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Great Question (YC W21) | AI Engineer | Remote (USA / Aus / NZ) https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/greatquestion/4b2f2c9e-3d77-4195-81...

We are hiring our first AI engineer to help us realize our AI agentic vision. This is a unique opportunity to get in early in the formation of an AI team with a proven product and established customer basis to build on top of.

About us - Great Question is the all-in-one customer research platform loved by teams like Intuit, Canva and Figma. We are on a mission to embed customer insights at the heart of every business decision and ensure companies build something people want!

The current app is Rails/React however this team will have free reign to use the latest AI & LLM tooling, likely building out in Python. Strong engineering fundamentals a must as well as experience deploying AI solutions into production.

Feel free to reach out to me directly (CTO & Cofounder) - [email protected]

https://greatquestion.co/

Great Question | Full-stack and Backend Engineers | Full-time | Remote (+- 5 hr PST) | $100-150k https://careers.greatquestion.co/fullstack-engineer/en

Great Question is the all-in-one platform for customer research. We help companies to talk to more customers so that spend more time building software that the world wants!

We're small (10), fully remote, well funded, and have super strong early growth with well known enterprise customers.

We follow strong agile practices, pair often, champion high quality code and work on maintaining great test coverage.

Looking for experienced Rails and React engineers to join our team and help grow the product, processes and culture.

If you're interested please contact [email protected] or apply here:

https://careers.greatquestion.co/fullstack-engineer/en

Great Question | Full-stack and Backend Engineers | Full-time | Remote (+- 5 hr PST) | $100-150k

https://careers.greatquestion.co/fullstack-engineer/en

Great Question is the all-in-one platform for customer research. We help companies to talk to more customers so that spend more time building software that the world wants!

We're small (10), fully remote, well funded, and have super strong early growth with well known enterprise customers.

We follow strong agile practices, pair often, champion high quality code and work on maintaining great test coverage.

Looking for experienced Rails and React engineers to join our team and help grow the product, processes and culture.

If you're interested please contact [email protected] or apply here:

https://careers.greatquestion.co/fullstack-engineer/en

Great Question (YC W21) | Founding Engineer, Rails | REMOTE | UTC-11 to UTC-5 | USD 110k-130k + equity | https://greatquestion.co/

Great Question helps companies democratize customer research - making it easy for anyone in your product team to run customers interviews, send out surveys, and make research part of every sprint.

We're looking for an experienced Rails engineer to come join our small (but highly performant) team (currently 4 of us, 2 engineering). We're funded with product in market and customers that love us. We're after someone who can come in and own key parts of the backend, champion best practices, write performant, robust code, and help us build a world class platform.

Interested? Apply directly via email at [email protected] or here: https://careers.greatquestion.co/founding-engineer/en

Must have strong overlap with PST work hours.

Google's version of freemium?

I'd love to know the numbers behind this. Anyone have an idea of what Google's Adword visitor LTV is for these sites?

I flew from Australia in 2011 for it and have no regrets. At the time though I was very new to the startup scene.

Like any conference most of the value is derived from the networking rather than the speakers/presentations. Keeping in mind the target market, expect to see a lot of undergrads and startup newbies.

That being said the talks are still amazing and there are some more senior guys that go.

I'd be interested to see what value this adds compared to the documentation and existing (free) blog posts on it's use. IMHO Backbone's docs are super friendly and if you're really wondering what's going on under the covers the source code is relatively easy to jump into and understand (assuming you're a javascript programmer not a jQuery hacker)

Completely agree - when it comes to software you will avoid doing 'stupid stuff' if you actually UNDERSTAND what you are doing.

not really a shocking number considering the current state of the industry.

This sounds cool. I would also be quite interested.

I think this is a very good point. You may find that there is more to be made selling songs/albums/playlists via affiliate channels, or like stated, offering pro features. DJ's may even be using it to trial new vinyls before they buy. If nothing else understanding the use should allow you to better tailor the site to drive up traffic if you do decide to roll out ads.

Im just looking at flights now and should be able to have 8 days in town: 13th - 21st. Do you know any events off the top of your head that are on? Something I might start concentrating on once flights are booked.

I am definitely starting to think that it would be worthwhile, mainly for the networking. There are so many talented people in the area and the thought of meeting some of them really excites me.

Now I just hope they'll give me time off work. Somewhat short notice but I think (hope) it'll be okay!

Thanks for the advice.

New Zealand

Clever - quirky enough to get to the top of HN, informing (arguably) the best pool of potential employees that they're hiring.

As an alternative - I work site based requiring me on site 15 days at a time, 6 days off. Accommodation and food provided. As a salaried employee I am given a 40% uplift for this. I have heard of cases where this can be as great as 60%. However, the detail is in the numbers - when on site you are usually required to work 12hr days. 50% more hours, 40% more pay. Go figure.

What was your motivation for getting it done right from the start, rather than bootstrapping it yourself first for proof of concept/profitability? time constraints?

Obviously you have made some assumptions as to how long profitability will take - something I presume only comes with experience.

Not to over step my mark, but what magnitude of savings is needed to fund this sort of development? I ask this as I have recently started work on my own project, and am curious if my savings are even ballpark to consider outsourcing it.

I am not sure if it is possible (as my programming experience is very limited) but an API for this so, rather than continually having to provide support for other services, you outsource the development to the community!

Well done on launching! find the bootstrap/outsource combo very interesting - surely this is somewhat of a oxymoron What's your background if you don't mind me asking?

Yea I will do - I've been meaning to start one up but at the moment I don't have enough spare time as it is (working 12 hour days and spending all my spare time learning). When I've got something worth writing about I'll let you know.

This is true - it requires you have a product that is not intrinsically linked to the country you're developing it in. I would imagine something like Groupon.com or foursquare may be hard to get going in NZ. Where in NZ are you thinking of moving? Like squidsoup said, there seems to be quite the community in Wellington.