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Stealth | REMOTE | Full-Time | Founding Senior Flutter Engineer, Founding Designer (European time zones)

We’re a remote-first startup building AI-powered, non-gaming, consumer mobile apps. Our team includes ex Palantir and Meta engineers, and we're looking for a Founding Flutter Engineer & a Founding Designer to join us in shaping the future of AI-driven products.

What we’re looking for:

* Founding Senior Flutter Engineer: you'll lead the development of our mobile applications, working closely with our AI team to create compelling user experiences. You'll be responsible for building scalable architectures and establishing technical standards across our app portfolio.

* Founding Designer: you'll primarily own the product design and UI/UX for our consumer mobile apps, with some lightweight support for marketing and brand design needs. You'll rapidly bring design concepts from ideation to production, working closely with the rest of our team to create compelling user experiences that seamlessly integrate AI capabilities.

More details and how to apply: - https://tinyurl.com/founding-flutter-engineer - https://tinyurl.com/stealth-founding-designer

Please note: NO agencies, outsourcing, outstaffing, or business development representatives should reach out.

Stealth | REMOTE | Full-Time | Founding AI Engineer (European time zones)

We’re a remote-first startup building AI-powered, non-gaming, consumer mobile apps. Our team includes ex Palantir and Meta engineers, and we're looking for a Founding AI Engineer to join us in shaping the future of AI-driven products.

What we’re looking for:

* Experience with generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs) and expertise with image and video models (e.g. Stable Diffusion, FLUX, ControlNets, ComfyUI, etc.) * Strong track record of deploying models to production * Entrepreneurial mindset and enthusiasm for early-stage startups * This is not a research-oriented role; it’s a very practical position focused on building and deploying real-world AI solutions.

More details and how to apply: https://tinyurl.com/founding-ai-engineer

Please note: no agencies, outsourcing, outstaffing, or business development representatives should reach out.

I'm curious too!

what views of his do you disagree with?

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I don't know if it was a temporary thing, but https://www.alliron.vc/ is up and running.

All Iron Ventures | Tech Lead/Senior Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE (Europe / Middle East / Africa) with 2 days each month in Spain | Full-Time

All Iron is a European early stage venture capital firm based in Bilbao. With ~€300M under management, we invest in Seed and Series A startups across Europe. So far, we have invested in 50+ companies including success stories like JobandTalent, Seedtag, TuLotero or Preply amongst others and our graduation rates place us in the industry’s top quartile.

Venture investing is no longer a domestic and (only) relationship-based business. Modernising how venture firms work is a key competitive advantage, that here at All Iron sits at the core of how we do things. We are building our very own tool, Pareto, which is becoming the most relevant platform for the investment team’s day to day. In the last twelve months, Pareto has allowed us to gain a competitive advantage in a very competitive market by both saving time and identifying interesting companies ahead of our peers.

If you are passionate about building product to significantly improve how we run our day to day, using large amounts of data (to identify interesting companies to potentially invest in) and want to join an entrepreneurial firm, you will not be disappointed!

What are we looking for:

* 3+ years experience as a Data Engineer or Full-stack Engineer

* Someone who is a self-starter, scrappy, and pragmatic

* Experience in Google cloud, Django, JavaScript / TypeScript with React, SQL and Spark

* Experience as a tech lead or an Engineering manager is a plus: we have an external team of engineers whom you’ll be working closely with

* Experience working at a small startup and/or as a solo engineer is a plus

* Ability to travel to Bilbao (Spain) ~2 days each month is a must (all paid by All Iron Ventures)

If you are interested and would like to join us, please send your CV to hr_aiv@alliron.com. Please mention you saw this through Hacker News.

All Iron Ventures | Tech Lead/Senior Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE (Europe / Middle East / Africa) with 2 days each month in Spain | Full-Time

All Iron is a European early stage venture capital firm based in Bilbao. With ~€300M under management, we invest in Seed and Series A startups across Europe. So far, we have invested in 50+ companies including success stories like JobandTalent, Seedtag, TuLotero or Preply amongst others and our graduation rates place us in the industry’s top quartile.

Venture investing is no longer a domestic and (only) relationship-based business. Modernising how venture firms work is a key competitive advantage, that here at All Iron sits at the core of how we do things. We are building our very own tool, Pareto, which is becoming the most relevant platform for the investment team’s day to day. In the last twelve months, Pareto has allowed us to gain a competitive advantage in a very competitive market by both saving time and identifying interesting companies ahead of our peers.

If you are passionate about building product to significantly improve how we run our day to day, using large amounts of data (to identify interesting companies to potentially invest in) and want to join an entrepreneurial firm, you will not be disappointed!

What are we looking for:

* 3+ years experience as a Data Engineer or Full-stack Engineer

* Someone who is a self-starter, scrappy, and pragmatic

* Experience in Google cloud, Django, JavaScript / TypeScript with React, SQL and Spark

* Experience as a tech lead or an Engineering manager is a plus: we have an external team of engineers whom you’ll be working closely with

* Experience working at a small startup and/or as a solo engineer is a plus

* Ability to travel to Bilbao (Spain) ~2 days each month is a must

If you are interested and would like to join us, please send your CV to hr_aiv@alliron.com. Please mention you saw this through Hacker News.

All Iron Ventures | Tech Lead/Senior Full-Stack Engineer | REMOTE (Europe / Middle East / Africa) with 2 days each month in Spain | Full-Time

All Iron is a European early stage venture capital firm based in Bilbao. With ~€300M under management, we invest in Seed and Series A startups across Europe. So far, we have invested in 50+ companies including success stories like JobandTalent, Seedtag, TuLotero or Preply amongst others and our graduation rates place us in the industry’s top quartile.

Venture investing is no longer a domestic and (only) relationship-based business. Modernising how venture firms work is a key competitive advantage, that here at All Iron sits at the core of how we do things. We are building our very own tool, Pareto, which is becoming the most relevant platform for the investment team’s day to day. In the last twelve months, Pareto has allowed us to gain a competitive advantage in a very competitive market by both saving time and identifying interesting companies ahead of our peers.

If you are passionate about building product to significantly improve how we run our day to day, using large amounts of data (to identify interesting companies to potentially invest in) and want to join an entrepreneurial firm, you will not be disappointed!

What are we looking for:

* 3+ years experience as a Data Engineer or Full-stack Engineer

* Someone who is a self-starter, scrappy, and pragmatic

* Experience in Google cloud, Django, JavaScript / TypeScript with React, SQL and Spark

* Experience as a tech lead or an Engineering manager is a plus: we have an external team of engineers whom you’ll be working closely with

* Experience working at a small startup and/or as a solo engineer is a plus

* Ability to travel to Bilbao (Spain) ~2 days each month is a must

If you are interested and would like to join us, please send your CV to hr_aiv@alliron.com, and include a short essay (1 page max) stating why you are interested in this position, how it relates to your previous experience, and why you think you can contribute great value. Please mention you saw this through Hacker News.

No information about who are the founders/colleagues, how many people work, what's the comp. Not saying you're such company, but it does look sketchy.

Layer | REMOTE (ideally GMT-1 to GMT+5) | Infrastructure Engineer (SRE / DevOps)/Senior Backend Engineer/VP of Design/Lead Product Designer/Community Manager/Developer Advocate - Only Experienced/Senior Candidates for all roles | https://layer.co Layer is building the central hub for machine learning development. ML itself is complex. On top of that, GitHub is not built for collaboration of ML practitioners. We designed a delightfully simple integration, architected a massively scalable, declarative platform.

One of our founders sold his previous company for 500M USD, the other is one of the top VC partners in Europe. Our engineering team is a mix of top engineers from Palantir, Revolut, Google, eBay, Wise, Improbable, Coinbase, Amazon, DataRobot, among others.

We have an all-remote culture as we aspire to work with the best talent, no matter where they live. We are looking to make a few more hires until we close down hiring until Series A. We pay competitive salaries and give stock, among other perks. Initially, we are looking to hire within the GMT-1 to GMT+5 time zones but we are happy to make exceptions for truly exceptional candidates.

Our tech stack is React/TypeScript/GraphQL on the frontend, Java at the backend (with some Scala and Python), Kubernetes/AWS/Terraform/Gradle on the infra side. We are currently only looking for experienced candidates. Prior startup experience or being a prolific open source contributor is a plus.

NO RECRUITERS/OUTSTAFFING/OURSOURCING COMPANIES PLEASE.

Feel free to apply at https://jobs.lever.co/layer

(For the community manager/developer advocate role, please feel free to directly reach out to me at cihat at layer.co)

Layer | REMOTE (ideally GMT-1 to GMT+5) | Infrastructure Engineer (SRE / DevOps)/Engineering Manager/VP of Design/Lead Product Designer - Only Experienced/Senior Candidates for all roles | https://layer.co Layer is building the Declarative MLOps (DM) platform to help data teams across all companies to produce machine learning applications based on code in small and safe increments that can be reproduced, tested and reliably deployed at any time, in short adaptation cycles.

One of our founders sold his previous company for 500M USD, the other is one of the top VC partners in Europe. Our engineering team is a mix of top engineers from Palantir, Revolut, Google, eBay, Wise, Improbable, Coinbase, Amazon, DataRobot, among others.

We have an all-remote culture as we aspire to work with the best talent, no matter where they live. We are looking to make a few more hires until we close down hiring until Series A. We pay competitive salaries and give stock, among other perks. Initially, we are looking to hire within the GMT-1 to GMT+5 time zones but we are happy to make exceptions for truly exceptional candidates.

Our tech stack is React/TypeScript/GraphQL on the frontend, Java at the backend (with some Scala and Python), Kubernetes/AWS/Terraform/Gradle on the infra side. We are currently only looking for experienced candidates. Prior startup experience or being a prolific open source contributor is a plus.

NO RECRUITERS/OUTSTAFFING/OURSOURCING COMPANIES PLEASE.

Feel free to apply at https://jobs.lever.co/layer

Layer | REMOTE (ideally GMT-1 to GMT+5) | Infrastructure Engineer (SRE / DevOps)/Engineering Manager/VP of Design/Lead Product Designer - Only Experienced/Senior Candidates for all roles | https://layer.co

Layer is building the Declarative MLOps (DM) platform to help data teams across all companies to produce machine learning applications based on code in small and safe increments that can be reproduced, tested and reliably deployed at any time, in short adaptation cycles.

One of our founders sold his previous company for 500M USD, the other is one of the top VC partners in Europe. Our engineering team is a mix of top engineers from Palantir, Revolut, Google, eBay, Wise, Improbable, Coinbase, Amazon, DataRobot, among others.

We have an all-remote culture as we aspire to work with the best talent, no matter where they live. We are looking to make a few more hires until we close down hiring until Series A. We pay competitive salaries and give stock, among other perks. Initially, we are looking to hire within the GMT-1 to GMT+5 time zones but we are happy to make exceptions for truly exceptional candidates.

Our tech stack is React/TypeScript/GraphQL on the frontend, Java at the backend (with some Scala and Python), Kubernetes/AWS/Terraform/Gradle on the infra side. We are currently only looking for experienced candidates. Prior startup experience or being a prolific open source contributor is a plus.

NO RECRUITERS/OUTSTAFFING/OURSOURCING COMPANIES PLEASE.

Feel free to apply at https://jobs.lever.co/layer

Layer | REMOTE (GMT-1 to GMT+5) | VP of Product/Senior Infrastructure Engineer (SRE with a focus on DevEx and productivity)/Engineering Manager/VP of Design/Lead Product Designer - Only Experienced/Senior Candidates for all roles | https://layer.co

Layer is building the Declarative MLOps (DM) platform to help data teams across all companies to produce machine learning applications based on code in small and safe increments that can be reproduced, tested and reliably deployed at any time, in short adaptation cycles.

One of our founders sold his previous company at 500M USD, the other is one of the top VC partners in Europe. Our engineering team is a mix of top engineers from Palantir, Revolut, Google, Improbable, Coinbase, Amazon, DataRobot, among others.

We have an all-remote culture as we aspire to work with the best talent, no matter where they live. We are looking to make a few more hires until we close down hiring until Series A. We pay competitive salaries and give stock, among other perks. Initially, we are looking to hire within the GMT-1 to GMT+5 time zones but we are happy to make exceptions for truly exceptional candidates.

Our tech stack is React/TypeScript/GraphQL on the frontend, Java at the backend (with some Scala and Python), Kubernetes/AWS/Terraform on the infra side. We are currently only looking for experienced candidates. Prior startup experience or being a prolific open source contributor is a plus.

NO RECRUITERS/OUTSTAFFING/OURSOURCING COMPANIES PLEASE.

Feel free to apply at https://jobs.lever.co/layer

Layer | REMOTE (GMT-1 to GMT+5) | VP of Product/Senior Infrastructure Engineer (SRE)/Technical Writer/Engineering Manager/VP of Design/Lead Product Designer - Only Experienced/Senior Candidates for all roles | https://layer.co

Layer is building the Declarative MLOps (DM) platform to help data teams across all companies to produce machine learning applications based on code in small and safe increments that can be reproduced, tested and reliably deployed at any time, in short adaptation cycles.

One of our founders sold his previous company at 500M USD, the other is one of the top VC partners in Europe. Our engineering team is a mix of top engineers from Palantir, Revolut, Google, Improbable, Coinbase, Amazon, DataRobot, among others.

We have an all-remote culture as we aspire to work with the best talent, no matter where they live. We are looking to make a few more hires until we close down hiring until Series A. We pay competitive salaries and give stock, among other perks. Initially, we are looking to hire within the GMT-1 to GMT+5 time zones but we are happy to make exceptions for truly exceptional candidates.

Our tech stack is React/TypeScript/GraphQL on the frontend, Java at the backend (with some Scala and Python), Kubernetes/AWS/Terraform on the infra side. We are currently only looking for experienced candidates. Prior startup experience or being a prolific open source contributor is a plus.

NO RECRUITERS/OUTSTAFFING/OURSOURCING COMPANIES PLEASE.

Feel free to apply at https://jobs.lever.co/layer

Layer | REMOTE (preferably UTC to UTC+5) | Full Time | https://layer.co

Machine Learning applications are becoming more popular everyday, however the process for developing, deploying, monitoring and improving them is more complex compared to more traditional software, such as a web service or a mobile application. They are subject to change in multiple axes: the code itself, the data and the ML model. Their behavior is often complex and hard to predict, and they are harder to test, harder to explain, harder to monitor and improve.

Layer is building the Declarative Machine Learning platform to help data teams across all companies to produce machine learning applications based on code in small and safe increments that can be reproduced, tested and reliably released at any time, in short adaptation cycles. With DML you define what to accomplish, rather than describe how to accomplish it. You pass your dataset, feature and ml model definitions, and Layer builds your entities seamlessly. This enables you to focus on what matters to you - designing, developing and deploying models - without worrying about the infrastructure to do it.

We are founded by a serial entrepreneur, who most recently sold his startup ($100M+ EBITDA run rate) and a partner at a top European VC. We are a team of ex-Google/Improbable/Palantir/Lightbend/Hazelcast/Amazon/DataRobot engineers. We are at an early stage with some pilot customers lined up and are well-funded.

We have an all-remote culture as we aspire to work with the best talent, no matter where they live. We are currently looking to hire within the UTC to UTC+5 time zones but we are happy to make exceptions for truly extraordinary candidates (you built an MLOps platform or a Spark committer, for instance) We pay competitive salaries and give stock options, among other perks.

Our tech stack is React/TypeScript on the frontend, Java at the backend (with some Python/Scala) -- we also use/love Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Spark. We are currently looking for experienced candidates for full-time roles (no part-time/contractors please). Prior startup experience, being a prolific open source contributor, having worked at a data related software company (MLOps/ETL/integration) are pluses. No recruiters/agencies/outstaffing or outsourcing companies please.

Current openings: * Senior Backend Engineer * Engineering Manager * Head of Design * VP of Product Management (we are only looking for candidate who have significant experience building data/ML platforms) * Technical Documentation Manager * Data Scientist (not a typical DS role -- the role is a mix of devrel/product management/technical writing/solutions architect)

Feel free to apply at https://jobs.lever.co/layer/ or reach out to me at cihat@layer.co

Layer | REMOTE (UTC+0 - UTC+5) | FULL-TIME | Senior Backend Engineer/VP of Design/Technical Documentation Manager/VP of Product | https://layer.co

Layer is building a machine learning operating system to empower data science teams to implement end-to-end machine learning effortlessly; from feature engineering, version control to model deployment. Layer helps teams to build, train and deploy ML into production at scale. Most importantly, Layer sits on top of your existing data and tech stack and works in your dev environment for you with zero friction.

One of our founders sold his previous company at 500M USD, the other is one of the top VC partners in Europe. Our engineering team is a mix of world-class makers from Palantir, Revolut, Google, Improbable, Coinbase, Amazon, among others.

Layer has an all remote culture as we aspire to work with the best talent, no matter where they live. We firmly believe that exceptional companies can only be built by exceptional people, who are passionate about their work, grounded, achieve more with less, full of grit, challenge themselves and their team relentlessly to do better, and have radical candor. Our team and culture is paramount to all else.

Our tech stack is React/TypeScript on the frontend, Java at the backend (some Scala + Python too), Spark as the underlying computation engine. We use Terraform, AWS, CircleCI, Kubernetes heavily too.

We are currently looking for experienced candidates within UTC+0 - UTC+5 timezones, but if you believe you're truly a great fit (built MLOps/ML platforms, have significant open-source contributions to relevant projects, etc) please do apply. Prior startup experience is a plus.

Feel free to apply at http://layer.co/job-list.html

Layer | REMOTE (UTC to UTC+5) | Core Platform (Spark/Scala/Distributed Systems) Engineers / Backend Engineers / Lead Product Designer | Full Time | https://layer.co

Layer is a collaborative and fully extensible data platform which makes data science accessible to companies of all sizes by enabling them to trust, collaborate on, and leverage their data for impactful insights and data driven business logic and decisions.

In order to make data driven decisions, you need to trust your data. And to trust your data, you need SSoT (Single Source of Truth) practice in your data organisation. Implementing this practice is only possible in a collaborative data platform, by building reliable, uniform and reusable/reproducible pipelines.

We are founded by a serial entrepreneur, who most recently sold his startup ($100M+ EBITDA run rate) and a partner at a top European VC. We are a team of ex-Google/Improbable/Palantir/Uber/Amazon/Revolut/Lightbend/HazelCast/DataRobot/Oaknorth AI engineers. We are at a very early stage with some pilot customers lined up and are well-funded.

We have an all-remote culture as we aspire to work with the best talent, no matter where they live. We hope to assemble a world-class team and hire about ~15 people in the next few months. Initially, we are looking to hire within the UTC to UTC+5 time zones but we are happy to make exceptions for truly exceptional candidates (if you are a Spark guru/committer, for instance) We pay competitive salaries (much higher than the average for such sized companies) and give stock options, among other perks.

Our tech stack is React/TypeScript on the frontend, Python/Django/GraphQL at the backend, Spark as the underlying computation engine -- we also use/love Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS. We are currently looking for experienced candidates for full-time roles (no part-time/hourly contractors please). Prior startup experience, being a prolific open source contributor, working at a data related software company (ETL/visualization/integration) are big pluses. No recruiters/agencies/outstaffing or outsourcing companies please.

Feel free to apply at https://jobs.lever.co/layer/

Layer | REMOTE (UTC to UTC+5) | Core Platform (Spark/Scala) Engineers/Backend Engineers/Full-Stack Engineers/SRE Lead/UX Designer/VP of Design | Full Time | https://layer.co

To make data-driven decisions, you need to trust your data. And to trust your data, you need SSoT (Single Source of Truth) practice in your data organization. Implementing this practice is only possible in a collaborative data platform. Collaboration in data is essential to build reliable and uniform reusable pipelines. These pipelines can be used to extract insights and manage training and prediction data at scale.

Layer is designed to provide the collaboration the organizations need by introducing a smart way of defining company wide SSoTs. The vision is not just to solve these pain points, but also grow as the organization grows in an extensible way.

We are founded by a serial entrepreneur, who most recently sold his startup ($100M+ EBITDA run rate) and a partner at a top European VC. We are a team of ex-Google/Improbable/Palantir/Lightbend/Hazelcast engineers. We are at a very early stage with some pilot customers lined up and are well-funded.

We have an all-remote culture as we aspire to work with the best talent, no matter where they live. We hope to assemble a world-class team and hire about ~15 people in the next few months. Initially, we are looking to hire within the UTC to UTC+5 time zones but we are happy to make exceptions for truly exceptional candidates (if you are a Spark guru/committer, for instance) We pay competitive salaries (around Google/Facebook UK base salaries) and give stock options, among other perks.

Our tech stack is React/TypeScript on the frontend, Python at the backend, Spark as the underlying computation engine -- we also use/love Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS. We are currently looking for experienced candidates for full-time roles (no part-time/contractors please). Prior startup experience, being a prolific open source contributor, working at a data related software company (ETL/visualization/integration) are big pluses. No recruiters/agencies/outstaffing or outsourcing companies please.

Feel free to apply at http://layer.co/job-list.html

Please note that we are looking for full-time employees, not contractors/part-time employees at this stage.

Layer | REMOTE | Core Platform (Spark/Scala) Engineers/Backend Engineers/Full-Stack Engineers/SRE Lead/UX Designer/VP of Design - Experienced/Senior Candidates | https://layer.co

Layer is an end to end data operating system which provides a unified data layer to perform data science through a simplified, collaborative, and automated platform. Layer makes data science accessible to companies of all sizes by enabling them to trust, collaborate on, and leverage their data for impactful insights and data-driven business logic and decisions.

We are founded by a serial entrepreneur, who most recently sold his startup ($100M+ EBITDA run rate) The founding team also a partner at a top European VC and an ex-Google/Palantir engineer. We are bootstrapped so far and might consider a $3-5M seed round in the near future before a sizeable Series A planned in the next 12 months.

We have an all-remote culture as we aspire to work with the best talent, no matter where they live. We hope to assemble a world-class team and hire about ~15 people in the next few months. Initially, we are looking to hire within the GMT-1 to GMT+5 time zones but we are happy to make exceptions for truly exceptional candidates (if you are a Spark guru/committer, for instance) We pay competitive salaries (around Google/Facebook UK base salaries) and give stock options, among other perks.

Our tech stack is React/TypeScript on the frontend, Python at the backend, Spark as the underlying computation engine. We are currently looking for experienced candidates. Prior startup experience or being a prolific open source contributor is a plus.

Feel free to apply at http://layer.co/job-list.html

Fat Llama | London, UK | Full-time Engineering (Full-Stack/Backend/Mobile) | Onsite | Visa The Future of Ownership. Fat Llama is the fully-insured online marketplace for lending and borrowing anything. Every day, we connect people with spare stuff to those who want to use it. Fat Llama is creating a future in which any item - from the everyday to the niche - is accessible within minutes.

Last year we went through Y Combinator and recently announced a $10M raise from amazing investors to superpower our growth. We are active across the UK and launched in the US at the beginning of 2018.

Technology is at the heart of everything we do at Fat Llama, allowing us to solve a problem that has never been solved before. Our whole team gets a say in the product & tech roadmap, and our engineering team takes pride in writing, testing and deploying new features on a daily basis. We also highly value personal growth and learning, and are building a supportive and collaborative engineering culture.

Find out more and apply on our jobs page: https://jobs.lever.co/fatllama

Here's some recent news about us:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/25/fat-lama-gets-fatter/?gucc...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44301183

Fat Llama | London, UK | Full-time Engineering (Full-Stack/Backend/Mobile) | Onsite | Visa

The Future of Ownership. Fat Llama is the fully-insured online marketplace for lending and borrowing anything. Every day, we connect people with spare stuff to those that want to use it. Fat Llama is creating a future in which any item - from the everyday to the niche - is accessible within minutes.

Last year we went through Y Combinator and recently announced a $10M raise from amazing investors to superpower our growth. We are active across the UK and launched in the US at the beginning of 2018.

Technology is at the heart of everything we do at Fat Llama, allowing us to solve a problem that has never been solved before. Our whole team gets a say in the product & tech roadmap, and our engineering team takes pride in writing, testing and deploying new features on a daily basis. We also highly value personal growth and learning, and are building a supportive and collaborative engineering culture.

Find out more and apply on our jobs page: https://jobs.lever.co/fatllama

Here's some recent news about us:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/25/fat-lama-gets-fatter/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44301183

Disclaimer: I used to work at Google exactly on this project.

I'm so happy this finally made it to daylight! =) I was the original one researching for the feasibility of this, but at the time (3.5 years ago), the re-compression burden made it a no-go even for the most modern phones so we decided to table it.

What's the "bench program"?

Looks super useful & well-thought!

s/270/27/

With an option to specify country, as different movies are available for different regions.

I'm not sure you mean exactly this but, it's added recently: https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/installtoho...