dasickis

Comfreight | Long Beach, CA | Full-time | ONSITE | https://www.comfreight.com/

React/Javascript Engineer: https://angel.co/comfreight/jobs/375971-react-javascript-eng...

Comfreight is the fastest growing logistics fintech company. We help truckers pay day-to-day expenses through our digital factoring software. To help us accomplish our mission we have the best investors in Silicon Valley led by Initialized Capital.

You’ll be joining a small engineering team focused on the front-end and mobile experience. Our technology is responsible for processing millions of dollars of transactions per month. We have a large project we need to deploy before the end of summer and each of us is responsible for our piece from implementation to user support. You'll be involved with architecture, testing, and deployment as well as communicating the feature to our non-tech staff & helping our customers with support. We like people aspiring to be technical leaders.

We care about: your ability to communicate, your ability to think clearly about hard problems, your ability to prioritize & manage ambiguity, and how deeply you care about the details & your taste.

Tech Stack for UI: ReactJS & React Native Tech Stack for Backend: Python

Contact: praful@comfreight.com

Comfreight | Long Beach | Full-time | $100k - $120k | Software Engineer | https://www.comfreight.com/

ComFreight is the fastest growing logistics fintech company. We help truckers pay day-to-day expenses through our digital factoring software. To help us accomplish our mission we have the best investors in Silicon Valley, like Initialized Capital, backing us.

You’ll be joining a small engineering team focused on the front-end and mobile experience. Our technology is responsible processing millions of dollars of transactions every month. We have 6 large projects we need to deploy before the end of summer and each of us is responsible for the projects from start to deployment. You'll be involved with architecture, testing, and deployment as well as communicating the feature to our non-tech staff & associated support. We like people aspiring to be technical leaders.

We care about: your ability to communicate, your ability to think clearly about hard problems, your ability to prioritize & manage ambiguity, and how deeply you care about the details & your taste.

Qualifications - You know how to build features from architecture to deployment

- You have worked with time series data sets

- You have very strong opinions that result in good taste for software development

- You have experience with ReactJS and React Native

- You can deal with high levels of ambiguity involved with solving complex problems

Technologies we use: Python / Typescript / React / React Native / PostgreSQL / AWS / MongoDB

https://angel.co/comfreight/jobs/375971-full-stack-software-...

We had one before but the types of products varied so wildly the ultimate cost was different. Currently we capture all that data and give our final price which uses our calculator.

Though we'll discuss this issue and if it keeps coming up we'll act on it.

Generally we call inserts: marketing messages companies put in each shipment.

There's another material called dunnage i.e. fill that is placed such as air packs, bubble wrap, paper, cardboard, mushroom (yes a product made from mushrooms!), etc. are used to keep the product tight.

Another method is to use a smaller box which cuts down on both shipping costs as well as is a more secure way of securing products.

Shipwire is a fantastic company, however, their prices have been historically high and their customer support has lacked recently. Though their international warehouses are a huge boost to small companies that need that capability.

Our biggest differentiator is that we give you an upfront invoice and once you pay you'll never see a penny increase. Even your shipping is upfront (we're working on fixing it now as we speak).

No. Actually the amount has been increasing exponentially the last few years especially because of fast prototyping due to 3D printing and crowd funding. Additionally many of the new shippers have much different profiles than those before. Finally subscriptions have increased rapidly which is even more shipping.

The last trend is recycling subscriptions e.g. Le Tote which has increased the need for our service. (Le Tote is not a customer).

Shovels & Levis still seem to be doing well ;)

We do want to clarify, we can work with businesses ranging from a few hundred orders/ month all the way up to 100,000's of orders. The way our network is set up, we can easily scale up or down the fulfillment needs of our customers. We work with many young businesses today because they need help finding their first warehouse, but we also work with more advanced businesses too.

We do our best to be price competitive which is part of our pricing model. We never try to win on a price war but we're better in terms of pricing compared to both FBA & Shipwire.

Working with Pakible is phenomenal we've recommended all our customers who want custom boxes to use their service! And we already handle their fulfillment.

Amazon also has a very arcane fee structure. Our fees are guaranteed to be the final price you see on the page. We've developed our pricing model so we have confidence we can manage your account without any issues.

Additionally, you have more control of the process with us than Amazon.

This is Praful another co-founder of Shotput. Happy to answer any questions regarding tech or operations of our company and the fulfillment industry as a whole.

As former product entrepreneurs, we've experienced the head-rattling frustration of finding a warehouse. After talking with 100's of product companies, we saw their struggles as well. Surprisingly, there was no resource on how to actually do this... So we wrote one: How to Find Your First Warehouse (Without the Headache).

Full disclosure: Our company makes it really easy for product companies to outsource their fulfillment, reducing the process from a month to a matter of minutes. We are the only 3PL that offers guaranteed upfront pricing with no hidden fees surprising you later. We're able to do this with our warehouse API that gives us more transparency into our network of facilities.

Ultimately, we believe you should spend your time on what you do best (ie., product development, sales, etc., not necessarily fulfillment). We hope our guide can help aid and expedite your search.

Feel free to ask us any questions you have about fulfillment, we're happy to offer any advice or guidance.

My startup builds specialized autonomous vehicles for warehouses & factories but would be interested in experimenting in outdoor systems for agriculture.

I understand that John Deere and other companies have some amazing systems they've developed. Our goal is to produce vehicles that are easy to install, deploy, and low-cost.

4% for a company like Box is pretty consistent (maybe slightly higher).

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/10/14/understanding-...

Also, Google's team (mostly from Carnegie or it's off-shoot teams) has been working on the problem for more than a decade as they took the Stanford car which came from Thrun who came from CM.

The problem to go after initially is best conditions highway driving. Additionally, low-speed (<=20MPH) is reasonable challenge. Where things get tricky is building out a model for medium speed (30 - 40MPH) where there's pedestrians.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOSvpPZzGpo

Check out Navia: http://induct-technology.com/en/products/navia, they'll be deploying in Stanford soon.

We have a forum to discuss open source implementations of robotic cars: http://www.sherecar.org/, we got pretty bogged down with some development we're working on.

Or even a college which the average distance between any two people is 2 - 3 degrees. Additionally, this story is written from the perspective of Harry Potter so weaker ties won't be included as it doesn't advance the story.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-team/anatomy-of... -- "When we limit our analysis to a single country, be it the US, Sweden, Italy, or any other, we find that the world gets even smaller, and most pairs of people are only separated by 3 degrees"

I have access to servers in all the major trading rooms if you need to start deploying this to a production environment to start trading. Contact me at dasickis [at] gmail.com (I'll reply back from my non-filtered e-mail address)

Have you tried competitive programming sites or entered in competitions? Or does the general idea of competition motivate you? I've been thinking about this philosophically for the past few days.

Well I haven't created a community yet, but I've been working with some friends and we're starting to create this startup. Our plan is to first get our university involved and start marketing from there. I just want to know what kind of metrics are you looking for with the feedback and what would you be willing to pay for this type of service? I believe we can create the community with the right amount of effort. Once that's created what value would you like to see from this startup?