Ask HN: Recommend good meetups for early stage startups
I'm not launching a startup. I'd just like to get more involved and meet more people working on early stage startups. Can anyone recommend some good meetups in San Francisco/Silicon Valley?
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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2020)
on Monday February 03, 2020 @04:00PM (#22229026)
GreenPark Sports | greenparksports.com | ONSITE (SF Bay Area - Burlingame) | Full-time | Base + equity
We’re building the future of Fan Engagement experiences for live sports. It’s a frenetic, all-in, raise-the-stakes and show-your-passion mobile game experience where the best fans win. Our fast-growing team loves both sports and eSports and we’re not afraid to show it. We've closed a healthy Seed Round with investors that represent all major leagues that believe as passionately as we do in our future of sports and fan engagement.
We've also just announced a deal to deliver our game for the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) -> https://blog.greenparksports.com/lcs-image/
We are hiring for the following Engineering roles:
* Backend Engineer - 4+ yrs exp.
Thanks and Play ball!
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)
on Monday April 01, 2019 @12:00PM (#19544719)
GreenPark Sports is looking to hire a mobile engineer to work on a mobile sports game. We're a stealth, seed stage startup founded by well-known names in Silicon Valley.
We're building the mobile app in Flutter. Flutter experience not required. Just be interested and willing to work with Flutter.
We're based on Burlingame. Just a 10 min walk from the Caltrain station. Small company of just 6 people. This is a great ground floor opportunity for someone who enjoys building apps from nothing.
If interested email Tim Bull, our VP of Engineering at tim[at]greenparksports[dot]com or apply via https://flutterjobs.info/job/ipS4pUbGV0KzA2UE1wXp/
Re:Standing up for what's right
on Saturday January 28, 2017 @06:22PM (#13510236)
Too bad he's silent for the past year when these issues were obviously going to happen. He allowed it to happen. And now he's quietly giving Trump lip service behind closed doors. He (Travis + Uber) doesn't give a damn about anyone. As long as they can get some Uber-friendly policy from Trump they'll continue to let him do whatever he wants. They are enabling him by working with him on other issues while ignoring this.
Such PR bullshit. Trying to look good in the public eye.
Re:Ask HN: Hiring managers what would it take for you to reply to ever...
on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @12:38AM (#13164749)
What kind of reply would you want? Would a simple "no thanks" be enough?
I have been in the situation before where replying to everyone with anything meaningful is simply not feasible. Maybe for a recruiter whose full-time job is that but not for a hiring manager who also has to balance their regular duties as well.
I have spent much more time on the applicant side of things than the hirer side so I understand the goal. It can be frustrating to not get anything. If it is a job you really want you may be inclined to hold everything else off until you hear something just on the hope that maybe they haven't gotten to your resume yet. So a little closure would be nice.
So maybe a better question for you is what are you trying to accomplish by getting hiring managers to reply to all candidates? Give them closure or provide feedback? If the former than maybe a simple "no thanks" will do.
By the way, I am speaking clearly to the scenario where a candidate sends in a resume and doesn't hear anything back. In my opinion, even if the hiring manager or recruiter does a phone call the candidate deserves a clear "no" email at a minimum.
Re:Google Intrusion Detection Problems
on Monday August 22, 2016 @04:00PM (#12338987)
Once had Google kill a Spark job after it was running for about 12 hours because they thought we were doing something nefarious. It cost us thousands of dollars in wasted time and Google spend because their automated system made a mistake. They never attempted to fix it, refund us or even seem concerned.
Re:MongoDB queries don’t always return all matching documents
on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @08:07PM (#11859063)
Only the first line was directed at you - and it was more in jest. Everything else was directed more at the other commenters and Mongo detractors in general.
Re:MongoDB queries don’t always return all matching documents
on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @07:45PM (#11858968)
Should an infrastructure company be advertising the fact that it didn't research the technology it chose to use to build its own infrastructure?
All these people saying Mongo is garbage are all likely neckbeards sysadmins. Unless you're hiring database admin and sysadmins, Postgres (unless managed - then you have a different set of scaling problems) or any other tradition SQL store is not a viable alternative. This author uses Bigtable as a point of comparison. Stay tuned for his next blog post comparing IIS to Cloudflare.
Almost every blog post titled "why we're moving from Mongo to X" or "Top 10 reason to avoid Mongo" could have been prevented with a little bit of research. People have spent their entire life working with the SQL world so throw something new at them and they reject it like the plague. Postgres is only good now because they had to do some of the features in order to compete with Mongo. Postgres been around since 1996 and you're only now using it? Tell me more about how awesome it is.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)
on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @04:25PM (#11817834)
Outbound (YC W15) - https://outbound.io
San Francisco, CA | on-site only | relocation possible.
Looking for a Javascript engineer to own all of our browser based projects including out JS library used by our clients, our dashboard, admin site, integrations with 3rd party libraries and future integrations and libraries.
Building and own a complex Javascript used on high traffic websites in every possible browser and OS combination possible should be a project that you're excited about.
We're not looking for a "front-end" engineer. The person we're looking for is passionate about Javascript - no matter where it runs.
Some experience required.
We're still a small team of just 7 (almost 8) (2 full-time engineers). You'll be in at the ground floor during an exciting period of growth.
Email Travis at travis[at]outbound[dot].io if interested or use the job listing to apply.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
on Monday May 02, 2016 @01:19PM (#11613412)
Outbound (YC W15) - https://outbound.io
San Francisco, CA | on-site only | relocation possible.
Looking for a Javascript engineer to own all of our browser based projects including out JS library used by our clients, our dashboard, admin site, integrations with 3rd party libraries and future integrations and libraries.
We're not looking for a "front-end" engineer. The person we're looking for is passionate about Javascript - no matter where it runs.
We're still a small team of just 7 (almost 8) (2 full-time engineers). You'll be in at the ground floor during an exciting period of growth.
Email Travis at travis[at]outbound[dot].io if interested or use the job listing to apply.
Re:Chrome is the new IE
on Saturday March 26, 2016 @01:30PM (#11366527)
On any platform other than iOS, Safari is the 3rd best browser on its best day. Just because something is pretty, doesn't make it good. This guy is clearly a student of the Jony Ive school of thought.
Re:How Wired Is Going to Handle Ad Blocking
on Monday February 08, 2016 @11:37PM (#11063101)
Since they aren't making any money from your visits to their site anyways I doubt they will be losing a lot of sleep.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)
on Friday January 01, 2016 @12:28PM (#10822453)
Outbound (YC W15) - https://outbound.io
San Francisco, CA | on-site only | relocation possible.
We are hiring multiple positions including engineering, design, marketing and sales. See all positions at https://jobs.lever.co/outbound.
We're still a very small team of just 5 (2 full-time engineers). You'll be in at the ground floor during an exciting period of growth.
Email Travis at travis[at]outbound[dot].io if interested or use the job listing to apply.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)
on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @08:12PM (#10660188)
Outbound (YC W15) - https://outbound.io
San Francisco, CA | on-site only | relocation possible.
We are hiring multiple positions including engineering, design, marketing and sales. See all positions at https://jobs.lever.co/outbound.
We're still a very small team of just 4 (1 full-time engineer). You'll be in at the ground floor during an exciting period of growth.
Email Travis at travis[at]outbound[dot].io if interested or use the job listing to apply.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)
on Monday November 02, 2015 @01:04PM (#10493705)
Outbound (YC W15) - https://outbound.io
San Francisco, CA | on-site only | relocation possible.
We are hiring multiple positions including engineering, design, marketing and sales. See all positions at https://jobs.lever.co/outbound.
We're still a very small team of just 4 (1 full-time engineer). You'll be in at the ground floor during an exciting period of growth.
Email Travis at travis[at]outbound[dot].io if interested or use the job listing to apply.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)
on Thursday October 01, 2015 @12:41PM (#10312477)
Outbound (YC W15) - https://outbound.io
San Francisco, CA | on-site only | relocation possible.
Looking for engineer #3. We write Go and AngularJS. Use Firebase, AWS, Twilio, Mandrill, Mailgun, Sendgrid, APNS and GCM. Projects including data streaming, Spark, Docker, machine automation and many other awesome things coming up. Equally exciting projects on web and mobile upcoming as well.
You will be in the ground floor and responsible for building the foundation of our system. No legacy systems to support. Come in, design and then build.
We're funded, have paying customers and very good growth. Email travis[at]outbound[dot]io if you're interested.
Re:On the Shred (YC S15) Video Lawsuit
on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @06:30PM (#10262153)
Would be good idea for engineering outsourcing firms to start reaching out to Smule. Probably the only way they'll hire any engineers in the future. At least in SV.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @12:34PM (#9813122)
Outbound (YC W15) - https://outbound.io
San Francisco, CA | on-site only | relocation possible.
Looking for server/devops engineers to be engineer #3. We write Go and AngularJS. Store data in MongoDB. Use Firebase, AWS, Twilio, Mandrill, Mailgun, Sendgrid, APNS and GCM.
You will be in the ground floor and responsible for building the foundation of our system. No legacy systems to support. Come in, design and then build.
We're funded, have paying customers and very good growth. Email travis[at]outbound[dot]io if you're interested.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)
on Monday June 01, 2015 @12:10PM (#9639768)
Outbound (YC W15) - https://outbound.io
San Francisco, CA | on-site only | relocation possible.
Looking for server/devops engineers to be engineer #3. We write Go and AngularJS. Store data in MongoDB. Use Firebase, AWS, Twilio, Mandrill, Mailgun, Sendgrid, APNS and GCM.
You will be in the ground floor and responsible for building the foundation of our system. No legacy systems to support. Come in, design and then build.
We're funded, have paying customers and very good growth. Email travis[at]outbound[dot]io if you're interested.
Re:RegExr: A website for interactive regex prototyping with syntax hig...
on Thursday May 21, 2015 @01:01PM (#9583949)
This has been my go to regex testing site for years. Absolutely love it.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)
on Friday May 01, 2015 @01:14PM (#9472978)
Outbound (YC W15) - https://outbound.io
San Francisco, CA | on-site only | relocation possible.
Looking for server/devops engineers to be engineer #3. We write Go and AngularJS. Store data in MongoDB. Use Firebase, AWS, Twilio, Mandrill, Mailgun, Sendgrid, APNS and GCM.
You will be in the ground floor and responsible for building the foundation of our system. No legacy systems to support. Come in, design and then build.
We're funded, have paying customers and very good growth.
Email travis[at]outbound[dot]io if you're interested.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)
on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @04:33PM (#9306660)
San Francisco, CA
Outbound (https://outbound.io) is looking for a server side engineer to join our small team of 4. We're young (as a company) and you'll be early enough that you'll be involved in core architectural and infrastructure decisions that will be the basis of our technology stack. We have a lot of exciting projects in the pipeline that should keep architecturally minded engineers happy, interested and busy for a while. Technologies we use (currently): - Go - MongoDB - AWS - AngularJS - Firebase
Go experience not required. None of us knew it before we started building Outbound either.
Prior startup experience is a huge bonus especially if you were engineer 1-5.
DevOps and people with sysadmin experience a bonus as well.
If interested, email [email protected].
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)
on Saturday November 01, 2014 @12:56PM (#8543721)
Outbound (https://outbound.io) is looking for a front end engineer. Be engineer #3 at a funded, growing, promising startup.
Our web client is a static Angular app interacting with a Go api. You will OWN the web client and focus on the javascript aspect while working closely with our UI-centric engineer (who is capable of much more) and our server engineer to make the web client a flawless experience.
1-2 years at early stage startup would be ideal but if you're confident you can be THE javascript engineer on the team, email me and we'll talk.
Location: SOMA, San Francisco, CA Email: travis[at]outbound[dot]io
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)
on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @04:21PM (#8397452)
Outbound (https://outbound.io) is looking for a front end engineer. Be engineer #3 at a funded, growing, promising startup.
Our web client is a static Angular app interacting with a Go api. You will OWN the web client and focus on the javascript aspect while working closely with our UI-centric engineer (who is capable of much more) and our server engineer to make the web client a flawless experience.
1-2 years at early stage startup would be ideal but if you're confident you can be THE javascript engineer on the team, email me and we'll talk.
Location: SOMA, San Francisco, CA Email: travis[at]outbound[dot]io
Re:Tires slashed on Google shopping express truck in Mission District
on Monday June 16, 2014 @02:45PM (#7900723)
The only good thing about this approach is that these idiots are making themselves out to be the enemy and eventually they will just become a joke (if they haven't already). Related: OWS
Re:Bose founder, Amar Bose, has died at 83
on Friday July 12, 2013 @11:06PM (#6036529)
Spoken like someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. I worked at the Stanford Bose store for a year. On many occasions we'd let customers bring in other products and put them side by side with Bose. Bose won every time. This was especially true for the Wave Radio and SoundDock. It was also an outdoor mall so if the door to the store was open, which it almost always was, there was a ton of background noise. Didn't matter. Bose always won.
Bose is completely overpriced. As is Apple, Monster and a ton of other "high end" electronic brands. But there is no better audio equipment for the average person than Bose. For a home theater or headphones or bedside radio, Bose wins every time....if you're willing to pay. And like I said, I worked in the store, A LOT of people are willing to pay for that quality.
Re:Ask HN: Has the "Who's Hiring" thing worked out for anyone?
on Sunday June 02, 2013 @12:01PM (#5808962)
We should do a "Who's Looking for a Job" thread. Post your location, should description of your skills and what you're looking for.
Re:A Year of MongoDB
on Friday May 10, 2013 @12:49PM (#5687257)
Sounds like 90% of your problems could have been solved if you'd spent a day or two researching what you were about to build your entire company around.
Sounds like the "We Fail" slide might be the most accurate one there.
Re:When will be the result out for Y Combinator?
on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @12:50AM (#5556315)
http://ycombinator.com/apply.html
"2. On April 16, we'll invite the groups that seem most promising to meet us in Mountain View between April 26 and 30."
Re:Building a toy template engine in Python
on Thursday April 11, 2013 @10:40PM (#5536267)
Try Pyxl
https://github.com/dropbox/pyxl
I don't work at Dropbox but I did work at Cove where this was originally developed and it is great. Makes working with HTML in Python so easy.
I also my own version of it that I have rewritten to treat the HTML object more like jQuery does and added more jQuery methods to it.