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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026) on Monday February 02, 2026 @12:35PM (#46858707)
Stealth | Product | Remote Anywhere | Full Time

Hello, I am bootstrapping an AI companion startup. I believe that within 10 years, more people will date AI than humans. I think this is neither good nor bad, just interesting, and I want to build something in this space.

- I am looking to hire someone to help with user interviews to define and iterate the MVP. - You should have strong communication skills and be familiar with how to talk to users - You should have C1+ English proficiency

As I am bootstrapping this, I can only offer up to $4,000/mo ($50,000/yr) at the moment. If you are interested, please email James at gcyiuqy1 [at] gmail.com

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026) on Friday January 02, 2026 @03:53PM (#46469223)
Stealth | Software/AI Engineer | Remote Anywhere | Full Time

Hello, I am bootstrapping an AI companion startup. I believe that within 10 years, more people will date AI than humans. I think this is neither good nor bad, just interesting, and I want to build something in this space.

I am looking to hire someone with strong technical and problem solving skills. You will be seeing a lot of problems for the first time and need to just figure out how to hack a solution. Sometimes that involves writing code but not always. It is ok if you don't have prior AI experience.

Interesting problems we will work on:

- extreme latency issues while providing a fully multimodal experience (audio, video, text)

- building models that predict when to interrupt in a conversation

- building models and control systems for emotion

- generating avatar response in real time

- custom 3d models from input image

- real time or very fast video generation with custom characters

- llm memory

As I am bootstrapping this, I can only offer up to $4,000/mo ($50,000/yr) at the moment. If you are interested, please email James at gcyiuqy1 [at] gmail.com

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025) on Monday November 03, 2025 @11:11AM (#45800609)
Stealth | Software/AI Engineer | Remote Anywhere | Full Time

Hello, I am bootstrapping an AI companion startup. I believe that within 10 years, more people will date AI than humans. I think this is neither good nor bad, just interesting, and I want to build something in this space.

I am looking to hire someone with strong technical and problem solving skills. You will be seeing a lot of problems for the first time and need to just figure out how to hack a solution. Sometimes that involves writing code but not always. It is ok if you don't have prior AI experience.

Interesting problems we will work on:

- extreme latency issues while providing a fully multimodal experience (audio, video, text)

- building models that predict when to interrupt in a conversation

- building models and control systems for emotion

- generating avatar response in real time

- custom 3d models from input image

- real time or very fast video generation with custom characters

- llm memory

As I am bootstrapping this, I regrettably can only offer $4,000/mo ($50,000/yr) at the moment. If you are nevertheless interested, please email James at [email protected]