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Co-founder & CTO, Mixmax
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bradavogel··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)
Mixmax | Full-Stack Engineer | San Francisco (ONSITE, visa transfers & relocation available) | https://mixmax.com

We're a growing, fast-moving team looking for a full-stack engineer to join us!

Mixmax’s mission is to do the impossible with email. We're a passionate team of engineers and designers that believe everything you do today on the web should be possible in any email. We launched a Gmail plugin earlier this year that brings interactive content to email and it's been a huge success. Already tens of thousands of customers depend on us for their daily productivity. We have an A++ list of investors that previously backed companies like Twitter, Heroku, Lyft & Square. We have big plans ahead - come build with us!

An incredibly mission-driven, diverse and fun-loving team; we value personal and professional growth equally and have built multi-million dollar products together in the past. We're based in downtown SF.

Our stack: Node, Express, Meteor, Redis, Mongo, Handlebars, AWS.

Email hello@mixmax.com and let’s grab coffee! Try out the product (for free!) at mixmax.com.

bradavogel··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)
Mixmax | Full-Stack Engineer | San Francisco (ONSITE, visa transfers & relocation available) | https://mixmax.com

We're a growing, fast-moving team looking for a full-stack engineer to join us!

Mixmax’s mission is to do the impossible with email. We're a team of former Apple, Google, and Skype engineers/PMs/designers that believe everything you do today on the web should be possible in any email. We launched a Gmail plugin earlier this year that brings interactive content to email and it's been a huge success. Already tens of thousands of customers depend on us for their daily productivity. We have an A++ list of investors that previously backed companies like Twitter, Heroku, Lyft & Square. We have big plans ahead - come build with us!

An incredibly mission-driven, diverse and fun-loving team; we value personal and professional growth equally and have built multi-million dollar products together in the past. We're based in downtown SF.

Our stack: Node.js Express, Meteor, Redis, Mongo, Handlebars, AWS. Moving to: React, hapi, ES6, RethinkDB, Docker.

Try out Mixmax today at mixmax.com, we promise that you'll be impressed :). Email hello@mixmax.com and let’s grab coffee!

bradavogel··on Command-line for your email
Right on! Thanks for the feedback and hope you enjoy Mixmax.
bradavogel··on Ask HN: Best tools for scheduling emails with gmail?
I highly recommend Mixmax (admittedly biased; co-founder here :-P). It offers a ton of free features beyond just scheduling emails. You also get unlimited email tracking for free and can put message enhancements in your email (things like link previews, polls, surveys, meeting invites).
bradavogel··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)
Mixmax | Web or Cloud Engineer | San Francisco | https://mixmax.com

We're a growing, tight-knit team looking for a full-stack engineer.

Mixmax’s mission is to do the impossible with email. We believe everything you do today on the web should be possible in any email. We launched a Gmail plugin earlier this year that brings interactive content to email and it's been a huge success. Already tens of thousands of customers depend on us for their daily productivity. We have an A++ list of investors that previously backed companies like Twitter, Heroku, Lyft & Square. We have big plans ahead - come build with us!

An incredibly mission-driven, diverse and fun-loving team; we value personal and professional growth equally and have built multi-million dollar products together in the past. We're based in downtown SF. Stack: Node.js microservices archicture, Express, Meteor, Redis, Mongo, (isomorphic) Handlebars, AWS. Moving to: React, Hapi, ES6, RethinkDB, Docker.

Check us out at mixmax.com. Email hello@mixmax.com and let’s grab coffee!

bradavogel··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
Mixmax | Web or Cloud Engineer | San Francisco | https://mixmax.com

We're a growing, tight-knit team looking for a full-stack engineer.

Mixmax’s mission is to do the impossible with email. We believe everything you do today on the web should be possible in any email. We launched a Gmail plugin earlier this year that brings interactive content to email and it's been a huge success. Already thousands of customers depend on us for their daily productivity. We have an A++ list of investors that previously backed companies like Twitter, Heroku, Lyft & Square. We have big plans ahead - come build with us!

We’re an incredibly mission-driven, diverse and fun-loving team. We value personal and professional growth equally and have built multi-million dollar products together in the past. We're based in downtown SF.

Stack: Node.js microservices archicture, Express, Meteor, Redis, Mongo, (isomorphic) Handlebars, AWS. Moving to: React, Hapi, ES6 transpilation, RethinkDB, Docker.

Check us out at mixmax.com. Email hello@mixmax.com and let’s grab coffee!

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bradavogel··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)
Mixmax | Web or Cloud Engineer | San Francisco | https://mixmax.com

We're a growing, tight-knit team looking for a full-stack engineer.

Mixmax’s mission is to do the impossible with email. We believe everything you do today on the web should be possible in any email. We launched a Gmail plugin earlier this year that brings apps (interactive content and workflows) to Gmail and it's been a huge success. Here's our Twitter wall of love - https://twitter.com/MixmaxHQ/timelines/560278179810533376 - and we recently won at Launch Festival (http://www.launchfestival.com/). Already thousands of customers depend on us for their daily productivity. We have an A++ list of investors that previously backed companies like Twitter, Heroku, Lyft & Square.

We’re an incredibly mission-driven, diverse and fun-loving team. We value personal and professional growth equally and have built multi-million dollar products together in the past. We're based in downtown SF.

Stack: Node.js, Express, Meteor, Redis, Mongo, Handlebars, AWS

Check us out at mixmax.com. Email hello@mixmax.com and let’s grab coffee!

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bradavogel··on Moving off Meteor improved our load time by 87%
Yes, implement server-side rendering, tracked here in Meteor's tracker: https://trello.com/c/Lz07fBAm/7-server-side-rendering

Meteor is almost there. It's inherently isomorphic and its Blaze templating engine (a fork of Handlebars) can run both server and client side. They just need an easy way to render those templates from routes defined on the server side.

bradavogel··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)
Mixmax | Web or Cloud Engineer | San Francisco | https://mixmax.com

We're a growing, tight-knit team looking for a full-stack engineer.

Mixmax is a communications platform that brings the power of the web to email. With Mixmax, anyone can build an interactive app that works in all email clients. We’re 8 months old, launched a Gmail add-on a couple of months ago and are growing extremely fast. Here's our Twitter wall of love - https://twitter.com/MixmaxHQ/timelines/560278179810533376 - and we recently won at Launch Festival - http://www.launchfestival.com/. Already thousands of customers depend on us for their daily productivity. We have an A++ list of investors that previously backed companies like Twitter, Heroku, Lyft & Square.

We’re an incredibly mission-driven, diverse and fun-loving team. We value personal and professional growth equally and have built multi-million dollar products together in the past. We're based in downtown SF.

Current tech stack: Node.js, Express, Meteor, Redis, Mongo, Handlebars

Check us out at mixmax.com. Email hello@mixmax.com and let’s grab coffee!

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    / /\/ '_ \| __/ _ \ '__/ _` |/ __| __| \ \ / / _ \  /_\| '_ ` _ \ / _` | | |
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bradavogel··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)
Mixmax | Web or Cloud Engineer | San Francisco | https://mixmax.com

We're a growing, tight-knit team looking for a full-stack engineer.

Mixmax is a communications platform that brings the power of the web to email. With Mixmax, anyone can build an interactive app that works in all email clients. We’re 8 months old, launched a Gmail add-on a couple of months ago and are growing extremely fast. Here's our Twitter wall of love - https://twitter.com/MixmaxHQ/timelines/560278179810533376 - and we recently won at Launch Festival - http://www.launchfestival.com/. Already thousands of customers depend on us for their daily productivity. We have an A++ list of investors that previously backed companies like Twitter, Heroku, Lyft & Square.

We’re an incredibly mission-driven, diverse and fun-loving team. We value personal and professional growth equally and have built multi-million dollar products together in the past. We're based in downtown SF.

Current tech stack: Node.js, Express, Meteor, Redis, Mongo, Handlebars

Check us out at mixmax.com. Email hello@mixmax.com and let’s grab coffee!

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    / /\/ '_ \| __/ _ \ '__/ _` |/ __| __| \ \ / / _ \  /_\| '_ ` _ \ / _` | | |
 /\/ /_ | | | | ||  __/ | | (_| | (__| |_| |\ V /  __/ //__| | | | | | (_| | | |
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bradavogel··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)
We use Meteor for our actual application. Download the Chrome Extension (linked from mixmax.com) and poke around the source of the iframes that get injected in gmail :).
bradavogel··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)
Mixmax | Founding Engineer or intern | San Francisco | https://mixmax.com

We're a small team looking for a founding full-stack engineer.

Mixmax is a communications platform that brings the power of the web to email. With Mixmax, anyone can build an interactive app that works both on web/mobile and in email. We’re 7 months old, launched a Gmail add-on just last month and are growing extremely fast. Already thousands of customers depend on us for their daily productivity. We have an A++ list of investors that previously backed companies like Twitter, Heroku, Lyft & Square.

We’re an incredibly mission-driven, diverse and fun-loving team. We value personal and professional growth equally and have built multi-million dollar products together in the past. We're based in downtown SF.

Current tech stack: Node.js, Express, Meteor, Redis, Mongo, Handlebars

Check us out at mixmax.com. Email hello@mixmax.com and let’s grab coffee!

bradavogel··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)
Mixmax | Founding Engineer or intern | San Francisco | https://mixmax.com

We're a small team looking for a founding engineer.

At Mixmax, our mission is to do the impossible with email: to make it as rich, interactive, and developer-friendly as the web. We’re looking for a senior, full stack engineer to bring email into the future. See for http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/01/13/mixmax-takes-sending-e... for the first version of our product. See http://blog.modulus.io/mix-max for a company overview.

You’ll be working closely with our expert team to build Mixmax, from its core infrastructure to its custom front end. This includes architecting systems to integrate with external services, building a full-featured web editor, and choreographing email systems and protocols. We’ll leave it largely up to you to evolve the stack as you see fit. We eagerly participate in open source development and will encourage you to do the same.

Current tech stack: Node.js, Meteor, Redis, Express, Mongo, Kue, Handlebars

Email: hello@mixmax.com and let’s grab coffee!

bradavogel··on Turn email into a code editor
Sharp eye on the easter egg ;). Interested in working with us on making email awesome? mixmax.com/careers
bradavogel··on Turn email into a code editor
Mixmax supports pasting Gists too! https://mixmax.com/blog/github-email-how-to-embed-gists-in-g...
bradavogel··on Sending Gists in Gmail
Yup! That's what we're working on a Mixmax - an SDK that makes embedding rich interactivity in email easy. Best of all, there is nothing proprietary about the HTML email it produces. We hope to have our SDK standard adopted by other mail clients also. Stay up to date with our progress at mixmax.com/blog
bradavogel··on Sending Gists in Gmail
It's very common to send snippets directly in email. Here's an example https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/meteor-talk/IL-I1KBA...

Mixmax is a more general email "apps" platform, so expect to see many more "apps" like this on the way. Today you can send polls, Q&A surveys, tables, slideshows and more, directly in email.

bradavogel··on Gmail just broke every Chrome extension. Here’s how we fixed ours
Awesome, thanks!
bradavogel··on Gmail just broke every Chrome extension. Here’s how we fixed ours
Thanks for the thoughtful writeup and great work on Streak. We're big fans. You're also fortunate you were notified by the Gmail team!

On the content_security_policy property in the manifest file, thanks for pointing that out. The documentation is a bit ambiguous: "In general, CSP works as a black/whitelisting mechanism for resources loaded or executed by your extensions." I'll can revise our post.

I'd rather not eval the script contents since we lose the ability to get stack traces.

bradavogel··on Temporary, Disposable Phone Numbers
anddd pulled off the app store already. Anyone know what happened?
bradavogel··on The guy who wrote AOL Mail, Jay Levitt, just died. So long Jay.
Sad. Jay was my old neighbor in Fairfax, VA. Awesome guy.

What was the cause of death?

bradavogel··on ParseIntimate, a Valentine's Day site about JavaScript's parseInt quirkiness.
This was fixed in webkit already - http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/103922.
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