smustin

nice work!

Feel free to download the app and add your stories! Not everything has to be geared towards kids to be a place parents like to go.

what's your point?

I started the company BEFORE my husband was diagnosed with cancer but to be clear I never sacrificed my health or time with my family. My husband is now cured of cancer, my family is thriving, and Winnie is doing great too. That's kind of the point of the post -- you can have it all (mostly).

Yes I'm in SF.

To be clear, I didn't pay people in the beginning. I had a cofounder and an advisor and we all coded and worked FOR FREE before we raised money.

I didn't code while taking care of my kid. My kid has childcare during the day! People love to assume that women are all just staying home watching their kids all day...

Thank you! That is what I meant. More generally, don't waste your time chatting with people (unless they are your potential customers and you're trying to get to product market fit). Spend your time BUILDING!

Thanks everyone for the awesome feedback :-) By the way you can find out more about what we're building at https://winnie.com.

Winnie | https://winnie.com | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time Senior Backend engineer: We're hiring a backend engineer to tackle some of the most challenging problems in local knowledge systems — building a reliable, canonical point of interest database, pulling together and sanitizing many disparate data sources, monitoring data quality, and designing processes to ensure that we have the best and most up-to-date directory of information parents need about their world.

We offer flexible hours, amazing work life balance, generous equity and full health and dental. If you are interested in working for Winnie, email your resumé to [email protected].

Love the culture you've built at Winnie.

Very awesome idea and execution!