mmattax

I've been an early engineer in multiple start-ups, have co-founded 2 startups, and about a year ago, took a position where my primary role was to in-house logistics software in the healthcare space being developed by a 3rd party for about 4 years.

To succeed, you need a founder-type person IMO, who's full-stack, and has built great engineering teams. Hard to find, but possible.

The company I joined was also not a software/tech company, and they put the trust in me to define our engineering policies, how product-management happens, and put an emphasize of knowledge transfer for my first 3 months.

If you want to connect + talk more I'm at michael[at]mat.tax

Clincierge | https://www.clincierge.com/ | Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack) | Remote | Full Time | $180 - $200k

TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Postgres, AWS

At Clincierge, we support patients in clinical trials worldwide. The key to our success is our collaborative and innovative environment. We are always looking for new ways to invent solutions to ensure the clinical trial process is easier and more personalized.

What we’re working on:

• Launching a travel portal serving the clinical trial logistics needs of patients, trial sponsors, and medical centers

• API Integration with ridesharing platforms, travel agencies, and clinical trial management software

• Powering customized data analytics/business intelligence reports

Staff Engineer Role: https://grnh.se/2d4b5e4c4us

Nov 14, 2014 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8653575

Not much traction on our Shown HN post, but we've had a lot of growth through our standup bots in Slack and Microsoft Teams. Still very much a startup, but we've re-branded to https://jell.com, have 4 employees, and a growing customer list!

Disclaimer: This is my startup.

We're building Jell (https://jell.com) to tackle this problem. We have 2 sets of core functionality: OKR tracking, and "checkins" which can act as a daily/weekly/monthly "standup".

You can add plans/tasks to your checkins (and mark them as complete), and link these items to your OKR's.

We've seen a lot of companies have success with our tool (many replacing daily standups with it). We'd love feedback.

I managed a small team of engineers and synchronous daily standups just broke down with remote teams and timezones.

It also just felt unproductive - it became something we did to feel like we had "best practices" when in reality it was a waste of everyone's time.

I got the sense that everyone would essentially forget what they said/heard at the end of the meeting (or was simply tuned out).

I ended up launching a tool to solve this problem: (https://jell.com).

We're a lot happier showing a "todo list" with each other and still have a place to write out the challenges/progress we're making - all while respecting each others time.

Disclaimer: I've been working on a similar product (https://jell.com) We don't have a bot (we do support slash commands).

One thing that sticks out to me (and a lot of the other standup bots) are that the screenshots/demo often only include the simple case of a user inputting a single answer to a question.

Does your bot handle multiple answers? Seems like that could be a differentiator for bots (and the reason why we've stuck with Slash commands).

Good Luck!

Formstack (disclaimer: I work for them)

We seem to have had issues and we're not using OpWorks. I'm trying to determine if our issues are related.

Our instances are docker hosts, network seemed to lag/stop when proxying traffic to the internal container IP addresses.

Our ASG spun up other instances but health checks reported "Insufficient Data". The web console also seems buggy (API requests are failing).

They currently do, but some prefer a UI to manage the containers, and since we're using OSX, making sure boot2docker and the underlying VBOX image is in a good state can sometimes cause a few wrinkles that take a developer to straiten out.

Kitematic could abstract that layer (boot2docker) away with a GUI.

Yeah, the filesystem for VBox got significantly better (use to have to use a custom ISO to get volume shares to work properly).

We haven't had a problem since the Docker 1.3 update.

I wanted to use Kitematic as a way to get our non-CLI savvy designers up and running with our software stack on docker. They key feature missing IMO is the ability to "open" a docker-compose.yml file.

I want the ability for a designer to select "file open" and then select the docker-compose.yml file to "launch" our stack.

Without that, it seems like you still need to rely on the docker-cli to build images from a Dockerfile.

Great Pros/Cons on remote working. I've definitely felt cabin fever. I find a balance by going to a co-working spot once or twice a week.

Timezones can also be hard. We've struggled with getting our team together for daily standup meetings in the AM, which led us to build our own tool (http://heyflock.com).

Formstack - http://www.formstack.com - REMOTE

Be our first DevOps hire!

Formstack is an 8 year old company with its roots in Indianapolis. Our customers span 110 different countries, and our employees live and work across the U.S. and the globe. We have employees in: Oklahoma City, Charlotte, Raleigh, Chicago, Los Angeles, Cynthiana, Krakow Poland, Bethlehem, PA, Atlanta, Bloomington, and Indianapolis. We provide a remote work environment that is flexible and provides great freedom for those who can perform. With that said, relocation is not required if outside Indianapolis.

What You'll Do:

You'll be our first dedicated DevOps hire. You'll be in charge of maintaining production servers and the applications that run on them. You'll ensure that our MySQL databases are not only performant, but being backed up properly. You'll be in charge of ensuring that we have the redundancies and policies in place to support the high availability of our applications. You'll work with our engineering team to ensure the software that we build can scale.

How You Qualify for the Job:

- 3-5 years experience as a system administrator or DBA.

- Strong experience scaling the LAMP stack

- Strong experience with large MySQL databases (300GB+)

- Strong understanding of networking and systems architecture.

- Automation: CHEF, Puppet, Ansible, Fabric, Docker, or other configuration management software

Extra Credit Qualifications:

- Experience with AWS (EC2, EBS, RDS)

- Experience with Elasticsearch

- A love for Vim

- Language experience with PHP or Python

What Formstack Offers:

- Remote environment

- Medical, Dental, Vision as well as company-paid Disability and Life Insurance Benefits.

- 401k with matching company contribution

- Friday Lunch (Indianapolis Office)

- The most up-to-date technology, including company-issued Macs, the latest software and other tools needed to excel at your job

- Company-paid conferences and extended learning

- Yearly company gatherings

- Generous PTO

Apply at https://formstack.applicantpro.com/jobs/143526-25843.html

Questions? Email me at michael@formstack.com

When teammates post or update their status within Flock, we post it into the Slack room/channel. We actually use HipChat quite around our office.

Fo us, we like having the standup content all in a place that can be searched (by date) easily, discussion around the standup then occurs in HipChat.

Thanks!

Hey guys- I'm one of the creators of Flock. We hope you find it useful. Any feedback is appreciated, and happy to answer any questions. Thanks!

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Great post, we (Formstack) built DailyStatus (http://dailystat.us) to ease our standup meeting pain. We're a remote company so dealing with timezones and internet connections for video was always a pain.

Great! Glad to hear it. We'd love some feedback if you have any.

We (Formstack) launched http://shoutmy.biz last month. It's goal is to provide a great looking landing page for small businesses who otherwise don't have a web presence. I'd love to hear feedback from the HN crowd!

Indianapolis, IN. Full-time or Internship

Formstack (www.formstack.com) is an online form builder used in over 110 countries to collect and manage data. We're looking for passionate software developers to help roll-out features, fix bugs, and scale our infrastructure.

Get ready for the buzzwords: Linux, PHP, Python, MySQL, Memcached, Gearman

Interested? Lets chat.

Email: michael (at) formstack (dot) com Tweet: @mmattax

http://www.formstack.com/careers.html

Indianapolis, IN. Full Time - http://www.formstack.com/careers.html

We are an online form and landing page builder. We are growing like crazy and are looking for software developers (We use PHP here), and sys. admin person to work on our server architecture.

Email: michael<at>formstack<dot>com

That's awesome, love the domain name. You got a nice list of moods / emotions; it took us a long time to just pick 9.

Do you do any crazy reporting - like the average mood of a Monday compared to that of a Friday? I think that stuff could be really interesting, which is partly why we built moodbeat.

We rolled our own PHP framework which is using the Smarty template framework. The DB is MySQL. We're using a light wrapper around the native mysqli library. Pretty standard stuff right now until we get big!

We are looking for Feedback in all aspects of the application. Let us know what you think!

Thanks, hope you signed up!

I'm one of the 3 developers who built Moodbeat. I commented on this in an earlier thread: We are looking into an HTML5 mobile solution for now.

Triggered alerts based on your friends moods would be cool!

We have discussed a mobile HTML5 optimized site. We'd probably only go native mobile if this idea really catches on. We hope it does!

Thanks for the comments and your blog post! Our idea came from a whiteboard we used at work to track our coworkers moods. We thought it be neat to see fluctuations with weather, days of the week, etc.

3 of us decided to build this idea into an app. I think it has potential to be used as an embeddable widget within blog posts, news stories, moview reviews.

I'm a software developer and would potentially be interested in helping you (or anyone for that matter) out in terms of getting a basic product / prototype developed. I'm always looking for new projects to spend some time on.

Lets talk, fill this form out and I'll be in touch :)

http://www.formstack.com/forms/developer-partner