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GoodNotes | Hong Kong | Onsite / Remote (in similar timezone as Hong Kong) | https://www.goodnotes.com GoodNotes turns your iPad into digital paper. It was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable handwritten notes on his first iPad. We have since grown to one of the top paid iOS apps worldwide. Our vision is to be the smart digital paper where people think, study, and work. Short term goal is to make GoodNotes smarter and more accessible on other platforms.

* We are looking for talents to bring our popular iOS application to other platform like web, Android and Windows. We need help on building out the backend infrastructure and cross platform development strategy.

* We are psyched about the future of computing: touchscreen + keyboard + pen

* You will be working with makers and a highly technical founder. Every member on the team has shipped their own products outside of work.

* We are bootstrapped from day one and we treat our team well. Check out our benefits on our page.

* We have excellent work-life balance because we trust who we hire. Optional work-from-home Thursday and Friday.

* We are a fun team: Tuesday Lunch Jam, Wednesday GamesNight, Annual all-expenses-paid Offsite Trip.

* We just moved into our new office fully built out to include a professional kitchen.

* We are frequently featured by Apple. Check us out on Apple current iPad Mini and Pencil page: https://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/ and https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/

* We sponsor work visa to work in Hong Kong, still one of the best cities in Asia. We are also open to remote as long as your time zone overlaps with Hong Kong hours (GMT +8) for at least half a day.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/goodnotes and our career page: https://www.goodnotes.com/careers/

Selected open positions:

* Machine Learning Lead, https://jobs.lever.co/goodnotes/8884a65c-bc2c-4454-bddd-2c14...

* Web Engineering Lead, https://jobs.lever.co/goodnotes/8cb3b206-822d-4203-ab7b-cd44...

* Senior Software Engineer, iOS: https://jobs.lever.co/goodnotes/d4a40a3e-f29d-443c-b580-e56f...

* Senior Digital Product (UX/UI) Designer: https://jobs.lever.co/goodnotes/5da4edcd-1961-4e4e-b537-7572...

* Senior Quality Assurance Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/goodnotes/89f7c253-bbff-4936-bde9-7ff3...

* Customer Support Specialist: https://jobs.lever.co/goodnotes/f7f798c8-e791-4f1b-8fab-175c...

GoodNotes | Hong Kong | Onsite | https://www.goodnotes.com

GoodNotes turns your iPad into digital paper. It was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable handwritten notes on his first iPad. We have since grown to one of the top paid iOS apps worldwide. Our vision is to be the smart digital paper where people think, study, and work. Short term goal is to make GoodNotes smarter and more accessible on other platforms.

* We are looking for talents to bring our popular iOS application to other platform like web, Android and Windows. We need help on building out the backend infrastructure and cross platform development strategy.

* We are psyched about the future of computing: touchscreen + keyboard + pen

* We sponsor work visa. Come work in Hong Kong, one of the best cities in Asia

* You will be working with makers. Every member on the team has shipped their own products outside of work.

* We are bootstrapped from day one and we treat our team well. Check out our benefits on our page.

* We have excellent work-life balance because we trust who we hire. Optional work-from-home Thursday and Friday.

* We are a fun team: Tuesday Lunch Jam, Wednesday GamesNight, Annual all-expenses-paid Offsite Trip.

* We are frequently featured by Apple. Check us out on Apple current iPad Mini and Pencil page: https://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/ and https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/goodnotes and our career page: https://www.goodnotes.com/careers/

Our open positions:

* Senior Software Engineer, Backend: https://jobs.lever.co/goodnotes/15bffbda-6380-4010-9c24-0ff1...

* Senior Software Engineer, Web Frontend: https://jobs.lever.co/goodnotes/8d3a129f-ecd0-4554-94fc-9a6c...

* Senior Software Engineer, iOS: https://jobs.lever.co/goodnotes/d4a40a3e-f29d-443c-b580-e56f...

* Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning: https://jobs.lever.co/goodnotes/604496dd-f140-498d-901f-2ef9...

* Senior Digital Product Designer: https://jobs.lever.co/goodnotes/5da4edcd-1961-4e4e-b537-7572...

* Senior Quality Assurance Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/goodnotes/89f7c253-bbff-4936-bde9-7ff3...

* Customer Support Specialist: https://jobs.lever.co/goodnotes/f7f798c8-e791-4f1b-8fab-175c...

GoodNotes | Hong Kong | Onsite | https://www.goodnotes.com (https://www.goodnotes.com/)

GoodNotes turns your iPad into digital paper. It was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable handwritten notes on his first iPad. We have since grown to one of the top paid iOS apps worldwide. Our vision is to be the smart digital paper where people think, study, and work. Short term goal is to make GoodNotes smarter and more accessible on other platforms.

We are looking for product-minded software engineers and designer to join us in our Hong Kong office. We don't have all the roles on our site yet but if you are interested in hearing more, please do send us an email at careers@goodnotes.com

- We are looking for talents to bring our popular iOS application to other platform like web, Android and Windows. We need help on building out the backend infrastructure and cross platform development strategy.

- We are psyched about the future of computing: touchscreen + keyboard + pen

- We sponsor work visa. Come work in Hong Kong, one of the best cities in Asia

- You will be working with makers. Every member on the team has shipped their own products outside of work.

- We are bootstrapped from day one and we treat our team well. Check out our benefits on our page.

- We have excellent work-life balance because we trust who we hire. Optional work-from-home Thursday and Friday.

- We are a fun team: Tuesday Lunch Jam, Wednesday GamesNight, Annual all-expenses-paid Offsite Trip.

- We are frequently featured by Apple. Check us out on Apple current iPad Mini and Pencil page: https://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/ and https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/goodnotes and our career page: https://www.goodnotes.com/careers/

GoodNotes (www.goodnotes.com) | Full Time | mobile + web engineers + leads, product designer, test automation engineer, system engineer | Hong Kong ON-SITE, VISA | Fulltime https://www.goodnotes.com/careers/

GoodNotes turns your iPad into digital paper. It was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable handwritten notes on his first iPad. We have since grown to one of the top paid iOS apps worldwide. Our vision is to be the smart digital paper where people think, study, and work. Short term goal is to make GoodNotes smarter and more accessible on other platforms.

We are looking for product-minded software engineers and designer to join us in our Hong Kong office. We don't have all the roles on our site yet but if you are interested in hearing more, please do send me an email at thomas@goodnotes.com

- We are looking for talents to bring our popular iOS application to other platform like web, Android and Windows. We need help on building out the backend infrastructure and cross platform development strategy.

- We are psyched about the future of computing: touchscreen + keyboard + pen

- We sponsor work visa. Come work in Hong Kong, one of the best Asian cities

- You will be working with makers. Every member on the team has shipped their own products outside of work.

- We are bootstrapped from day one and we treat our team well. Check out our benefits on our page.

- We have excellent work-life balance because we hire people we can trust. 2 optional days (Thurs & Fri) to work at home. Annual all-expense-paid offsite trip.

- We were frequently featured by Apple. We are currently on their Apple iPad Mini and Pencil page: https://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/ and https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/

GoodNotes (www.goodnotes.com) | Full Time | mobile + web engineers + leads, product designer, test automation engineer, system engineer | Hong Kong ON-SITE, VISA | Fulltime

https://www.goodnotes.com/careers/ GoodNotes turns your iPad into digital paper. It was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable handwritten notes on his first iPad. We have since grown to one of the top paid iOS apps worldwide. Our vision is to be the smart digital paper where people think, study, and work. Short term goal is to make GoodNotes smarter and more accessible on other platforms.

We are looking for product-minded software engineers and designer to join us in our Hong Kong office. We don't have all the roles on our site yet but if you are interested in hearing more, please do send me an email at thomas@goodnotes.com

- We are looking for talents to bring our popular iOS application to other platform like web, Android and Windows. We need help on building out the backend infrastructure and cross platform development strategy.

- We are psyched about the future of computing: touchscreen + keyboard + pen

- We sponsor work visa. Come work in Hong Kong, one of the best Asian cities

- You will be working with makers. Every member on the team has shipped their own products outside of work.

- We are bootstrapped from day one and we treat our team well. Check out our benefits on our page.

- We have excellent work-life balance because we hire people we can trust. 2 optional days (Thurs & Fri) to work at home. Annual all-expense-paid offsite trip.

- We were frequently featured by Apple. We are currently on their Apple iPad Mini and Pencil page: https://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/ and https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/

GoodNotes (www.goodnotes.com) | Hong Kong ON-SITE, VISA | Full Time | Mobile + Web engineers + leads | https://www.goodnotes.com/careers/

GoodNotes turns your iPad into digital paper. It was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable handwritten notes on his first iPad. We have since grown to one of the top paid iOS apps worldwide. Our vision is to be the smart digital paper where people think, study, and work. Short term goal is to make GoodNotes smarter and available in other platforms. We are looking for product-minded software engineers to join us in our Hong Kong office.

- We are looking for talents to bring our popular iOS application to other platform like web, Android and Windows. We need help on building out the backend infrastructure and cross platform development strategy. - We are psyched about the future of computing: touchscreen + keyboard + pen - We sponsor work visa. Come work in Hong Kong, one of the best Asian cities - You will be working with makers. Every member on the team has shipped their own products outside of work. - We are bootstrapped from day one and we treat our team well. Check out our benefits on our page. - We have excellent work-life balance because we hire people we can trust. 2 optional days (Thurs & Fri) to work at home. Annual all-expense-paid offsite trip. - We were frequently featured by Apple. We are currently on their Apple Pencil page: https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/

Email me at thomas@goodnotes.com and check out the pictures of our outings and office on https://www.goodnotes.com/careers/

GoodNotes (www.goodnotes.com) | Hong Kong ON-SITE, VISA | Full Time | Mobile + Web engineers + leads | https://www.goodnotes.com/careers/

GoodNotes turns your iPad into digital paper. It was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable handwritten notes on his first iPad. We have since grown to one of the top paid iOS apps worldwide. Our vision is to be the smart paper where people think, study, and work. Short term goal is to make GoodNotes smarter and more accessible. We are looking for product-minded software engineers to join us in our Hong Kong office.

- We are psyched about the future of computing: touch screen + keyboard + pen

- We sponsor work visa. Come work in Hong Kong, one of the best Asian cities

- You will be working with makers. Every member on the team has shipped their own products outside of work.

- We are bootstrapped from day one and we treat our team well. Check out our benefits on our page.

- We have excellent work-life balance because we hire people we can trust. 2 optional days (Thurs & Fri) to work at home. Annual all-expense-paid offsite trip.

- We were frequently featured by Apple. We are currently on their Apple Pencil page: https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/ Email me at thomas@goodnotes.com and check out the pictures of our outings and office on https://www.goodnotes.com/careers/

GoodNotes (www.goodnotes.com) | Hong Kong ON-SITE, VISA | Full Time | Mobile + Web engineers + leads | https://www.goodnotes.com/careers/

GoodNotes turns your iPad into digital paper. It was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable handwritten notes on his first iPad. We have since grown to one of the top paid iOS apps worldwide. Our vision is to be the smart paper where people think, study, and work. Short term goal is to make GoodNotes smarter and more accessible. We are looking for product-minded software engineers to join us in our Hong Kong office.

- We are psyched about the future of computing: touch screen + keyboard + pen

- We sponsor work visa. Come work in Hong Kong, one of the best Asian cities

- You will be working with makers. Every member on the team has shipped their own products outside of work.

- We are bootstrapped from day one and we treat our team well. Check out our benefits on our page.

- We have excellent work-life balance because we hire people we can trust. 2 optional days (Thurs & Fri) to work at home. Annual all-expense-paid offsite trip.

- We were frequently featured by Apple. We are currently on their Apple Pencil page: https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/

Email me at thomas@goodnotes.com and check out the pictures of our outings and office on https://www.goodnotes.com/careers/

GoodNotes (www.goodnotes.com) | Hong Kong ON-SITE, VISA | Full Time | Mobile + Web engineers + leads | https://www.goodnotes.com/careers/

GoodNotes turns your iPad into digital paper. It was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable handwritten notes on his first iPad. We have since grown to one of the top paid iOS apps worldwide. Our vision is to be the smart paper where people think, study, and work. Short term goal is to make GoodNotes smarter and more accessible. We are looking for product-minded software engineers to join us in our Hong Kong office.

- We are psyched about the future of computing: touch screen + keyboard + pen

- We sponsor work visa. Come work in Hong Kong, one of the best Asian cities

- You will be working with makers. Every member on the team has shipped their own products outside of work.

- We are bootstrapped from day one and we treat our team well. Check out our benefits on our page.

- We have excellent work-life balance because we hire people we can trust. 2 optional days (Thurs & Fri) to work at home. Annual all-expense-paid offsite trip.

Email me at thomas@goodnotes.com and check out the pictures of our outings and office on https://www.goodnotes.com/careers/

GoodNotes (www.goodnotes.com) | Hong Kong ON-SITE, VISA | Full Time | Mobile + Web engineers + leads | https://www.goodnotes.com/careers/

GoodNotes turns your iPad into digital paper. It was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable handwritten notes on his first iPad. We have since grown to one of the top paid iOS apps worldwide. Our vision is to be the smart paper where people think, study, and work. We are looking for product-minded software engineers to join us in our Hong Kong office.

- We are psyched about the future of computing: touch screen + keyboard + pen

- We sponsor work visa. Come work in Hong Kong, one of the best Asian cities

- You will be working with makers. Every member on the team has shipped their own products outside of work.

- We are bootstrapped from day one and we treat our team well. Check out our benefits on our page.

- We have excellent work-life balance because we hire people we can trust. 2 optional days (Thurs & Fri) to work at home. Annual all-expense-paid offsite trip.

Email me at thomas@goodnotes.com and check out the pictures of our outings and office on https://www.goodnotes.com/careers/

GoodNotes (www.goodnotes.com) | Hong Kong ON-SITE, VISA | Full Time | Mobile + Web engineers + leads | https://www.goodnotes.com/careers/

GoodNotes turns your iPad into digital paper. It was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable handwritten notes on his first iPad. We have since grown to one of the top paid iOS apps worldwide. Our vision is to be the smart paper where people think, study, and work. We are looking for product-minded software engineers to join us in our Hong Kong office.

- We are psyched about the future of computing: touch screen + keyboard + pen

- We sponsor work visa. Come work in Hong Kong, one of the best Asian cities

- You will be working with makers. Every member on the team has shipped their own products outside of work.

- We are bootstrapped from day one and we treat our team well. Check out our benefits on our page.

- We have excellent work-life balance because we hire people we can trust. 2 optional days (Thurs & Fri) to work at home. Annual all-expense-paid offsite trip.

Email me at thomas@goodnotes.com and check out the pictures of our outings and office on https://www.goodnotes.com/careers/

There is also no 4th floor in the science park which that research institue is located.

GoodNotes (www.goodnotes.com) | Hong Kong ON-SITE, VISA | Full Time | Mobile + Web engineers + leads | careers.goodnotes.com

GoodNotes turns your iPad into digital paper. It is as natural as using real pen and paper but also has all the benefits of being digital. It was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable notes on his first iPad.

- We are psyched about the future of computing: touch screen + keyboard + pen - We sponsor work visa. Come work in Hong Kong, one of the best Asian cities - You will be working with makers. Every engineering members have shipped their own products outside of work. - We are bootstrapped and we were one of the top paid iOS apps last year. - We have excellent work-life balance because we hire people we can trust. 2 optional days (Thurs & Fri) to work at home. Annual all-expense-paid offsite trip.

Email me at thomas@goodnotes.com and check out the pictures of our outings and office on careers.goodnotes.com

GoodNotes (www.goodnotes.com) | Hong Kong ON-SITE, VISA | Full Time | Mobile + Web engineers + leads | careers.goodnotes.com

GoodNotes lets you take handwritten notes and annotate documents on your iPad. It is as natural as using real pen and paper but also has all the benefits of being digital. It was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable notes on his first iPad.

- We are psyched about the future of computing: touch screen + keyboard + pen

- We sponsor work visa. Come work in Hong Kong, one of the best Asian cities

- Every engineering members have shipped their own products outside of work.

- We are bootstrapped and we were one of the top paid iOS apps last year.

- We have excellent work-life balance because we hire people we can trust. 2 optional days to work at home. Annual all-expense-paid offsite trip.

We will be in San Francisco for Apple’s WWDC. Come say hi if you want to meet the team in person. Email me at thomas@goodnotes.com and check out our positions on careers.goodnotes.com

GoodNotes [http://goodnotes.com] | Senior software engineers (backend, frontend, iOS) | Full time | Hong Kong ONSITE, VISA

GoodNotes was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable notes on his first iPad. We have since grown to millions of happy users and have been featured on Apple's marketing materials.

We are a fully bootstrapped and profitable company. We started off as an indie developer and now is time for us to grow the team. We are particularly looking for lead web engineers as they will play an instrumental role to our future growth (real time collaboration, multi platforms, and new business models to name a few).

It’s an awesome opportunity to work with the one of the best iOS team in the region on a product loved by million. Hong Kong is also a great first stop if you are interested in exploring Asia!

Please apply on http://careers.goodnotes.com

Besides, analysing the pixels directly, maybe their algorithm take into account the vibration/movement of the live video to detect depth.

Not saving enough.

One thing I told others about why YC is unique: Although technically they are our investors, they are more like parents which you could always go back no matter what shitty situation you have got yourself into. We were one of the last few batches with the original YC team and Jessica always had a way to cheer you up during weekly dinner.

Loop Pulse (http://looppulse.com) - HONG KONG - Full time NodeJS/Meteor Lead - VISA

Our vision is digital intelligence for retail. We help retail to capitalize every visit via contextual engagement. Our target market is Asia. We are funded and are currently building out our founding team. It'd be fun working in a huge space with the latest tech in the best Asia city. More info: http://looppulse.com/joinus.html

If interested, please email me at t@looppulse.com.

Thank you for sharing your story.

My YC startup failed two years ago and it still has an impact on me. I learned a lot and wish I knew what I know now back then. My cofounders parted ways within one year of YC and I became a self made single founder. One of the biggest mistakes was not taking breaks. I thought I had to work twice as hard to compensate. It just went into this vicious cycle: depressed & tired -> not productive -> worked every waking moments -> depressed & tired.

Huge congrats and well deserved! Thanks for all the advices when I was going thru the bottom of my roller coaster ride.

Congrats Paul and team!

Thanks for the feedback.

- Pricing There are definitely more testing to do. Our original thought was that even if you know which funnels preform worst, it will still take you hours to try to figure out what went wrong. With Delight, hopefully we could give you better hints to save you time and improve the app.

- Code vs features vs benefits. You are absolutely right. I should have added that as lesson learned as well.

- iOS only. Android makes it harder to achieve the ease of integration we had for iOS. Besides, we wanted to use the revenue from iOS to fund the Android development.

You can consider other alternatives but none of them has Android version.

You are right. We should have tried to sell harder before building. Lesson learned. To be fair thou, we did interview about 10 companies before even prototyping to get feedback. Two of them ended up paying after we launched.

Thanks Alex. Glad you enjoyed it.

To be honest, I don't know if my honesty will hurt me later on. I didn't want to sugar coat the reason. Startups don't die until founders quit. You always have a way to make it work if you want.

We had founder issues early on and we parted ways after we shut down the first product. I then led the company to ship second and third products as a solo founder. I could have quitted then but stuck on for another two years. I wasn't ashamed telling people the truth because I know I have given my best.

We always have an alert box shown up when the audio and video recording is turned on.

Thanks for the tips, Kenneth! Would you be interested in helping me review my future posts?

Yes I'm just starting to blog and I do want to get better by practicing. English is my second language although I've used it for all of my professional life.

There are actually more competitors [1] but none of them was the reason of our failure. As PG once said, startups don't die until founders quit.

And yes post-mortem is coming.

[1] Apps: http://blog.hipmob.com/post/72458567103/6-mobile-sdks-for-in... Games: http://kamcord.com and http://everyplay.com

Thx for your kind words. Ease of integration was crucial to us and the team worked hard to deliver that. But as pedalpete noted, we lagged in other areas and eventually failed to succeed.