Render has been a great heroku replacement. I thought I would miss the “add-ons marketplace” but it’s actually been fine. Costs are reasonable for our startup and they seemed to have fixed their odd Cloudflare downtimes of the past.
The world of CPG and food manufacturing is both fascinating and complex. Today, when a new food brand starts to take off (think “startup” but for something like a hot sauce), they spend 12-18 months establishing a partnership with a manufacturer to produce their product at scale. The pain point is so high, they typically pay consultants $60k to solve the problem. Our cofounder (former Dir of Ops @ Trader Joes) did this as a consultant and now we are turning her expertise into software. We are building a mix of a marketplace + Turbotax style functionality to bring automation and scalability to the industry. With great traction and paying customers, we just closed a $2M seed round.
We are now ready and excited to bring on our first engineer. As part of an early-stage company, you’ll have real and tangible impact on the business and our users. Along with our CTO, you will write code and ship product to a growing number of paying customers. We prioritize a developer-friendly environment by being remote first, having low infrastructure/configuration overhead, autonomy in your work, and getting rid of webpack. As with any startup, product requirements and direction can change. And we strive to always provide clarity around “what did we learn” + “how that changes our thinking”. We feel the added transparency and sense of ownership results in keeping us closer to our customers and delivers a better end product.
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Ideal requirements
* A love for Ruby on Rails
* Rspec or Minitest
* View Components
* Tailwind
* Hotwire (Turbo & Stimulus)
* Postgres
* Bonus: payments integration experience (like Stripe), accounting systems integration (like Quickbooks), or fintech experience (like lending)
We have a fully remote team and culture, including: home office setup stipend and optional bi-weekly in-person (Boston area) working days for local candidates.
Working at Rescale will just be a job, but we want it to be the best job you ever have. If you are excited to make real impact on a growing business, we’d love to chat with you.
I've chatted with many people through YC's co-founder matching [1] and found it to be one of the better concentrations of smart, resourceful, serious people. I actually started companies with two of them. Definitely recommend!
I pretty much have the same strategy. We mostly want to ensure that crucial functionality doesn’t break for users. Since we are moving fast, we try not to break things.
Ghost Inspector used to be my go to, but I’ve been looking for something in the $20-30 per month range. Makes it a much easier decision when we aren’t yet collecting much revenue.
You can use the "Make spoken audio from" and "play audio file" actions available to Shortcuts. I was able to get it to play from the Mac dock using this method.
We've also done this on our team (we labeled them lightning talks), and people really enjoyed them. It also helps to get to know one another on a slightly deeper, non-work way without crossing boundaries.
