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Spot Virtual (https://www.spotvirtual.com) Outreach (https://outreach.io) GroupTalent, TS S'11 Team Apart, YC S'08

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blog.outreach.io 11y ago

Why We Switched from Intercom to Zendesk (And Almost Chose Desk.com)

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blog.gochime.com 12y ago

How to get around Gmail's "Promotion tab of Death"

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blog.workforpie.com 12y ago

Work for Pie partners with GroupTalent

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codebrief.com 12y ago

Keeping clients in sync with a REST backend

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grouptalent.com 13y ago

Use Big Recruiting Data for Good, Not Evil

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grouptalent.com 13y ago

Why You Should Eavesdrop on Your Customers at Parties

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grouptalent.com 13y ago

Migrating From Rails To Ember.js

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grouptalent.com 13y ago

Moonlighting is the New Job Interview

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grouptalent.com 13y ago

Why We Don't Use Heroku

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grouptalent.com 13y ago

Freelancers Are Not Pieces of Meat - Don't Act Like One

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grouptalent.com 13y ago

Why We Switched From Stripe To Balanced

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superkinz.tumblr.com 13y ago

Is Captcha Drunk or Satanic?

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grouptalent.com 13y ago

Monsters that Scare the Pants Off Software Developers

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pandodaily.com 14y ago

Startup Delusion and Embracing the Schlep

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blog.gochime.com 14y ago

The Tale of the $340 CPM

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blog.grouptalent.com 14y ago

So You Think You Can Freelance?

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www.forbes.com 14y ago

GroupTalent Plays Cupid for Software Developers And Designers

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vizify.com 14y ago

Show HN: Angry Birds + Your Tweets * Infographic = TweetSheet

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www.kickstarter.com 14y ago

Turn Your Smartphone Into A Robot

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grouptalent.com 14y ago

Show HN: Bootstrap your startup with high end gigs

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Would you pay developers to fix open source bugs?

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hiwes.com 16y ago

Wheelize Your Potential

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venturebeat.com 16y ago

Team Apart (YC S08) hits the right price for collaboration: $0.00

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Spot.xyz | Fullstack Developers, Game Developers, 3D Engineers | Remote | Full Time |

Spot (https://www.spot.xyz/) is a 3D virtual office and event space that brings culture, presence and spontaneity back to remote teams. It provides drop-in voice and video collaboration, screen-sharing, and asynchronous chat.

We are a team of 8, well-funded and are looking for senior developers to help take Spot to the next level. We're a very experienced team with and ex-founders of Outreach.io.

Our tech stack is TypeScript on both the frontend and backend using React and Node. Our 3D engine is Babylon.js.

You can view our open positions here: https://www.spot.xyz/careers/

Come join us!

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah we have plans to add "nearby conversations" in larger rooms, built around furniture. So walking over to a couch in the room would start a nearby conversation that wouldn't disturb the rest of the room.

Outreach | Seattle, WA | Full-time | http://outreach.io

Outreach is the operating system for a sales person, designed to make communication with prospects easy and trackable.

Outreach is a single page application built with React (transpiled with Babel) on the front-end, consuming a Rails API on the back-end. We use all sorts of technologies including CouchDB, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ and Go.

We're looking for senior engineers for all parts of the stack, ideally with Ruby and/or React experience.

We are a team of 20 developers with high growth plans this next year. Outreach has raised $30M, growing from 6 to 105 employees in 18 months.

Apply via AngelList (https://angel.co/outreach) or email us directly at jobs@outreach.io

Outreach | Seattle, WA | Full-time | http://outreach.io

Outreach is the operating system for a sales person, designed to make communication with prospects easy and trackable.

Outreach is a single page application built with React (transpiled with Babel) on the front-end, consuming a Rails API on the back-end. We use all sorts of technologies including CouchDB, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ and Go.

We're looking for senior engineers for all parts of the stack, ideally with Ruby and/or React experience.

We are a team of 16 developers with high growth plans this next year. Outreach has raised $30M, growing from 6 to 105 employees in 18 months.

Apply via AngelList (https://angel.co/outreach) or email us directly at jobs@outreach.io

Outreach | Seattle, WA | Full-Time

Outreach empowers sales teams to automate and optimize their sales cadence for cold outbound, web inbound, MQL appointment setting, and more - helping them close more deals.

Outreach is a single-page javascript application (React) that consumes a Ruby on Rails API backend. We transpile through Babel to give us access to ES6 javascript syntax. And we're big believers in open source and contribute back to the community (https://github.com/getoutreach/epf and https://github.com/coalescejs/coalesce).

We are growing incredibly fast - raised $12m last year and grew from 5 to 70 people in less than 16 months.

Looking for senior back-end, front-end and full-stack developers who are familiar with Ruby on Rails and/or React.js.

Apply for one of our positions here: https://angel.co/outreach

Outreach.io | Seattle, WA | Full-Time | On-Site

https://www.outreach.io/

Outreach.io is looking for full stack developers to help us build the future of sales communication. We have a javascript front-end using React, with a Rails API backend.

We have real customers, real revenue and we're growing quickly. If you're interested, you can send me a link to your LinkedIn profile, wes at outreach.io

The big win Balanced has over Stripe is the ability to use their payouts API independently of whether you're using them to collect credit card and ACH debits or not. So you could be charging cards through Stripe and paying out via Balanced. Stripe forces you to charge cards through them in order to do any payouts.

It's true Stripe is integrated with more shopping carts and invoicing systems, but Balanced will get there. Personally, it would be great to see a Balanced credit card and ACH FreshBooks/Harvest integration because we're moving more into invoicing, as we're now dealing with larger companies and larger payments.

I wish we had better food trucks up here in Seattle. Mostly greasy Mexican food and hotdogs. Portland is the King of food trucks in the NW and I wish they would come up here more often. Fresh oysters, mean pork sandwiches, etc.

At the time, Stripe was the easiest and best solution for us. Our product wasn't as mature as it is now and automated developer payments weren't high on our list (as we were much smaller). But 18 months later, companies like BancBox and Balanced launched into the mix and were a much better fit for us.

I agree you shouldn't do fixed priced contracts for larger, long-term projects. But a fixed price for a 1-week long project seems to work out pretty well. That's why we developed the 1 week long sprint payouts.

Yeah, currently we look at publicly accessible work a developer has done. Agreed that front-end and design heavy work shows much better in a portfolio (and is usually an easier sell for the project owner) but we're working on ways to bubble back-end work to the top so it shows nicely. We get a number of back-end only type projects come through, so definitely still request an invite.

Open source contributions is one of many things we look at to decide acceptance. You don't need to have any open source contributions but it does help us gauge you as a developer. It mostly comes down to what you've built in the past (open source or not).