We aren't actually hiring anyone immediately, but we've hired a handful of great engineers from HN and inevitably will need to hire again. We've found having those conversations and keeping in touch is much better than going through the process from scratch each time, as it fast tracks the process a great deal when the time comes. So reach out if you think you're a good fit.
ReciPal is a profitable, growing, bootstrapped, and (have always been a) fully remote company (based in New York) with 6 full-time employees. We make simple software for food businesses - nutrition analysis and labeling, costing, and inventory management. We've been around for almost 15 years now!
You'd be working directly with me, solo founder, our senior engineers, and marketing and support colleagues, and hopefully take on a growing role over time to treat the business like your own. It's a very low key work environment, but independent and plenty of responsibility and ownership for the right person.
Stack includes Rails 8, JavaScript, Postgres, Heroku.
We are hiring a full-time engineer who can hopefully be a technical stakeholder and business partner.
ReciPal is a profitable, growing, bootstrapped, and (have always been a) fully remote company (based in New York) with just about 4 full-time employees. We make simple software for food businesses - nutrition analysis and labeling, costing, and inventory management.
You'd be working directly with me, solo founder, and our senior engineer and hopefully take on a growing role over time to potentially lead engineering and become a business partner. It's a very low key work environment, but independent and plenty of responsibility and ownership for the right person.
Stack includes Rails 7, JavaScript, Postgres, Heroku.
Sorry for the super delayed reply, didn't expect questions/comments, so just checking this a week later! It's not strictly ruby if you're comfortable adopting another language/framework and are otherwise a great fit for the role.
No worries! HN does not have the best notifications for responses. Similarly, I'm responding fairly late(funny how that happens).
I see you guys have closed off candidates in your job posting. You all do seem like a lovely crowd. I myself am a bit too junior(though not inexperienced) to be a founding/senior member(I read the job title incorrectly the first time), but if you guys end up opening another position, I would definitely love to apply.
Have been using the Free Forever plan and it's solid! They've made a lot of UI changes to streamline the whole process. Nice to have it auto scheduled with a report of changes every month. And they summarize the issues in their UI much better than the standard reports you'd get running the scan yourself.
Seems like what "CPS would do" is the same logic described in the article itself, but instead of the perceived (but not statistical) risk to the children it's the perceived (but not statistical) risk to the parents of those children. I doubt (don't have real data) that reporting actually happens often at all, but it's so easy to imagine and potentially embarrassing and scary for a parent that they avoid it. So even if you don't buy into the perceived risk to your kids, you buy into the perceived risk to yourself.
That's a fairly good argument. I would like to see some actual statistics the frequency of CPS overreacting in an unreasonable fashion. I certainly read many news stories about it, but that is misleading in exactly the same way as the stories we hear about child abductions.
I do however have some level of knowledge here. I have spoken with people involved in child protection about questions like this. I have been told that if this person saw a parent allowing their 11-year-old child to cross the street to play on a playground unsupervised that they would have to write it up. They backed this up with citations of specific laws (Maryland - which does, indeed, have absurd laws on this subject). So while statistics might convince me that this is an anomaly, I do have personal experience that suggests the CPS risk is real.
When my kid brother was in 6th grade (11 years old or so), he was a crossing guard, helping younger kids cross streets safely on their way to and from school.
I meant the risk of being reported to CPS (or being called out in general) rather than the risk of CPS overreacting. Once it gets to them it sounds like they go by the book, but fair point.
It didn't sound crazy at the time. It sounded crazy at the time to investors - old, rich white guys (I'm generalizing, of course). These guys didn't need to or want to stay in an AirBnB, or at least didn't before it had already become commonplace.
Younger folks though, traveling on a budget, interested in meeting other people while away from home - it's a no brainer. We all stay on friends couches, in guest rooms, share cars.
Put another way, couchsurfing and ride sharing have been around forever. What wasn't obvious is whether there was enough money in intermediating these as commercial transactions to make a business that would be interesting to VCs. (And, arguably, the current valuations of these businesses is higher than the market will ultimately support.)
Is that even true? I'm familiar with the recent story about everyone supposedly passing on AirBnB. But the real reason is that it was an odd way to try to raise that amount of money. When raising a few 100,000s pre-product you go to a much smaller circle, not cold-ish intros to "pros".
The main difference I see between bikes/pedestrians and cars/motorcycles is that there is minimal cost/effort to reverse and change your mind. So, on a bike or on foot, you can jaywalk or run a red light by slowly peeking out and making sure it's safe. If someone with the right of way is coming, you can simple stop and let them by. You absolutely can't do that with a car or motorcycle.
My general rule, as both biker and pedestrian, is to not get in the way of others who have the right of way. They shouldn't have to change course or worry about you. Most pedestrians (and plenty bikers too) are absolutely clueluess though. They don't look for bike lanes, they walk in the bikelanes, they jaywalk without looking if a bike (or car) is coming, they open car doors without looking, etc. I think this frustrates a lot of bikers, so they end up not caring and trying to ride through a crosswalk full of pedestrians and doing other asshole things, but I don't think that's the norm.
As a reasonable adult, I know I shouldn't jaywalk or run a red light because they are rules, but I have confidence via my senses that I can do that with absolute safety and respect for myself and others.
"is to not get in the way of others who have the right of way"
IMO that should be the rule for everyone :) The point I was trying to make was that often in these sorts of debates I see a lot of finger pointing between drivers & cyclists, with the cyclists saying, "Yeah, but we're more vulnerable - you all need to be more careful and allow us to do XYZ". But then they ignore that there's a third party who is even more vulnerable and often the behavior the cyclists propose increases danger to that third party.
"that I can do that with absolute safety and respect for myself and others."
As I said elsewhere in this thread, I'm AOK with people doing whatever they like in terms of traffic rules as long as it has zero impact on other people. Running red lights, jaywalking, etc - if no one is around, who cares? I jaywalk multiple times a day around the corner from my house - I live just off a busy main drag with very few crosswalks, so I just wait until there's a massive gap in the traffic on both sides and run across. OTOH I see people crossing that street all the time by just walking out and holding their hands up to signal to drivers that they should stop ... sorry, but no.
Sorry, but yes. In my state, crosswalks are legally defined to exist at every street corner whether or not they are painted lines. Furthermore, the obligation of drivers to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks starts when they step into the street and not a moment before. (Standing on the sidewalk means nothing even if there is a painted crosswalk). Stepping out into a safe gap in the curbside lane and expecting traffic to stop is legally prescribed behavior and is the behavior drivers should expect. And pedestrians should encourage drivers to expect that behavior by actually behaving that way.
I can't comment on the situation of writing code for useless features for bad managers. That is a separate mental hurdle.
But I think all of us sometimes struggle with sitting down and getting things done. When we have a bad day, it's because we struggled making decisions and didn't end up accomplishing very much in our own eyes. We're our own harshest critics.
One thing that I've realized (actually just in the last few days) is that you simply feel 10 times better at the end of the day if you write a lot of code, knock of tasks on the to-do list, and generally "get things done".
Knowing that diving in and doing hard things will make you feel good makes a huge difference for me. It's like "Ok, this might suck a little getting started, but it's what will actually make me feel good and happy." It's really easy to sit and think, or read the internet, but it's not a good feeling at the end of the day.
As far as wasting time, whenever I'm struggling coming up with an approach or solution to a problem, I start writing it down. It usually doesn't get too far just in my head. But if I map it out, write it out, I get back to working on it much faster. An inefficient solution that works gets you much closer to the final product than struggling to find that "perfect" solution right off the bat. Make it work, then optimize.
Full disclosure - it's not actually a 4-hour hackathon, but we're looking for mentors/programming experts to help out remotely, which can just be a few hours at a time.
All thoughts on the general idea would be awesome as well.
We aren't actually hiring anyone immediately, but we've hired a handful of great engineers from HN and inevitably will need to hire again. We've found having those conversations and keeping in touch is much better than going through the process from scratch each time, as it fast tracks the process a great deal when the time comes. So reach out if you think you're a good fit.
ReciPal is a profitable, growing, bootstrapped, and (have always been a) fully remote company (based in New York) with 6 full-time employees. We make simple software for food businesses - nutrition analysis and labeling, costing, and inventory management. We've been around for almost 15 years now!
You'd be working directly with me, solo founder, our senior engineers, and marketing and support colleagues, and hopefully take on a growing role over time to treat the business like your own. It's a very low key work environment, but independent and plenty of responsibility and ownership for the right person.
Stack includes Rails 8, JavaScript, Postgres, Heroku.
Full job description: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1At0_nQH5Vqvn3AQRjPLLUMi2...