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sebslomski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
neocom | Senior Frontend Engineer | Onsite | Munich, Germany | Full-time

We at neocom are building shop agents for online retailers. Customers can chat naturally, get clear guidance, and find the right product faster, just like talking to a great, opinionated salesperson in a physical store or like chatting with an LLM, that actually knows about the products in the shop and has an opinion about them. We are based in Munich with a strong onsite culture (not full time).

We've been in the guided selling space for the past 6 years and launched our new product, the Shop Agent, last year in November. Our customers who are already on this new product are loving it and demand more and more features.

We are now looking for founding frontend engineers who can help our engineering team (4 people + 2 starting in September). We consider our selfs as craftsman, who care a lot about quality. A lot. We have a classic TypeScript + React.js stack with a lot of cypress.

You can find more here: https://chief-inch-5e2.notion.site/Senior-Frontend-Engineer-...

Ping me (CTO) at ssl @ neocom.ai

sebslomski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
Neocom | Senior Python Engineer | Onsite | Munich, Germany | Full-time

Neocom is a digital shop agent for online shops. Customers can chat naturally, get clear guidance, and find the right product faster, just like talking to a great salesperson in a physical store.

We've been in the guided selling space for the past 6 years and launched our new product, the Shop Agent, last year in November. Our customers who are already on this new product are loving it and demand more and more features.

We are now looking for founding engineers who can help our engineering team (5 people). We consider our selfs as craftsman, who care a lot about quality. A lot. We have a Python backend stack (fastapi, django, pydanticai), lots of postgres and typescript react frontends.

Ping me (CTO) at ssl @ neocom.ai

sebslomski··on Reflections on OpenAI
Good writing, enjoyed that article. Also I guess it looks like there was more time spent writing this article than actually working at OpenAI? 1 year tenure and a paternity leave?
sebslomski··on Heroku Is Down
Very poor communication on the major issue by Salesforce. Keep in mind, it affects Salesforce' entire cloud infra.

My best guess: The authentication issue affects them more than it does us.

sebslomski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)
Neocom | Senior Frontend Engineer | Full-Time | Munich, Germany | ONSITE | Hybrid | VISA

At Neocom, we empower every company to understand their prospects and turn them into delighted customers. With our guided product advisors, we eliminate choice overload and use zero-party data to deliver profound customer insights to our clients.

Join us our mission to change how people find products by making product discovery effortless!

Our Stack:

* React.js with react-query/ apollo

* Cypress for e2e tests.

* We maintain multiple separate JS projects, all following the same coding conventions.

About the company:

* Startup, post 1M ARR, received VC funding in September 2023

* 25 people, 6 in R&D

* 50% of the R&D team was hired via hn

What we are looking for:

* True senior, who takes over ownership.

* Has worked in Startups with less than 100 people in the past

* Knows her/his tools by heart.

https://jobs.neocom.ai/o/senior-frontend-engineer?source=hn

sebslomski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)
Neocom | Senior Frontend Engineer | Full-Time | Munich, Germany | ONSITE | Hybrid | VISA

At Neocom, we empower every company to understand their prospects and turn them into delighted customers. With our guided product advisors, we eliminate choice overload and use zero-party data to deliver profound customer insights to our clients.

Join us our mission to change how people find products by making product discovery effortless!

Our Stack:

* React.js with react-query/ apollo

* Cypress for e2e tests.

* We maintain multiple separate JS projects, all following the same coding conventions.

About the company:

* Startup, post 1M ARR, received VC funding in September 2023

* 25 people, 6 in R&D

* 50% of the R&D team was hired via hn

What we are looking for:

* True senior, who takes over ownership.

* Has worked in Startups with less than 100 people in the past

* Knows her/his tools by heart.

https://jobs.neocom.ai/o/senior-frontend-engineer?source=hn

sebslomski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)
Neocom | Senior Backend Engineer | Full-Time | Munich, Germany | ONSITE | Hybrid | VISA

At Neocom, we empower every company to understand their prospects and turn them into delighted customers.

With our guided product advisors, we eliminate choice overload and use zero-party data to deliver profound customer insights to our clients. Join us our mission to change how people find products by making product discovery effortless! .

Our Stack:

* Python is our main language (we use Django), Go for high throughput services.

* Deployments via Docker containers.

* Postgres for Master Data and Clickhouse for data intensive queries.

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About the company:

* Startup, post 1M ARR, received $4.5m VC funding in September 2023

* 25 people, 7 in R&D

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What we are looking for:

* True senior, who takes over ownership.

* Has worked in Startups with less than 100 people in the past.

* Knows her/his tools by heart.

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https://neocom.recruitee.com/o/senior-backend-engineer

sebslomski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
Neocom | Senior Frontend Engineer | Full-Time | Munich, Germany | ONSITE | Hybrid | VISA

At Neocom, we empower every company to understand their prospects and turn them into delighted customers.

With our guided product advisors, we eliminate choice overload and use zero-party data to deliver profound customer insights to our clients. Join us our mission to change how people find products by making product discovery effortless! .

Our Stack:

* React.js with react-query/ apollo

* Cypress for e2e tests.

* We maintain multiple separate JS projects, all following the same coding conventions.

.

About the company:

* Startup, post 1M ARR, received VC funding in September 2023

* 20 people, 5 in R&D

* Very recently secured new funding round for the 2 years . What we are looking for: * True senior, who takes over ownership.

* Has worked in Startups with less than 100 people in the past.

* Knows her/his tools by heart.

.

https://jobs.neocom.ai/o/senior-frontend-engineer

sebslomski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)
Neocom | Senior Backend Engineer | Full-Time | Munich, Germany | ONSITE | VISA

At Neocom, we empower every company to understand their prospects and turn them into delighted customers.

With our guided product advisors, we eliminate choice overload and use zero-party data to deliver profound customer insights to our clients. Join us our mission to revolutionise how people find products by making product discovery effortless!

.

Our Stack:

* Python is our main language (we use Django).

* Go is used for high throughput services.

* We deploy via Docker containers.

* We offer parts of our API via REST and parts via GraphQL.

* We use Postgres for Master Data and Clickhouse for data intensive queries.

.

About the company:

* Startup, post 1M ARR

* 20 people, 4 in R&D

* Very recently secured new funding round for the 2 years

.

What we are looking for:

* True senior, who takes over ownership.

* Has worked in Startups with less than 100 people in the past.

* Knows her/his tools by heart.

.

This is us: https://www.neocom.ai/careers

sebslomski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)
Neocom | Munich, Germany | Hybrid, Onsite | Senior Frontend and/ or Backend Engineer | https://neocom.ai/careers

We make product discovery effortless. Our SaaS solution helps online shops to decode their customers and delight them by helping them to find the right product with Guided Discovery.

* Python & Go backends

* GraphQL

* lots of Postgres & Redis

* some Elastic

* React.js in the customer facing & admin apps

We are looking for opinionated people who stand up for their believes, people who want to build great products rather than good ones, professional adults. We are still fairly early stage (2 years old) with good traction, post Product/ Market Fit. IMHO the best time to join a company and leave a footprint.

The open position is a senior role, where we require at least 5+ years professional experience.

Meet our product & engineering team: https://neocom.ai/careers/team-product

Interested? Email me (Founder & CEO) at ssl at neocom.ai

sebslomski··on From Go on EC2 to Fly.io
I wish I could say I love fly.io, but it really is not ready yet for production. A few months back we migrated a non essential production app to fly.io and we've had 3 major downtimes since where we didn't knew at all what was going on.

One thing from heroku in 2021 should have been learned here: Communicate before your clients learn about the issue. Communicate open.

I hope they improve in the next year

sebslomski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)
Neocom | Munich, Germany | Hybrid, Onsite | Frontend and/ or Backend Engineer | https://neocom.ai/careers

We make product discovery effortless. Our SaaS solution helps online shops to decode their customers and delight them by helping them to find the right product with Guided Discovery.

Python & Go backends, GraphQL, lots of Postgres & Redis, some Elastic, React.js in the customer facing & admin apps.

We are looking for opinionated people who stand up for their believes, people who want to build great products rather than good ones, professional adults. We are still fairly early stage (2 years old) with good traction, post Product/ Market Fit. IMHO the best time to join a company and leave a footprint.

Meet our product & engineering team: https://neocom.ai/careers/team-product

Interested? Email me (Founder & CEO) at ssl at neocom.ai

sebslomski··on Fly.io Status – Deployments are broken
One of our (non-essential) services which we used to test fly.io in production is down since hours.

No email from them yet, nothing.

sebslomski··on Atlassian Exceeds 99.9999% of Availability Using Sidecars, Fault-Tolerant Design
Interesting.

* Atlassian: We estimate the rebuilding effort to last for up to 2 more weeks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30990697

* Inside the longest Atlassian outage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31015813

* Atlassian products have been down for 4 days https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30973808

* Post-incident review on the Atlassian April 2022 outage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31210469

sebslomski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)
Neocom | Munich, Germany | Hybrid, Onsite | https://neocom.ai/careers

We make product discovery effortless. Our SaaS solution helps online shops with Guided Discovery to decode their customers and delight them by helping them to find the right product. Python & Go backends, GraphQL, lots of Postgres & redis, some elastic, React.js

We are looking for opinionated people who stand up for their believes, people who want to build great products rather than good ones.

Meet our product & engineering team: https://neocom.ai/careers/team-product

Interested? Email me (Founder & CEO) at ssl at neocom.ai

sebslomski··on Publish your PWA to the iOS App Store
Looks really interesting. Well built website with very well working CTA!
sebslomski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
Neocom | Munich, Germany | Full-Time | https://neocom.ai/

We are decomplexing e-commerce.

Our SaaS helps consumers to find the right product in no time by replacing Product Listing Pages with our Guided Selling solution. Neocom is used by big brands such as InternetStores (fahrrad.de, bikes), Amorelie (sex toys) and many more.

Our clients and consumers love our solution (more than 30.000 individual consultations per week) and have many feature requests. We are now looking for a React.js engineer to help us replacing product listing pages - because it’s 2021 not 2004.

While we are still a small team (10 people), we - and also our investors - are super proud of what we’ve achieved in just one year. We all share a common vision and reason why we work on Neocom: We just cannot believe our kids will be using traditional filter search pages once they grow up. And we are on the forefront #replaceThePLP #decomplexingEcommerce

If you are interested, email me at ssl@neocom.ai or come by our Munich office for a barista quality espresso :-)

sebslomski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)
Neocom | Munich, Germany | Full-Time | https://neocom.ai

We help customers to find the right product in no time by replacing Product Listing Pages with our Guided Selling solution. Neocom is used by big brands such as InternetStores (fahrrad.de, bikes) and Amorelie (sex toys).

Our clients and consumers love our solution (more than 30.000 individual consultations per week) and have many feature requests. We are now looking for a React.js engineer to help us replacing product listing pages (because it's 2021 not 2004).

If you are interested, email me at ssl@neocom.ai

sebslomski··on Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
NativeScript ;-)
sebslomski··on GitHub is fully available in Iran
That’s huge! Thank you, GitHub!
sebslomski··on GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
Shit happens, but I would really appreciate if you would re-activate our Github Org now, @github. You know, some PRs are waiting there for me.
sebslomski··on My chatbot is dead – Why yours should probably be too
Great read, Adrian! I've been following your work since you launched the UX Bear.

To sum up my experience with chatbots: I've had deeper conversations with clippy than with most chatbots.

Still, I strongly believe that guidance is needed online, especially in E-Commerce. That's why I've recently (in fact, we are signing our seed round later today) created Neocom [1], which merges the good parts about chatbots with real expert knowledge.

[1] https://neocom.ai

sebslomski··on How to sell a B2B product
What’s the reasoning behind not putting the prices up? For me that’s always a huge downer and means „that’s going to be quite expensive“.
sebslomski··on Preliminary result of the Gangelt, Germany Covid-19 case cluster study [pdf]
Yes, lots of controversy about this study. All in all, it’s not too representative after all because of the outbreak in the festival. There’s currently a similar study going on in Munich, which represents a normal bigger city in Germany, which is expected to give more insights.
sebslomski··on Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18904648
sebslomski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)
Pure Labs | Software Engineer (React.js or/ and Django) | Munich, Germany | ONSITE

We support corporates & early stage startups as partner for building digital products. With our expert team lead by founders, CxOs & VPs of successful startups, we cover the whole product development process – in-house. Our track record of 6 co-ventured companies and 30+ happy clients in just 6 years is proof of our expertise.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our team working on digital products, mostly working with either React.js or Django (We are staffing multiple positions, it's not required to have both skills).

What to expect:

- An exceptionally talented team, led by experienced serial entrepreneurs with a solid track record.

- A clear vision to create an environment where people can be successful & most efficient building tech products.

- 100% responsibility for what you do & lot of room to grow.

- A yearly budget of 1.000 Euro budget for personal growth.

- Top notch devices also for personal use.

- On-the-job coaching and regular, detailed feedback for your personal development.

- Yearly company vacation (We went to Italy this year :-))

Feel free to get in contact with me (Co-Founder of Pure Labs) directly via sebastian@purelabs.io. For more information about Pure Labs visit https://purelabs.io or http://jobs.purelabs.io.

sebslomski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)
Pure Labs | Software Engineer (Django / React) | Munich, Germany | ONSITE

We support corporates & early stage startups as partner for building digital products. With our expert team lead by founders, CxOs & VPs of successful startups, we cover the whole product development process – in-house. Our track record of 6 co-ventured companies and 30+ happy clients in just 6 years is proof of our expertise.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our team working on backend applications with Python/ Django and/ or frontends with React.js.

What to expect:

- An exceptionally talented team, led by experienced serial entrepreneurs with a solid track record.

- A clear vision to create an environment where people can be successful & most efficient building tech products.

- 100% responsibility for what you do & lot of room to grow.

- A yearly budget of 1.000 Euro budget for personal growth.

- Top notch devices also for personal use.

- On-the-job coaching and regular, detailed feedback for your personal development.

- Yearly company vacation (We are going to Italy this week :-))

Feel free to get in contact with me (Co-Founder of Pure Labs) directly via sebastian@purelabs.io. For more information about Pure Labs visit https://purelabs.io or http://jobs.purelabs.io.

sebslomski··on Weekend ‘catch-up sleep’ is a lie
I highly recommend reading Matthew Walker‘s Why We Sleep [0] where stuff like the above mentioned is summed up. Great read! [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963
sebslomski··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)
Pure Labs | Software Engineer (Django / React) | Munich, Germany | ONSITE

We support corporates & early stage startups as partner for building digital products. With our expert team lead by founders, CxOs & VPs of successful startups, we cover the whole product development process – in-house. Our track record of 6 co-ventured companies and 30+ happy clients in just 6 years is proof of our expertise.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our team working on backend applications with Python/ Django and/ or frontends with React.js.

What to expect:

- An exceptionally talented team, led by experienced serial entrepreneurs with a solid track record.

- A clear vision to create an environment where people can be successful & most efficient building tech products.

- 100% responsibility for what you do & lot of room to grow.

- A yearly budget of 1.000 Euro budget for personal growth.

- Top notch devices also for personal use.

- On-the-job coaching and regular, detailed feedback for your personal development.

- Yearly company vacation (We are going to Greece this year :-))

Feel free to get in contact with me (Co-Founder of Pure Labs) directly via sebastian@purelabs.io. For more information about Pure Labs visit https://purelabs.io or http://jobs.purelabs.io.

sebslomski··on Ask HN: How to find profitable side project idea?
Same here please
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