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Spot Virtual (https://www.spotvirtual.com) Outreach (https://outreach.io) GroupTalent, TS S'11 Team Apart, YC S'08
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whather··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)
Spot.xyz | Fullstack Developers, Game Developers, 3D Engineers | Remote | Full Time |

Spot (https://www.spot.xyz/) is a 3D virtual office and event space that brings culture, presence and spontaneity back to remote teams. It provides drop-in voice and video collaboration, screen-sharing, and asynchronous chat.

We are a team of 8, well-funded and are looking for senior developers to help take Spot to the next level. We're a very experienced team with and ex-founders of Outreach.io.

Our tech stack is TypeScript on both the frontend and backend using React and Node. Our 3D engine is Babylon.js.

You can view our open positions here: https://www.spot.xyz/careers/

Come join us!

whather··on Show HN: Free 3D virtual office in the browser
Sorry this was a sendgrid issue that has now been fixed
whather··on Show HN: Free 3D virtual office in the browser
Sorry all - was an issue with Sendgrid, but we have it fixed now.
whather··on Show HN: Free 3D virtual office in the browser
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah we have plans to add "nearby conversations" in larger rooms, built around furniture. So walking over to a couch in the room would start a nearby conversation that wouldn't disturb the rest of the room.
whather··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)
Outreach | Seattle, WA | Full-time | http://outreach.io

Outreach is the operating system for a sales person, designed to make communication with prospects easy and trackable.

Outreach is a single page application built with React (transpiled with Babel) on the front-end, consuming a Rails API on the back-end. We use all sorts of technologies including CouchDB, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ and Go.

We're looking for senior engineers for all parts of the stack, ideally with Ruby and/or React experience.

We are a team of 20 developers with high growth plans this next year. Outreach has raised $30M, growing from 6 to 105 employees in 18 months.

Apply via AngelList (https://angel.co/outreach) or email us directly at jobs@outreach.io

whather··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)
Outreach | Seattle, WA | Full-time | http://outreach.io

Outreach is the operating system for a sales person, designed to make communication with prospects easy and trackable.

Outreach is a single page application built with React (transpiled with Babel) on the front-end, consuming a Rails API on the back-end. We use all sorts of technologies including CouchDB, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ and Go.

We're looking for senior engineers for all parts of the stack, ideally with Ruby and/or React experience.

We are a team of 16 developers with high growth plans this next year. Outreach has raised $30M, growing from 6 to 105 employees in 18 months.

Apply via AngelList (https://angel.co/outreach) or email us directly at jobs@outreach.io

whather··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
Outreach | Seattle, WA | Full-Time

Outreach empowers sales teams to automate and optimize their sales cadence for cold outbound, web inbound, MQL appointment setting, and more - helping them close more deals.

Outreach is a single-page javascript application (React) that consumes a Ruby on Rails API backend. We transpile through Babel to give us access to ES6 javascript syntax. And we're big believers in open source and contribute back to the community (https://github.com/getoutreach/epf and https://github.com/coalescejs/coalesce).

We are growing incredibly fast - raised $12m last year and grew from 5 to 70 people in less than 16 months.

Looking for senior back-end, front-end and full-stack developers who are familiar with Ruby on Rails and/or React.js.

Apply for one of our positions here: https://angel.co/outreach

whather··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
Outreach.io | Seattle, WA | Full-Time | On-Site

https://www.outreach.io/

Outreach.io is looking for full stack developers to help us build the future of sales communication. We have a javascript front-end using React, with a Rails API backend.

We have real customers, real revenue and we're growing quickly. If you're interested, you can send me a link to your LinkedIn profile, wes at outreach.io

whather··on Why we use Balanced for payments
No they do same day ACH credits
whather··on Show HN: AdminJS, the Backend-Agnostic Administration Framework
Thanks for the heads up, we're looking into it
whather··on Show HN: AdminJS, the Backend-Agnostic Administration Framework
I noticed that too, we're looking into it
whather··on Working with the Stripe Payouts API
The big win Balanced has over Stripe is the ability to use their payouts API independently of whether you're using them to collect credit card and ACH debits or not. So you could be charging cards through Stripe and paying out via Balanced. Stripe forces you to charge cards through them in order to do any payouts.

It's true Stripe is integrated with more shopping carts and invoicing systems, but Balanced will get there. Personally, it would be great to see a Balanced credit card and ACH FreshBooks/Harvest integration because we're moving more into invoicing, as we're now dealing with larger companies and larger payments.

whather··on Screensiz.es – reference chart for device screen sizes
Including aspect ratio as a column would be helpful, so we don't have to calculate width / height in our heads.
whather··on Migrating From Rails To Ember.js
We already have some emblem code in production :)
whather··on Posthaven Launches In Public Beta
Awesome Garry!
whather··on Why We Don't Use Heroku
Yeah that's pretty bad. We need better support for Windows users, including IE.
whather··on Why We Don't Use Heroku
Maybe you don't have the default font we're using? Are you on Windows?
whather··on Why We Don't Use Heroku
Is the site loading slow for you? Seems to be chugging along fine on my side
whather··on Food Truck Economics
I wish we had better food trucks up here in Seattle. Mostly greasy Mexican food and hotdogs. Portland is the King of food trucks in the NW and I wish they would come up here more often. Fresh oysters, mean pork sandwiches, etc.
whather··on Why We Switched From Stripe To Balanced
Thanks josh!
whather··on Why We Switched From Stripe To Balanced
What bank do you use? Not sure of BofA has this.
whather··on Why We Switched From Stripe To Balanced
At the time, Stripe was the easiest and best solution for us. Our product wasn't as mature as it is now and automated developer payments weren't high on our list (as we were much smaller). But 18 months later, companies like BancBox and Balanced launched into the mix and were a much better fit for us.
whather··on Why We Switched From Stripe To Balanced
She gave herself that title, and rocks it :). Her not-so-fancy title is Account Manager.
whather··on Clippy.JS - Add Clippy and friends to any website
Oh cool, didn't realize the bold, italic, underline, undo and redo buttons work in the header. Well done! ;)
whather··on So You Think You Can Freelance?
I agree you shouldn't do fixed priced contracts for larger, long-term projects. But a fixed price for a 1-week long project seems to work out pretty well. That's why we developed the 1 week long sprint payouts.
whather··on TinyProj Shuts Down, Users Sent To TechStars GroupTalent
Yeah you still have to apply if you were an existing TinyProj user.
whather··on TinyProj Shuts Down, Users Sent To TechStars GroupTalent
Yeah, currently we look at publicly accessible work a developer has done. Agreed that front-end and design heavy work shows much better in a portfolio (and is usually an easier sell for the project owner) but we're working on ways to bubble back-end work to the top so it shows nicely. We get a number of back-end only type projects come through, so definitely still request an invite.
whather··on TinyProj Shuts Down, Users Sent To TechStars GroupTalent
Open source contributions is one of many things we look at to decide acceptance. You don't need to have any open source contributions but it does help us gauge you as a developer. It mostly comes down to what you've built in the past (open source or not).
whather··on Demo Days compared: Seattle TechStars VS San Francisco AngelPad
Back in '08 there were around 21 teams, now I believe there are around 60 teams.
whather··on Demo Days compared: Seattle TechStars VS San Francisco AngelPad
Back in YC S'08 pitches were between 5-6m. Now with so many teams I believe they're around 2m.
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