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Q: How many AppCoins are there per app? Is this established at the beginning or can more coins be minted along the way?
A: The default is an app starts with 0 coins but this can be adjusted. Currently an app's coins are inflationary with no cap. Which means as new work is done, new coins are minted. Because a real product and its growth backs each coin, it doesn't appear to make sense to create scarcity.
Q: How is this enforced? Is it distributed? Does it exist on the blockchain in some way?
A: Today its tracked in Assembly for each app in a ledger thats downloadable by anyone (see assemblymade.com/helpful/log.csv as an example of one product's log). We think future blockchain technology is promising.
Q: Is there a market for AppCoins? Are they tradable? Or are they only dispensed by the project creator?
A: Each app has its own core team (like in OSS). They are responsible for setting vision, quality standards, and ultimately accepting which work makes it into the product and mints new coins. There's no market yet. Trading App Coins opens up some thorny legal issues that we're working through.
Q: Is the revenue share enforced in some way? Legally? Programmatically?
A: Legally through our binding TOS and programmatically; we publish all of each app's revenue and expenses so that anybody can verify the integrity of the payout.
We’re hiring Engineers interested in Ruby, Go, and Bitcoin to help us build foundational pieces of the Assembly platform. Assembly's collaborative platform enables the creation of a new class of software products; where anyone around the world can help collectively build, retain ownership, and receive profit for their contributions.
We’re currently a small 5 person team in San Francisco that has recently secured a healthy financing from top-tier investors which will enable us to tackle the enormous challenges of creating a ‘meta’ company (a software company that creates software companies). You would have a direct hand in helping us shape the future of work and unlocking the power of independent creators. We believe in progress over consensus, strong opinions weakly held, moving fast is best even if it breaks things, and we make what we measure - but you'll have the opportunity to add your own lessons to that list. We work alone and we work together; meaning we believe the best know how to get things done on their own, as well as how to work in a team. Everyone on the team is responsible for self directing their work and has a tremendous impact on our shared success.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
* Understand pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch frequently.
* Strong opinions on testing & code quality.
* At least 3+ years of full-time engineering experience.
* Experience with the Bitcoin protocol, Heroku, ElasticSearch, Postgres, or Redis a plus.
WHAT WE OFFER
* Flexible work hours
* Occasional telecommuting.
* A generous vacation policy.
* Free meals.
* Stand up desks, mac book pros, cinema displays...Buy or build your ideal work environment
* A sunny office space (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/n170uryd7v0p6dg/ySaaj77HGD)
* Competitive salary and equity package.
* 100% covered health benefits.
We’re located in Mission, San Francisco, CA. Please apply by sending any work, resume, github username to jobs@assemblymade.com
Full disclosure, founder
We're hiring Front-End and Ruby Engineers to help us build foundational pieces of the Assembly platform. Assembly's collaborative platform enables the creation of a new class of software products; where anyone around the world can help collectively build, retain ownership, and receive profit for their contributions.
We’re currently a small 5 person team in San Francisco that has recently secured a healthy financing from top-tier investors which will enable us to tackle the enormous challenges of creating a ‘meta’ company (a software company that creates software companies). You would have a direct hand in helping us shape the future of work and unlocking the power of independent creators.
We believe in progress over consensus, strong opinions weakly held, moving fast is best even if it breaks things, and we make what we measure - but you'll have the opportunity to add your own lessons to that list. We work alone and we work together; meaning we believe the best know how to get things done on their own, as well as how to work in a team. Everyone on the team is responsible for self directing their work and has a tremendous impact on our shared success.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
* Understand pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch frequently.
* Strong opinions on testing & code quality.
* Over 3 years experience with Ruby.
* Experience with Heroku, ElasticSearch, Postgres, or Redis a plus.
WHAT WE OFFER
* Free meals.
* Flexible work hours.
* A great vacation policy.
* Stand up desks, mac book pros, cinema displays...Buy or build your ideal work environment
* A sunny office space.
* Competitive salary and equity package.
* 100% covered health benefits.
We’re located in Mission, San Francisco, CA. Please apply by sending any work, resume, github username to jobs@assemblymade.com
disclosure: one of the founders of Assembly
We're hiring Front-End, Ruby, and Full-stack Engineers to help us build foundational pieces of the Assembly platform. You would have a direct hand in shaping the future of work and unlocking the power of independent creators. Assembly's collaborative platform enables the creation of a new class of open source software products; where anyone around the world can help collectively build, retain ownership, and receive profit for their contributions.
We’re currently a small 4 person team in San Francisco that has recently secured a healthy financing from top-tier investors which will enable us to tackle the enormous challenges of creating a ‘meta’ company (a software company that creates software companies). We believe in progress over consensus, strong opinions weakly held, moving fast is best even if it breaks things, and we make what we measure - but you'll have the opportunity to add your own lessons to that list. We work alone and we work together; meaning we believe the best know how to get things done on their own, as well as how to work in a team. Everyone on the team is responsible for self directing their work and has a tremendous impact on our shared success.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
* Understand pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch frequently.
* Strong opinions on testing & code quality.
* Over 3 years experience with Ruby.
* Experience with Heroku, ElasticSearch, Postgres, or Redis a plus.
WHAT WE OFFER
* Free meals.
* Flexible work hours.
* Open vacation policy. We don't count days.
* If you're sick, just stay home and get better.
* Stand up desks, mac book pros, cinema displays...Buy or build your ideal work environment
* A sunny office space.
* Competitive salary and equity package.
* Health, dental and vision benefits.
* Team "Workations” where we all travel somewhere for a week for a change of environment
We’re located in Mission, San Francisco, CA. It would be great if you are local or willing to relocate (we'll cover the cost) but we’ll also open to telecommuting as long as you are located in the US and it is legal for you to work here.
Please apply by sending any work, resume, github username to jobs@assemblymade.com
I believe Assembly has a competitive advantage as the first mover and more importantly the open development approach where anyone in the world can participate...for example in only the last 40 hours, already over 83 people have signed-up to build support-foo...a not-perfect but relevant comparison: Zendesk (largest competitor to product) has an engineering team of only ~50 including designers, QA, & devops.
(Disclaimer: founder)
We only kickoff building one app a month.
1.Community will be attracted / restricted by the platform.
We agree and realize helping the community grow as a core responsibility of assembly.
2. There is too much fatigue out there, as there are so many such "ideas" competing for mind-space.
We've thought a lot about this too. These are just of few of the initial app ideas we received. We curate all the new ideas that come in and work with the submitters on the promising ones before putting them up.
3. SAAS based products for small businesses, freelancers has become a kind of a cottage industry with limited scalability. I am doubtful how much revenue this can generate.
I believe some the current app ideas are attacking larger opportunities, for example support-foo.. its proprietary competition would be a Zendesk. "Zendesk’s fiscal 2012 revenue will be approximately $30 million"[1]
[1] http://www.pehub.com/2012/11/29/zendesk-ready-2013-ipo-sourc...
The Assembly platform is intended to allow everyone to vote and influence the direction of an app. Assembly also actively surfaces key metrics so all decisions are data driven and can even be reevaluated and rolled back later when more data is available. In the event the community hasn't come to a clear direction and the data is inconclusive, the core team will be left to mediate disputes and decide on an outcome.
The "idea sourcing" and backing is meant to find new products with some market validation so we know people want what we are building.
Non-technical people can definitely contribute to the apps. There are many coding tasks, like marketing and copy editing, that goes into any successful product.