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Comment by jbluepolarbear | Hacker News Reader

The pbs apps are made by OPB (Oregon public broadcasting) they’ve been a big partner of pbs for a long time.

The apps are really good and they try to keep relevant content and popular shows on the apps.

I work at PBS on one of the teams building these apps, and this has not been the case since I joined. PBS apps are maintained in house out of our Arlington headquarters, with most team members working fully remote during covid, but I fully appreciate you calling our apps good!

My youngest loves the games! I kinda like them too ...

I’m sorry for my mistake. I live in Oregon and I was led to believe that OPB was developing the Kids apps since they reached out to me about 2ish years ago for working on the games.

No worries! My apologies if I came off brash, you may have been right about the origins of the kids games. We're currently hiring for engineers to work on them!

https://www.pbs.org/about/careers/current-openings/?gnk=job&...

Quick question if you know the answer: is that position remote-friendly/where is it located? There doesn't seem to be any location info on that listing.

I'd love to answer that, but I honestly don't know.

I just had a phone screen with them last week! Remote is possible, but unlikely. Their office is next to the Crystal City metro station on the blue line.

Love the PBS app for my kid. He is using it right now :)

OPB is excellent. Oregon Field Guide is just so good. As a Seattle resident, I'm a bit jealous that Oregon has us beat with the outdoor programming. But a lot of their stories cross the state border. https://watch.opb.org/show/oregon-field-guide/

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