nice post! startup-within-a-startup is always tough, but it seems like making the team as much like a startup as possible (in every way) is the right approach.
Appreciate it Max! We definitely had some challenges initially, but going into full startup mode helped us get way deeper with users and iterate more quickly
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Congrats on the launch! What's the minimum number of support agents do companies need to have before you're a good fit for them? Or how do you think about what a qualified customer looks like?
Thanks, and that's a great question! We're targeting companies with 10 or more support agents. More generally, we're best for companies who are starting to see some amount of complexity in their customer support. Some examples include: if you're launching phone/chat/realtime support, if you have multiple specializations in your support team, if you're extending hours to the weekends.
Most smaller teams can get away with 9am-5pm weekday support for quite a while. However, once you have enough volume where you need to start staffing weekends or staffing earlier/later in the day, it becomes a lot harder to manage your team and that's where Assembled comes in.
Dover is building the first truly modern recruiting agency. We help some of the fastest growing companies hire the best talent for their open roles.
The Dover engineering team is small but incredibly effective. We value productivity over face-time, action over inaction, and focus over feature creep.
As one of our first few engineers, you'll have a massive level of ownership over our engineering culture, end-to-end ownership over the systems that you build, and influence on product direction.
At the core of what we're building is a simple question—"is person X a good fit for job Y"—but doing this well is challenging, requiring a combination of large-scale data scraping, aggregation and processing. We pride ourselves in automating things nobody thought possible.
We primarily code in Python, with some occasional JavaScript. We leverage Kubernetes heavily for our orchestration and deployment. We also make extensive use of Google Cloud, Docker, Postgres, Mongo, and ElasticSearch within our infrastructure.
You're a full-stack or backend engineer with 3+ years of software experience at one or more companies with a strong engineering culture. You're ready to be an individual contributor, design and build sophisticated systems quickly, and work in a fast-paced environment.
Today, one in four Americans interact with Pixlee-managed content before making online purchase decisions. Pixlee offers a unique opportunity to thrive and grow rapidly at a global scale in a small-team startup environment. Our customers are some of the largest brands in the world and everything you do here affects millions of consumers.
Totally agree. We have a lot of builders on the platform already. We started with founders because that's the community we know best, but it's pretty easy to expand it to to all sorts of makers, builders, future founders--generally ambitious people.
... appears not. People can still pose as others. You'd think they'd care a bit more about security after the hack in June. I recommend against using typeform for this reason.
We are Typeform's security team and we want to let you know that we are aware of this issue and are actively working on finding a solution. This is a core functionality of the platform, and we need time to find the best solution without breaking the user experience.
We take security seriously and we review every single report we get to try to find the best possible solution.
HN really needs to add a note next to the email field: “Only you and HN admins can see this.” Put any info you want publicly visible into the about field.
No. That is the link that does not load.
Also cannot see your email in your profile. Perhaps not enough karma on my side? I know I shouldnt have kicked that cute puppy!!!
It's insane. One of our core hypotheses is that a lot of people in SF don't want/need to rent out their rooms for a profit. They'd rather just meet and host particularly awesome people.
> One of our core hypotheses is that a lot of people in SF don't want/need to rent out their rooms for a profit. They'd rather just meet and host particularly awesome people.
hmmm, I think "a lot of people" referred to above is actually the group of startup founders with a room to rent? In which case probably not a lot per se?
Is this a side project or a product? If it's a product it doesn't seem like it will "scale" (sorry to use that lingo).
Yeah, that's definitely a concern we've heard. We're starting with startup founders because that's a niche we know well, but it can work for any frequently traveling professional.
There's a big tailwind for more people traveling for work and working remotely, and staying 1+ weeks in a hotel/Airbnb is prohibitively expensive. There are startups working on solving this by creating their own custom spaces, but we know tons of people who just leave their room unoccupied because they don't want to deal with minor hassles like key exchange, cleanings, making sure the temporary visitors get along with roommates, etc. We think solving all that will open up a massive new supply of short to medium term housing.
Yes! We are alpha testing other locations and have around 25 homes between NYC, Boston, LA, and abroad. You can fill out the form and mention the city you'd like to go to in the freeform question, and we'll contact you!
