I think this can be reduced down to simply:
"We are a well funded YC11 company using Objective-C, Core Data, Postgres, and Node looking to hire in SF. We can pay relocation if needed".
The rest is to much cliche.
"We are a well funded YC11 company using Objective-C, Core Data, Postgres, and Node looking to hire in SF. We can pay relocation if needed".
The rest is to much cliche.
The problem is, that's below the care threshold for wide swaths of the audience they're hoping to attract. You're hiring developers? So what, everyone's hiring developers these days.
As a startup, it's also unlikely that you can win a bidding war, so avoid that dimension. Where startups can often succeed is in the "moral payoff" - are you building something I care about and want to be part of? Startups have a giant advantage there compared to a company that needs you to add a new feature to their in-house order fulfillment software.
Unfortunately, you've set that axis to zero if you start going on about "hard problems" and never ever reveal who you are or what you're building.
See also the previous post by the same user which is completely vague, while the current post at least gets as far as "probably some SaaS / iOS app."
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3580917
I wonder that YC doesn't include an hour session on "how to write a job post that your target audience won't classify as spam."
Just posted an "Ask PG" on that.