Front end: JS/React/ReactNative: https://angel.co/beatgig/jobs/450621-front-end-engineer
Back end: PHP/Laravel: https://angel.co/beatgig/jobs/450623-back-end-engineer
For interested parties: contact myself, cofounder and CTO, andrew [at] beatgig [dot] com
Of course. So I would hope that the future holds this different sort of work. Not 'no work' at all.
I would dispute the awesomeness of no work at all. We're not well equipped for total leisure. To paraphrase Tal Ben-Shahar, "we're built for the climb, not the summit" ( check the book "Flow" or google "Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi" for a scientific explanation as to exactly why )
Those weren't a "me-too". By all accounts, google search was insanely better than its alternatives (Lycos/AltaVista/Yahoo). Nobody paralled the speed and storage of email in the browser that Gmail did at the time of its launch. Is that "me too"?
But you're right, the key here isn't me-too. Android was arguably a me-too iOS. Chrome was arguably me-too Firefox/Safari. So why /did/ the me-too Google+ flop so impressively against Facebook? What did they learn from that failure and the Android/Chrome successes to be able to successfully outperform Amazon in (arguably) it's most important service with a me-too product?
Google tried to compete against Facebook with a "me too" product very late in the game. And now they're doing the same against Amazon. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. What's next? Google Doors operating system? Google ZuneTunes music streaming?