justinmolineaux

Stand | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE

We're building the intelligence layer for physical risk: digital twins of individual homes, run through physics-informed AI World Models, to see exactly how a specific property will perform in a wildfire or hurricane — traditional models only guess at the neighborhood level. That precision lets us do what insurers historically couldn't: measure how much a new roof, cleared vegetation, or better siding actually cuts risk, then price coverage accordingly, turning mitigation into a real financial incentive instead of just advice.

We've scaled to ~$10B in insured assets in just two states in under a year. The interesting problems: ML surrogates that run physics simulations 1,000x+ faster without losing accuracy, structure-level digital twins built from imagery and property data at scale, and systems that reason across risk, cost, and homeowner tradeoffs — we're hiring across engineering and applied science.

Open Roles:

Member of the Technical Staff, AI Harness (Full-time, Hybrid, $270-325k, Offers Equity) - https://www.standinsurance.com/careers/259bb94f-1dfd-458f-88...

Shoot I was going long on the Nancy Pelosi ETF.

OK they finally figured it out at ~7:06pm PDT. So ~90-minute time-to-detect. Nice. https://status.heroku.com/

Buy it now!

Dashboards and deploys down for nearly an hour, status page still says all is good :(.

https://downdetector.com/status/heroku/ https://status.heroku.com/

Loads of tweets reporting dashboard and deployment outages: https://twitter.com/search?q=Heroku&src=typeahead_click&f=li...

No acknowledgement from @herokustatus on twitter or https://status.heroku.com.

SONDER | SAN FRANCISCO | SOFTWARE ENGINEERS, DESIGNERS, PRODUCT | ONSITE

Sonder is reimagining travel, hospitality, and ultimately how cities are experienced. We are building the world's first deconstructed hotel - with apartments, houses, condos, villas, and lofts that you can book at a moment's notice. Each location is one-of-a-kind, chosen, and operated by us. As a guest, you get an authentic local experience plus the comforts of hotel hospitality.

We’re looking for customer-obsessed engineers, designers, and product managers who can crack the nut on complex logistics challenges to enable a world-class guest experience that spans the digital and physical realms.

We work in Rails and React, and are happy to help you learn those tools if you have a background other web frameworks.

Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack: https://jobs.lever.co/sonder/1fcffc41-50d7-4f98-bcd7-3970acc...

Software Engineer - Fullstack: https://jobs.lever.co/sonder/96306535-accc-469b-a076-612b364...

All Positions: https://jobs.lever.co/sonder

SONDER | SAN FRANCISCO | SOFTWARE ENGINEERS, DESIGNERS, PRODUCT | ONSITE

Sonder is reimagining travel, hospitality, and ultimately how cities are experienced. We are building the world's first deconstructed hotel - with apartments, houses, condos, villas, and lofts that you can book at a moment's notice. Each location is one-of-a-kind, chosen, and operated by us. As a guest, you get an authentic local experience plus the comforts of hotel hospitality.

We’re looking for customer-obsessed engineers, designers, and product managers who can crack the nut on complex logistics challenges to enable a world-class guest experience that spans the digital and physical realms.

We work in Rails and React, and are happy to help you learn those tools if you have a background other web frameworks.

Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack: https://jobs.lever.co/sonder/1fcffc41-50d7-4f98-bcd7-3970acc...

Software Engineer - Fullstack: https://jobs.lever.co/sonder/96306535-accc-469b-a076-612b364...

All Positions: https://jobs.lever.co/sonder

SONDER | SAN FRANCISCO | SOFTWARE ENGINEERS, DESIGNERS, PRODUCT | ONSITE

Sonder is reimagining travel, hospitality, and ultimately how cities are experienced. We are building the world's first deconstructed hotel - with apartments, houses, condos, villas, and lofts that you can book at a moment's notice. Each location is one-of-a-kind, chosen, and operated by us. As a guest, you get an authentic local experience plus the comforts of hotel hospitality.

We’re looking for customer-obsessed engineers, designers, and product managers who can crack the nut on complex logistics challenges to enable a world-class guest experience that spans the digital and physical realms.

We work in Rails and React, and are happy to help you learn those tools if you have a background other web frameworks.

Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack: https://jobs.lever.co/sonder/1fcffc41-50d7-4f98-bcd7-3970acc...

Software Engineer - Fullstack: https://jobs.lever.co/sonder/96306535-accc-469b-a076-612b364...

All Positions: https://jobs.lever.co/sonder

SONDER | SAN FRANCISCO | SOFTWARE ENGINEERS, DESIGNERS, PRODUCT | ONSITE

Sonder (http://www.sonder.com) is reimagining travel, hospitality, and ultimately how cities are experienced. We are building the world's first deconstructed hotel - with apartments, houses, condos, villas, and lofts that you can book at a moment's notice. Each location is one-of-a-kind, chosen, and operated by us. As a guest, you get an authentic local experience plus the comforts of hotel hospitality.

We’re looking for customer-obsessed engineers, designers, and product managers who can crack the nut on complex logistics challenges to enable a world-class guest experience that spans the digital and physical realms.

We work in Rails and React, and are happy to help you learn those tools if you have a background with other web frameworks.

Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack: https://jobs.lever.co/sonder/1fcffc41-50d7-4f98-bcd7-3970acc...

Software Engineer - Fullstack: https://jobs.lever.co/sonder/96306535-accc-469b-a076-612b364...

All Positions: https://jobs.lever.co/sonder

Regarding co-founders, my non-expert advice is to only look inside your own co-worker/friend network. While there's a lot of data that points to 2-3 co-founders being a good number, I tend to think going solo is better than finding a stranger to co-found with. Founding a startup with a stranger adds another huge variable to the equation.

As for the process, I think Sam Altman's startup class at Stanford might be the best intro resource out there: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/. It's a lot of information, from a lot of different people, but it's fairly comprehensive, and the matter-of-fact style is extremely orienting.

I don't work for Apple, but I think they would point a developer to in-app purchases (IAP) as 'the way' to do paid upgrades.

Still, auto-renewing IAP subscriptions are limited to a narrow class of applications (see AppStore review guidelines #11.15), forcing most to use churn-prone manually-renewing subscriptions. Outside payment systems are largely prohibited for digital goods under #11.13. The combination of these rules forces multi-platform subscription based apps (i.e. Autodesk's 123d-line of apps) to juggle multiple payment systems. Integration between those payment systems is often weak due to lack of a published web service or hook-system for IAP.

AppStore review guidelines can be found here: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#pur...

The state of in-app purchases leaves much to be desired.

Saent seems cool - I definitely lose a lot of time to web distractions.

I think I'm learning that people tend to plan further out (a few days to a week) in the face of external deadlines (i.e. exam season at school, sometimes end-of-quarter in business, etc). Adhoc time blocking occurs more when the motivation to be productive is self-imposed. Does that jive with your experience?

Thanks! That's interesting too - lifting the public tweet limit would also fundamentally change Twitter. As an author of tweets, I think I'd like it. I think @byuu mentioned it would promote intelligent discourse on important subjects - I agree.

As a reader though, I don't want to lose the high-bandwidth nature of Twitter. The headline thought/status/caption in your stream, with a link to the details hits an information consumption optimum for me.

It's really that first DM in a conversation where I think 140 characters causes me to leave Twitter. Maybe I'm doing it wrong - often trying to stuff salutation + context + question into the first DM. If the convo gets past that, then yeah, 140 is fine.

This tiny change could completely transform Twitter. My most-maintained professional relationships exist on Twitter, yet my non-public conversations (and the attention I pay to them) have nearly always been forced to other venues due to the DM character limit. In my mind, Twitter is now an equally-good alternative to SMS, FB Messenger, etc. You can bet I'll be DM-ing more and SMS-ing less because of it. Thank you Twitter.