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Woflow | Full Stack / Front End Engineer | San Francisco | Full Time | Onsite

Looking to add an engineer to our small team to help us keep up with growth!

Tech: Ember.js / Ruby on Rails

We are building the data backbone of the food delivery industry and have proven ourselves in the market with the worlds largest food delivery companies.

https://www.woflow.com [email protected]

Woflow is hiring full stack engineers!

San Francisco | React | Rails | GraphQL

We power the worlds largest food delivery companies by helping them build and maintain their restaurant menu data.

Looking to add a few more engineers to our 2-person founding team to start 2019 off right!

Reach out to [email protected]

This is extremely helpful.

fullcontact.com has some accuracy in there searches. They are not free, and it is not a consumer facing company though.

I butt heads with folks every day over the importance of validation before building begins. I have always been a believer in BUILDING first. The only way to really validate the product is to the put it in REAL hands and see how it does. Well said Gary!

Way cool! I am impressed.

Props on the innovation. Devil's Advocate: Barcodes were put in place to speed up mass quantity entry. This might cause a lineup as the ticket-taker is now a 'bouncer' and has to verify each persons physical identity. Have you tested this model at any fairly large events?

Thats a pretty sweet way to utilize startup strategies you have learned on the job to benefit you personally.

I love these kind of projects! Keep up the "point"-less work! :)

I just began blogging myself, and it really helps me take a step back and realize / think about what I learn on a day to day basis.

I totally agree with that! There are tons of companies that "win the lottery", and build a product with no validation and succeed. It is obviously not the "right" way to do it, but sometimes it does work.

Bingo! :)

I hear what you are saying. I have tons of pages of lessons I learned that I will touch on in later posts. I tried to summarize the whole experience in to one page. My experiences took me to business meeting after business meeting, and opened my eyes to the entire tech / music startup scene. The main lesson I learned was not listening to feedback early on, but I also have insight on co-founder issues, legal issues, budgeting issues, personal/work dilemmas, etc.

All of these things I DO agree with. And yes, we are young. We might not use the word "shit" on our homepage next time. But Hell, I used the word "fuck" on the title of this article, and it sure turned alot of heads.

We were a middle-man to the artists. We had it setup so when a fan bought their music all of the money went directly to us, and then we paid out the artist. That is where we went wrong. You need to use "recipient tokens" so the money is split by Amazon. This way the money goes directly to the artist and we get sent a cut directly from amazon.

Yes, Bandcamp was for sure our competitor. Simple to use, and well known. Our added value was the dynamic pricing (which we found out was not a value at all). There are many pain points for artists. The main one is "no one is buying my music". That pain point hasn't yet been solved in an easy way, and as time goes on, it seems its getting harder and harder.