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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026) on Monday February 09, 2026 @12:18AM (#46941826)
I built a mobile app for golfers who don't like using their phones while they play. Take a picture of your scorecard after the round and it reads/saves the scores and stats (and allows you to post to the USGA if you keep your handicap).

I'm a self-taught coder who first built this 7(!) years ago but couldn't figure out the OCR part. Started again 9 months ago on Replit (starting with Agent 2 which was okay, then eventually starting to absolutely crank with Agent 3) and it works really well now.

Would love feedback from any golfers! golfrise.com

Re:Dear EU: Please Don't Ruin the Root on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:46PM (#27110056)
Handshake.org provides an alternate root zone that seems pretty relevant here
Re:Ask HN: Who is looking for a co-founder? on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @07:13PM (#20945786)
I was employee #1 at Datanyze and helped us bootstrap to $1M ARR, specifically by generating leads and closing deals (both individually and as a manager). I took the last few months off to travel and build out some ideas (self-taught coder), but I'm always looking for technical founders looking for help selling their product.

Email me at jonhearty at gmail dot com.

Origin Protocol hired several engineers that started as open-source contributors to their open source code base, one of which had no experience as a professional software developer (he was in real estate).
If you're building SaaS, I recommend the following for largely non-technical content:

1. SaaStr.com (blog) 2. Behind the Cloud (book) 3. Rework (book)

Re:Show HN: Directory Tags for Lazy Programmers on Saturday December 10, 2016 @02:32AM (#13144562)
They should implement these commands in both Linux and Windows; they should be there as standard capability.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016) on Thursday September 01, 2016 @05:28PM (#12409034)
Datanyze | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE | All roles from sales to engineering (including VP level)

Hi, everyone! Jon from Datanyze here. We are NOT your average startup! We bootstrapped the company passed $1 million in annual recurring revenue, then raised a seed round (almost 2 years ago) from some great investors, including Google Ventures, Mark Cuban, and the recently announced Kobe Bryant!

We take our work seriously, but not ourselves. We know when to work hard and when to play hard (we went to Vegas when we hit a big milestone and now we have HUGE plans for the next) and we're having a blast building amazing solutions for sales and marketing teams.

We have open positions for everything from entry-level sales and support to VPs of various departments!

If you want to hear more or know someone amazing who might be interested, please email Katrina ([email protected]) or check out some of our open roles as well as the team that got us to where we are today:

https://www.datanyze.com/our-team

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016) on Monday February 01, 2016 @04:31PM (#11015630)
Datanyze | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE | All roles from sales to engineering (including VP level)

Hi everyone! Jon from Datanyze here. We are NOT your average startup! We bootstrapped the company passed $1 million in annual recurring revenue, then raised a seed round (about 1.5 years ago) from some great investors, including Google Ventures and Mark Cuban!

We take our work seriously, but not ourselves. We know when to work hard and when to play hard (we brought almost the entire 60-person team to Vegas in December) and we're having a blast building amazing solutions for sales and marketing teams.

We have open positions for everything from entry-level sales and support to VPs of various departments (engineering, product, sales, marketing, etc.).

If you want to hear more or know someone amazing who might be interested, please email me directly at [email protected]!

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016) on Friday January 01, 2016 @11:35AM (#10822272)
Datanyze | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE | All roles from sales to engineering (including VP level)

Hi everyone! Jon from Datanyze here. We are NOT your average startup! We bootstrapped the company past $1 million in annual recurring revenue, then raised a seed round (about 18 months ago) from some great investors, including Google Ventures and Mark Cuban!

We take our work seriously, but not ourselves. We know when to work hard and when to play hard (we just got back from taking the whole team to Vegas for hitting a big milestone!) and we're having a blast building amazing solutions for sales and marketing teams.

We have open positions for everything from entry-level sales and support to VPs of various departments (engineering, sales, marketing, etc.).

If you want to hear more or know someone amazing who might be interested, please email me directly at [email protected]!

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015) on Thursday October 01, 2015 @12:46PM (#10312519)
Datanyze | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE | All roles from sales to engineering (including VP level)

Hi everyone! Jon from Datanyze here. We are NOT your average startup! We bootstrapped the company passed $1 million in annual recurring revenue, then raised a seed round (about 1 year ago) from some great investors, including Google Ventures and Mark Cuban!

We take our work seriously, but not ourselves. We know when to work hard and when to play hard (we're taking the entire team to Vegas because we just hit a big milestone last month!) and we're having a blast building amazing solutions for sales and marketing teams.

We have open positions for everything from entry-level sales and support to VPs of various departments (customer success, engineering, sales, marketing, etc.).

If you want to hear more or know someone amazing who might be interested, please email me directly at [email protected]!

Re:Ask HN: Any books on marketing and sales for SaaS software? on Saturday September 26, 2015 @05:46PM (#10284533)
Jason Lemkin's SaaStr.com is a great starting point, although it focuses mostly on B2B SaaS. I would also check out his posts on Quora.

Aaron Ross's "Predictable Revenue" is a great start and focuses a lot on outbound sales; he is working on a part 2 with Jason Lemkin.

Mark Roberge's "The Sales Acceleration Formula" is also great and talks more about the marketing side.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015) on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @03:08PM (#10154916)
Datanyze | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE | All roles from sales to engineering (including VP level)

Hi everyone! Jon from Datanyze here. We are NOT your average startup! We bootstrapped the company passed $1 million in annual recurring revenue, then raised a seed round (about 1 year ago) from some great investors, including Google Ventures and Mark Cuban!

We take our work seriously, but not ourselves. We know when to work hard and when to play hard (we're going to Vegas if we hit a big milestone this month!) and we're having a blast building amazing solutions for sales and marketing teams.

We have open positions for everything from entry-level sales and support to VPs of various departments (customer success, engineering, sales, marketing, etc.).

If you want to hear more or know someone amazing who might be interested, please email me directly at [email protected]!

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015) on Monday August 03, 2015 @08:09PM (#10000820)
Datanyze | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE | All positions

Jon from Datanyze here. We've been growing like crazy...like 3-offices-in-12-months crazy...and we're looking for hungry, talented people at all levels for all departments (sales, marketing, product, design, customer success, operations, and everything in between!).

We're backed by Google Ventures, Mark Cuban, and tons of other great investors. We worked from a beach house in Hawaii for 8 days when we hit our first major milestone, and if we hit our next one by the end of this month, we're renting a freaking island in Fiji!

Want to come join a team that gets shit done and knows how to celebrate the milestones along the way? Send me an email directly to [email protected]!

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015) on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @03:00PM (#9814319)
Datanyze | San Mateo, CA | All positions, from product to sales

Hello, everyone! Jon from Datanyze, here. We just had our best month and best quarter EVER and are excited to continue growing throughout the second half of the year. We've gone from 6 to 45 employees in the last 12 months and are looking for our third office in less than a year...to say we're growing quickly is an understatement!

We're looking for amazing people in all functions, including but not limited to ENGINEERS (who doesn't need a great engineer or two these days?), account executive, sales development reps, customer success managers, designers...and pretty much everything in between!

We're not your average startup that swings between raising rounds and burning through piles of cash; we bootstrapped to over $1 million in ARR (annual recurring revenue) and 100 customers before raising a seed round from amazing investors like Google Ventures, Mark Cuban, and IDG Ventures.

If you're interested in hearing more about us and the roles we're trying to fill, send me an email directly to [email protected]!

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015) on Monday June 01, 2015 @04:53PM (#9642071)
San Mateo, CA -- Datanyze -- All positions (sales, product, operations, etc.)

Hello, everyone! Jon from Datanyze here. We are backed by Google Ventures, Mark Cuban, and many other amazing investors. We also bootstrapped past $1M in annual recurring revenue and have been break-even or profitable every quarter since we started...not your typical startup!

We've grown our headcount 10X in the last year and have ambitious plans to grow at an aggressive pace in 2015 and beyond. If you love competitive environments and the opportunity to work with the leadership at a hyper-growth startup, please send me an email at [email protected] anytime!

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015) on Friday May 01, 2015 @04:57PM (#9474468)
Datanyze - San Mateo, CA | Product, engineering, sales and everything in between!

Jon from Datanyze here. We grew our ARR over 500% in 2014 and our headcount 10X in the last year. We just released a new product into the market (http://venturebeat.com/2015/04/29/datanyze-give-us-your-sale...) and the response has been amazing. We're looking for talented people to fill many roles and would love to hear from you! Email me directly at [email protected] with your resume, etc. for more information.

Re:Ask HN: Who's hiring Jr Engineers on Friday April 24, 2015 @02:22AM (#9431711)
Datanyze in San Mateo is looking for developers of all skill levels. Email [email protected] for more information.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015) on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @05:56PM (#9307222)
Datanyze - San Mateo, CA - Product, sales & everything in between

Jon from Datanyze here! We went from 3 to 30 people in the last 12 months, grew our revenue over 500% year-over-year, and moved into a bigger office that likely won't last much longer based on our growth! We're looking for entrepreneurial, hungry, driven team members to come join us on our journey. We're backed by Google Ventures, Mark Cuban, and a number of other amazing investors. Check out datanyze.com/careers for more information on the roles we're specifically looking for and email me anytime at [email protected] if you have any questions!

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015) on Sunday March 01, 2015 @02:32PM (#9128507)
Datanyze - System and Software Engineer - San Mateo, CA

Jon from Datanyze here. If you have any interest in owning a new product from start to finish, read on...

We just returned from Hawaii where we were working for a week to celebrate a huge revenue milestone. Fresh off of a $2M round from amazing investors, including Google Ventures, Mark Cuban and IDG Ventures, we recently began developing a new product and want someone amazing to join an all-star team and take ownership of this new part of our business.

We want someone who can tackle big problems, think on a high level and have a major impact on our business. Want to hear more? Email me at [email protected] and mention Hacker News!

P.S. we're also hiring for all product, engineering and sales positions - ask me for details!

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015) on Monday February 02, 2015 @02:05AM (#8983046)
Datanyze - San Mateo, CA - Full time - all positions

Jon from Datanyze here. We just got back from Tahoe for our second team offsite (first one was a beach house in Hawaii) and are totally pumped up for a huge 2015. In 2014, we went from 2 to 18 employees, grew our ARR over 500%, and raised $2M from Google Ventures, Mark Cuban and other amazing investors.

We're looking for hungry, talented people to join our sales, marketing and product teams. For more information on our current open positions, go to datanyze.com/careers or email me directly at [email protected] anytime!

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