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Co-founder & VP Engineering @ AdQuick https://www.adquick.com
Formerly Tech Lead @ Instacart.
Data point of one (as is this essay), but Twitter hasn’t changed that much for me.
In some ways the timeline algo actually feels more addictive.
I do see posts that might have been flagged under the previous team, but if I don’t like them I can mute or unfollow - it’s not that big a deal.
A bigger issue in my opinion is the government demanding that social media companies censor things, and I think Elon has done a good job shining light on this.
Agreed.
The way I see it though is it's a solution looking for a problem.
"Look, we can build a decentralized database."
"Wow, let's try and use this to replace EVERYTHING"... and yet so far it has replaced nothing.
The most basic and obvious use cases – a Venmo replacement, a credit card replacement, and sending money across borders – these are all still done the traditional way, and it doesn't seem like that's about to change.
I'm hoping to be proven wrong, especially for the credit cards use case. Would be nice if everything cost 3% less. But it doesn't appear to be on the horizon.
Interesting.
There are those pre-installed samples there already, they couldn't just be swapped out with an imported file – there's something special about those files?
Anyway I think it's hugely underrated, hopefully you guys can do a v2 sometime. I'm blown away whenever I use it, it feels like a huge technical achievement.
Hey! While you’re here, could you share why the Tempest doesn’t allow you to use your own samples?
Could you guys open source some parts of Tempest so people could keep working on it?
Asking as a Tempest owner and huge Sequential fan.
AdQuick | Senior Software Engineers, Engineering Managers | Full-time | Remote | https://www.adquick.com
AdQuick is building the marketplace for Outdoor Advertising. Our mission is to make outdoor ads easy to buy and measure. We are a Series A-stage startup with 40 people and a product team of 18. The founding team consists of people who helped build Instacart.
Why you should consider joining:
- Challenging technical problems (1M+ units, real-time bidding, terabytes of analytics data)
- Exciting, growing company (rev. up 4X from last year)
- Strong engineering team (from Instacart, Digital Ocean, Carnegie Mellon PhD)
- Nice, collaborative culture
- Fully remote, and we know how to do it
- Effective project process
- Really great tech stack
Our tech stack:
- Code: Ruby, Rails, Postgres, React, Kotlin, Kafka, Stimulus JS, Stimulus Reflex
- Infra: AWS, Heroku, Redis Labs, Aiven
We're looking for:
- Experience in our stack or similar technologies
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- You take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
If you're interested email me at vic [at] adquick [dot] com and we can hop on a quick call. I'm a co-founder, and before AdQuick I was a tech lead at Instacart.
... and my crime is?
Mentioning the idea of wrongthink?
You're kind of proving my point.
This essay is so prescient.
Does anyone else think wokeism has gone too far, and we're sliding into a 1984-style era full of newspeak, wrongthink, and thoughtcrimes?
I feel a little afraid to even write that, even as a question mark, even at that level of abstraction.
That right there is probably an indication that it perhaps has gone too far.
To be clear, this is coming from a person who is hispanic, supports gay-rights, and voted for Bernie. Not that any of that should matter.
Why you should consider joining:
- Challenging technical problems (1M+ units, real-time bidding, terabytes of analytics data)
- Exciting, growing company (rev. up 4X from last year)
- Strong engineering team (from Instacart, Digital Ocean, Carnegie Mellon PhD)
- Nice, collaborative culture
- Fully remote, and we know how to do it
- Effective project process
- Really great tech stack
Our tech stack:
- Code: Ruby, Rails, Postgres, React, Kotlin, Kafka, Stimulus JS, Stimulus Reflex
- Infra: AWS, Heroku, Redis Labs, Aiven
We're looking for:
- Experience in our stack or similar technologies
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- You take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
If you're interested email me at vic [at] adquick [dot] com and we can hop on a quick call. I'm a co-founder, and before AdQuick I was a tech lead at Instacart.
Great. It wasn't when I submitted this.
Gotta love HN :)
I'm aware, it's just an expression.
Didn't know about the email though, I'll send them one.
AdQuick | Senior Software Engineers, Engineering Managers | Full-time | Remote | https://www.adquick.com
AdQuick is building the marketplace for Outdoor Advertising. Our mission is to make outdoor ads easy to buy and measure. We are a Series A-stage startup with 40 people and a product team of 18. The founding team consists of people who helped build Instacart.
Why you should consider joining:
- Challenging technical problems (1M+ units, real-time bidding, terabytes of analytics data)
- Exciting, growing company (rev. up 4X from last year)
- Strong engineering team (from Instacart, Digital Ocean, Carnegie Mellon PhD)
- Nice, collaborative culture
- Fully remote, and we know how to do it
- Effective project process
- Really great tech stack
Our tech stack:
- Code: Ruby, Rails, Postgres, React, Kotlin, Kafka, Stimulus JS, Stimulus Reflex
- Infra: AWS, Heroku, Redis Labs, Aiven
We're looking for:
- Experience in our stack or similar technologies
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- You take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
If you're interested email me at vic [at] adquick [dot] com and we can hop on a quick call. I'm a co-founder, and before AdQuick I was a tech lead at Instacart.
AdQuick | Senior Software Engineers, Engineering Managers | Full-time | Remote (Anywhere +/- 5 hrs PST) | https://www.adquick.com
AdQuick is building the marketplace for Outdoor Advertising. Our mission is to make outdoor ads easy to buy and measure. We are a Series A-stage startup with 40 people and a product team of 18. The founding team consists of people who helped build Instacart.
Why you should consider joining:
- Challenging technical problems (1M+ units, real-time bidding, terabytes of analytics data)
- Exciting, growing company (rev. up 4X from last year)
- Strong engineering team (from Instacart, Digital Ocean, Carnegie Mellon PhD)
- Nice, collaborative culture
- Fully remote, and we know how to do it
- Effective project process
- Really great tech stack
Our tech stack:
- Code: Ruby, Rails, Postgres, React, Kotlin, Kafka, Stimulus JS, Stimulus Reflex
- Infra: AWS, Heroku, Redis Labs, Aiven
We're looking for:
- Experience in our stack or similar technologies
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- You take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
If you're interested email me at vic [at] adquick [dot] com and we can hop on a quick call. I'm a co-founder, and before AdQuick I was a tech lead at Instacart.
Have any details? I have a close friend with treatment resistant depression.
AdQuick | Senior Software Engineers, Tech Leads, Engineering Managers | Full-time | Remote (Anywhere +/- 5 hrs PST) | https://www.adquick.com
AdQuick is building the marketplace for Outdoor Advertising. Our mission is to make outdoor ads easy to buy and measure.
We are a Series A-stage startup with 40 people and a product team of 18. The founding team consists of people who helped build Instacart.
Alexis Ohanian (reddit co-founder) led our Series A via Initialized and is on our board.
Our tech stack:
Code: Ruby, Rails, Postgres, React, Kotlin, Kafka, Stimulus JS, Stimulus Reflex
Infra: AWS, Heroku, Redis Labs, Aiven
We're looking for:
- Experience in our stack or similar technologies
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- You take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
We don't do whiteboard interviews, practical challenges only.
Our culture is collaborative & friendly, everyone is learning from each other all the time.
Shoot me an email at vic [at] adquick [dot] com if this sounds interesting to you! Or apply at https://jobs.adquick.com
AdQuick | Senior Software Engineers, Tech Leads, Engineering Managers | Full-time | Remote (Anywhere +/- 5 hrs PST) | https://www.adquick.com
AdQuick is building the marketplace for Outdoor Advertising. Our mission is to make outdoor ads easy to buy and measure.
We are a Series A-stage startup with 38 people and a product team of 19. The founding team consists early Instacart'ers.
Alexis Ohanian (reddit co-founder) led our Series A via Initialized and is on our board.
Our tech stack:
Code: Ruby, Rails, Postgres, React, Kotlin, Kafka, Stimulus JS, Stimulus Reflex
Infra: AWS, Heroku, Redis Labs, Aiven
We're looking for:
- Experience in our stack or similar technologies
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- You take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
- You like tests and clean code, but you understand shipping is equally important
There are no red-black trees in our interviews – practical challenges only.
Our culture is collaborative & friendly, everyone is learning from each other all the time.
Shoot me an email at vic [at] adquick [dot] com if this sounds interesting to you! Or apply at https://jobs.adquick.com
AdQuick | Senior Software Engineers, Tech Leads, Engineering Managers, Product Designers | Full-time | Venice, CA | Onsite or Remote | https://www.adquick.com
AdQuick is building the marketplace for Outdoor Advertising. Our mission is to make outdoor ads easy to buy and measure.
We are a Series A-stage startup with 30 people and a product team of 15. The founding team consists early Instacart'ers.
Our tech stack:
Ruby, Rails, Postgres, Heroku, React, Kotlin, Kafka, Stimulus JS, Stimulus Reflex
We're looking for:
- Experience in our stack or similar technologies
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- You take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
Shoot me an email at vic [at] adquick [dot] com if this sounds interesting to you, or apply at https://jobs.adquick.com
AdQuick | Senior Software Engineers, Tech Leads, Engineering Managers, Product Designers | Full-time | Venice, CA | Onsite or Remote |
AdQuick is building the marketplace for Outdoor Advertising. Our mission is to make outdoor ads easy to buy and measure.
We are a Series A-stage startup with 30 people and a product team of 15. The founding team consists early Instacart'ers.
Our tech stack:
Ruby, Rails, Postgres, Heroku, React, Kotlin, Kafka, Stimulus JS, Stimulus Reflex
We're looking for:
- Experience in our stack or similar technologies
- 3+ years experience in working on production systems
- You take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
Shoot me an email at vic [at] adquick [dot] com if this sounds interesting to you, or apply at https://jobs.adquick.com
AdQuick | Senior Software Engineer, Full-time | Venice, CA | Onsite or Remote | https://www.adquick.com
AdQuick is building the AirBnb for Outdoor Advertising. Our mission is to make outdoor ads easy to buy and measure (think billboards, posters, transit ads, etc.).
We are a Series A-stage startup with 30 people and a product team of 15. The founding team consists of startup veterans who were early at Instacart. We are funded by Garry Tan & Alexis Ohanian's VC firm, Initialized.
Our engineering team has been remote/distributed since well before Covid, so remote is in our DNA.
We have big problems to solve:
* Getting the entire supply-side on our platform (we're 20% of the way there)
* Getting the entire market demand on our platform (we're making significant headway)
* Making outdoor advertising measurable (we're using interesting data science models to do this)
* Making outdoor advertising INSTANT like AdWords/FB Ads
Our tech stack:
* Ruby
* Rails
* Postgres
* Heroku
* React
* Kotlin & Kafka for high-throughput systems
* Stimulus JS / Stimulus Reflex
We're looking for:
- Experience in our stack or similar technologies
- 3+ years experience in working on production systems
- Folks who explicitly want to be at a startup – you take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
Shoot me an email at vic [at] adquick [dot] com if this sounds interesting to you!
Sure, but if it's software and it's about to be publicly accessible very soon, why not wait for that?
Totally fair, I don't want this to be the top comment, I hate the middlebrow-dismissal and I've sort of committed that sin with this comment.
Thanks!
Shouldn't "Show HN" rules also apply to "Launch HN"?
"Off topic: ... sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead."
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
This looks like an awesome product, but kind of annoying to see a "Launch" but it's just a waitlist. Why not wait until Monday?
Here comes the classic HN middle-brow dismissal :)
TodoMVC is meant to be a minimalist demo, not a battle-hardened app.
We switched from React to Reflex 7 months ago. We have fewer bugs than we did with React, and we ship things about 3 times faster.
5/5 of us strongly prefer Reflex over React. Including one of us who was a big React aficionado beforehand.
Just wanted to put that out there for anyone considering Reflex, a bug in TodoMVC is not a harbinger of a bad framework.
The Ruby/Rails ecosystem is massive, and remains extremely productive and pleasant to work with.
It seems like this should be a standard monthly post on the first of the month just like Who's Hiring & Who Wants to Be Hired.
AdQuick | Senior Software Engineers, Product Managers, Project Managers, Full-time | Venice, CA | Onsite or Remote | https://www.adquick.com
AdQuick is building the AdWords for Billboards.
We're a group of early Instacart folks, we got started on AdQuick in late 2016. We started by building software to map all outdoor ads and make them easy to buy and measure using data.
In doing so, we acquired customers like Squarespace, Shopify, GoodRx, KrispyKreme, and many others, and raised our Series A last year.
Now, the industry is undergoing a transition to programmatic buying (meaning auction-based buying, just like how you bid for ads on Google and FB.) We're building the best platform to buy outdoor ads in real-time. We just launched this new product in June 2020 and we're seeing significant growth.
For engineers, we're looking for:
- Experience with Ruby, Rails, & Postgres, or similar technologies. Our traditional-buying product is in React, our programmatic product is built with Stimulus Reflex. The back-end bidding system is in Kotlin & Quarkus (https://quarkus.io/)
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- People who actively want the startup experience: taking a lot of ownership, having a big impact, and building amazing products that customers love.
Fill out our Google Form here if this sounds interesting to you!
https://forms.gle/dCVT5tUgfpE87JcP8
For Product Managers & Project Managers, we're looking for:
- 2+ years experience in the role, preferably at a high-growth startup
- Beyond that, impress us :). These are generalist roles.
Email me, vic@adquick.com if you're interested.
Hey HN'ers,
We just launched this new product today, AdQuick Programmatic.
You can find and buy digital billboards in real-time.
Let me know if you have any questions!
AdQuick | Senior Software Engineers, Product Managers, Full-time | Venice, CA | Onsite or Remote | https://www.adquick.com
AdQuick is building the AdWords for Billboards.
We've built software that makes it easy for marketers to plan a traditional direct buy of outdoor ads, and now we're working on software that will enable marketers & business owners to place ads on real-world digital screens programmatically in real-time, via software or APIs.
This is a totally new market that's rapidly growing, especially as digital screens get cheaper and as Facebook and Google Ad CPMs continue to get expensive and saturated.
A little about us: AdQuick is an Instacart-mafia company – the co-founders met there, and we've since hired several other folks that used to work there with us. (We joke that AdQuick is just the top 10% of Instacart – sorry Apoorva!).
We're 3 years old, we have 40 people total and product/eng team of 15. We've raised funding from Garry Tan & Alexis Ohanian's VC firm, Initialized Capital. We were break-even in years 1 and 2, and we just closed our Series A: https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/13/adquick-raises-6m-to-conqu...
We're looking for:
- Experience in Ruby, Rails, React, Webpack, Postgres or similar technologies. TypeScript and Ruby Sorbet experience are also welcomed.
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- People who actively want the startup experience: taking a lot of ownership, having a big impact, and building amazing products that customers love.
Fill out our quick google form here if this sounds interesting to you!
AdQuick | Senior Software Engineers, Designers, Product Managers, Full-time | Venice, CA | Onsite or Remote | https://www.adquick.com AdQuick is building the AdWords for Billboards.
We've built software that makes it easy for marketers to plan a traditional direct buy of outdoor ads, and now we're working on software that will enable marketers & business owners to place ads on real-world digital screens programmatically in real-time, via software or APIs.
This is a totally new market that's rapidly growing, especially as digital screens get cheaper and as Facebook and Google Ad CPMs continue to get expensive and saturated.
A little about us: AdQuick is an Instacart-mafia company – the initial co-founders met there, and we've since hired several other folks that used to work there with us.
We're 3 years old, we have 35 people total and an engineering team of 11. We've raised funding from Garry Tan & Alexis Ohanian's VC firm, Initialized Capital.
We're looking for:
- Experience in Ruby, Rails, React, Webpack, Postgres or similar technologies. TypeScript and Ruby Sorbet experience are also welcomed.
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- People who actively want the startup experience: taking a lot of ownership, having a big impact, and building amazing products that customers love.
Fill out our quick google form here if this sounds interesting to you!
AdQuick | Senior Software Engineers, Designers, Product Managers, Full-time | Venice, CA | Onsite or Remote | https://www.adquick.com
AdQuick is building the AdWords for Billboards.
We've built software that makes it easy for marketers to plan a traditional direct buy of outdoor ads, and now we're working on software that will enable marketers & business owners to place ads on real-world digital screens programmatically in real-time, via software or APIs.
This is a totally new market that's rapidly growing, especially as digital screens get cheaper and as Facebook and Google Ad CPMs continue to get expensive and saturated.
A little about us: AdQuick is an Instacart-mafia company – the initial co-founders met there, and we've since hired several other folks that used to work there with us.
We're 3 years old, we have 30 people total and an engineering team of 11. We've raised 3M in funding from Garry Tan & Alexis Ohanian's VC firm, Initialized Capital.
We're looking for:
- Experience in Ruby, Rails, React, Webpack, Postgres or similar technologies. TypeScript and Ruby Sorbet experience are also welcomed.
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- People who actively want the startup experience: taking a lot of ownership, having a big impact, and building amazing products that customers love.
Fill out our quick google form here if this sounds interesting to you!