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amellin794··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
Laylo | Senior Front End Engineer | Remote USA (Office Based In Los Angeles)

Laylo is building a platform to connect content creators and artists with their biggest fans. We work with the world's largest record labels and brands to provide communication, marketing and messaging tools to content creators.

We're expanding our team to provide these tools to millions of creators around the world.

You will be taking on frontend responsibilities including: • Managing React / Next JS frontend • Using GraphQL APIs • Working together with our CEO inside of Figma to strategize and implement designs • Exploring/building new technologies to optimize frontend performance

We’re also looking for our first business hire to drive various initiatives.

If you’re excited about joining a 3-person team and helping creators connect with their fans email us at alec@laylo.com

Senior Front End Engineer: https://angel.co/company/laylo/jobs/500747-senior-frontend-e...

amellin794··on Launch HN: Laylo (YC S20) – Fan reminders for content, merchandise, and events
This is an awesome idea we hadn't thought of. What was the product? We'll reach out to the team!
amellin794··on Launch HN: Laylo (YC S20) – Fan reminders for content, merchandise, and events
Thanks! Linkfire is definitely an inspiration for us and our goal is to build a suite of tools for fan identification, monetization, and communication.

We hope that by building for a wide array of creators and continuing to expand the toolset we can differentiate ourselves from some of the established products.

amellin794··on Launch HN: Laylo (YC S20) – Fan reminders for content, merchandise, and events
That's an awesome idea, can't wait to hear how that goes!
amellin794··on Launch HN: Laylo (YC S20) – Fan reminders for content, merchandise, and events
Thanks! We’re all based in LA (unfortunately remotely for the time being)
amellin794··on Launch HN: Laylo (YC S20) – Fan reminders for content, merchandise, and events
Thanks and would love to hear more! We’re just getting started and it would be great to see what issues we could solved for you
amellin794··on Launch HN: Laylo (YC S20) – Fan reminders for content, merchandise, and events
Yep we’re not competing with multiple link tools / presaves. We’re focused on the marketing and notification side. For a creator those tools don’t help your fans actually remember your future content they only link out to the content once it’s available.
amellin794··on Launch HN: Laylo (YC S20) – Fan reminders for content, merchandise, and events
Thanks Ben!
amellin794··on Launch HN: Laylo (YC S20) – Fan reminders for content, merchandise, and events
Thanks!
amellin794··on Launch HN: Laylo (YC S20) – Fan reminders for content, merchandise, and events
Appreciate the advice. We’re working to get to more YouTubers and Gamers for the exact reason you mentioned. If you know anyone in the space send them our way!
amellin794··on Launch HN: Laylo (YC S20) – Fan reminders for content, merchandise, and events
Thanks!

After talking to a ton of creators, we found that most of them don’t have or maintain a website so they wanted a simple solution. We’ve also built in the notification, marketing and messaging tools so that there’s very little work on the creator side.

We do have some requests for an embedable widget which is definitely on our list for upcoming features.

amellin794··on Launch HN: Yotta Savings (YC S20) – Behavioral psychology to help people save
One of those brilliantly simple ideas, I'm already in for 10 tickets and have shared it with a bunch of friends.