Not sure if you saw this, but Culdesac is a YC company (S18), which probably explains the “founder” nomenclature.
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Prisma is different. It’s absolutely got rough edges, but the extremely strong type safety makes Sequelize look like a joke. The query engine itself, written in rust, combines and optimizes queries inside every tick of the event loop so GraphQL N+1 issues are a thing of the past.
Also, the team and community behind it are amazing! I never thought having an active dev community behind an ORM would be important, but as the author of Sequelize-Typescript was forced to abandon it late last year and the author of TypeORM was also pretty much absent, Prisma was a breath of fresh air. I REALLY hope they can find a way to build a sustainable business out of it. Support packages, feature development contracts, something to keep them financially incentivized to keep making it better.
Happy to answer any questions about my experience using it if anyone has any.
Hey HN, we're Noah and Dick. We founded Chums (www.chums.co) to help you recommend products to your friends and have more fun shopping online. A lot of people ask their friends for advice when they're shopping. We think this can be more fun and we think your friends can help you find the right product, especially during COVID when we're stuck at home.
Our team is small right now (CEO, 2 engineers, and product manager). We're looking for another engineer to help us build out our web presence and chrome extension. We're also looking for a full time designer who loves designing products from the ground up.
About you:
- driven by ownership
- comfortable with the fast pace of a 6-month old startup
- data-driven and willing to experiment
- 2+ years experience
- bonus: work experience on a social product
- React/Vue
- bonus: react native or chrome extensions
To apply, shoot an email to dick@chums.co with your resume and a few sentences about the most measurable impact you've had at your current/previous employer.
Right now our focus is on a designer and an engineer with a few years of work experience each, but get in touch at dick@chums.co and we'll see if there's a fit.
We're also working on an interactive web version of the app, as well as a chrome extension, so we'll have more clients soon.
We’re open to all thoughts and suggestions though, and would love to hear more about your idea and the value you think you could get from it.
Our ultimate goal is to build a sense of community and chase the “good feeling” that you get when a friend takes your recommendation. We hope that the social aspect of the app will keep people accountable and being able to see content from friends or friends-of-friends will make the reviews more trustworthy. 3rd party listings could be shared, but since there's no incentive for users to plug products, the reviews will be more genuine. The community can call out products that they don’t like/trust.
Hope this makes sense!
I appreciate the advice to seed a few hashtags more thoroughly. That's absolutely something we intend to start doing over the next few weeks.
Again thank you for the kind words!
Re: monetization, for the short term, we’ve got relationships built through my time at Honey that give us confidence we’ll be able to get above-average affiliate commissions. The costs to run this business are low, and we expect per-user purchase volume to be significantly higher than your average affiliate-driven review site.
That said, our end goal is to bypass affiliate altogether and become a marketplace like Amazon, only with more reliable/trustworthy content, and more fun. From there, the monetization possibilities are pretty much endless.
Hey HN, we're Noah and Dick. We founded Chums (www.chums.co) to help you recommend products to your friends and have more fun shopping online. A lot of people ask their friends for advice when they're shopping. We think this can be more fun and we think your friends can help you find the right product, especially during COVID when we're stuck at home.
Noah launched Chums as a solo-founder before meeting Dick in 2020. Dick was an early employee at Honey and has spent a lot of time chewing on e-commerce and ways to make shopping more social. When you buy something on Chums we give you money to give to your friends that helped you make a purchase. You get to chose where the money goes. You can buy most products from most merchants through our platform. We're excited to build out groups or other interest-based communities, as well as browser extension in 2021.
Our team is small right now (CEO, 2 engineers, and product manager). We're looking for another engineer to help us build out our web presence and chrome extension. We're also looking for a full time designer who loves designing products from the ground up.
About you:
- driven by ownership
- comfortable with the fast pace of a 6-month old startup
- data-driven and willing to experiment
- 2+ years experience
- bonus: work experience on a social product
Designer:
- mobile and web expertise
- experience with Figma
- bonus if you've worked on a chrome extension
Engineer:
- React/Vue
- bonus: react native or chrome extensions
To apply, shoot an email to dick@chums.co with your resume and a few sentences about the most measurable impact you've had at your current/previous employer.
Edit: they're now showing an incident: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/5qdkkyg958vy
Sorry for the all caps. I just scrolled through my texts and saw the “internet out?” texts are at the same time.
Hopefully that means it’s a provider issue behind us. Wonder what we have in common?
- South Lake Tahoe, CA
- Spectrum Gig internet
- Asus Zenwifi mesh
Dave.com is building products banks won't to improve our customers' financial lives. We've built a mobile app that predicts your "lowest balance until payday" and offers a zero-interest paycheck advance as an alternative to paying an overdraft fee. As the job market is disintegrating around us, Dave is uniquely positioned to help our customers manage their finances and avert financial hardship.
In the last two years, we've grown from 10,000 users to 5,000,000 and 12 employees to 100 (engineering accounts for about 50%). We're well funded, cash flow positive, and growing quickly.
We're all WFH right now, but unfortunately still only looking for engineers who would be able to work on site in our LA office once the apocalypse is over.
We're looking for engineers to work on all parts of our stack (buzzwords include: Typescript, Node, React Native, MySQL, Spanner, Dataflow, and Google Cloud). If you're interested, please email me directly: dick@dave.com
Dave.com is building products banks won't to improve our customers' financial lives. We've built a mobile app that predicts your "lowest balance until payday" and offers a zero-interest paycheck advance as an alternative to paying an overdraft fee.
In the last two years, we've grown from 10,000 users to 5,000,000 and 12 employees to 100 (engineering accounts for about 50%). We're well funded, cash flow positive, and growing quickly.
We're looking for engineers to work on all parts of our stack (buzzwords include: Typescript, Node, React Native, MySQL, and Google Cloud). If you're interested, please email me directly: dick@dave.com
Dave.com is building products banks won't to improve our customers' financial lives. We've built a mobile app that predicts your "lowest balance until payday" and offers a zero-interest paycheck advance as an alternative to paying an overdraft fee.
In the last two years, we've grown from 10,000 users to 5,000,000 and 12 employees to 100 (engineering accounts for about 50%). We're well funded, cash flow positive, and growing quickly.
We're looking for engineers to work on all parts of our stack (buzzwords include: Typescript, Node, React Native, MySQL, and Google Cloud). If you're interested, please email me directly: dick@dave.com
Dave.com is building products banks won't to improve our customers' financial lives. We've built a mobile app that predicts your "lowest balance until payday" and offers a zero-interest paycheck advance as an alternative to paying an overdraft fee.
In the last year, we've grown from 10,000 users to 1,000,000 and 12 employees to 40. We're well funded, cash flow positive, and growing quickly.
We're looking for engineers to work on all parts of our stack (buzzwords include: Typescript, Node, React Native, MySQL, and Google Cloud). If you're interested, please email me directly: dick@dave.com