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@Railway, previously @Paperspace, supercomputing before that.

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railway.com 4mo ago

Railway surpasses 1M deployments per day

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twitter.com 5mo ago

Anthropic raises $30B at $380B post

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venturebeat.com 6mo ago

Railway secures $100M to challenge AWS

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blog.railway.com 10mo ago

Pricing to Encourage Use

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blog.railway.com 10mo ago

We Did Margin-Negative Computing Before It Was Cool, and It Was Silly

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blog.railway.com 10mo ago

Bring Back the Free Plan

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blog.railway.com 1y ago

Taming Servers for Fun and Profit

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blog.railway.com 1y ago

$1M for Open Source

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blog.railway.com 1y ago

Why We're Moving on from Nix

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blog.railway.com 1y ago

How We Work (Volume IV)

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blog.railway.com 1y ago

Shipping a Changelog Every Friday for More Than 4 Years

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blog.railway.com 1y ago

Slack Overflow: How We Scaled Slack to Support 1000s of Developers

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blog.railway.com 1y ago

So you want to build your own data center

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blog.railway.com 1y ago

Trust Is Not For Sale

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blog.railway.com 1y ago

Trust Is Not for Sale

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blog.railway.app 2y ago

How We Work (Volume III)

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blog.pragmaticengineer.com 2y ago

Coinbase paid Datadog $65M in 2022

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blog.railway.app 2y ago

Building Railway on Railway

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blog.railway.app 2y ago

Scale Not Sales: Automating Revenue So Graph Go Up

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twitter.com 2y ago

Railway launches $5k startup program

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blog.railway.app 2y ago

12M RPS DDoS Attack

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blog.railway.app 2y ago

Instead of Shipping Packets to Computers, We Ship Conversations to Humans

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blog.railway.app 2y ago

GCP Incidents

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sfuadadvancedcnf.files.wordpress.com 2y ago

Under the Influence – Paying the price of my father's booze (1989) [pdf]

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

Principality of Sealand

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www.edwardtufte.com 2y ago

The Work of Edward Tufte

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theamericanscholar.org 2y ago

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008)

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www.leveragedsellout.com 2y ago

The Book of Graham (2014)

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blog.railway.app 2y ago

Storming, Norming, Conforming, Underperforming

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railway.app 2y ago

Railway Launch Week 01

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You'd have to ask the author or editor or whoever wrote the title, I can't say I get what that phrase means either. Broadly the primitives we're building are all aimed at shortening the distance between generating code and deploying it

That's either the fun or the insane part of the challenge, depending on who you ask, going up against some of the most profitable companies in the history of the world

We're happy to answer any questions btw :)

Author here. Last time we had a free plan, we didn't have PMF so we ended up (at one point) losing $16 for every $1 of top line revenue. This is the story of what we learned the first time and what's different this time

Hi HN, it's the last day of our launch week and to celebrate we're announcing a $1M matching cash kickback for open source developers

The way it works is you make a template, other developers run it on our platform, and you get $0.50 for every $1 we collect in usage-based billing against it

We've already distributed ~$60K and when the $1M runs out we'll go back to the standard 25% kickback

Authorea | Senior Software Engineer | Brooklyn, NY | On-site | Visa possible | www.authorea.com

Spun out of CERN by a group of astrophysicists, Authorea is building the world’s best collaborative document editor for research. We are a New York City-based company with recent backing from Bloomberg Beta, ffVC, Lux Capital, and Techammer. We are pre-Series A with 70,000+ users and growing.

We are a close group of researchers, engineers, and product people fixing some enormous fundamental problems in research. Our goal is to advance substantially the pace of scientific innovation by delivering a superior research editor built for the web.

The editor is built on git and supports multiple markup languages. Every document is a repo and has a commit history. Researchers can run visualizations and IPython notebooks inside the document. Citations can be pulled from online reference libraries and documents can be exported to hundreds of styling formats. In short: We have a lot of stuff to work on, and we need your help!

Please say hello with a note to jobs@authorea.com and “HN” in the subject line.

Requirements: - Passion for open science - 6+ years of web development experience - Deep familiarity with Ruby/Rails - Extensive knowledge of the modern front end stack, CSS/JS, React, Redux - History of completing projects on time and to spec - A great team player with a positive attitude willing to help the team accomplish our ambitious goals

Authorea | Senior Engineer | Brooklyn, NY | On-site | Visa possible | www.authorea.com

Spun out of CERN by a group of astrophysicists, Authorea is building the world’s best collaborative document editor for research. We are a New York City-based company with recent backing from Bloomberg Beta, ffVC, Lux Capital, and Techammer. We are pre-Series A with 70,000+ users and growing.

We are a close group of researchers, engineers, and product people fixing some enormous fundamental problems in research. Our goal is to advance substantially the pace of scientific innovation by delivering a superior research editor built for the web.

The editor is built on git and supports multiple markup languages. Every document is a repo and has a commit history. Researchers can run visualizations and IPython notebooks inside the document. Citations can be pulled from online reference libraries and documents can be exported to hundreds of styling formats. In short: We have a lot of stuff to work on, and we need your help!

Please say hello with a note to jobs@authorea.com and “HN” in the subject line.

Requirements: - Passion for open science - 6+ years of web development experience - Deep familiarity with Ruby/Rails - Extensive knowledge of the modern front end stack, CSS/JS, React, Redux - History of completing projects on time and to spec - A great team player with a positive attitude willing to help the team accomplish our ambitious goals

Authorea | Senior Engineer | Brooklyn, NY | On-site | Visa possible | www.authorea.com

Spun out of CERN by a group of astrophysicists, Authorea is building the world’s best collaborative document editor for research. We are a New York company with recent backing from Bloomberg Beta, ffVC, Lux Capital, and Techammer. We are pre-Series A with 65,000+ users and growing.

We are a close group of researchers, engineers, and product people fixing some enormous fundamental problems in research. Our goal is to advance substantially the pace of scientific innovation by delivering a superior research editor built for the web.

The editor is built on git and supports multiple markup languages. Every document is a repo and has a commit history. Researchers can run visualizations and IPython notebooks inside the document. Citations can be pulled from online reference libraries and documents can be exported to hundreds of styling formats.

In short: We have a lot of stuff to work on, and we need your help!

Please say hello with a note to jobs@authorea.com and “HN” in the subject line.

Requirements:

- Passion for open science

- 6+ years of web development experience

- Deep familiarity with Ruby/Rails

- Extensive knowledge of the modern front end stack, CSS/JS, React, Redux

- History of completing projects on time and to spec

- A great team player with a positive attitude willing to help the team accomplish our ambitious goals

Authorea | https://www.authorea.com/ | Full time | Onsite | Brooklyn, New York (NYC)

Authorea is building GitHub + Google Docs for researchers. We were spun out of CERN by a group of astrophysicists who were frustrated with the cumbersome process of collaborating on scientific research. Our team is small, but our tool is already being used at all 100 of the top 100 (Leiden Ranking) research universities. We also just closed a substantial funding round with brand-name VCs.

All positions require a passion for startups and for Open Science! More info at: https://www.authorea.com/jobs

We're looking for:

* (SENIOR) FRONT END ENGINEER - Authorea has a robust backend but it did not receive all the love it deserves on the front end. We're looking for an engineer with strong front end skills who will take our product to the next level. Needs to have: JS/CSS/React/Rails and obsession over product and pixel perfection. Nice to have: previous experience working with editors.

Contact: hi [at] authorea [dot] com

(Also, we're always hiring interns!)

Try Authorea! (Disclosure: I work there)

Authorea is for researchers to write and collaborate online. Multiple users can write across formats in the same document (including LaTeX, markdown, rich text) and you can push a button to export to different file formats, journal styles, or publish to the web.

Authorea | https://www.authorea.com/ | Full time | Onsite | New York, NY (Flatiron)

Authorea is building GitHub + Google Docs for researchers. We were spun out of CERN by a group of astrophysicists who were frustrated with the cumbersome process of collaborating on scientific research. Our team is very small, but our tool is already being used at all 100 of the top 100 (Leiden Ranking) research universities. We also just raised a substantial seed round with brand-name VCs.

All positions require a passion for startups and for Open Science! More info at: https://www.authorea.com/jobs

Positions (Abridged):

* WEB DESIGNER We’re looking for someone to help shape the look and feel of our product, i.e., make us look good. Really good. Great taste, great design skills, and an eye for web graphic design. Someone who can tell a story through design. Proven web design skills, knowledge of CSS and JS, and experience designing and building interfaces informed by user testing.

* UX/UI ENGINEER - Authorea has a robust backend but it did not receive all the love it deserves on the front end. We're looking for an engineer with strong design skills. Someone who will be able to understand the nitty gritty details of the Rails back end but who will spend most of their time on the Javascript/CSS front end. In particular, we are looking for someone who will study and understand Authorea users and improve the platform's user onboarding, experience, interfaces and interaction.

* GROWTH ENGINEER - Authorea is looking for a software engineer who can design, test, and implement customer acquisition and retention strategies. The role requires substantial technical expertise to implement innovative search marketing, search engine optimization, notification, and web analytics frameworks. This person would implement Authorea’s acquisition and retention programs. This position therefore requires familiarity with business and marketing objectives as well as experience building scalable acquisition and retention systems.

Drop us a line if you see something of interest! hi [at] authorea [dot] com

(Also, we're always hiring interns!)