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We're also looking for our first:

- Product Marketer https://posthog.com/careers/product-marketer - Content Marketer https://posthog.com/careers/content-marketer

These are exciting roles for technically-minded marketers as we're focussing on reaching developers and small teams (mostly at startups) and growing our open source community.

We have an attractive compensation package - 20% over SF average weighted to your location with many other benefits such as pension, health care, relocating, no-madding and more. Our team is small, growing fast and extremely talented.

If you're an engineer who's done some writing or community work and you're looking to move more into marketing, please get in touch too, we'd be very interested to chat.

As an experienced developer I’m finding it harder to find companies who use “boring”, simple and stable solutions. Any chance you’re hiring remotely?

Recently I find this to be the case for me. I consider myself a generalist: engineering (a few stacks/languages), product, business, marketing, leadership and education. Recruiters tell me to focus on one thing on my CV and I feel employers don’t believe I could be even two of those things. For example with my blend of skills I was able to double the traffic, increase leads and social engagement by 5-6x at the last place I worked after my first quarter. My boss didn’t understand what happened and when I recount the steps and results to other people they don’t believe me. After winding down my own startup a few months ago I’ve struggled to get hired. People don’t advertise for generalists and as I remove certain skills and roles/duties from my CV I’ve found the hiring process gets easier. I’d love some advice, even more I’d love to put my skills to work.

Whimso is a free prototype for a larger unrealised travel tech project which we've released as a fast and simple place search engine engine based on user preferences.

We've had feedback that it's handy for finding vegan/vegetarian food nearby - should we re-release it as a plant-based restaurant finder?

I like the idea, it would be useful to discover new coffee shops and subscribe to shops to receive updates, specials, etc. You should definitely build in a loyalty system that will allow vendors to rewards the regular customers.

What do you think marketing your app/network as an exclusive Sydney coffee club?

I'm curious what business model you have and how you have taken in to account the transaction fees and that they will be quite high relative to the low price of a cup of coffee?

I am from South Africa and I'm also a coffee addict! Keep it up man!

Hmm I think trying to convert such a task into a service will always introduce some language to describe your field and it's constraints and then you might as well write it yourself.

Also with such a critical part of your system, getting information from your user, if the service is slow or down you will run into troubles.

What specific programming languages and/or frameworks do you require a solution for? Please let me know if I missed the point completely. Thanks for your answer!

Surely it depends on the problem being solved though? If I was making a new project management or source code hosting service I would have to think twice about charging the same or more than my competitors alternatively I need to compete on something other than price. Also if a you need a solution to problem X how can the price point be compared to an established company solving problem Y?

I'm curious, are you a developer?