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PawBoost | Senior PHP Full Stack Engineer | Raleigh, NC | REMOTE or ONSITE | Full Time

PawBoost is a small 4-person Raleigh-based tech company founded in 2014 that helps owners reunite with their missing pets through web, email, and social media. Bootstrapped and employee-owned. We take pride in our ability to stay lean, profitable, and fiscally responsible while helping thousands of lost pets every day.

PawBoost has an opening for a senior full-stack engineer. Technical day-to-day responsibility for our core business will be transitioned to the qualified candidate, freeing up time for the founders to focus on growth. The ideal candidate is one who is motivated and excited to tackle a variety objectives throughout the whole web stack. The successful candidate will be a self-starter with the ability to take ownership and responsibility for delivering a product to millions of users.

Our Stack: AWS, Ubuntu, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Yii2 Framework, jQuery / Vanilla JS / SASS, Vagrant

Requirements:

- 5+ years of professional PHP development

- 3+ years of JavaScript development

- Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (Bonus for Yii2)

- Deep understanding of OOP/MVC principles and design patterns

- Deep understanding of ORM, MySQL, queries and table structures

- Working knowledge of Git

Remote work ok, competitive compensation, solid benefits, easy-going team, build stuff that genuinely helps people everyday.

If you are interested please send CV and Github link (if available) to tim@pawboost.com

Second this - I immediately look for the financials because it is usually the first time they are being presented publicly

Cool project nonetheless!

I’ve fantasized about the delivery to a person idea for a while. The next frontier after last mile - last foot. I figure drones will do it one day. Also sounds like something Amazon would do.

Very little retained value there. Short term

I really like Amplitude

> Typically people will buy amazon ads at breakeven or worse in order to gain sales rank to get more organic sales.

This is a very important point. I sell on Amazon and I run ads at break even profit to get more organic reviews and higher sales rank. Much more retained value compared to paid search engine ads in ecommerce

Similar https://nerdydata.com

Ha! I enjoyed this read. I am also colorblind. I do think one of the more interesting parts of being colorblind is the fact that I do not rely on color for ANYTHING. For example - Stoplight? What position is lit is my first thought. I think this train of thought has had some unintended benefits in terms of my ability to process things analytically

They made the change so they could build out their ad platform and make money. Which they beat estimates on revenue

Bezos doesn’t seem to have that problem.

I interpreted "catching up" in terms of net worth not age.

Gates does have an ~8 year lead

Forgive my ignorance, but what is a brutalist web application?

Edit: I see - To me, brutalist means as close to the basic raw HTML/ JavaScript as possible.

Yii2 with aws lightsail bitnami LAMP...mysql in the lightsail instance or RDS, nothing new or crazy but I know it and can get it done extremely quick.

If the webapp takes off, I can figure the rest out later.

This is awesome. I was a DJ back in the early 2000s using Shoutcast [0] to stream. A lot of issues with obtaining music and obviously streaming rights.

This is so easy to whip up your own station with a legit music source. Barrier to entry is much lower than having to figure out how to configure all of the software and connect to the actual stream server. The DJ software had some cool features like fade-in/fade-out, etc. but the music and the DJ's ability to speak to the audience were the important part. The chat element here could replace that. Something like this seems like it could be the next evolution in online radio.

Awesome work!

[0] https://www.shoutcast.com/

It's important to note here that this will only work in densely populated areas. Otherwise FB will make you expand your radius / criteria to fit a large enough population potentially rendering the ad useless.

A bit tangential, but I have been unable to find a price-friendly static maps provider for embedding in PDF and print. Anyone have suggestions?

Aren't they rolling out a new Ford Ranger??

Short term bump in the road for Amazon. They will not need USPS in the long run anyway:

- Build out own network (AMZL, Amazon Flex)

- Buy UPS/Fedex/etc

- Drone delivery

It is unfortunate that AMZN is taking the fall for whatever this executive order is actually trying to accomplish.

He accepted blame for quite a bit, and apologized (as he usually does)

The part I don't understand about all of this is that, yes somewhere along the line someone made the decision that giving developers access to that data was ok...but they REMOVED access to it as soon as they realized what sharing that data meant. That's how startups are trained to behave, shoot first ask questions later.

They made a mistake and corrected on their own, what more is there to ask? I guess it's more of an issue because of the nature of their business?

Amazon Flex will eventually encompass more than just delivering goods. Delivering people (uber/lyft). Retrieving packages from households and shipping them, maybe even last mile delivery?

I feel like this article completely misses the point about the Amazon philosophy. It doesn't matter if Prime Now / Amazon Fresh are profitable. They aren't supposed to be profitable. They are building out the infrastructure of Amazon Flex for themselves AT COST and then they will open it up to other services and uses that will undercut any competitors (rideshare is the first one that comes to mind)

The focus here should be on Amazon Flex and how/where it is going, because that service will be the one that turns the actual profit. Just like AWS.

I always had respect for the fact that Apple just never used Facebook...except for claiming the profile it seems.

https://www.facebook.com/apple

I have sold on Amazon for about 3 years now, over 2000+ skus FBA. The items I sell are pretty easy to counterfeit (much easier than OPs). There have been plenty of sellers come in and undercut price and subsequently destroy my products ratings because customers received fakes.

I started moving my products into the Brand Registry and all of a sudden the counterfeit sellers started disappearing...and now they don't exist anymore. So at one point a few years ago I was on this guys side and was starting to write up cease & desists but I believe Amazon is getting better at it. Haven't seen any counterfeit sellers on my listings that last for more than 30 days in a while.

This is analogous to Facebook moving from individual walls to a newsfeed. Why did they move to newsfeed? Easily consumable ad units.

People WILL get used to it, and advertisers will soon have programmatic access to ads that will show in the Discover section. Whether or not they will add value to the advertisers with this format is the real question.

This change is no surprise to me, nor will they change it. Driven by the need for ad revenue [0]

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14983800#14985153

Ask for Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area to build better transportation, and that's the pick

What are individuals buying on Alibaba? All I see is "Contact Supplier". Are individuals buying in bulk?

thinkorswim platform screener is king imo. you can create custom formulas for screening using almost any study (custom or preset). Also can be used for options / spread screening.

Ameritrade account is required though.

Writing covered calls once per month

Same here - same plan since feb 2007

Yes - one of the problems