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mikikian··on Company as Code
Societies across the planet can benefit from "Government as Code" for greater transparency and hopefully less corruption, fraud and waste.
mikikian··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)
CourtDrive | Principal AI Engineer | REMOTE| Market | Full-time | https://www.courtdrive.com/

At CourtDrive.com, we are building an AI Docketing Assistant that enables law firms and other power courthouse website users to become more efficient by automating daily tasks. We’re based in Los Angeles but have a remote team worldwide (Canada, Europe, Armenia to name a few). Your role as Principal AI Engineer will be to lead CourtDrive's AI strategy through model evaluation, fine-tuning, and data collection. You'll work alongside our engineering team to bring AI features from concept to production, while elevating the team's understanding of language model capabilities and best practices. Your expertise will be crucial in determining how we can best leverage AI to enhance our solution.

This role offers a unique opportunity to apply deep language model experience in a product focused on transforming how law firms practice the business of law.

Testimonial from a team member: “Long story, but I worked there for maybe 6ish months part time a while back. They offered me full time, but I ended up going to a startup because I wanted to learn some specific technologies + up my skills in Data Science. That job was definitely good for some people, but it wasn’t as remote as they advertised it (had me fly in a lot), and the team was somewhat difficult to work with ;) I ended up starting my own consulting and at the same time CourtDrive reached back out to me (perfect timing). Point I was trying to make was that I went back to work with them because they were so nice to work with. Not super demanding and very open to listening to ideas/suggestions - just a pleasant environment.”

Full job listing and specific skills we are looking for: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16m4AOi_6vM8PlRFbS4CBbbph...

To apply, email: michael (at) courtdrive.com

mikikian··on iPhone Air
When they do a folding phone next, the thinness will have functional value.
mikikian··on Troubled electric truck maker Nikola files for bankruptcy
They filed a Sale Motion for all the assets.
mikikian··on Ask HN: Are there any specialized LLMs that can upgrade WordPress, Drupal, etc.?
No, like a self hosted version.
mikikian··on Show HN: Startup funding simulator
Great work! It would be cool if there was an option to "Exit / Sell the Startup" after a SAFE round i.e., before a priced round. This would simulate Jason Lemkin's one round scenario: https://www.saastr.com/venture-backed-theres-a-third-way-jus...
mikikian··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)
CourtDrive | Perl Developer | REMOTE| Market | Full-time | CourtDrive.com & CourtAPI.com

At CourtDrive.com and our sister website, CourtAPI.com, we are building solutions that enable law firms and other power courthouse website users to become more efficient by automating daily tasks. Conceptually we’re building an ETL system with fuzzy data sources and an API in front of the end results. We’re based in Los Angeles but have a remote team worldwide (Canada, Europe, Armenia to name a few). We’re looking for a Perl developer to help us advance our mission by: building new webservices by scraping state court websites and court emails, building and supporting our CourtAPI solution, and helping keep our modern Perl codebase well oiled. Currently on Perl 5.38.

Testimonial from a team member: “Long story, but I worked there for maybe 6ish months part time a while back. They offered me full time, but I ended up going to a startup because I wanted to learn some specific technologies + up my skills in Data Science. That job was definitely good for some people, but it wasn’t as remote as they advertised it (had me fly in a lot), and the team was somewhat difficult to work with ;) I ended up starting my own consulting and at the same time CourtDrive reached back out to me (perfect timing). Point I was trying to make was that I went back to work with them because they were so nice to work with. Not super demanding and very open to listening to ideas/suggestions - just a pleasant environment.”

Full job listing and specific skills we are looking for: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zezDxt7FM59oInpS2kNhqEpn...

To apply, email: michael (at) courtdrive.com

mikikian··on Amazon Titan
A more disruptive and differentiated business model for AWS will be to offer their LLMs or open source LLMs as a Managed Service like RDS.
mikikian··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)
CourtDrive | Perl Developer | REMOTE| Market | Full-time | CourtDrive.com & CourtAPI.com

At CourtDrive.com and our sister website, CourtAPI.com, we are building solutions that enable law firms and other power courthouse website users to become more efficient by automating daily tasks. Conceptually we’re building an ETL system with fuzzy data sources and an API in front of the end results. We’re based in Los Angeles but have a remote team worldwide (Canada, Europe, Armenia to name a few). We’re looking for a Perl developer to help us advance our mission by: building new webservices by scraping state court websites, building and supporting our CourtAPI solution, and helping keep our modern Perl codebase well oiled.

Testimonial from a team member: “Long story, but I worked there for maybe 6ish months part time a while back. They offered me full time, but I ended up going to a startup because I wanted to learn some specific technologies + up my skills in Data Science. That job was definitely good for some people, but it wasn’t as remote as they advertised it (had me fly in a lot), and the team was somewhat difficult to work with ;) I ended up starting my own consulting and at the same time CourtDrive reached back out to me (perfect timing). Point I was trying to make was that I went back to work with them because they were so nice to work with. Not super demanding and very open to listening to ideas/suggestions - just a pleasant environment.”

Full job listing and specific skills we are looking for: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zezDxt7FM59oInpS2kNhqEpn...

mikikian··on Ask HN: Fallback remote job options for an experienced developer in the U.S.?
Try Upwork.
mikikian··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)
CourtDrive | Senior Perl Developer | REMOTE| Market | Full-time | CourtDrive.com & CourtAPI.com

At CourtDrive.com and our sister website, CourtAPI.com, we are building solutions that enable law firms and other power courthouse website users to become more efficient by automating daily tasks. We’re based in Los Angeles but have a remote team worldwide (Canada, Europe, Armenia to name a few). We’re looking for a senior Perl developer to help us advance our mission by: building new webservices to integrate with other SaaS solutions, building and supporting our CourtAPI solution, and helping keep our modern Perl codebase well oiled.

Testimonial from a team member: “Long story, but I worked there for maybe 6ish months part time a while back. They offered me full time, but I ended up going to a startup because I wanted to learn some specific technologies + up my skills in Data Science. That job was definitely good for some people, but it wasn’t as remote as they advertised it (had me fly in a lot), and the team was somewhat difficult to work with ;) I ended up starting my own consulting and at the same time CourtDrive reached back out to me (perfect timing). Point I was trying to make was that I went back to work with them because they were so nice to work with. Not super demanding and very open to listening to ideas/suggestions - just a pleasant environment.”

Full job listing and specific skills we are looking for: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zezDxt7FM59oInpS2kNhqEpn...

mikikian··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)
CourtDrive | Senior Perl Developer | REMOTE| Market | Full-time | CourtDrive.com & CourtAPI.com

At CourtDrive.com and our sister website, CourtAPI.com, we are building solutions that enable law firms and other power courthouse website users to become more efficient by automating daily tasks. We’re based in Los Angeles but have a remote team worldwide (Canada, Europe, Armenia to name a few). We’re looking for a senior Perl developer to help us advance our mission by: building new webservices to integrate with other SaaS solutions, building and supporting our CourtAPI solution, and helping keep our modern Perl codebase well oiled.

Testimonial from a team member: “Long story, but I worked there for maybe 6ish months part time a while back. They offered me full time, but I ended up going to a startup because I wanted to learn some specific technologies + up my skills in Data Science. That job was definitely good for some people, but it wasn’t as remote as they advertised it (had me fly in alot), and the team was somewhat difficult to work with ;) I ended up starting my own consulting and at the same time CourtDrive reached back out to me (perfect timing). Point I was trying to make was that I went back to work with them because they were so nice to work with. Not super demanding and very open to listening to ideas/suggestions - just a pleasant environment.”

Full job listing and specific skills we are looking for: https://jobs.perl.org/job/21921

mikikian··on Ask HN: What tech companies/industries will do well in a recession?
Sites targeting distressed or bankruptcy assets like: https://www.inforuptcy.com/
mikikian··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)
CourtDrive | Senior Perl Developer | REMOTE| Market | Full-time | CourtDrive.com & CourtAPI.com

At CourtDrive.com and our sister website, CourtAPI.com, we are building solutions that enable law firms and other power courthouse website users to become more efficient by automating daily tasks. We’re based in Los Angeles but have a remote team worldwide (Canada, Europe, Armenia to name a few). We’re looking for a senior Perl developer to help us advance our mission by: building new webservices to integrate with other SaaS solutions, building and supporting our CourtAPI solution, and helping keep our modern Perl codebase well oiled.

Testimonial from a team member: “Long story, but I worked there for maybe 6ish months part time a while back. They offered me full time, but I ended up going to a startup because I wanted to learn some specific technologies + up my skills in Data Science. That job was definitely good for some people, but it wasn’t as remote as they advertised it (had me fly in alot), and the team was somewhat difficult to work with ;) I ended up starting my own consulting and at the same time CourtDrive reached back out to me (perfect timing). Point I was trying to make was that I went back to work with them because they were so nice to work with. Not super demanding and very open to listening to ideas/suggestions - just a pleasant environment.”

Full job listing and specific skills we are looking for: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zezDxt7FM59oInpS2kNhqEpn...

mikikian··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
Bankruptcy sales can be profitable too using www.inforuptcy.com
mikikian··on Postmates added $70M in revenue and saved $3M in network fees with Stripe
These rates will posted a while back. YMMV.

$0 – 100,000 / month 2.9% + 30¢

$100,001 – 500,000 / month 2.7% + 30¢

$500,001 – 1,000,000 / month 2.4% + 30¢

$1,000,001 – 5,000,000 / month 2.2% + 30¢

$5,000,001+ / month 1.9% + 30¢

mikikian··on I Bought a Business for $0
This sounds a lot like a seller financed deal. Hopefully the seller had a secured loan against those installment payments because in the event of default, at least the seller gets his/her company back.
mikikian··on SaaS Needs a Single Point of Purchase
Sounds like he's asking for a new PaaS (Procurement as a Service).
mikikian··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)
CourtDrive | DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer | REMOTE| Market | Part-time | https://www.courtdrive.com

At CourtDrive.com, we are building solutions that enable law firms and other power courthouse website users to become more efficient by automating daily tasks. We’re based in Los Angeles but have a remote team worldwide (Canada, Armenia, Europe to name a few).

We are looking for a senior DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer to help us with our CI/CD pipeline. You will also support our development and testing environment, automate our existing tasks, improve our current automation and support and improve our application infrastructure in AWS.

Current Stack: Terraform, AWS, EKS, Serverless, Bitbucket, Jenkins, React.js, Perl, Postgres, MySQL, ElasticSearch, GraphQL & Lambda.

Testimonial from a team member: “Long story, but I worked there for maybe 6ish months part time a while back. They offered me full time, but I ended up going to a startup because I wanted to learn some specific technologies + up my skills in Data Science. That job was definitely good for some people, but it wasn’t as remote as they advertised it (had me fly in alot), and the team was somewhat difficult to work with ;) I ended up starting my own consulting and at the same time CourtDrive reached back out to me (perfect timing). Point I was trying to make was that I went back to work with them because they were so nice to work with. Not super demanding and very open to listening to ideas/suggestions - just a pleasant environment.”

Full job listing and contact information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTl8UN7_6ZvOBIxw...

mikikian··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)
CourtDrive | Senior Full Stack JS Developer | REMOTE| Market | Full-time | https://www.courtdrive.com

At CourtDrive.com, we are building solutions that enable law firms and other power courthouse website users to become more efficient by automating daily tasks. We’re based in Los Angeles but have a remote team worldwide (Canada, Europe, Armenia to name a few).

We’re looking for a senior full stack JS developer with React.js experience to help us advance our mission by building new front-end client experiences.

Current Stack: React + Hooks + Redux, Postgres, ElasticSearch

Testimonial from a team member: “Long story, but I worked there for maybe 6ish months part time a while back. They offered me full time, but I ended up going to a startup because I wanted to learn some specific technologies + up my skills in Data Science. That job was definitely good for some people, but it wasn’t as remote as they advertised it (had me fly in alot), and the team was somewhat difficult to work with ;) I ended up starting my own consulting and at the same time CourtDrive reached back out to me (perfect timing). Point I was trying to make was that I went back to work with them because they were so nice to work with. Not super demanding and very open to listening to ideas/suggestions - just a pleasant environment.”

Full job listing and contact information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16IFj_-EbLLqg7BGFltliRZDq...

mikikian··on Show HN: Turn any website into an API (for those who miss Kimono)
Maybe a better business model is to offer this as a service to site owners who are not tech savvy. Site owners then have the ability to offer an API to new customers making it a win / win. Site owners can now offer an API (free or paid), and API consumer can rely on getting data in the future.
mikikian··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)
CourtAPI.com | Senior Full Stack JS Developer | REMOTE| Market | Full-time | CourtDrive.com & CourtAPI.com

At CourtAPI.com and CourtDrive.com, we are building solutions that enable law firms and other power courthouse website users to become more efficient by automating daily tasks. We’re based in Los Angeles but have a remote team worldwide (Canada, Europe, Armenia to name a few).

We’re looking for a senior full stack JS developer with AWS Amplify, React.js and React Native experience, to help us advance our mission by building new front-end client experiences for web and mobile.

Current Stack: AWS Amplify, React + Redux, Lambda (Node), Postgres, ElasticSearch

Testimonial from a team member: “Long story, but I worked there for maybe 6ish months part time a while back. They offered me full time, but I ended up going to a startup because I wanted to learn some specific technologies + up my skills in Data Science. That job was definitely good for some people, but it wasn’t as remote as they advertised it (had me fly in alot), and the team was somewhat difficult to work with ;) I ended up starting my own consulting and at the same time CourtDrive reached back out to me (perfect timing). Point I was trying to make was that I went back to work with them because they were so nice to work with. Not super demanding and very open to listening to ideas/suggestions - just a pleasant environment.”

Full job listing and contact information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1py1MszxRXLCC8A79KNl327r1...

mikikian··on Intermittent fasting: No advantage over conventional weight loss diets
Or is water wet? https://youtu.be/QUAKOgxiXKg :)
mikikian··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)
Inforuptcy | Senior Tesseract & PDF Scraping Developer, Preferably in Perl | REMOTE| Market | Full-time or Part-time | Inforuptcy.com

At Inforuptcy.com, we are building solutions that enable investors and traders in bankruptcy to become more efficient by automating daily tasks. We’re based in Los Angeles but have a remote team worldwide (Canada, Europe, Armenia to name a few).

We’re looking for a senior developer with experience in extracting unstructured data out of PDFs, preferably with Perl.

Testimonial from a team member: “Long story, but I worked there for maybe 6ish months part time a while back. They offered me full time, but I ended up going to a startup because I wanted to learn some specific technologies + up my skills in Data Science. That job was definitely good for some people, but it wasn’t as remote as they advertised it (had me fly in alot), and the team was somewhat difficult to work with ;) I ended up starting my own consulting and at the same time CourtDrive reached back out to me (perfect timing). Point I was trying to make was that I went back to work with them because they were so nice to work with. Not super demanding and very open to listening to ideas/suggestions - just a pleasant environment.”

Job listing and specific skills we are looking for: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14g2cxI0Ci6b9MkucbO2fvcTO...

mikikian··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)
CourtDrive | Senior Full Stack Perl Developer | REMOTE| Market | Full-time (preferred) or Part-time | CourtDrive.com & CourtAPI.com

We are building solutions that enable law firms and other power courthouse website users to become more efficient by automating daily tasks. We’re a bootstrapped, profitable company launched in March of 2012. We are a remote company based in Los Angeles but have a worldwide team (Canada, Europe, Armenia to name a few).

We’re looking for a senior, full stack developer, preferably with Perl experience, to help us advance our mission by: building new webservices to integrate with other SaaS solutions, and building and supporting our CourtAPI solution.

Testimonial from a team member: “Long story, but I worked there for maybe 6ish months part time a while back. They offered me full time, but I ended up going to a startup because I wanted to learn some specific technologies + up my skills in Data Science. That job was definitely good for some people, but it wasn’t as remote as they advertised it (had me fly in alot), and the team was somewhat difficult to work with ;) I ended up starting my own consulting and at the same time CourtDrive reached back out to me (perfect timing). Point I was trying to make was that I went back to work with them because they were so nice to work with. Not super demanding and very open to listening to ideas/suggestions - just a pleasant environment.”

Full job listing and specific skills we are looking for: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Ffwezl2D76eFT_X9qnNMU51...

mikikian··on Ask HN: Do you have the courage to abandon your high paying job?
Since a game typically doesn't have a first mover advantage nor suffer from a "time is of the essence" problem, and given your opportunity cost of income, you should consider outsourcing the development of your game to a cheaper labor market. With your technical know how, you can supervise your team to your liking, launch the game, and see how it goes. While you still might be unhappy at work, this will preserve more of your savings than quitting, and give you a more viable option to quit in the future.
mikikian··on Zuora S-1
For those wondering like me what the UI looks like, here's a video:

https://youtu.be/9Vca8JBIiUY

mikikian··on Fact or Fiction?: An Opera Singer's Piercing Voice Can Shatter Glass
"It's possible, but you have to be both good and lucky," says Jeffrey Kysar, a mechanical engineer at Columbia University who studies the different ways in which materials can fracture and fail.
mikikian··on Capital-As-a-Service: A New Operating System for Early Stage Investing
They elude to it in these blog posts:

https://medium.com/swlh/diligence-at-social-capital-part-1-a...

https://medium.com/swlh/diligence-at-social-capital-part-2-a...

https://medium.com/@jonathanhsu/diligence-at-social-capital-...

https://medium.com/@jonathanhsu/diligence-at-social-capital-...

https://medium.com/@jonathanhsu/diligence-at-social-capital-...

https://medium.com/swlh/diligence-at-social-capital-epilogue...

mikikian··on Fixing the ‘Brain Damage’ Caused by the I.P.O. Process
Color me skeptical and maybe one of the attorneys on HN could jump in, but solving the brain damage of an IPO reason seems like a red herring to me. SPAC could have value in a down market, when the IPO market is closed and a company is forced to raise a down round. Ratchets would kick in and founders would lose equity. If the SPAC, after fees, is able to offer a higher valuation to the company then its best alternative, it might actually work to benefit the company.

I haven't seen anyone comment about this down market scenario this past week and wondering if someone smarter than me had any thoughts?

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