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OpenRent Founder - hn at openrent dot co dot uk
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dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies and one of the biggest UK websites by traffic. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 8 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Senior Full-Stack Engineer | Equity | 110k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies and one of the biggest UK websites by traffic. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 8 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Senior Full-Stack Engineer | Equity | 110k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies and one of the biggest UK websites by traffic. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 8 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Senior Full-Stack Engineer | Equity | 110k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies and one of the biggest UK websites by traffic. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 8 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Senior Full-Stack Engineer | Equity | 110k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 8 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Senior Full-Stack Engineer | Equity | 110k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus - Lead Product Designer | Equity | 110k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 8 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Lead Product Designer | Equity | 110k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

- Senior Full-Stack Engineer | Equity | 75k-110k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 8 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Lead Product Designer | Equity | 110k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

- Senior Full-Stack Engineer | Equity | 75k-110k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 8 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Lead Product Designer | Equity | 100k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

- Senior Full-Stack Engineer | Equity | 75k-110k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 8 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Senior UX/UI Developer | Equity | 100k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

- Senior Full-Stack Engineer | Equity | 75k-110k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun
Be great to have the same shot but in front of the moon. Photos would make a stunning pair!
dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 8 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Senior UX/UI Developer | Equity | 100k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

- Senior Full-Stack Engineer | Equity | 75k-110k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 7 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Senior UX/UI Developer | Equity | 100k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 7 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Senior UX/UI Developer | Equity | 100k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 7 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Senior UX/UI Developer | Equity | 100k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)
We aren't currently offering visa sponsorship for these roles I'm afraid. Good luck in your search!
dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 7 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Senior UX/UI Developer | Equity | 100k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

- Senior Full-Stack Engineer | Equity | 75k-110k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)
"Our platform supports a wide range of engines to ensure compatibility with your existing database setup."

Is there a list of DB Engines you support?

dazbradbury··on Revolut urges Meta to share cost of reimbursing fraud victims
"According to Revolut data, 69 per cent of scams that UK customers reported to the fintech in the first half of this year originated on Meta platforms"

That is a huge number. Facebook marketplace, I'd assume, is the main offender here. Surely there are better controls that Meta can put in place?

Does enforcing ad quality really degrade their advertising income that much? Surely it would bolster marketplace traffic if it wasn't seen as the new scam central (from Gumtree / Craigslist).

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 6 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- UX/UI Developer | Equity | 75k-100k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

- Head of Operations | Equity | £60-£80k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

- Customer Experience + Product Development | Equity | £30k + quarterly bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 6 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Front-end Developer / Designer | Equity | 75k-100k+ (based on experience) + quarterly bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Show HN: Turn any website into a knowledge base for LLMs
Nice! What's the underlying model / RAG approach being used? Be good to understand that part as presumably it will have a big impact on performance / usability of the results.
dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 6 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from machine learning models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Customer Experience and Product Development | Equity | £30k + quarterly bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 6 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from machine learning models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Head of Finance | Equity | £70-£100k + quarterly bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on A former Gizmodo writer changed name to 'Slackbot', stayed undetected for months
Presumably with SAML/SSO you can still change your slack display name and profile picture?
dazbradbury··on A former Gizmodo writer changed name to 'Slackbot', stayed undetected for months
The fact slack doesn't allow you to lock down name changes must be such a gaping security hole for big companies.

Change your name to the CEO, and profile image to match. Odds of people noticing the difference are extremely small until it's too late.

Changing to slackbot seems like small fry!

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)
Initial phone call and tech screen, product interview with my co-founder, technical interview with myself.
dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 6 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from machine learning models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Senior Web Designer | Equity | 75k-100k+ (based on experience) + Quarterly Bonus

- Senior Full Stack Engineer (C#) | Equity | £75k-£120k+ (based on experience) + Quarterly Bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 6 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from machine learning models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

Roles currently available:

- Senior DevOps Engineer | Equity | £100k+ (based on experience) + Quarterly Bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 6 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from machine learning models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

We have a bunch of roles available at the moment and keen to find great people like you!

- Senior DevOps Engineer | Equity | 75k-100k+ (based on experience) + Quarterly Bonus

- Senior Web Designer | Equity | 75k-100k+ (based on experience) + Quarterly Bonus

- Full Stack Engineer (C#) | Equity | £45k-£120k+ (based on experience) + Quarterly Bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

OpenRent is already impacting millions of tenants and landlords each year, join us and make every tenancy better than the last.

dazbradbury··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)
OpenRent | London, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE+PART REMOTE | https://www.openrent.co.uk

What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £50 billion worth of property, to over 6 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on solving every aspect of the rental journey, from machine learning models to predict the right price of a property, to building the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

We have a bunch of roles available at the moment and keen to find great people like you!

- Senior DevOps Engineer | Equity | 75k-100k+ (based on experience) + Quarterly Bonus

- Senior Web Designer | Equity | 75k-100k+ (based on experience) + Quarterly Bonus

- Full Stack Engineer (C#) | Equity | £45k-£120k+ (based on experience) + Quarterly Bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

OpenRent is already impacting millions of tenants and landlords each year, join us and make every tenancy better than the last.

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