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Arguments like this one strike me as extremely condescending.

Have you directly spoken to developing world farmers who have experienced these problems?

Do you think people with these problems are just clamoring for the first world to come in and solve this for them with blockchain technology?

Do you think all of the participants in the situation you described would even adopt blockchain (the small farmer, the larger farmer who wants to steal land, the corrupt central government officials open to bribes)? If so, why? It seems the only person with an incentive for change is the one least likely to have strong influence for that change.

Yea you can pick a sector to sell into. But any sector you sell into is constantly evolving. You need to correctly predict the direction things are moving in, which is somewhat a timing and luck factor.

> A big part of PMF is timing and luck - factors that are for most parts,out of your control. This is why even other founders that have found PMF are of limited help.

> What you can control is the market, your team, and the unique insight that you bring as the founder. Your job as a founder is to leverage these strengths to get to PMF.

How can you control the market? The market seems like a timing and luck factor that's outside of your control.

> The only difference between fiat and crypto is that fiat is often backed by people that can print more money/manage the supply

This is really not the only difference. As Elon Musk recently said, the government has a "monopoly on violence" and acts as an authority that arbitrates disputes (up to and including between countries), works to ensure proper controls and regulations through laws, etc., all of which helps to underpin the value of the currency. Cryptocurrencies are backed by no central authority with these powers.

There isn't the same pressure on founders to raise a seed round as they are likely to exit YC with significant capital and runway. Seed investors still have capital allocation targets and are likely to improve their offers to encourage founders to accept investment.

Very curious to see what kind of pricing pressure this puts on seed investors who traditionally invest after YC. The dynamics seem likely to swing even more in favor of founders.

All of these things used to annoy me as well. Then I downloaded the app and subscribed monthly to get rid of the ads. Now my reddit experience is awesome.

Reddit isn't a public service. It's a private company trying to increase their profits. The native app experience is way better than the website. Undoubtedly they see higher engagement from folks using the app, so want as many people as possible to use it.

Ads looking like posts? Sounds like they are trying to monetize their traffic. If you don't want to see the ads, pay for the service.

Shogun (YC W18) | TypeScript + React Engineer | Full-Time | Remote (US, Canada, UK)

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Shogun is building next generation storefronts for eCommerce stores. We're at the intersection of eCommerce, JAMstack, and low-code/no-code tools. Our fully remote team of 70 is located all around the world.

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About You..

* An experienced TypeScript + React Engineer in the United States, Canada or the UK who will be working directly on one of our client-facing products, helping people build highly performant pages and PWAs for their eCommerce stores.

* You'll be working in an agile team responsible for building UIs and tools for making web apps by utilizing modern technologies and solutions like TypeScript, React, Webpack, GraphQL, etc.

* You'll write well designed, testable, readable and scalable code in accordance to clean code principles and team agreement.

* You'll work closely with design, product management, and development teams to create elegant, interactive and highly performant interfaces.

* You'll take proactive ownership of tasks and see them through to completion, and take responsibility for coding, bug testing, general software deployment, and tracking the product through its lifecycle, along with communicating with other internal teams.

* You'll regularly contribute to discussions and brainstorm high quality ideas that result in adoption and improvements.

* You'll proactively share knowledge and help your team evolve.

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Sounds interesting? Apply here: https://apply.workable.com/getshogun/j/A20FAFA044/

Very cool! Most ecommerce stores don't have enough data to do product recommendations with the existing tools. This is much needed.

Shogun (YC W18) | Technical Project Manager | Full-Time | Remote | $80k-$120k+ (location/exp dependent)

Shogun is building next generation storefronts for eCommerce stores. We have one of the most popular apps on Shopify, and we're launching a second product. Our fully remote team of 60 is located all around the world.

About You..

* You know best practices of different agile methodologies, but you are not set on one.

* You work async. You use meetings strategically.

* You understand tech, are familiar with the latest web technologies, and you have previous coding experience.

* You understand startups are chaotic and you kind of like it. You are able to navigate, reign in and thrive in the chaos.

In this role you will...

* Get the needs from product/support/design/growth/engineering and break down the work into user stories and tasks that are clear for the engineering team to deliver.

* Validate the specs and fulfill the missing parts. Sometimes, you will write the specs by yourself.

* Organize backlogs, milestones, epics, and iterations.

* Communicate and create visibility for the entire company on what the squads are shipping.

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Sounds interesting? Apply here: https://apply.workable.com/getshogun/j/0ECE81D36B/

Shogun (YC W18) | Multiple Positions | Full-Time | Remote | $80k-$150k+ (location/exp/role dependent)

Shogun is building next generation storefronts for eCommerce stores. We have one of the most popular apps on Shopify, and we're launching a second product. Our fully remote team of 60 is located all around the world.

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Technical Project Manager

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About You..

* You get things done.

* You are comfortable with ambiguity.

* You know best practices of different agile methodologies, but you are not set on one.

* You work async. You use meetings strategically.

* You understand tech, are familiar with the latest web technologies, and you have previous coding experience.

* You understand startups are chaotic and you kind of like it. You are able to navigate, reign in and thrive in the chaos.

In this role you will...

* Help the squads deliver in a fast-paced environment where there is not a lot of process and documentation to guide you.

* Work with two squads in different timezones.

* Get the needs from product/support/design/growth/engineering and break down the work into user stories and tasks that are clear for the engineering team to deliver.

* Validate the specs and fulfill the missing parts. Sometimes, you will write the specs by yourself.

* Organize backlogs, milestones, epics, and iterations.

* Host the iteration ceremonies (the less, the better).

* Communicate and create visibility for the entire company on what the squads are shipping.

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Sounds interesting? Apply here: https://apply.workable.com/getshogun/j/0ECE81D36B/

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Senior Frontend Engineer: https://apply.workable.com/getshogun/j/9AC6343FBF/

I think you learn a lot - way more than an interview will tell you. That’s true on both sides. As a candidate you get to see what the code quality is like, how the engineering process actually works, how communication works, etc.

It’s not possible to do trials of significant length with a lot of folks. It can even just be a few hours and a simple bug fix task.

We don’t typically do contract to hire over a prolonged period. Once we’ve built conviction we make full time W2 offers. We try to get there as quickly as possible and a paid test is one of the tools we use.

Yes I’d say:

- make use of the office hours that YC provides. You can schedule these once you’ve been accepted. They’ve already been doing office hours by video.

- ask YC alumni for introductions to investors. The community has really pulled together to support the W20 batch that just graduated. They’re the first to do demo day remotely. I know some of the companies had no trouble raising substantial rounds fully remotely.

- one aspect of YC that works really well is meeting other founders serendipitously. I anticipate that YC will probably figure something out to enable this, but don’t be afraid to reach out to relevant alums asking to connect.

Had a lot of fun doing this. Thanks to Garry and Katelin for the opportunity. Happy to answer any questions. AMA.

Shogun (YC W18) | Growth Engineer | Full-Time | Remote | $80-$120k

Shogun is a page builder platform for eCommerce stores. We're one of the most popular apps on Shopify and BigCommerce. Our fully remote team of 40 is located all around the world.

We need a full stack rails engineer with an interest in the business side of things. You'll work closely with our growth team to move growth initiatives forwards.

Responsibilities:

* Work on special projects to drive growth at Shogun

* Write queries and work with analytics tools to understand the business

* Build out and maintain internal software (admin, affiliate tracking system, etc.)

* Build out new platform and partner software integrations

You must:

* Be interested in knowing what drives a startup SaaS business (MRR, LTV, Churn, CAC, ARPU, Conversion Rate, Acquisition Funnels, etc.)

* Know rails like the back of your hand

We offer:

* Solid pay

* Trips to international offsites

* Health Benefits (US and Canada)

* And more.

Sound interesting? Please apply: https://grnh.se/5993b3ef2

You can pre-order with a down payment of only $100 today for delivery in late 2021.

Shogun | Backend Engineer | Full Time | REMOTE

We are: Shogun (YC W18): a page builder platform for eCommerce stores. We're one of the most popular apps on Shopify and BigCommerce. Our fully remote team of 30 is located all around the world.

We need: A backend engineer. We're looking for someone that is familiar with Go and/or Rails. You'll help us move to new platforms, implement complex queries, scale & improve our backend systems.

For more info and to apply please see: https://grnh.se/793045cc2

Time is definitely extremely valuable, which is why I don’t commute anymore.

I used to commute from San Mateo to San Francisco on Uber Pool for ~$10 each way. Same service is >$20 now.

Buy a tag and become a registrar[1] with your target TLDs. Try to colocate your servers with the registry you are targeting. This gives you root level access to the registry and you'll have lower latency than a lot of the dropcatchers. It used to cost about $100k a year to get a .com tag, but I'm not sure nowadays. The fees vary by registry. Every time you setup a dropcatch or use a registrar, you are adding an extra service between yourself and the registry where the domains are actually registered.

[1] https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/become-a-re...

> So if you consider an offer from a seed stage company, and try to estimate your upside, divide the shares amount offered to you by at least 1.5 right away.

No, multiply by 0 right away.

Shogun (YC W18) | Backend Engineer | REMOTE | https://getshogun.com | $80-$120k + 0.25%

Shogun is a storefront builder for eCommerce stores. We have one of the most popular apps on Shopify (https://apps.shopify.com/shogun) and BigCommerce. We bootstrapped the business to profitability and we're growing fast. The team of 22 is distributed around the world and we're looking for more engineers to join us.

On the backend, we use Rails, Graphql, Postgres, MongoDB, Fastly, BigQuery, and have some newer services in Go.

On the frontend, we use React and Apollo.

We have big plans for the future and we're just getting started!

If you are interested to learn more, email jobs@getshogun.com with your resume and any questions you may have!

Not OP, but we are fully remote with a similar sized company and we just wire USD every month after they send us invoices. It’s pretty easy.

I feel like bbc.com and bbc.co.uk should be combined and rank 6 overall on this list.

My great uncle, Tom Forsyth, lived in Scoraig and was involved in the community for decades. He was highly intelligent, well traveled, and was an unusual and interesting character.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/16610388.obituary-tom...

Because it could create a situation where small cities and counties are competing against each other to win the favor of workers. It’s not an identical situation, and arguably this competition already exists, but it’s much more obvious when direct cash incentives are being offered.

This reminds me a lot of patio11’s fascinating write up about Japanese Hometown Tax. It makes total sense for small cities to pay for high earning remote workers to move there. Perhaps this will become a trend. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2018/10/19/japanese-hometown-tax/

Shogun (YC W18) | Full Stack Engineer/Frontend Engineer | REMOTE | https://getshogun.com | $80-$140k + 0.25-5%

Shogun is a storefront builder for eCommerce stores. We have one of the most popular apps on Shopify (https://apps.shopify.com/shogun) and BigCommerce. We bootstrapped the business to profitability and we're growing fast. The team is distributed around the world and we're looking for more engineers to join us.

On the frontend, we use React and Apollo.

On the backend, we use Rails, Graphql, Postgres, MongoDB, and have some newer services in Go.

We have big plans for the future and we're just getting started!

If you are interested to learn more, email jobs@getshogun.com with your resume and any questions you may have!

Was working with a developer through Upwork who claimed to be from Japan. Was in fact from China. Upwork terminated their account without warning, and we owed the individual money. Was a legal and logistical pain in the ass. I guess this is a bad experience with Upwork as much as with a developer.