I just had this same experience last week, and was certain it wasn’t working correctly as well. I’m a convert.
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At Cronitor, we are building a set of tools to solve the automators dilemma -- the more tasks that you automate, the more time you spend making sure your automations are working correctly.
Our customers are in nearly every industry & team size -- from Fortune 500 (Cisco, Johnson & Johnson, AB-InBev) to rapidly growing startups (Chime, Carvana, Monday.com) to beloved brands and products (Babylist, Primary, Front) and many more.
Cronitor is a profitable, bootstrapped business, with a long roadmap built on constant conversations with our users. Our tools are critical to software developers responsible for billions of dollars of economic output.
We are hiring for the following roles:
* Sr. Product Engineer - https://cronitor.io/jobs/software-engineer-product
* Sr. Platform Engineer - https://cronitor.io/jobs/software-engineer-platform
* Developer Advocate - https://cronitor.io/jobs/developer-advocate
Watching Cronitor grow the past few years, and seeing all the ways that people rely on it today, has been extremely rewarding. Working on it full-time means I can finally tackle some of the bigger projects that I've wanted to do, but haven't been able to due to time constraints. In other words, I get to make it even more useful now!
Thanks for calling that out!
It was a side project from March 2014 to March 2020, but as of last month it’s now my full-time job!
Babylist in an e-commerce platform that focuses on helping new parents and parents-to-be discover and purchase the gear they will need as they welcome a new addition to their family. In 2019 approximately $375M worth of baby products will be purchased through Babylist.
We are also one of the most robust/knowledgeable resources for new parents to make informed product decisions. Every month over a million new parents/parents-to-be read our product guides/watch our videos in order to make informed purchasing decisions.
Our users are incredibly passionate about our products, and we have a lot of interesting engineering challenges to work on:
- Using machine learning to build product recommendation/discovery experiences that are highly personalized.
- Scaling our direct to consumer e-commerce sales to > $20M in sales this year.
- Building a rich realtime database of all baby related products, where they are available for sale, and for how much.
- Building new apps and experiences that make an impact on the lives of our users as they navigate a time of uncertainty and new adventure.
* Fullstack Engineers
* UX Designer
* Product/Brand Designer
For more information on these positions (as well as other openings) please see our jobs page - https://www.babylist.com/jobs
If you have any questions or would like to apply you can contact me directly august[at]babylist.com
Babylist in an e-commerce platform that focuses on helping new parents and parents-to-be discover and purchase the gear they will need as they welcome a new addition to their family. In 2019 approximately $300M worth of baby products will be purchased through Babylist.
We are also one of the most robust/knowledgeable resources for new parents to make informed product decisions. Every month over a million new parents/parents-to-be read our product guides/watch our videos in order to make informed purchasing decisions.
Our users are incredibly passionate about our products, and we have a lot of interesting engineering challenges to work on:
- Using machine learning to build product recommendation/discovery experiences that are highly personalized.
- Scaling our direct to consumer e-commerce sales to > $20M in sales this year.
- Building a rich realtime database of all baby related products, where they are available for sale, and for how much.
- Building new apps and experiences that make an impact on the lives of our users as they navigate a time of uncertainty and new adventure.
* Senior iOS Engineer
* Fullstack Engineers
* UX Designer
* Product/Brand Designer
For more information on these positions (as well as other openings) please see our jobs page - https://www.babylist.com/jobs
If you have any questions or would like to apply you can contact me directly august[at]babylist.com
Babylist in an e-commerce platform that focuses on helping new parents and parents-to-be discover and purchase the gear they will need as they welcome a new addition to their family. In 2018 approximately $250M worth of baby products will be purchased through Babylist.
We are also one of the most robust/knowledgeable resources for new parents to make informed product decisions. Every month over a million new parents/parents-to-be read our product guides/watch our videos in order to make informed purchasing decisions.
Our users are incredibly passionate about our products, and we have a lot of interesting engineering challenges to work on:
- Using machine learning to build product recommendation/discovery experiences that are highly personalized.
- Scaling our direct to consumer e-commerce sales to > $20M in sales this year.
- Building a rich realtime database of all baby related products, where they are available for sale, and for how much.
- Building new apps and experiences that make an impact on the lives of our users as they navigate a time of uncertainty and new adventure.
* Senior iOS Engineer
* Fullstack Engineers
* UX Designer
* Product/Brand Designer
For more information on these positions (as well as other openings) please see our jobs page - https://www.babylist.com/jobs
If you have any questions or would like to apply you can contact me directly august[at]babylist.com
Babylist is an e-commerce and gifting platform for new parents and parents-to-be. In 2017 $150 million of gifts were purchased through our platform.
In addition to our e-commerce platform, Babylist is a trusted resource for parents/parent-to-be to make product decisions. Our thoroughly researched product guides and videos are viewed by millions every month, and nearly every expecting family in the United States reads/watches/interacts with our content each year.
Babylist is profitable and growing quickly. We're hiring for a number of roles across the engineering and design teams including:
* Senior iOS Engineer
* Fullstack Engineers
* UX Designer
* Product/Brand Designer
For more information on these positions (as well as other openings) please see our jobs page - https://www.babylist.com/jobs
If you have any questions or would like to apply you can contact me directly august[at]babylist.com
Babylist is an e-commerce and gifting platform for new parents and parents-to-be. In 2017 $150 million of gifts were purchased through Babylist.
In addition to our e-commerce platform Babylist is a trusted resource for parents/parent-to-be to make product decisions. Our thoroughly researched product guides and videos are viewed by millions every month.
Babylist is profitable and growing quickly. We're hiring for a number of roles across the engineering team including:
* Senior iOS Engineer
* Fullstack Engineers
* Support and Operations Engineers
For more information on these positions (as well as other openings) please see our jobs page - https://www.babylist.com/jobs
If you have any questions or would like to apply you can contact me directly august[at]babylist.com
At Babylist, we make having your first baby less overwhelming, more creative, sustainable, and most importantly more delightful. We have a large and rapidly growing user base of passionate parents-to-be who are making important purchasing decisions for one of the biggest events in their lives. We help parents-to-be in a time that's both exciting and stressful.
Our core product is our universal baby registry. Currently 20% of first-time expecting families in the United States actually create a baby registry at Babylist.com. We are expanding our reach through fantastic content and our own e-commerce.
Our backend/API are powered by Ruby on Rails, our front-end is driven by React/Redux, and our predictive models/statistical analysis tools are written in Python.
We are hiring Full-stack Engineers who are interested in working up and down our stack, as well as a Data Scientist/Data Analyst who would work cross-functionally with every team at the company (e-commerce, content, marketing, product) to deliver useful insights that have a direct impact on our business and product.
For more information on these positions (as well as other openings) please see our jobs page - https://www.babylist.com/jobs
If you have any questions or would like to apply you can contact me directly august[at]babylist.com
At Babylist, we make having your first baby less overwhelming, more creative, sustainable, and most importantly more delightful. We have a large and rapidly growing user base of passionate parents-to-be who are making important purchasing decisions for one of the biggest events in their lives. We help parents-to-be in a time that's both exciting and stressful.
Our core product is our universal baby registry. Currently 20% of first-time expecting families in the United States actually create a baby registry at Babylist.com. We are expanding our reach through fantastic content and our own e-commerce.
Senior Software Engineer: Our backend/API are powered by Ruby on Rails, and front-end is driven by React/Redux. You would join an excellent product team of 4 software engineers, 1 designer, and 1 product manager.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of engineering experience with a proven track record of building consumer web applications or services.
- Expert-level fluency in at least one of Ruby, Javascript, Python, or another modern programming language.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field preferred. You should be able to demonstrate superior understanding of CS fundamentals
- Experience designing and implementing scalable web services
- Experience with React/Redux a plus
I'd love to tell you more over the phone or in person. Contact me at august[at]babylist.com or see our jobs page for other open positions - https://babylist.com/jobs
I wrote more about it in an Indie Hackers interview a few months ago - https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/cronitor
As Shane mentioned in the post 12.5% has been a consistent number for us as we have scaled up over the past couple years. That said, at this point I suspect we will see this percentage decrease a bit going forward. I'm basing this on intuiting that we're a bit over provisioned at the moment and won't have to scale our infrastructure linearly with user growth over the next year or two. Of course, that remains to be seen...
To add some more numbers to the conversation my full time job is CTO at a consumer facing tech company (Babylist.com) I just looked at our spending on IT/infrastructure for the last couple of months and it's around 1.5-2% of revenue.
What he didn't mention is that that cringeworthy MVP was public for almost two months before we started showing it to people. It was out there with broken features, placeholder text, etc.
That made shippin easy. It was done on day 1 and then we were very motivated to make it actually do something useful since it was already public.
We decided to hack on it together, and we've since grown Cronitor from a tool built for our own needs into a small business with a couple hundred paying customers.
Babylist is making it easier for new parents to prepare for one of the biggest events in their lives. We have an extremely engaged user-base, we’re growing quickly and making real money. Our core product is a universal baby registry, and we are developing our own e-commerce platform and content site. Our HQ is in the Old Oakland neighborhood, 3 blocks from the 12th Street BART. We're a smart and diverse team of 20. Our users care deeply about our product (read our App Store reviews for proof).
Front-end Software Engineer: Our front-end is driven by React/Redux, Sass, Bootstrap, and we recently released a new section of our iOS app powered by React Native. You would join an excellent product team of 4 software engineers and 1 designer and our CEO/product manager.
Requirements:
- You've coded a lot, you're hands on, and passionate about building world class applications.
- Expert-level fluency in Javascript and one modern front-end framework.
- Experience with OOCSS methodologies and an almost unhealthy obsession with keeping CSS (Sass) clean and scalable.
- Experience with modern front-end build tools (Babel, Browserify, Webpack, Gulp, etc).
- User-obsessed. Once you get to know our users, you deeply empathize and genuinely like them. You could get on the phone with a user (or their grandmother) if they were having an issue.
- You’re opinionated and care intensely about the little details that make a great user experience.
I'd love to tell you more over the phone or in person. Contact me at august[at]babylist.com or see our jobs page for other open positions - https://babyli.st/jobs
That said, I've been looking for Rails tutorials/resources that are geared toward someone with decent experience with other languages/frameworks. Would y'all recommend this book, or is this more of "learn to code with Ruby on Rails"? If not this, any other resources that fit the bill?
BabyList is making it easier for new parents to prepare for one of the biggest events in their lives. We have an extremely engaged user-base, we’re growing quickly and making real money. Our core product is a universal baby registry, and we are developing our own e-commerce platform and content site. Our HQ is in the Old Oakland neighborhood, 3 blocks from the 12th Street BART. We're a smart and diverse team of 15. Our users actually notice and love what we do (read our AppStore reviews for proof).
Front-end Software Engineer: Our front-end is driven by React/Redux, Sass, Bootstrap, and we recently released a new section of our iOS app powered by React Native. You would join an excellent product team of 4 software engineers and 2 designers.
Requirements:
- You've coded a lot, you're hands on, and passionate about building world class applications.
- Expert-level fluency in Javascript and one modern front-end framework.
- Experience with OOCSS methodologies and an almost unhealthy obsession with keeping CSS (Sass) clean and scalable.
- Experience with modern front-end build tools (Babel, Browserify, Webpack, Gulp, etc).
- User-obsessed. Once you get to know our users, you deeply empathize and genuinely like them. You could get on the phone with a user (or their grandmother) if they were having an issue.
- You’re opinionated and care intensely about the little details that make a great user experience.
Senior Fullstack Engineer: Our server-side code is powered by Ruby on Rails, MySQL and Redis.
Requirements:
- You've coded a lot, you're hands on, and passionate about building world class applications.
- Expert-level fluency in at least one of Ruby, Java, Python, or another modern server-side object-oriented programming language.
- Bachelors in CS, or equivalent experience.
- Experience designing and implementing scalable web services.
- Deep knowledge of testing best practices and continuous deployment. I'd love to tell you more over the phone or in person. Contact me at august[at]babyli.st or see our jobs page for other open positions - https://babyli.st/jobs
Front-end Software Engineer: Our front-end is driven by React/Redux, Sass, Bootstrap, and we recently released a new section of our iOS app powered by React Native. You would join an excellent product team of 4 software engineers and 2 designers. Requirements:
- You've coded a lot, you're hands on, and passionate about building world class applications.
- Expert-level fluency in Javascript and one modern front-end framework.
- Experience with OOCSS methodologies and an almost unhealthy obsession with keeping CSS (Sass) clean and scalable.
- Experience with modern front-end build tools (Babel, Browserify, Webpack, Gulp, etc).
- User-obsessed. Once you get to know our users, you deeply empathize and genuinely like them. You could get on the phone with a user (or their grandmother) if they were having an issue.
- You’re opinionated and care intensely about the little details that make a great user experience.
Senior Fullstack Engineer: Our server-side code is powered by Ruby on Rails, MySQL and Redis. Requirements:
- You've coded a lot, you're hands on, and passionate about building world class applications.
- Expert-level fluency in at least one of Ruby, Java, Python, or another modern server-side object-oriented programming language.
- Bachelors in CS, or equivalent experience.
- Experience designing and implementing scalable web services.
- Deep knowledge of testing best practices and continuous deployment.
I'd love to tell you more over the phone or in person. Contact me at august[at]babyli.st or see our jobs page for other open positions - https://babyli.st/jobs
BabyList is making it easier for new parents to prepare for one of the biggest events in their lives. We have an extremely engaged user-base, we’re growing quickly and making real money. Our core product is a universal baby registry, and we are developing our own e-commerce platform and content site. Our HQ is in the Old Oakland neighborhood, 3 blocks from the 12th Street BART. We're a smart and diverse team of 15. Our users actually notice and love what we do (read our AppStore reviews for proof).
Front-end Software Engineer:
Our front-end is driven by React/Redux, Sass, Bootstrap, and we recently released a new section of our iOS app powered by React Native. You would join an excellent product team of 4 software engineers and 2 designers.
Requirements:
- You've coded a lot, you're hands on, and passionate about building world class applications.
- Expert-level fluency in Javascript and one modern front-end framework.
- Experience with OOCSS methodologies and an almost unhealthy obsession with keeping CSS (Sass) clean and scalable.
- Experience with modern front-end build tools (Babel, Browserify, Webpack, Gulp, etc).
- User-obsessed. Once you get to know our users, you deeply empathize and genuinely like them. You could get on the phone with a user (or their grandmother) if they were having an issue.
- You’re opinionated and care intensely about the little details that make a great user experience.
Senior Fullstack Engineer:
Our server-side code is powered by Ruby on Rails, MySQL and Redis.
Requirements:
- You've coded a lot, you're hands on, and passionate about building world class applications.
- Expert-level fluency in at least one of Ruby, Java, Python, or another modern server-side object-oriented programming language.
- Bachelors in CS, or equivalent experience.
- Experience designing and implementing scalable web services.
- Deep knowledge of testing best practices and continuous deployment.
I'd love to tell you more over the phone or in person. Contact me at august[at]babyli.st or see our jobs page for other open positions - https://babyli.st/jobs