Fastest-growing YC S11 startup (3M monthly uniques) looking for 1st employee

We are the fastest-growing YC company in this summer’s batch – we already get 3M unique visitors / month, and we’re growing like crazy: http://i.imgur.com/He6qS.png (DOES THIS REMIND YOU OF ANY SPORTING EQUIPMENT??!)

We were also voted 4th most-likely to succeed out of 63 companies by our peers at “prototype day” earlier this summer.

Right now it’s just the 3 founders (we’ve been working on the site for about 2 years), and we’re we’re looking for a brilliant hacker to be employee #1. If you join us, you’ll get a very real stake in the company (>= 3%)

We want someone who can start contributing soon without a lot of hand-holding. So you’ll probably need to be good with the following technologies:

  - Ruby on Rails
  - Javascript (we use jQuery)

Here are some other technologies we use in case they sound interesting, but you can probably pick them up on the job:

  - Git
  - Heroku
  - SCSS
  - Facebook API
  - Twitter API
  - Coffeescript? (We don’t use it yet, but I’m down!)

But this isn’t like being a programmer at a big company (or even a "startup within a big company"). We need someone who loves to program, and who is great at it, but who views programming as a means the end of SHIPPING A GREAT PRODUCT AND MAKING OUR USERS HAPPY. This means that you should be comfortable with non-programming tasks if the need arises. For example:

  - Designing features (on paper, in Balsamiq, whatever)
  - Talking to users (you MUST be a good writer)
  - Extracting useful info out of analytics data.

We can’t reveal who we are because we haven’t yet announced our YC funding. We’ll let promising candidates know who we are over email, but we can say that:

  1) The product is consumer-facing. There’s a decent chance
     you’ve heard of us (we’ve appeared on the HN
     front page before)
  2) It’s music-related (so if you’re a music fan,
     that’s a plus)
  3) It runs on crowd-sourcing, game dynamics, and
     reputation systems (I copied freely from StackOverflow,      
     so if you’re familiar with SO, that’s a plus)

IF YOU’RE INTERESTED, PLEASE SEND THE FOLLOWING TO HUGEMEME@GMAIL.COM:

  - Name
  - Location (we are flexible, but it would be great if
    you lived in Northern CA, NYC, or were willing to relocate)
  - Educational background
  - Most recent job
  - A little bit about your technical background,
    including something brief about what you like and   
    dislike about the technologies you’ve used
  - What have you built online that you’re proud of? This
    is the most important. I’m interested in open source
    contributions, weekend projects, your own start up, 
    whatever. I’m most interested in projects where you did 
    everything start to finish. So a beautifully-written 
    Ruby module is less impressive to me than the end-to-end 
    implementation of a cool web app (Back end, front end, 
    contracting with a designer, marketing, etc)
  - Something that proves you can write. Ideally you could 
    link me to some of your best blog posts
  - Your accounts at: twitter, github, stackoverflow, 
    quora, youtube