Befeni | Remote/Thailand | Full-Time or Contractor | Full Stack Developer (PHP/JS)
We are a fast growing German startup that produces custom personalized shirts built to order in Thailand and then shipped to our customers abroad. At every step in the process, customers can keep track of their shirt through their phone and have input into their order.
Due to the explosive growth of our business, we are looking to hire a full stack developer to join our team either in Bangkok or to work remotely.
While we don't have AI/ML or Cryptocurrency problems - it does not mean there is a lack of challenging and interesting topics for you to get your teeth sunk into. You will be helping us automate and make every aspect of our business more efficient.
What we are looking for
* We are currently migrating from a legacy PHP application to a brand new system based on
* Laravel. Experience with PHP / Laravel is required.
* We are using VueJS on the front end so you should have experience writing fluent Javascript
* code using a modern JS framework like Vue/Angular/React.
* We use Docker but we need some help introducing CI, automated deployments and we are missing some dev-ops experience... do you have strong Linux chops and experience with AWS and other cloud hosting providers? Can you help us make our development workflow better?
* Lastly we are building out an agile team so we are looking for people who are not dogmatic about process but would like to help introduce best practices to a young and fresh team.
If you are looking to work remotely, we are open and welcoming of remote workers. As long as you can participate in planning sessions and are great at communicating, we have no problems where you are based. If you are living in Bangkok or would like to move to Thailand we can help with securing a visa and moving here.
To apply, please send me an introductory email to befeni.dev@gmail.com with some information about your background, where you are located, salary requirements and some way for me to assess your abilities (code samples, github, portfolio etc). I will then contact you to set up a Skype interview.
I'm looking for a co-founder. I started Slips.io as a way for gamers to make bets on Twitch/live streams using cryptocurrency. We came up with the idea in Jan 18 although we started working on the product in July. We had a full product by the end of the year and got funding in Jan 19. Betting is a hard market to break into and sadly my co-founder left in April. He handled design although I'm no slouch in that department either. I'm a programmer by trade but I'll do anything that needs to be done; copy writing, pitching, selling etc.
We've pivoted to an blockchain powered esports league although I have an idea of how to make the betting concept work as well.
My plans is to build out both products, launch, show traction and then return to the investors I've been building relationships with this year to get some seed funding.
I'm looking for someone who is interested in gaming and/or cryptocurrencies and either has specific skills in an area (business/tech/design/sales etc) or a generalist. Whatever your specific skils, I need you to have an immense work ethic.
If you are interested, my email is my profile. I've provided some links below for you to get a bit information about Slips. You can check out both https://slips.io and https://slips.gg to look at the two products.
I am not looking to be a co-founder but your delivery and presentation are very polished, if you are ever in the bay area we should grab a cup of coffee or something :) lmk!
I'm surprised my comment sunk the way it, as did this topic and then it reappears with some mysteriously positive comments. All I'll say is strange.
But if you think I'd bother registering another account just to reply to a random comment you're overestimating how much importance I place on dissenting views to my opinions.
The douche chill account is weird though, whoever it is registered simply to agree with me. I'm flattered I guess :)
Reddit is technology wise pretty simple - it's just one step up from a forum. So these guys have re-implemented a forum and added a stack of features that only a bunch of devs could come up with. Markdown support is mentioned twice at the top of the features list!
Anyway this is a site by actual guys that used to work at Reddit so you'd expect them to be pretty smart business orientated chaps right? Well they launch, pull a few strings and get to the the first page on HN ... then they immediately blunder by making you login to browse! Thankfully I was bored enough to do so and as expected it's just a barren 'seed user' populated scaled down version of reddit.
The biggest USP is real time and there's actually only me on there right now. Last story was posted 35 mins ago. I logged in not expecting my favorite reddits to be there, but for an exciting proof of concept. If I was in charge of this company, me and my entire team including the tea lady would be logged into at least 5 different accounts and we'd be creating a frenzy of real time activity so that AT LEAST we give people an glimpse of what we're trying to create.
Poorly executed - you'd really expect more from people with the resources to self finance a start up like this, the connections to drive users to the app and the experience of working for a top notch start up like Reddit for a number of years.
Are you talking about converting people from Reddit to Voten? Maybe the point is that they want more people to actively contribute rather than just lurk? It could just be a different opinion on what a Reddit alternative could look like.
"Online conversions" generally refers to the process of converting a visitor from some lesser-valued status to a higher-valued one. Unsubscribed visitor to subscribed visitor. Lurker to commenter. Commenter to contributor. Contributor to customer, etc.
Closely associated is the concept of a "conversion funnel", which measures the fall-off in participation as additional hurdles are imposed: registration, check-in, passwords, browser compatibility, extensions, screen resolution, etc., etc. The results can sometimes be counterintuitive.
For a sense of just how precipitous that fall-off can be, from an example I've got some strong familiarity with, there's this image showing total Google+ registered profiles, the number which were ever active, within the past year, and excluding YouTube activity (which was being included in totals). The net result was about an 0.3% active public participation rate.
Lurking encourages user participation in the long run. Sure, a few people will be early adopters and begin contributing with enthusiasm, but a larger chunk of users prefer to consume content passively before making the decision that contributing is worth it for them.
Turning away your potential audience with an immediate demand to register is a great way to make sure your content isn't read.
> Lurking encourages user participation in the long run.
I bet most folks started to use HN after they lurked for a while. I think it's not uncommon to lurk for weeks or months first before one decides to join.
I believe a large majority of reddit users are lurkers. I browsed the site almost daily for months before I felt the need to create an account so I could start commenting.
Same experience here. I steadfastly avoided Reddit for a while (no real reason, just didn't want to be assed with a new community, then caved and only followed two subreddits for updates on games I was playing.
Eventually the lurking converted me to a registered, commenting user, then finally a submitter as well.
> Anyway this is a site by actual guys that used to work at Reddit so you'd expect them to be pretty smart business orientated chaps right?
These aren't ex-reddit employees. The linked article calling them "former Redditors" is pretty misleading, I think it was just trying to say that they used to be users of the site.
True. Most of it is about the first impression. If it would have presented me with bustling activity and pictures poping up real time (which it is supposed to do judging on what the link says) that would be whole different expireince I would remember.
But so far the reddit tile would never go away from the speed dial.
This is actually the worst an internet comment can be - no real insight, judgemental, thinly veiled insults and accusations, excusing bad ethics for business sense, bad tempered and rude. What new platforms need, is less of this.
I have no real horse in the race and am generally sceptical about reddit alternatives as the refuge of whoever gets banned on reddit, but hey, feel free to shit over other people's efforts!
* They are currently featured on the front page of HN
* The number #1 USP of their site is "Real Time".
So after forcing me to login to check out what it actually is, I find that there's actually no real time content. It's dead.
My insight is clear even if it is drenched in negativity. These guys should be doing better, even if they had no resources whatsoever, for the next 24h, the CEO, his girlfriend, their dog, the grandmother and every other person they know should be logged in creating the illusion of users.
I think even Paul Graham/YC advocates this method, it's how Reddit got started - so beggars belief that these chaps don't think they need to go to those lengths :/
He raised some very valid points though: requiring an account, no activity, no real benefit offered by real-time as things stand on the website.
Edit: To add my own - Doesn't work without Javascript, information density of both content and comments is far too low, and, flatly, Why? What benefit does it offer over Reddit? What role does it fill that Reddit isn't presently filling? Because for me, things that Reddit does terribly includes iffy moderation, witty snark being upvoted more than sensible comments, and their abysmal search. HN, for instance, is great with all of these things, so I'm on here a lot.
A startup is only concerned with one thing... survival. So an employee's gender, race or sexual preferences is secondary to their ability to deliver results for the business. A perfect environment for meritocracy. IMO startups don't need to worry about diversity because their inherent nature promotes a level playing field.
Putting some thought into culture helps you avoid problems down the line. First startup I worked for was fun. It was a frat house basically. Looking back, I cringe when I think about how shitty it must have been for the few women who decided to work with us. It's embarrassing actually.
It's not a "perfect environment for meritocracy" and the playing field isn't level man. The sooner we get over ourselves and that idea, the better.
What happens after the survival stage when there is sizable profit? At that point the company culture might have settled and you ended up with egomaniacs who put profit over everything else in life.
1) At what point do you think there is sufficient/sizable profit? Most high-growth enterprises didn't have much left after spending last years profit on this years growth ... until there was an exit, at which point management wasn't their problem any more.
2) Why would investing in diversity be a detriment to profit growth for your egomaniacs? Are you saying that a diverse workforce is less profitable somehow? If not, what do you mean?
We are a fast growing German startup that produces custom personalized shirts built to order in Thailand and then shipped to our customers abroad. At every step in the process, customers can keep track of their shirt through their phone and have input into their order.
Due to the explosive growth of our business, we are looking to hire a full stack developer to join our team either in Bangkok or to work remotely.
While we don't have AI/ML or Cryptocurrency problems - it does not mean there is a lack of challenging and interesting topics for you to get your teeth sunk into. You will be helping us automate and make every aspect of our business more efficient.
What we are looking for
* We are currently migrating from a legacy PHP application to a brand new system based on * Laravel. Experience with PHP / Laravel is required. * We are using VueJS on the front end so you should have experience writing fluent Javascript * code using a modern JS framework like Vue/Angular/React. * We use Docker but we need some help introducing CI, automated deployments and we are missing some dev-ops experience... do you have strong Linux chops and experience with AWS and other cloud hosting providers? Can you help us make our development workflow better? * Lastly we are building out an agile team so we are looking for people who are not dogmatic about process but would like to help introduce best practices to a young and fresh team.
If you are looking to work remotely, we are open and welcoming of remote workers. As long as you can participate in planning sessions and are great at communicating, we have no problems where you are based. If you are living in Bangkok or would like to move to Thailand we can help with securing a visa and moving here.
To apply, please send me an introductory email to befeni.dev@gmail.com with some information about your background, where you are located, salary requirements and some way for me to assess your abilities (code samples, github, portfolio etc). I will then contact you to set up a Skype interview.
https://befeni.de