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Routable | Python/Django Backend Engineer + React/Redux Frontend Engineer | Full Time | San Francisco, California OR Seattle, Washington OR Remote (USA only) | https://routable.com

After creating custom payment systems in-house at previous companies and concluding through 300 customer development interviews that most companies are frustrated with their payment system, we built the simplest way for businesses to send and receive B2B payments.

Routable is the endorsed payments platform for both YC and Techstars startups. With a healthy amount of funding, we’re looking to grow our engineering team to meet the demand from our customers and the market opportunity.

# Hiring For - Sr. Backend Engineer: https://angel.co/company/routable-2/jobs/602996-senior-backe... - Sr. Frontend Engineer: https://angel.co/company/routable-2/jobs/552520-react-redux-...

Technologies We Use: - Python + Django - React + Redux - Postgres

# Perks - Remote-friendly culture (We also have offices in San Francisco & Seattle) - Quarterly team offsites

Hi HN!

I'm one of the creators of Routable, and I’m very excited to be posting here for the first time.

For the past year or so we’ve been laying low, working with and listening to our beta customers. This week marks the first time we’ve shared our platform with the world.

In short, Routable is a simple way for companies to send B2B payments (e.g. bill payments and invoices). We work with different providers to give your company flexible payment options without the worry of having to negotiate the rates yourself or having to think about building the integrations.

We decided to build this product after my co-founder and I built payment systems in-house at the companies we previously worked at. After conducting 300+ customer development interviews, we knew that this was a pain point for companies small and large.

When we show Routable to people, they often think “oh this looks like a modern version of my bank’s bill pay portal.” It’s a good comparison - but we do so much more. We really focus on our strong integrations with your accounting software and making B2B payments scalable. Would love to hear your thoughts. :)

If you want to know how it all works, I’m happy to show a demo -- just give me a shout!

Omri

I'm in the PNW as well, but not too fond of Brown Paper Tickets.

One company that I believed in was Bookr - they took away the ticketing fees (well actually they bundled it into a final price... so it was 'hidden'). They were working with local venues to give customers a clear price for the tickets they paid for.

Unfortunately Bookr didn't make it :(

I think its a great place to found a startup. I graduated three weeks ago from the U, and chose to stay up in Seattle to launch http://ziibra.com

The tech community here is great, and the university is moving towards supporting entre x CS... especially through its CS Entrepreneurship courses.

There's definitely work to do, but the city and the university are moving in the right direction.

Thanks for the kind words!

We're doing the Facebook/Twitter (coming soon) login because we're going to add features that are centric to interacting with your friends on ZIIBRA/ your networks.

Hey thanks for the 2 cents. The title is a mash of genres... we intended it to be jumbled up :) But I like your view on making the mission statements shorter/ clearer... will mess around with some UI stuff soon

Hey HN,

I've been working on this project with a kick-ass team for the past 8 months, and we finally launched it last week.

ZIIBRA helps up-and-coming artists make music their full time job. Using our music platform, the more fans that pledge to purchase an album the cheaper a project becomes because the price is driven down through their social network outreach. Cheaper price = Happy fans. Plus, the artists benefit too. By pre-selling a new album, artists get fan reach, cash flow to fund the project, and a marketing platform to cross-promote their new work!

I was hoping to get some feedback back from the community...

Cheers,

Omri