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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024) on Monday July 01, 2024 @01:32PM (#40848089)
HockeyStack | Cracked Backend/Infra Engineer | ONSITE (San Francisco) | VISA sponsorship available | $180k-$250k + 0.2-0.4% stock option

HockeyStack is creating a single source of truth and reporting for marketing, sales, and all customer data.

We came out of YC S23, and raised $4.3M from General Catalyst, Madrona, et al.

We went from 0 to millions in ARR in a really short time and are in a DEEPLY URGENT need of really good engineers to help scale infra and backend.

The product collects data from CRM, marketing automation, ad platforms and data warehouses. The data then gets cleaned and transformed into a unified format. Out of the unified data format, customers can create any type of report the want using the UI. We have a dynamic query engine that transforms UI inputs into a query.

Because of the flexibility and how much data we process, keeping integrations up, transforming data accurately, reporting accurately and performantly is a huge technical challenge.

Please email me at bugra @ hockeystack.com if you want to take a crack at some of these problems.

Worth noting that we are fully in-person in a beautiful office near Oracle Park in SF!

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024) on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @10:08AM (#40584978)
HockeyStack | Backend Engineer | San Francisco, ONSITE, VISA

HockeyStack is creating a single source of truth and reporting for marketing, sales, and all customer data.

We came out of YC S23, and raised $4.3M from General Catalyst, Madrona, et al.

We grew from 0 to multi millions in annual revenue within a little over a year, profitably.

You will work on difficult problems in ingesting, storing, transforming, and reporting on billions of rows of data.

Examples: - Finding patterns in what closes a deal using machine learning - Scaling the infra every other month to handle the load - Creating a dynamic SQL engine that takes input from a couple of dropdowns to replicate all BI functionality that revenue teams want - Maintaining reliability in tens of integrations that ingest full CRM databases and building new ones

We have been doing this with a small but mighty team consisting of early startup engineers and founding CTOs (including one who founded a $900m company).

We have an intense culture -- we like to win, and win we do.

If you are exceptional at what you do, and you want to pour your heart out to build the largest enterprise software company in the world, please reach out at

bugra at hockeystack.com

Re:Google Analytics 4 on Thursday March 17, 2022 @01:15AM (#30707900)
May I suggest a cookieless and codeless solution with data stored in the EU: https://www.hockeystack.com

We're building the most comprehensive, but still easy-to-use analytics tool out there. Specifically useful for SaaS businesses that want to collect and unify marketing, product engagement, sales, and subscription revenue data.

Re:Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders? on Sunday November 21, 2021 @02:00PM (#29298734)
- Zapier

- Notion

- HockeyStack

- Drip

- GPT-3

- Apollo.io

I would suggest learning how to do marketing, writing down an excruciatingly detailed process (on Notion), and then automating a part of it while delegating the rest to freelancers.

Though, to delegate as much as possible, you will need a good amount of capital.

Well you can still track unique users without collecting PII. The information sent with every web request by default is still pretty useful. That's how we do it at https://www.hockeystack.com, no need for all this work.
Re:No Design is the Best Design on Saturday June 05, 2021 @01:54PM (#27407177)
That’s pretty interesting! Though that site needs to be a bit more readable
Re:No Design is the Best Design on Saturday June 05, 2021 @01:38PM (#27407041)
Definitely. Hope someone spends more time on this and completely eliminates design.
Re:No Design is the Best Design on Saturday June 05, 2021 @01:21PM (#27406876)
Yes, the only way they got to the market share they have is by having the Google brand and making the service free.

Believe me when I say people are flocking away.

Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:41PM (#26962873)
I feel like, 5 years from now, that comment will be reposted daily on vague motivational twitter threads. It's the infamous ftp comment of dropbox all over again.
Re:Replace Google Analytics with a shell script on Sunday April 18, 2021 @12:04PM (#26853606)
Other tracking scripts like facebook's require cookies unfortunately, so a banner is a must
Re:Replace Google Analytics with a shell script on Sunday April 18, 2021 @09:01AM (#26852054)
Google Analytics has many more use cases than looking at vanity metrics to be replaced by a shell script. Something like https://hockeystack.com gets closer.
Re:You deserve faster than Google Chrome on Thursday February 11, 2021 @08:16AM (#26101122)
I remember it was 25ms last month, but they keep improving
How can college students on F1 visa start a startup?