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It's hard to say – most Instagram influencers provide a public contact email +/- phone number for "business enquiries".

Could be that the data that is listed was previously on the profile but not currently (or matched from another service) vs acquired directly.

Lengthy conversation about this from the original article when TechCrunch broke this[0] a couple of days ago.

Suggest reading/commenting there than this clickbaity rewrite

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19962790

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/20/instagram-influencer-celeb...

While interesting and worthy of debate, the title makes it feel a lot more general than reality (this is a study of Kickstarter companies, so goes with the huge sample bias of “stuff that gets put on Kickstarter”).

As a solo founder, I think people always love the idea but don’t acknowledge how lonely it is compared to having at least one other founder (not to mention complementary skills etc).

Most high growth businesses go to zero as time continues, so while there are outliers the majority (in number) case still remains a zero outcome, not more or less revenue (let alone exit $).

NodeJS / React / Angular Fullstack Javascript Engineer | Sked Social | REMOTE | Full stack or Front end | Fulltime

Sked Social helps customers improve their visual marketing on social media. Our customers range from small businesses to global media, fashion and retail brands – and everything inbetween.

We're a fully remote team of 25, bootstrapped, profitable, and growing at a decent but manageable pace.

Timezone needs to be compatible with US Eastern (our head of engineering is there) but otherwise location doesn't matter, we hire anywhere.

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FULL STACK: NodeJS + MongoDB + AngularJS/React + Redis + Elasticsearch

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A full-stack role for the more backend-oriented or balanced candidate.

We're pretty much full stack MEAN/MERN, with Redis for (mostly) session management and Elasticsearch where it makes sense.

Experience with social network APIs, social media management and building (customer-facing) analytic tools a big plus.

More info + apply: https://jobs.enlist.io/schedugram/jobs/6ecf5a96-f3d0-4a7d-b1...

Sked Social | REMOTE | Full stack or Front end | Fulltime

Sked Social helps customers improve their visual marketing on social media. Our customers range from small businesses to global media, fashion and retail brands – and everything inbetween.

We're a fully remote team of 25, bootstrapped, profitable, and growing at a decent but manageable pace.

Timezone needs to be compatible with US Eastern (our head of engineering is there) but otherwise location doesn't matter, we hire anywhere.

We have two engineering roles hiring currently.

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FRONT-END: AngularJS (1) + React

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Frontend focussed role, looking at improving our existing Angular 1 webapp and migrating us progressively to React. Be our frontend expert!

Full job description and to apply: https://jobs.enlist.io/schedugram/jobs/055f825e-66e6-4243-b0...

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FULL STACK: NodeJS + MongoDB + AngularJS/React + Redis + Elasticsearch

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A full-stack role for the more backend-oriented or balanced candidate.

We're pretty much full stack MEAN/MERN, with Redis for (mostly) session management and Elasticsearch where it makes sense.

More info + apply: https://jobs.enlist.io/schedugram/jobs/6ecf5a96-f3d0-4a7d-b1...

suggestion: surround yourself with people who constantly challenge you to do better. Everyone has times that they feel are "lost" but the time you need to remind yourself of is the moment that you realised you weren't doing what you wanted to be doing, or that something needed to change.

It wasn't until I started to spend time with people who I knew would ask hard questions and challenge me to keep going that I started to actually get shit done. Happy to chat if that'd help, but don't worry about time – my experience is that failed startups mean someone has a far broader level of experience than even they think they have.

And I'm one of those 27yo's who many people think have "made it" but still have the same sense of crippling "should I have done that differently" / "I squandered my youth" fear. It never goes away.

+1. I've participated as an angel in a few AU rounds with SAFEs and SAFE-like instruments rather than priced rounds.

I have been pondering something like this for ages, as most solutions seem to be insanely expensive. Found this though recently fwiw http://activereports.grapecity.com/server/

Schedugram | Product Manager / biz analyst | Melbourne, Australia | REMOTE http://schedugr.am/

Help us create tools that our customers want to use.

We are a growing SaaS company that helps our customers schedule content to Instagram. We're looking at our options for the next stage of our growth, and need a product management specialist to help us best understand how we can meet our customers' needs.

Your role will be to speak with customers about a few concepts we are considering to improve our customers' working lives. You'll use a combination of surveys, interviews/calls and any other techniques required to gather intel and then work with our team to identify what a solution to their challenges might look like.

Job ad URL: https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/4826-product-manager-busines...

Apply with cover/CV to productmanagerjob@schedugr dot am.

Drop me an email if it's something you're curious to work on - this is an idea I've been planning to have a crack at eventually…

Dialogue Group | Melbourne Australia | REMOTE OK

Web design / UX front-end Designer and NodeJS / MEAN engineer

We build products that solve wicked problems – simple solutions to complex issues.

We're looking to grow our small team by adding a full-time front-end engineer (experience with things like Angular, React etc a massive plus, but we also need someone with a core design nous – you should be confident prototyping in HTML and CSS). Some general experience doing traditional 'graphic design' is also useful for the occasional thing that needs to be put together (like a logo for an MVP).

We're also on the lookout for an awesome Node dev – some of our products are (relatively) boring CRUD-type applications (MEAN stack mostly) but we have some more interesting bits and pieces too in the realtime space (think slack meets trello), analytics (how do you build small questionnaires to produce meaningful ongoing measurement of employee satisfaction?) and trying to fix one of the web's biggest problems: PDF forms.

We're a little team and there are still a lot of things we need to work on internally, like formalising the ways that we work and roadmap products (an ongoing struggle), and I'd love to hear your thoughts on your approach.

I'm (CEO/MD) based out of Melbourne but our team is global (India, Philippines, Dominican Republic, Australia). A bit of overlap with our timezone (+10 GMT) is necessary, but you don't have to work 9-5 local – that's crazy.

Get in touch through email, addresses below. Individuals please, I prefer to work with people directly, not businesses/recruiters etc.

hugh + design @ dialoguegroup dot com dot au – design position

hugh + node @ dialoguegroup dot com dot au – Node position

apologies, my fault.

who knows – in many ways it's even better if it's satire, because it's just believable enough.

this is excellent, hadn't seen it before! thx

maybe true – but if a server gets no requests, does it really exist?

or would the inter-machine chatter continue ad infinitum? would they run out of IPs or successfully transition to IPv6?

So many questions.

Next update is live

  2:38 AM PDT We continue to execute on our recovery plan
  and have taken multiple steps to reduce latencies and error
  rates for Amazon S3 in US-STANDARD. Customers may continue 
  to experience elevated latencies and error rates as we 
  proceed through our recovery plan.

haha if two hours is nothing to you, that's pretty lucky. We work 24x7 (global customers, yes US is a bit busier but not by a lot) and we're an Australian company, so not a whole lot of fun.

It only goes red when a nuclear event occurs, obliterating most of humanity and only the machines remain.

Better than what? Many of the other alternatives didn't have quite the same "iOS style" friendliness (a lot haven't had a whole lot of work done to them of late), and didn't submit as a unicode character (designed to append a PNG or SVG to the textarea). Also design-wise our customers preferred a large image layout on desktop, because it's a lot easier to click than small icons (say 16x16).

Yeah that one is hard to fix. We use the minEmoji set which will replace the unicode chars with SVG or inline image – that's why we folded it into our code – that way it shows up on desktops without an extension in Chrome (in particular). I haven't built a chrome extension so I don't know how easy it would be to fold it into an extension, but that's where I would recommend you start.

I'll admit that I haven't tested emojiboard in detail on Windows, but whenever a customer has a problem we can often tell them to install one of the browser-wide emoji typing solutions in Chrome and it will fix it, which I'm guessing is just something like minEmoji wrapped into a chrome extension!

Feel free to ask any questions (improvement suggestions (or even better pull reqs) are welcome!) - we just pulled this out of our existing app Schedugram as a friend asked to use it so I figured why not?

Essentially it's a jQuery dependent keyboard in a style generally similar to iOS (category and layout) that attaches to a <textarea>.

no email address in your profile :(

Currently hiring someone JS wise, to work remote. I don't care where you are, I care if you can deliver (i.e. frequent internet outages that mean you can't fork/commit changes = dealbreaker). My team is 99% remote, almost all conversation is via chat, email or PM tools.

So no, it won't necessarily cause you problems – you do need to be able to work and deliver on your connection, and you need to actually be good at what you do. That means you need to have a way to show me that you're good at what you do – for example, a well-kept collection of public github repos of modules, or contributions to major projects (and actual contributions, not "small readme changes to clarify example 3") is what I expect to see, and most certainly not a 'portfolio' of ToDo-style projects to demonstrate how you 'know <x> end-to-end' – that shows me nothing. I'd rather see a well-written Angular module than a ToDoMVC app that looks like it's been generated from a 101 tutorial.

Hope that helps, and good luck!

+1. Saw this earlier, thought "looks good, I should use it for a project", then read license and went "hahahahhaha no chance, not using a normal/standard licence is way too high risk for me, no matter the project".

As someone hiring some people* remote, your rate is at the way way top end of the scale. Even for people with core experience in Node (where I'm hiring).

I get what you're saying, but as an employer, the "non negotiable" and inflexible attitude is a point-blank no for me. Your OS contributions (caveat: spent 2 minutes looking) are hardly much (lists on github are not 'valuable programming', to me it's just content marketing that may as well be on a blog) compared to people asking for 1/2 to 2/3 of your proposed salary, who have core contribs, manage production-deployed packages/code that are in frequent use etc.

Your mileage may vary, so best of luck. But that's my perspective, as an employer, looking for remote devs. The competition is actually pretty high, and you can get awesome candidates that might earn $120-160k a year when working in the valley for $80-120k due to the lower costs they can incur ('valley tax') and the flexibility you offer as a remote employer.

Don't get me wrong, I know the value of a high-priced consultant (am/was one) to fix an emergency. But you're not asking people to deliver you an emergency, you're asking for a job. And to deliver in an emergency, you need a hell of a lot more credibility and slickness, which your post suggest you don't have.

* might be one, might be more. Depends on who applies and what it looks like.