rchiba

> Ultimately, the reason that the startup died was because I did not do the due diligence in discerning whether this was a problem that I genuinely wanted to solve with my entire being. That's the bar for creating a successful startup, you need to find a problem that you're willing to dedicate yourself entirely to solving.

My own startup journey has led me to a contrary belief: At the earliest stages of building a business, being flexible and continuously re-evaluating your assumptions in order to find real market opportunities is more useful than having a lot of passion solving a single problem.

If anything, I've met many many founders who have had too much passion about a single problem, which hurts them gravely when they refuse to consider the possibility that the problem they are passionate about is not a problem at all and they need to pivot.

I'm excited by this post because I think Jimmy deserves this success. I've never met him in person, but I owe him big time because:

1. His community was a big factor in my SaaS business getting traction among copywriters and content marketers.

2. I took a bike tour near his area and he saved me from trying to bike through a mudslide that had recently washed out part the route.

Biases aside, I've been a member of Superpath for awhile now and can say that he's put together a unique community that has a strong backbone of "givers" that can help the "takers". The vast majority of professional communities (especially free ones) devolve into places with endless questions with no one to answer them. Superpath isn't like that at all. Questions turn into threads with insightful answers and discussions.

Props!

What a great device with so much potential. If they could have survived longer, they could have been the classic Casio watch of our generation.

CafeMedia | QA Engineer | REMOTE (US) | Full Time | https://cafemedia.com/

APPLY HERE: https://cafemedia.applytojob.com/apply/MAyiIQ6l4W/QA-Enginee...

We are looking for a quick-witted QA Engineer to join us as a founding member of a new team responsible for creating a portfolio of marketing products for our publishers. Our team's charter is to help our community of 3,000+ independent publishers grow their audience and you will help us empower them with the highest-quality tools.

DETAILS

• on the position: https://cafemedia.applytojob.com/apply/MAyiIQ6l4W/QA-Enginee...

• on working at CafeMedia: https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-CafeMedia-EI_I...

• on our customers: https://webwideopen.com/stories/

BENEFITS (besides the competitive salary...)

• RAPIDLY GROWING COMPANY - In the past year, the company has risen to become the 11th largest digital property in the U.S. (just under Viacom and Apple) and manages 175M monthly unique visitors.

• ESTABLISHED REMOTE CULTURE - CafeMedia has been a fully remote company for years before the pandemic and knows how to create effective remote teams.

• POWERFUL MISSION - Our product enables thousands of creators and independent publishers make a living. We are a force for the open web, freeing creators from the walled-gardens of Facebook and Pinterest.

I found this article through a friend of my wife's who is a skincare expert.

Check your cabinets. I actually found the Neutrogena lotion that we use in the table of affected products!

List of affected products: https://www.valisure.com/wp-content/uploads/Valisure-Citizen...

List of unaffected products: https://www.valisure.com/wp-content/uploads/Attachment-A-Tab...

I'm a big fan of this thread because it helps correct the preconceived notion that culture is on a 1 dimensional spectrum between "bad" and "great".

At our 30-person company, we did an experiment where we took a culture framework that was evaluated on 2 axes, and took internal surveys between two years to determine where on the spectrum employees felt our culture was currently at, and what their ideal culture would be.

For anyone curious, I have a data visualization of it here: https://ryochiba.com/2016/11/22/what-is-a-company-culture.ht...

For anyone in a position to explore these questions at an organizational level, I would highly recommend doing an exercise like this. It gives more agency to the employee to express what direction they think would be optimal and brings awareness to the fact that totally different cultures can both be considered "great".

Same, I thought of Tint(up) :)

Yes, with that kind of attitude life does seem pointless.

My opinion is that not everything we do in life needs to aimed towards the lofty self-actualization of mankind... or even the lofty self-actualization of one's self, which is the point being made later in the blog post.

Sometimes you wanna build something and see what happens. Hell yea I'll praise that.

Most human progress is made incrementally and in all directions, with many of the paths failing. The original versions of many extraordinary things seemed like meaningless branches of a capitalistic society.

There was a time when people played chess over telegraph, and considered telegraphy as a technology nothing more than a strange novelty.*

* For more, I highly recommend checking out the book "The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers"

Boo to all of the people on this thread who are hating on what you've built. Why can't you build a business selling emails, or automatically posting to GitHub?

If you hate getting spam emails, hit "spam" and get that domain blacklisted, it creates a natural balance where the quality of cold outreach grows. And I doubt real hiring decisions are being made from git commit history badges.

Kudos for going out there and adding value to the people that are paying for your products.

TINT | Senior Full Stack / Frontend / Backend Engineers | UX/UI Designer | https://www.tintup.com | San Francisco | REMOTE (US/Canada/India) | $90K - $170K

APPLY HERE: https://www.tintup.com/jobs?lever-source=hackernews

We’re looking for senior engineers and a UX/UI designer to join our small 24-person team. We offer a competitive compensation package, and have a flexible remote work policy.

Over 5,000 brands use TINT to power their content marketing. We are proudly profitable, not dependent on investor funding. Every Friday we work on hack projects that we think will push the business forward. Our current stack is Backbone, Rails, MySQL, and AWS.

___________________

DETAILS

• on the positions: https://www.tintup.com/jobs?lever-source=hackernews

• on TINT company culture: https://www.tintup.com/about

• on a few of our customers: https://www.tintup.com/clients

• on what it's like to work here: https://instagram.com/tint/ and https://vimeo.com/album/4636336

___________________

BENEFITS (besides the competitive salary and equity...)

• TEAM TRANSPARENCY - We calculate compensation based on a formula that we all agree on. Cap table is made available to all employees. Business financials are known by all teammates. Even cofounder meeting minutes are sent to the team.

• FLEXIBLE REMOTE WORK - We have a flexible remote work policy that allows employees based in San Francisco to work remotely for extended periods, and for engineers to join us remotely full-time.

• PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM - A monthly stipend and program designed for self-improvement. Every month, we individually choose goals to accomplish and are given a stipend to accomplish them.

APPLY HERE: https://www.tintup.com/jobs?lever-source=hackernews

TINT | Senior Full Stack / Frontend / Backend Engineers | UX/UI Designer | https://www.tintup.com | San Francisco | REMOTE (US/Canada/India) | $90K - $170K

APPLY HERE: https://www.tintup.com/jobs?lever-source=hackernews

We’re looking for engineers and a UX/UI designer to join our small 24-person team. We offer a competitive compensation package, and have a flexible remote work policy.

Over 5,000 brands use TINT to power their content marketing. We are proudly profitable, not dependent on investor funding. Every Friday we work on hack projects that we think will push the business forward. Our current stack is Backbone, Rails, MySQL, and AWS.

___________________

DETAILS

• on the positions: https://www.tintup.com/jobs?lever-source=hackernews

• on TINT company culture: https://www.tintup.com/about

• on a few of our customers: https://www.tintup.com/clients

• on what it's like to work here: https://instagram.com/tint/

___________________

BENEFITS (besides the competitive salary and equity...)

• TEAM TRANSPARENCY - We calculate compensation based on a formula that we all agree on. Cap table is made available to all employees. Business financials are known by all teammates. Even cofounder meeting minutes are sent to the team.

• FLEXIBLE REMOTE WORK - We have a flexible remote work policy that allows employees based in San Francisco to work remotely for extended periods, and for engineers to join us remotely full-time.

• PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM - A monthly stipend and program designed for self-improvement. Every month, we individually choose goals to accomplish and are given a stipend to accomplish them.

APPLY HERE: https://www.tintup.com/jobs?lever-source=hackernews

TINT | Front End Engineer | https://www.tintup.com | San Francisco | REMOTE (US/Canada) | $90K - $164K

APPLY HERE: https://www.tintup.com/jobs?lever-source=hackernews

We’re looking for a Front End Engineer to join our small 30-person team. We offer a competitive compensation package, and have a flexible remote work policy.

Over 5,000 brands use TINT to power their content marketing. We are proudly profitable, not dependent on investor funding. Every Friday we work on hack projects that we think will push the business forward. Our current stack is Backbone, Rails, MySQL, and AWS.

___________________

DETAILS

• on the positions: https://www.tintup.com/jobs?lever-source=hackernews

• on TINT company culture: https://www.tintup.com/about

• on a few of our customers: https://www.tintup.com/clients

• on what it's like to work here: https://instagram.com/tint/

___________________

BENEFITS (besides the competitive salary and equity...)

• TEAM TRANSPARENCY - We calculate compensation based on a formula that we all agree on. Cap table is made available to all employees. Business financials are known by all teammates. Even cofounder meeting minutes are sent to the team.

• FLEXIBLE REMOTE WORK - We have a flexible remote work policy that allows employees based in San Francisco to work remotely for extended periods, and for engineers to join us remotely full-time.

• PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM - A monthly stipend and program designed for self-improvement. Every month, we individually choose goals to accomplish and are given a stipend to accomplish them.

APPLY HERE: https://www.tintup.com/jobs?lever-source=hackernews

Related to increasing productivity and a public view option, one thing that Ricardo Semler brings up in his book, Maverick, that is a big productivity boost for teams is to incorporate regular public mood feedback to allow an individual to communicate how they are generally feeling that day to the whole team. It can put a lot of interactions in context and is something that's been implemented by a number of companies, could be a potentially valuable addition to the product!

TINT | Full Stack Engineer | UX Engineer | http://www.tintup.com | San Francisco | REMOTE | $126K - $175K

APPLY HERE: http://www.tintup.com/jobs

We’re looking for Full Stack Engineers and UX Engineers to join our small 30-person team. We offer competitive equity packages, full medical/dental, and free lunch everyday, among other benefits.

Over 5,000 brands use TINT to power their content marketing and help us generate $410k MRR. We are proudly PROFITABLE, not dependent on investor funding, and have been consistently growing our top line. We aspire to be a company like Basecamp or Fog Creek Software. We pair everyday, and every Friday we work on hack projects that we think will push the business forward. Our current stack is Backbone, Rails, MySQL, and AWS.

___________________

DETAILS

• on the positions: http://www.tintup.com/jobs

• on TINT company culture: http://www.tintup.com/about

• on a few of our customers: http://www.tintup.com/clients

• on what it's like to work here: https://instagram.com/tint/

___________________

BENEFITS (besides the competitive salary and equity...)

• TEAM TRANSPARENCY - We calculate compensation based on a formula that we all agree on. Cap table is made available to all employees. Business financials are known by all teammates.

• CONSENSUS DRIVEN CULTURE - We foster consensus-driven rather than top-down decision making when it comes to important business decisions.

• PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM - A monthly stipend and program designed for self-improvement. Every month, we individually choose goals to accomplish and are given a stipend to accomplish them.

APPLY HERE: http://www.tintup.com/jobs

TINT | Full Stack Engineer | UX Engineer | http://www.tintup.com | San Francisco | REMOTE | $126K - $175K

APPLY HERE: http://www.tintup.com/jobs

We’re looking for Full Stack Engineers and UX Engineers to join our small 30-person team. We offer competitive equity packages, full medical/dental, and free lunch everyday, among other benefits.

Over 5,000 brands use TINT to power their content marketing and help us generate $410k MRR. We are proudly PROFITABLE, not dependent on investor funding, and have been consistently growing our top line. We aspire to be a company like Basecamp or Fog Creek Software. We pair everyday, and every Friday we work on hack projects that we think will push the business forward. Our current stack is Backbone, Rails, MySQL, and AWS.

___________________

DETAILS

• on the positions: http://www.tintup.com/jobs

• on TINT company culture: http://www.tintup.com/about

• on a few of our customers: http://www.tintup.com/clients

• on what it's like to work here: https://instagram.com/tint/

___________________

BENEFITS (besides the competitive salary and equity...)

• TEAM TRANSPARENCY - We calculate compensation based on a formula that we all agree on. Cap table is made available to all employees. Business financials are known by all teammates.

• CONSENSUS DRIVEN CULTURE - We foster consensus-driven rather than top-down decision making when it comes to important business decisions.

• PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM - A monthly stipend and program designed for self-improvement. Every month, we individually choose goals to accomplish and are given a stipend to accomplish them.

APPLY HERE: http://www.tintup.com/jobs

Senior Front End Engineer | TINT | http://www.tintup.com | San Francisco | ONSITE | $126K - $175K

TINT: A GREAT PLACE TO WORK

We’re looking for Senior Front End Engineers to join our small 30-person team. We offer competitive equity packages, full medical/dental, and free lunch everyday, among other benefits.

Over 5,000 brands use TINT to power their content marketing and help us generate $410k MRR. We are proudly PROFITABLE, not dependent on investor funding, and have been consistently growing our top line. We aspire to be a company like Basecamp or Fog Creek Software. We pair everyday, and every Friday we work on hack projects that we think will push the business forward. Our current stack is Backbone, Rails, MySQL, and AWS.

We have a uniquely transparent culture, as featured in the Wall Street Journal: http://www.wsj.com/articles/emote-control-silicon-valley-slu...

To learn more: https://jobs.lever.co/tint/1cb89a39-91a3-47bd-8486-e1dff62c1...

TINT (http://www.tintup.com) San Francisco (Mission), CA ONSITE

We’re looking for Experienced / Senior Front End Software Engineers (H1B Okay).

The salary range will be $126K - $175K. We offer equity packages, full medical/dental, 401k, and free lunch, among other benefits.

Over 45,000 customers use TINT to power their social media displays and help us generate $380k MRR. We are proudly profitable, not dependent on investor funding, and have been consistently growing our top line. An engineer who would mesh well with our team is entrepreneurial, embraces change, and isn’t afraid to work on projects that would normally be considered out of the scope of engineering. We value an engineer that cannot only code well, but also has a vested interest in making cross team contributions. We pair everyday, and every Friday we work on hack projects that we think will push the business forward. Our current stack is Backbone, Rails, MySQL, and AWS.

Some upcoming projects include building a content scheduling system that will be the market leader for outdoor digital displays, creating new themes and visualizations for dynamic content, and scaling out an API to reach thousands of large brands and their millions of customers.

To learn more: https://jobs.lever.co/tint?lever-source=HN

Tint (http://www.tintup.com) San Francisco (SOMA), CA

We’re looking for Experienced / Senior Software Engineers (H1B Okay).

The salary range will be $126K - $175K. We offer equity packages, full medical/dental, 401k, and free lunch, among other benefits.

Over 45,000 customers use TINT to power their social media displays and help us generate $380k MRR. We are proudly profitable, not dependent on investor funding, and have been consistently growing our top line. An engineer who would mesh well with our team is entrepreneurial, embraces change, and isn’t afraid to work on projects that would normally be considered out of the scope of engineering. We value an engineer that cannot only code well, but also has a vested interest in making cross team contributions. We pair everyday, and every Friday we work on hack projects that we think will push the business forward. Our current stack is Backbone, Rails, MySQL, and AWS.

Some upcoming projects include building a content scheduling system that will be the market leader for outdoor digital displays, creating new themes and visualizations for dynamic content, and scaling out an API to reach thousands of large brands and their millions of customers.

To learn more: https://jobs.lever.co/tint?lever-source=HN

Tint (http://www.tintup.com) San Francisco (SOMA), CA

We’re looking for Experienced / Senior Software Engineers (H1B Okay).

The salary range will be $126K - $175K. We offer equity packages, full medical/dental, 401k, and free lunch, among other benefits.

Over 45,000 customers use TINT to power their social media displays and help us generate $380k MRR. We are proudly profitable, not dependent on investor funding, and have been consistently growing our top line.

An engineer who would mesh well with our team is entrepreneurial, embraces change, and isn’t afraid to work on projects that would normally be considered out of the scope of engineering. We value an engineer that cannot only code well, but also has a vested interest in making cross team contributions. We pair everyday, and every Friday we work on hack projects that we think will push the business forward. Our current stack is Backbone, Rails, MySQL, and AWS.

Some upcoming projects include building a content scheduling system that will be the market leader for outdoor digital displays, creating new themes and visualizations for dynamic content, and scaling out an API to reach thousands of large brands and their millions of customers.

To learn more: https://jobs.lever.co/tint?lever-source=HN

Tint (http://www.tintup.com) San Francisco (SOMA), CA

We’re looking for Experienced / Senior Software Engineers (H1B Okay).

The salary range will be $126K - $175K. We offer equity packages, full medical/dental, 401k, and free lunch, among other benefits.

Over 45,000 customers use TINT to power their social media displays and help us generate $380k MRR. We are proudly profitable, not dependent on investor funding, and have been consistently growing our top line.

An engineer who would mesh well with our team is entrepreneurial, embraces change, and isn’t afraid to work on projects that would normally be considered out of the scope of engineering. We value an engineer that cannot only code well, but also has a vested interest in making cross team contributions. We pair everyday, and every Friday we work on hack projects that we think will push the business forward. Our current stack is Backbone, Rails, MySQL, and AWS.

Some upcoming projects include building a content scheduling system that will be the market leader for outdoor digital displays, creating new themes and visualizations for dynamic content, and scaling out an API to reach thousands of large brands and their millions of customers.

To learn more: https://jobs.lever.co/tint?lever-source=HN

It's when a guy from another department walks into a room and asks for a developer, unconsciously ignores the female developer closest to him and starts addressing the male developer.

It's when a guy kindly asks a woman to stop debating a technical spec because she wouldn't understand the details (even though she's more technical than he is).

It's when a sales guy makes a joke with his female colleague that her eye makeup is what is closing deals that day.

> These biases occur unconsciously and without intention or malice.

As someone who has faced situations where a gender microagression has caused workplace conflict, the above quote cannot be stressed enough. Just because you didn't have the intention to be biased or discriminate does not mean it did not happen. For some reason this concept eludes even the sharpest people.

We all have our biases. It's about time we owned up to them and put effort into mitigating them.

Tint (http://www.tintup.com) — San Francisco (SOMA), CA - Looking for: Full Stack Web Developers, Designers, Support, Customer Success

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ABOUT TINT

Tint's mission is to help organizations drive deeper relationships with their customers through social media. We are a group of 25 engineers and customer happiness heroes with a profitable, sustainable business and a great working environment.

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DETAILS

• on the positions: https://jobs.lever.co/tint?lever-source=HN

• on Tint company culture: http://www.tintup.com/about

• on our profit sharing: http://www.tintup.com/blog/restructuring-your-sales-commissi...

• on a few of our customers: http://www.tintup.com/clients

• on what it's like to work here: https://instagram.com/tint/

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BENEFITS (besides the competitive salary and equity...)

• PROFIT SHARING - We split 20% of all revenue made over payroll and fixed costs and distribute it among the team.

• TEAM TRANSPARENCY - We calculate compensation based on a formula that we all agree on. Cap table is made available to all employees. Business financials are known by all teammates.

• CONSENSUS DRIVEN CULTURE - We foster consensus-driven rather than top-down decision making when it comes to important business decisions.

• PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM - A monthly stipend and program designed for self-improvement. Every month, we individually choose goals to accomplish and are given a stipend to accomplish them.

APPLY HERE: https://jobs.lever.co/tint?lever-source=HN

Tint (http://www.tintup.com) — San Francisco (SOMA), CA - INTERN

Looking for Summer Engineering Intern, with full-time possibilities after

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ABOUT TINT

Tint's mission is to help organizations drive deeper relationships with their customers through social media. We are a group of 23 engineers and customer happiness heroes with a profitable, sustainable business and a great working environment.

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DETAILS

• on the position: https://jobs.lever.co/tint/87af6c15-46fa-4b3a-91e6-f7a84f6ca...

• on Tint company culture: http://www.tintup.com/about

• on our profit sharing: http://www.tintup.com/blog/restructuring-your-sales-commissi...

• on a few of our customers: http://www.tintup.com/clients

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BENEFITS (besides the competitive salary and equity...)

• Profit Sharing - We split 20% of all revenue made over payroll and fixed costs and distribute it among the team.

• Team Transparency - We calculate compensation based on a formula that we all agree on. Cap table is made available to all employees. Business financials are known by all teammates.

• Personal Autonomy / Consensus Driven Culture - We foster consensus-driven rather than top-down decision making when it comes to important business decisions.

• Customer Driven Culture - We're very in-tune with our customers and they love us. For example, we decide what features to build based on surveys we send directly to customers.

• Personal Development Program - A monthly stipend and program designed for self-improvement. Every month, we individually choose goals to accomplish and are given a stipend to accomplish them.

APPLY HERE: https://jobs.lever.co/tint/87af6c15-46fa-4b3a-91e6-f7a84f6ca...

Tint (http://www.tintup.com) — San Francisco (SOMA), CA - Full Time Looking for Full Stack Web Developers, Front End Developers, Back End Developers, APPLY HERE: https://jobs.lever.co/tint?lever-source=HN -----------------------

ABOUT TINT

Tint's mission is to help organizations drive deeper relationships with their customers through social media. We are a group of 21 engineers and customer happiness heroes with a profitable, sustainable business and a great working environment.

When we started in January 2014, we made $101K. Last month, we made $390K.

Simply put, we have too many customers, and too few quick minds.

Join us on this incredible journey to become a market leader in the social media display and aggregation space. We have plenty of interesting engineering challenges to conquer and relationships to nurture with big brands with endless opportunity for personal growth along the way. Some of the tech we work with: MySQL, Redis, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Backbone.js

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DETAILS

• on the position: https://jobs.lever.co/tint?lever-source=HN

• on Tint company culture: http://www.tintup.com/about

• on our incredible journey: http://www.tintup.com/blog/tint-year-in-review-2014/

• on our profit sharing: http://www.tintup.com/blog/restructuring-your-sales-commissi...

• on our startup role models: http://www.tintup.com/blog/startups-need-role-models-too/

• on a few of our customers: https://www.flickr.com/photos/124773594@N04/sets/

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BENEFITS (besides the competitive salary and equity...)

• Profit Sharing - We split 20% of all revenue made over payroll and fixed costs and distribute it among the team.

• Team Transparency - We calculate compensation based on a formula that we all agree on. Cap table is made available to all employees. Business financials are known by all teammates.

• Personal Autonomy / Consensus Driven Culture - We foster consensus-driven rather than top-down decision making when it comes to important business decisions. From what features to build next to what furniture to buy for the office, we believe it's the fairest way of making decisions.

• Customer Driven Culture - We're very in-tune with our customers and they love us. For example, we decide what features to build based on surveys we send directly to customers.

• Personal Development Program - A monthly stipend and program designed for self-improvement. Every month, we individuall choose goals to accomplish and are given a stipend to accomplish them. Whether it's books, yoga classes, or a fitness tracker, we want our teammates to improve themselves.

• Free Lunch Everyday - Yum!

APPLY HERE: https://jobs.lever.co/tint?lever-source=HN