At that size, share everything. But also share all realistic outcomes, including what failure cases might look like. It's more about earning trust than "pumping" anyone up.
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https://blog.battlesnake.com/deploying-web-servers-for-free-...
It's really a shame, given how much we've relied on Heroku free tiers to lower barriers fr all.
Anything that gets more folks coding, especially at non-beginner levels, is a huge win imo. Congrats on the launch!
What we've learned so far is that playing against multiple snakes, especially AI/ML driven snakes, adds an incredible amount of complexity to the game and the top ranked snakes tend switch around quite a bit as players adjust to attack/defend specific strategies.
If anyone has formal theory around this sort of problem, we'd love to investigate further.
https://github.com/battlesnakeio/community/blob/master/start...
We have an office there and our team maintains a city-wide startup listing + job board:
I think it's more interesting to see how Canadian founders can shape these sorts of policies over the next 5-10 years, and this is a great starting point.
Would love to see Asana/Hackpad support soon.
At our core, Sendwithus is a simple and highly scalable REST API to manage and send templated emails in real-time. Our API powers millions of emails each day.
We believe in product experience above all else and use continuous customer feedback to drive all product development. Our customers are hackers, marketers, startups, and enterprises alike – and we like it that way.
We're a close-knit and passionate team of 10, with offices in San Francisco and Victoria.
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Lead Engineer, Frontend - competitive salary, equity options
We're looking for an experienced frontend web developer to help architect and lead our customer facing applications.
You'll be responsible for architecture and technical design of all user facing applications, including our primary UI (the sendwithus dashboard), landing pages, and other public resources.
This is not a content or design role; this is a high-impact, high-ownership technical opportunity. You'll be leading our frontend team and working closely with our product team to ensure everything runs smooth and looks great.
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Engineer #6 (Full-stack, Python/Django) - competitive salary, equity options
You'll be working with our engineering team to implement new API features, and keep things running smoothly.
We deal with very large amounts of data every day, and our systems are constantly evolving as we solve new and more challenging problems.
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Email jobs@sendwithus.com to chat about either role.
I loved being instantly put into a game. I was able to immediately recognize that I was on a team and dive face first into the battle.
Sure, the controls and hit detection are a bit flakey, but experiencing this for the first time was a lot of fun. Great job :)
We're looking for an experienced front-end tech lead. We offer competitive salaries and generous employee equity.
At its core, Sendwithus is an API to send templated transactional emails. Our customers are in our web app daily, exploring analytics, handling customer support, and building new customer experiences.
We have offices in SF and Victoria. Our product engineering and customer support team, currently 7 people, operate out of Victoria. Candidates should be willing to spend at least six months working out of our Canadian office.
To apply, email jobs at sendwithus dot com introducing yourself.
Any advice on migration process? Transferring a high write-throughput postgres instance to a multi-pg deployment with pg_shard feels pretty daunting.
I've seen a lot of companies roll their own API "Explorers" too: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/tools/console https://developers.facebook.com/tools/ http://products.wolframalpha.com/api/explorer.html
As well as generic Rest API Explorers: http://www.getpostman.com/
The major selling point for us is it's incoming Webhook API.
We use it to communicate deployment status, major customer events, and general fun & hilarity (/giphy).
Email (especially transactional email) should be an extension of your product, owned by creative and ambitious product teams - that's what Sendwithus enables.