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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026) on Monday August 03, 2026 @12:35PM (#49158050)
Normal | Senior SWE Backend | Full-time | $100-140K USD | Remote PT/ET Hours | Typescript/Node/Postgres roles

I'm the founder of Normcore.io, an autoscaling game server hosting service and Unity plugin that includes all of the pieces you need to create a multiplayer game. We launched a few years ago and have hosted over 1 billion multiplayer games since launch. I'm actively scaling the team to keep up with demand for new features that our customers are asking us for.

We’re all ex-Unity/Google folks working on making great SDKs and tools for multiplayer game development. We also make our own VR titles that are built on top of our own networking tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djsPTbs7R_w

Reasons you’d love working with us:

* Work with a small, focused, and extremely talented team of developers.

* Fully remote job with flexible working hours and vacation (Our whole team is remote too)

* High-quality codebase, code reviews, tests.

* High work satisfaction, own entire features, and work on an SDK that’s already used by 100,000+ developers.

If you're interested, please send me a note here and I'll be in touch: https://forms.gle/MyCAz4RszKog43nP8 (If you skip the form and email me, it will be ignored. AI job hunting startups have scraped these posts and trashed my inbox unfortunately)

I love this concept. We have singular apps deployed across multiple clusters. I’m curious if this supports tracking one app that is spread across a few clusters. It’s always a pain for us to quickly see if all clusters are running the latest version. I see multiple clusters in some of the screenshots so I’ve got my fingers crossed.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026) on Friday May 01, 2026 @11:15AM (#47975788)
Normcore.io | Head of Strategic Finance | Full-time | $100-140K USD | Remote PT/ET Hours

I'm the founder of Normcore.io, an autoscaling game server hosting service and Unity plugin that includes all of the pieces you need to create a multiplayer game. We launched a few years ago and have hosted over 1 billion multiplayer games since launch. We also make our own VR titles that are built on top of our own networking tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djsPTbs7R_w

I'm looking to hire a Head of Strategic Finance. We're looking for someone to model our revenue streams, create financial projections for the company, and help design the monetization strategy for our titles. We make heavy use of Claude for Excel and Claude Code to create tools to track popular titles, store charts, basically any data we can use to understand the gaming market. We then use that data to determine the direction for the company.

Reasons you'd love working with us:

* Work with a small, focused, and extremely talented team.

* Fully remote job with flexible working hours and vacation (Our whole team is remote too)

* High work satisfaction, own entire features, and work on an SDK that’s already used by 100,000+ developers.

If you're interested, please send an email to [email protected] with your LinkedIn and a few sentences about why you would be a good fit for the role. Blank emails with resumés or generic applications that don't follow these instructions will be ignored.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026) on Monday March 02, 2026 @11:15AM (#47219927)
Normcore.io | Senior SWE Kubernetes / Devops Engineer | Full-time | $100-140K USD | Remote PT/ET Hours | Kubernetes/Typescript/Node/Postgres roles

I'm the founder of Normcore.io, an autoscaling game server hosting service and Unity plugin that includes all of the pieces you need to create a multiplayer game. We launched a few years ago and have hosted over 1 billion multiplayer games since launch. I'm actively scaling the team to keep up with the scale of our systems.

We’re all ex-Unity/Google folks working on making great SDKs and tools for multiplayer game development. We also make our own VR titles that are built on top of our own networking tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djsPTbs7R_w

Reasons you’d love working with us:

* Work with a small, focused, and extremely talented team of developers.

* Fully remote job with flexible working hours and vacation (Our whole team is remote too)

* High-quality codebase, code reviews, tests.

* High work satisfaction, own entire features, and work on an SDK that’s already used by 100,000+ developers.

If you're interested, please send me an email to [email protected] with your LinkedIn and a few sentences about why you would be a good fit for the role.

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Normcore.io | Head of Strategic Finance (SWE role) | Full-time | $100-140K USD | Remote PT/ET Hours

I'm the founder of Normcore.io, an autoscaling game server hosting service and Unity plugin that includes all of the pieces you need to create a multiplayer game. We launched a few years ago and have hosted over 1 billion multiplayer games since launch. We also make our own VR titles that are built on top of our own networking tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djsPTbs7R_w

I'm looking for a software engineer to be our head of Strategic Finance. In addition to modeling our revenue streams in Excel/Sheets, we make heavy use of Claude Code to create tools to track popular titles, store charts, basically any data we can use to understand the gaming market. We then use that data to determine the direction for the company.

Reasons you’d love working with us:

* Work with a small, focused, and extremely talented team of developers.

* Fully remote job with flexible working hours and vacation (Our whole team is remote too)

* High-quality codebase, code reviews, tests.

* High work satisfaction, own entire features, and work on an SDK that’s already used by 100,000+ developers.

If you're interested, please send me an email to [email protected] with your LinkedIn and a few sentences about why you would be a good fit for the role.

Show HN: Gamekit-CLI – Use Claude Code to quickly create games in Unity

https://github.com/gamekit-agent/gamekit-cli

Hey HN! We’re the team from Normal / Normcore.io. We built gamekit-cli, an open-source command-line tool for developing Unity games with Claude Code.We love working with Claude Code. It's great for creating quick prototypes, writing complex systems code, and test suites. However, we work a lot with Unity and found we couldn’t move anywhere near as fast with Unity projects as we could when...

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Re:LLMs Are Not Fun on Monday December 29, 2025 @03:06PM (#46424913)
Back when I would ask ChatGPT to write code, I would agree with you, but using Claude Code's planning mode is a night and day difference. You write out a list of specs, Claude writes up a plan (that for writing backend APIs has always been just about perfect for me if my spec is solid), and then Claude executes that plan to almost perfection, with small nudges along the way.

If you're doing anything UI-based, it hasn't performed well for me, but for certain areas of software development, it's been an absolute dream.

Re:LLMs Are Not Fun on Monday December 29, 2025 @02:27PM (#46424405)
100% this. I've had more fun using Claude Code because I get to spend more of my time doing the fun parts (design, architecture, problem solving, etc) and less time spent typing, fixing small compilation errors, looking up API docs to figure out that query parameters use camelcase instead of underscores.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025) on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @02:14PM (#44172922)
Normal | Senior SWE Backend | Full-time | $100-140K USD | Remote PT/ET Hours | Typescript/Node/Postgres roles

I'm the founder of Normcore.io, an autoscaling game server hosting service and Unity plugin that includes all of the pieces you need to create a multiplayer game. We launched a few years ago and the service has exploded in popularity. I'm actively scaling the team to keep up with demand for new features and to expand into all of the other live services that our customers are asking us for.

We’re all ex-Unity/Google folks working on making great SDKs and tools for multiplayer game development. We also make our own VR titles that are built on top of our own networking tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djsPTbs7R_w

Reasons you’d love working with us:

* Work with a small, focused, and extremely talented team of developers.

* Fully remote job with flexible working hours and vacation (Our whole team is remote too)

* High-quality codebase, code reviews, tests.

* High work satisfaction, own entire features, and work on an SDK that’s already used by 100,000+ developers.

If you're interested, please send me a note here and I'll be in touch: https://forms.gle/6kDLRK8zbQDiPXXs7

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024) on Monday September 02, 2024 @11:00AM (#41425913)
Normal | Senior SWE/game dev | Full-time | $70-120K USD | Remote PT-ET Hours | C# roles and Typescript/Node/Postgres roles

I’m the founder of Normal, the company behind the Unity multiplayer plugin Normcore (https://normcore.io). We also make our own multiplayer VR titles: Nock VR (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djsPTbs7R_w) and Half + Half (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0gbYe0xW4s).

We’re all ex-Unity/Google folks working on making great SDKs and tools for multiplayer game development, and we need more people!

Reasons you’d love working with us:

* Work with a small, focused, and extremely talented team of developers.

* Fully remote job with flexible working hours and vacation.

* High-quality codebase, code reviews, tests.

* High work satisfaction, own entire features, and work on an SDK that’s already used by 100,000+ developers.

If interested, please apply here and mention this post:

Unity / C# Developer - https://normcore.io/jobs/unity-framework-developer

Typescript/Node/Postgres Developer - https://normcore.io/jobs/typescript-developer