josephcohen

Universe | Full time | Remote | Engineering | workatuniverse.com

With Universe (http://apple.co/Universe), anyone on earth can build a custom website or online store in seconds — without code, all from a phone. We're looking for a few engineers to join our team:

1. Senior DevOps Engineer to take our infrastructure to the next level and unlock our development team’s potential: https://workatuniverse.com/senior-devops-engineer

2. Senior CSS Engineer, a problem solver who loves CSS way more than is reasonable: https://workatuniverse.com/senior-css-engineer

3. UI-focused React Web Engineer who loves building tools to help others: https://workatuniverse.com/react-web-engineer

We are a remote-first 25+ person company with people all over the US. We joined Y Combinator in 2018 and have raised $17.2MM in funding from Google Ventures, General Catalyst, Javelin Venture Partners, Box Group, and more top investors.

We value individual agency and ownership — which guides our product design and our company’s culture. We believe that an individual’s capacity for growth is far larger than most understand, and we’ve designed an environment to support rapid, continuous learning. Ideas here come from everyone, initiative is respected, and quality matters. We are here to build something special and enduring.

Mention HN in the text box at the bottom when you apply!

With Universe (http://apple.co/Universe), anyone on earth can build a custom website or online store in seconds — without code, all from a phone. We're looking for a few engineers to join our team:

1. Senior DevOps Engineer to take our infrastructure to the next level and unlock our development team’s potential: https://workatuniverse.com/senior-devops-engineer

2. Senior CSS Engineer, a problem solver who loves CSS way more than is reasonable: https://workatuniverse.com/senior-css-engineer

3. UI-focused React Web Engineer who loves building tools to help others: https://workatuniverse.com/react-web-engineer

We are a remote-first 25+ person company with people all over the US. We joined Y Combinator in 2018 and have raised $17.2MM in funding from Google Ventures, General Catalyst, Javelin Venture Partners, Box Group, and more top investors.

We value individual agency and ownership — which guides our product design and our company’s culture. We believe that an individual’s capacity for growth is far larger than most understand, and we’ve designed an environment to support rapid, continuous learning. Ideas here come from everyone, initiative is respected, and quality matters. We are here to build something special and enduring.

Mention HN in the text box at the bottom when you apply!

We’re making Universe Pro free for all organizers, groups, & grassroots movements to support the Black Lives Matter movement. Activists can create a website, take donations, link their social media accounts, and keep an email list. Details here: http://empowerment.tools

For those who don't know about Universe: we're an iOS-based website builder. You can download the app here: http://apple.co/Universe

Universe (YC W18) | Brooklyn, NY or Remote

Our mission is to empower everyone to build the internet. Universe is the first website builder designed from the ground up for phones. In less than a minute, anyone can make a beautiful site from their mobile device. This is possible because of our breakthrough modular grid editor (https://vimeo.com/260165283), which makes building a site as fun as playing with Lego.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/universe

Here are our open roles:

- Head of Backend Engineering: https://workatuniverse.com/engineering/api

- iOS Engineer: https://workatuniverse.com/engineering/ios

- Web Engineer: https://workatuniverse.com/web

- Product Designer: https://shape.onuniverse.com/

- Growth: https://workatuniverse.com/grow

Tech Stack: Swift, Node.js, React, Vapor, Heroku, Cloudkit, Postgres

Universe (YC W18) | Brooklyn, NY / Distributed | Onsite or Remote (US) | http://onuniverse.com

Our mission is to empower everyone to build the internet. Universe is the first website builder designed from the ground up for phones. In less than a minute, anyone can make a beautiful site from their mobile device. This is possible because of our breakthrough modular grid editor, which makes building a site as fun as playing with Lego.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/universe

Here are our open roles:

- Full-Stack Engineer

- iOS Engineer

- Product Designer

Tech Stack: Swift, Node.js, React, Vapor, Heroku, Cloudkit, Postgres

Please email join@onuniverse.com if you're interested!

Only a matter of time, we think

Facebook is now many things, but when it started it was about identity: this is who I am, this is who I know, this is what I care about.

As Facebook has expanded, it's become a mostly passive experience. This is a byproduct of Facebook's business model, which is to sell other people's time. Like any business, it's incentivized to maximized its inventory, which in this case is time spent on Facebook properties.

People are waking up to the fact that Facebook doesn't add value to your life, it extracts value by consuming your time.

There is another way. You don't need to be the product.

This is why I created Universe (YC W'18), a new kind of tool that allows everyone to build their place on the internet—their own website, with their own domain, and their own design.

The internet should look more like a bustling, erratic metropolis and less like a centrally-planned suburb. To do that, it needs to be built by everyone.

Check out Universe and let me know what you think: http://apple.co/Universe

----

Some sites made on Universe: http://showcase.onuniverse.com

More about our story: http://fastcompany.com/90174165/the-future-of-web-design-doe...

Going to throw our hat in the ring here. We built Universe (http://apple.co/Universe) for precisely this reason: to enable everyone to build their place on the internet, without touching code, all from a phone.

You can see some of the sites created with it here: http://showcase.onuniverse.com

Here's more about us: http://fastcompany.com/90174165/the-future-of-web-design-doe...

Ack, we're on that

Hey folks, we're announcing Universe: the easiest way to make a website on your phone. Choose a custom domain, build your site, and share it—all in less than a minute, on your iPhone, for free. Check it out!

App download: http://apple.co/2mUjsOP

Medium post: https://building.onuniverse.com/introducing-universe-1-0-bui...

TechCrunch article: https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/22/universe-a-mobile-only-web...

Join the team: http://workatuniverse.com

Universe http://onuniverse.com — Brooklyn, NY — Onsite — We will sponsor visas

TLDR; Hypercard for Mobile. Longer: A visual “programming language” for iOS + beyond. In Universe you create cards, which can be anything from a game to a cookbook. The Universe network is a rethinking of the Web for mobile: a modern, open software platform that sits on top of the local OS.

We are looking to add an expert iOS engineer to our team in New York. Email me (CEO) at joseph@onuniverse.com with interest.

Hey all — this is Joe, CEO at Universe. We're beginning to share more about our project with this new site.

We're looking for an expert iOS engineer to join us in Williamsburg, NY. You can reach me directly at joseph@onuniverse.com.

I'm happy to answer questions here as well.

—

What if creating software was more like playing an instrument? Or painting on a canvas? We’re building a new kind of “programming language”: a multi-sensory set of tools that makes creating software fun. It's designed from the ground-up for your smartphone, the computer we all have.

Your canvas is a card. Cards can be anything, from a game to a cookbook—and anyone can make them, no coding required. The cards you make exist in Universe, a rethinking of the Web for mobile. We’re taking today’s technology and three decades of learnings to design a new, open software platform.

We're building on this spirit at Universe

http://un1verse.co

And we're looking for talented souls to help make it real

Computing as a tool for individual empowerment... who'd have thought?

Thanks for visiting, guys. You can learn more about our rationale in my post: http://blog.lore.com. We also detail our design process here: http://design.lore.com

Glad you like it!

yup

hey - say hi

josephmco @ gmail. com

For professors and instructors looking to try something new, see http://coursekit.com. We're in a private beta this semester and are still accepting classes.

Press: http://cl.ly/AGRE

For developers interested in the space, we're hiring: http://coursekit.com/jobs/engineer

Hey dude. About the job - email me at joseph at coursekit dot com.

hey, shoot me an email - joseph@coursekit.com

Don't worry, we're on it.