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aklarfeld··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)
Supergood | Engineering | In-person, San Francisco | Full-Time | https://supergood.ai

Supergood generates and maintains unofficial APIs for products without them. Our customers use our APIs to unlock new customers of their own, and build previously inconceivable features without flaky browser automation nor engineering overhead.

Supergood does this by combining our AI-powered product that automates reverse-engineering, with our in-house observability platform to ensure that every API we generate is reliable, robust and consistently maintained.

We've raised $4mm in seed funding from top operators including Max & Nellie Levchin (CEO/Founder Affirm + Paypal) and Zach Perret (CEO of Plaid).

We are looking for full-stack and customer-facing engineers to build new integrations on our platform, support our customers and come up with new and creative ways to showcase our product.

To apply shoot me an email alex @ supergood.ai

aklarfeld··on Exponent: A collaborative AI programming agent
Extremely cool product - I'm excited to get early access!
aklarfeld··on Launch HN: Nimbus (YC W22) – Cloud dev environments for teams
This is awesome - congrats on the launch!!!
aklarfeld··on Show HN: I built a fun video meeting app with 2D physics and proximity chat
This is absolutely awesome. As someone who has used Gather a bit, this blows it out of the water. Incredibly intuitive and fun way to move around and talk to your friends and coworkers. Once you realize that you don't need, nor want, the 8-bit paradigm to interact with folks, Flat.social clearly becomes the superior way to interact virtually.
aklarfeld··on Show HN: I love FitnessSF, but I hate their mobile app
Oh shoot - good catch. I'll fix it. Hope it helps!
aklarfeld··on Show HN: I love FitnessSF, but I hate their mobile app
Yes! I was doing this for awhile, but I am extremely lazy and didn't want to dig through my photos to find the screenshot. Plus, I wanted to tag in on my apple watch.

I encoded all the lat/longs of the FitnessSF locations into the Mobile Pass, so it'll just pop up on your phone when you're nearby. Saves me precious seconds :)

You're right the QR code doesn't change - neither does the mobile pass! You just have to generate the mobile pass once and never visit my silly website again.

aklarfeld··on Show HN: I love FitnessSF, but I hate their mobile app
Thank you! I agree, very niche, but I figured if there's even one other person that would appreciate it, it'd be worthwhile. I'm enjoying my workaround!
aklarfeld··on Show HN: I love FitnessSF, but I hate their mobile app
I was doing this too! But as a true millennial I had two complaints:

1. I still had to load the photo app when I approached the gym, which annoyed me. The lat/long encoded in the mobile pass just has it pop up when I'm nearby.

2. I wanted to be able to leave my phone at home and just use my apple watch.

Additionally, the code never changes so you never have to update the mobile pass or visit my dumb website again.

aklarfeld··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)
divvyhomes.com | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite

Divvy is helping families achieve the dream of home ownership. Customers choose any home on the market, we buy it, and then lease to them. With each monthly payment, the customer accumulates equity in the home. At the end of the lease term, our goal is for the customer to accumulate enough equity for a down payment.

Where does software fit into all this? We build software for every piece of the home buying process, from initial application to putting out offers and all the way to helping our customers maintain the home.

If you're someone who thrives on solving operationally complex problems, please reach out!

Hiring Data Scientists, Generalist Engineers and Front-end Engineers!

https://jobs.lever.co/divvyhomes

aklarfeld··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)
divvyhomes.com | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite

Divvy Homes is helping families achieve the dream of home ownership. Customers choose any home on the market, we buy it, and then lease to them. With each monthly payment, the customer accumulates equity in the home. At the end of the lease term, our goal is for the customer to accumulate enough equity for a down payment.

Where does software fit into all this? We build software for every piece of the home buying process, from initial application to putting out offers and all the way to helping our customers maintain the home.

If you're someone who thrives on solving operationally complex problems, please reach out!

Hiring Data Scientists, Generalist Engineers and Front-end Engineers!

https://jobs.lever.co/divvyhomes

aklarfeld··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)
Divvy Homes | Sr. Software Engineer (full-stack) | (ONSITE) San Francisco, CA | www.divvyhomes.com

The Gist

At Divvy, we're helping renters become homeowners by letting our customers buy back pieces of their home over time. Our goal is for our customers to accrue enough equity in their homes to use as a down payment for a traditional mortgage.

The Company

Over the past year, we’ve worked hard to build an exceptional team, raise over $30 million in funding, and provide homes for dozens of families, meaningfully changing their financial future. Our customers choose any home for sale, and Divvy buys it on their behalf. The customer leases the home back from us while building equity credits along the way, preparing to buy the home at the end of their lease. Our customers get to live in their future home today, while buying fractions of the home over time.

The Job

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer passionate about using their creativity and talent to make access to homeownership more accessible. In this role, you’ll be part of the engineering team building our consumer, agent and administrative products. At Divvy, you’ll own your projects from start to finish and help to scale our platform to thousands of new applicants and multiple new markets. You’ll report directly to Divvy’s CTO and work alongside a team of 3-5 software engineers.

Apply directly at: https://angel.co/divvy-homes/jobs/375496-software-engineer-f....

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me directly at alex (at) divvyhomes.com !

aklarfeld··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)
Divvy Homes | Sr. Software Engineer (full-stack) | (ONSITE) San Francisco, CA | www.divvyhomes.com

The Company

At Divvy, we’re on a bold mission to reinvent homeownership. We fractionalize residential real estate to make it more affordable, more flexible, and a better fit for our customers’ lives.

Over the past year, we’ve worked hard to build an exceptional team, raise over $30 million in funding, and provide homes for dozens of families, meaningfully changing their financial future. Our customers choose any home for sale, and Divvy buys it on their behalf. The customer leases the home back from us while building equity credits along the way, preparing to buy the home at the end of their lease. Our customers get to live in their future home today, while buying fractions of the home over time.

The Job

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer passionate about using their creativity and talent to make access to homeownership more accessible. In this role, you’ll be part of the engineering team building our consumer, agent and administrative products. At Divvy, you’ll own your projects from start to finish and help to scale our platform to thousands of new applicants and multiple new markets. You’ll report directly to Divvy’s CTO and work alongside a team of 3-5 software engineers.

Apply directly at: https://angel.co/divvy-homes/jobs/375496-software-engineer-f...

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me directly at alex (at) divvyhomes.com !

aklarfeld··on Snarky: A new programming language for verifiable computation
Very informative and exciting technology!
aklarfeld··on Implementing Malloc: Students and Systems Programming [pdf]
It was because of this assignment that I witnessed a grown man cry.
aklarfeld··on Why Are People Still Playing Ultima Online?
UO took over much of my life as a youth. I still have yet to discover a game that has the depth that was found in UO. Every once in awhile I find myself playing on the free shards. The complete customization of everything was what really intrigued me. You could buy a house. You were able to permanently impact the game landscape with this house - you controlled a piece of the game! This concept blew my mind. The economy was also incredibly complicated. I remembering being a part of a player-run auction guild. It was essentially a part time job. I had to build relationships with people in order to secure this job - just like real life.
aklarfeld··on MemSQL Launches Unlimited Community Edition
This is way cool. Already spinning it up on my AWS clusters. Such a quick setup. Super stoked to us it.
aklarfeld··on Michael Stonebraker wins Turing Award
His newest venture Tamr, is also really interesting. Unifying data with Machine Learning and Human input. I recommend keeping an eye on this one.

www.tamr.com

aklarfeld··on The World's First Backpack Electric Vehicle
This is a pretty novel concept. The current electric skateboard competitors currently on the market are extremely bulky, heavy and sometimes difficult to maneuver. The Z-Board's are the first ones that come to mind, though there are many other cheaper alternatives.

Though, according to their Kickstarter page, they're planning on retailing for ~$2000 a board. This is at least twice as much as their competitors. This seems pretty high to me, unless they're planning on dropping the cost as they iterate on new designs.

I could also be completely off and convenience like this is actually worth much more than I'd expect.

aklarfeld··on Bitbookie: Parimutuel Bitcoin Sports Betting
This is really awesome.

I'm really interested to see how the 'no cut' ideology helps circumvent the stupidly strict USA gambling laws.