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Builder.io | San Francisco, CA or Remote | Software Engineer, Tech Support, Head of User Operations

Builder.io (https://www.builder.io) is a visual editor and CMS that connects to any platform or tech stack allowing anyone to create and edit content visually.

We're a small team of experienced developers backed by leading Silicon Valley VCs.

We currently have 3 open roles:

- Software Engineer (React + Node.js): https://angel.co/company/builder-io/jobs/711157-full-stack-e...

- Tech Support: https://angel.co/company/builder-io/jobs/694201-technical-sp...

- Head of User Operations: https://angel.co/company/builder-io/jobs/709276-head-of-user...

We use Builder to power a lot of the dynamic content on https://www.shopstyle.com.

Builder enables our product / marketing teams to iterate, test and customize different parts of the site really quickly. These days we rarely receive marketing tickets because they can build whatever they want in Builder.

As an engineer, it's been great to use our custom components in the web UI, and the ability to connect to our own APIs has been pretty cool as well. Plus, it's super fast and stable. We were initially concerned it might impact load times, but the client sdk is really lightweight and the content loads faster than our own APIs.

Overall, I'd highly recommend giving it a try.

Probably more positives here for Coursera than negatives. It'll get them more press and won't stop anyone from taking classes.

Hopefully it'll even make someone in the MN Office of Higher Education realize they need to update their policies.

Original article on nytimes.com: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/technology/yelp-tries-to-h...

Was just able to push/pull okay, overall seems like they're dealing with the outage really well. Their status page is really helpful, they were on twitter quickly, and they tried to restore service to people who might need to push/pull to their repos.

Build at least one project that looks nice. You don't need to spend a lot of time, but buy a nice-looking theme (I used themeforest) and build a simple site for a small business. Then hit up your non-technical network. Show them that you can give them an attractive website, and you'll probably find a few people who are interested in working with you.

When I first started freelancing, I spent 10 hours on a redesign for a local fitness boutique. It was an easy project that earned $700, but I would've done it for free if I knew all the business they'd send my way after. After seeing the site, the receptionist's brother wanted a website for his bike store, another client wanted a new site for his business, even the guy who cut my hair wanted me to make him a website after seeing the one project I had done.

If you can't find anyone in your network that's looking for help, try contacting local businesses with crappy websites. You can create some screen-shots of a potential redesign or even create a working demo page using pre-built themes (check out trial.mysitemyway.com). You'd be surprised at how many projects you can get from this type of outreach.

Nice post, I was in the same position about a year ago. It feels really good when you get to the stage when you can launch a project, which doesn't take very long with Django.

After a few months of working with Python/Django I realized how much else there is to learn and how shitty my first attempts really were. I keep going back over my old scripts every time I learn something new to see if I can improve the code. It's sometimes depressing thinking about how much there is to learn, but the power to create whatever you want is totally worth it!

Working in Education doesn't always have the same instant gratification as other projects, but if you can help people learn then you're going to have a very strong and lasting impact over time. And imagine if you created a product like, Khan Academy, that would increase the knowledge of 1% of the population by 10%. I think that's a worthy goal.

The neon green on the Opez site is giving me a headache. And the white text on green background is really hard to read. It's an interesting idea, and may be helpful if they can integrate with some of the existing networks - I just really hope they change the color scheme.

That's what I thought too when I saw the title. I didn't think anyone brought actual gifts to interviews, but it's cool to know that someone has! I wonder if anyone would have a negative reaction to bringing actual gifts.

When I started my first company I was more naive than courageous. I quickly learned that being an entrepreneur takes a huge toll on all aspects of your life. Elon Musk describes it best:

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death

But even after all the challenges, I still can't help being excited to take on the next challenge.

Trying multiple options in series or in parallel is often not the best business decision. What type of choices are easily undone by new technology?

+1 for anything by Mankiw. We read several of his books when I was studying Econ in college a few years ago. Given your interest in inflation, government spending, etc, you'll want to focus on the chapters on Macroeconomics. I also found a good presentation from the Berkeley website that might be interesting:

http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/wood/e100b_f08/intro....

As other people have mentioned, it's a lot easier to try a startup when you've had a chance to save money from a $250,000 salary. Plus, you have the experience working for a big PE firm so you know you can always find another great job. I love hearing these stories, but his 'risk' wasn't really as great as someone who quits an $80,000 job with $10,000 in savings. I know that story too well :)

The only way I'd hire this guy is if it was a parody. As a parody, it's pretty good, but as an actual reverse resume it just seems really weird. I'm sure he'll get a bunch of offers from other companies besides Google. I just don't see this type of stuff fitting in with Google's personality.

That is pretty awesome, even if you can't trust it 100% I get a good idea of what you're relatively good at. Linkedin should do something like this.

I usually forget it for a few days. I have a lot of ideas that seem really great when I first think of them, but after a few days thinking about something else I realize that the original idea was stupid and think of something else! If I have an idea that still seems worthwhile after a week, then I know I might be on to something.

Very cool site, I've been thinking about something like this for a while now. It might be helpful to view the events on a calendar so you can plan things out or easily check out what's going on over a few weekends.

I used to spend a lot of time on TC, but there's so much fluff and crap to filter through it's not worth it anymore. Now I only find myself there if there's an interesting link on HN. And the best articles by far are written by guest authors. It really isn't a useful or productive resource for startups, it's kind of like the TMZ of the tech world.

If there's a bubble, it's because idiots like this are dumping money into the system. Greenspan and Shiller call it irrational exuberance.

“We are not valuation-sensitive and the traditional community feels threatened.”

“We may be the dumbest guys in the room, but we’re opportunistic,” Mr. Mazzola said, adding that “Felix is Latin for ‘lucky.’ ”

The traditional community doesn't feel threatened by you, they're just smart enough to know that you're driving tech company prices way higher than true economic "value". Which, by definition, is a bubble.

Why do our politicians insist on making things harder for entrepreneurs (ex: immigration) while ignoring market failures caused by idiots like this?

Totally agree... It sucks that it happened, but come on, take a deep breath. I've been trying to think of any documents I might have that would really cause me to get so upset about this... Some might be a little embarrassing, but I really can't think of anything that would make me this pissed off.

What are people storing on dropbox that they're getting so upset by this? The chance that someone took advantage of this bug and accessed YOUR account are so small. I thought the blog post was fine, but I guess it's a good lesson for founders to take these kind of security issues more seriously than they they are - or else your users will freak out... It shouldn't have happened, but they'll learn from it and improve their system so it won't happen again.