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ericzon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)

Hey HN, Eric Zhang here, formerly YC W11, current CTO @ Scalable Press. I’m posting because we are bootstrapped and profitable, and we’re hiring software engineers. We're hiring engineers for our warehouse automation team. To give you an idea of what you’d do: one engineer on our team integrated with a large vendor of ours so we can run our own trucks to avoid UPS shipping costs.

Our stack is Node, React, and Mongo. Our team is currently 15 engineers (with 5 on the warehouse eng team).

Interested? Email me at ericzhang@scalablepress.com

PS: We're also hiring engineering managers

ericzon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)

Software Engineer | Scalable Press | San Francisco, CA / Indianapolis, IN| Salary range: $105k+ depending on experience + options | Onsite | No resume needed Hey HN, Eric Zhang here, formerly YC W11, current CTO @ Scalable Press. I’m posting because we are bootstrapped and profitable, and we’re hiring software engineers. To give you an idea of what you’d do, one engineer on our team integrated with a large vendor of ours so we can run our own trucks to avoid UPS shipping costs.

Our stack is Node, React, and Mongo. Our team is currently 15 engineers.

Interested? Email me at ericzhang@scalablepress.com

PS: We're also hiring engineering managers

ericzon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)

Hey HN, Eric Zhang here, formerly YC W11, current CTO @ Scalable Press. I’m posting because we are bootstrapped and profitable, and we’re hiring software engineers. To give you an idea of what you’d do, one engineer on our team integrated with a large vendor of ours so we can run our own trucks to avoid UPS shipping costs.

Our stack is Node, React, and Mongo. Our team is currently 13 engineers.

Interested? Email me at ericzhang@scalablepress.com or apply through Lever: https://jobs.lever.co/scalablepress/ab35f3f1-952c-4bd5-b8aa-....

PS: We're also hiring engineering managers.

ericzon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)

Our stack is Node, React, and Mongo. Our team is currently 13 engineers.

Interested? Email me at ericzhang@scalablepress.com or apply through Lever: https://jobs.lever.co/scalablepress/ab35f3f1-952c-4bd5-b8aa-...

PS: We're also hiring engineering managers.

ericzon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)

Hey HN, Eric Zhang here, formerly YC W11, current CTO @ Scalable Press. I’m posting because we are bootstrapped and profitable, and we’re hiring software engineers. To give you an idea of what you’d do, one engineer on our team wrote our API that helps print over 10,000 shirts a day. Our stack is Node, React, Mongo.

Company facts: - On track to double to 12 million items printed and shipped in 2017. - 13 software engineers / 1 UI/UX / 1 PM - San Francisco office near Montgomery BART - CEO used to write code

Interested? Email me and mention you’re from HN. No need to send a resume—I’d like to hear about what you’ve been working on lately, and feel free to include any relevant project links. eric@scalablepress.com

https://scalablepress.com

PS We're also hiring an engineering manager, UI/UX designers and PMs for our ecommerce products and warehouse software.

ericzon How Lever (YC S12) Got to 50–50 Women and Men

To be fair the article is not about an "obsession with an even split" at all. It's about Lever's practices to promote diversity and inclusion.

ericzon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)

Hey HN, Eric Zhang here, formerly YC W11, current CTO @ Scalable Press. I’m posting because we are bootstrapped and profitable, and we’re hiring software engineers (with 1+ year of industry experience). To give you an idea of what you’d do, one engineer on our team wrote an API that helps print over 10,000 shirts a day. Our stack is node, react, angular, and mongo.

We may have already answered your questions about us on http://scalable.press/software-engineer/. It covers hiring process, engineering culture, past projects, and future projects you might work on with us.

Interested? Email me and mention you’re from HN. No need to send a resume—I’d like to hear about what you’ve been working on lately, and feel free to include any relevant project links.

ericzhang@scalablepress.com

http://scalable.press/software-engineer/

PS We're also hiring a UI designer and a graphic designer. If either sounds like you, definitely reach out.

We've had a lot of success growing our team from HN's hiring thread and hope to continue!

ericzon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)

Hey HN, Eric Zhang here, formerly YC W11, current CTO @ Scalable Press. I’m posting because we are bootstrapped and profitable, and we’re hiring software engineers. To give you an idea of what you’d do, one engineer on our team wrote an API that helps print over 10,000 shirts a day. Our stack is node, react, angular, and mongo.

We may have already answered your questions about us on http://scalable.press/product-engineer/. It covers hiring process, engineering culture, past projects, and future projects you might work on with us.

Interested? Email me and mention you’re from HN. No need to send a resume—I’d like to hear about what you’ve been working on lately, and feel free to include any relevant project links.

ericzhang@scalablepress.com http://scalable.press/product-engineer/

PS We're also hiring a lead product designer, head of marketing, and a software engineer with a focus on warehouse automation software. If you're into industrial processes, I would be happy to show you our 4 warehouses.

We posted in the May thread too and have already made a hire from HN! Just wanted to share the good news.

ericzon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)

Thanks! Feel free to apply even if you don't have experience with our stack. We've hired engineers who didn't know JS/Node, but picked it up easily and made great contributions.

ericzon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)

Hey HN, Eric Zhang here, formerly YC W11, current CTO @ Scalable Press. I’m posting because we are bootstrapped and profitable, and we’re hiring software engineers. To give you an idea of what you’d do, one engineer on our team wrote an API that helps print over 10,000 shirts a day. Our stack is node, react, angular, and mongo.

Interested? Email me and mention you’re from HN. No need to send a resume—I’d like to hear about what you’ve been working on lately, and feel free to include any relevant project links.

ericzhang@scalablepress.com http://scalable.press/product-engineer/

PS We're also hiring a lead product designer and a software engineer with a focus on warehouse automation software. If you're into industrial processes, I would be happy to show you our 4 warehouses.

ericzon Lily – Drone camera

That is one of the first videos I've seen in a long time where I've thought "wow we can do that now?"

ericzon [dead]

A couple days ago we were posted on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8353485 and we learned that people wanted shirts with actual code! (despite, in my opinion, more aesthetically pleasing blocks design) so in the spirit of iterating quickly, we've added support for actually printing the code on the shirt :).

ericzon Show HN: Gmail Thread Splitting

Bravo. Ignore the haters who haven't run into thread issues and thus believe no one else can possibly run into these issues. "Just change the subject!" Clearly these people have never sent a bulk email, or considered the fact that others may use email differently from them. Really tired of this mentality of "I don't have complete information but I think I'm great thus I'm just going to assume you are clueless".

ericzon An Empirical Evaluation of TCP Performance in Online Games

If you're a web game developer reading this you should also know that WebSockets, XHR, and anything built on top of those technologies (socket.io etc.) are TCP based. Only WebRTC DataChannels and flash are able to do UDP based communication in the browser.

ericzon Comprehend (YC W11) Raises $8.4M Led by Sequoia to Lower Clinical Trial Costs

Congrats guys!

ericzon Worst CAPTCHA Ever

You know, maybe it's because they just wanted to slow down legitimate users for some reason, and spam wasn't a big problem. Ok I'm just trying to be optimistic.

ericzon Show HN: Transfer files between computers using WebRTC

WebRTC encrypts by default and you have to manually edit the SDP to turn it off. I highly doubt the developer went to the lengths to do that.

ericzon Show HN: Transfer files between computers using WebRTC

Here's one my friends (and I) are building, including a live demo: http://demo.peerkit.com/static/index_demo.html

ericzon Show HN: Transfer files between computers using WebRTC

It's true that it supports binary / reliable transport already but there are some very annoying not-to-spec issues. As a library developer, if I added code to support it, it would just go to waste because in BugZilla they've already patched but not pushed changes to these issues.

ericzon Show HN: Load this image from a peer rather than from a web server (open source)

Check mark means image loaded. Color indicates source. Sorry for bad UX. I was lazy and didn't find a good UTF symbol for X.

It's using the https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.URL.crea... API to get data on page, so not slow and inefficient like data urls

ericzon [dead]

it's not at all. we've been working on the same thing essentially

ericzon WebRTC DataChannels just hit Chrome stable

One nice thing is that all data channels are encrypted DTLS by default

ericzon LivingSocial: Employees' and Founders' Common Stock Now Worthless

Perhaps I'm missing something here -- people criticize group deal sites for taking too much of the money in a deal (50% of the revenue). The marginal cost for LivingSocial on this is 0... why aren't they making tons of money? Where has the near $1 billion dollars gone?

ericzon LivingSocial: Employees' and Founders' Common Stock Now Worthless

Can someone speak to the reliability of this site? Or provide a corroborating source?

ericzon U.S. CEO to France: ‘How Stupid Do You Think We Are?’

This isn't even correlation, since when did insulting the french correlate to a rise/fall in stock prices?

ericzon PeerJS — True peer-to-peer data in the browser

ICE/STUN (which is used by WebRTC and thus PeerJS) support NAT traversal in all cases but a pair of symmetric NATs, which means some single digit percentage of connections will not work. For those cases, WebRTC/PeerJS support using a TURN server which proxies the data, not ideal but it allows the library to work.

ericzon PeerJS — True peer-to-peer data in the browser

It's in the works!

ericzon Location sharing app Moby launches Android version

I'm glad there is still innovation in this space despite how Google Latitude floundered.

ericzon Glitch Is Closing

A startup with a webpage offering employees for hire as opposed to hiring employees? http://www.glitch.com/hire-a-genius/ What a strange sight.

ericzon Zynga May Have Just Laid Off 100+ Employees From Its Austin Office

I don't know why everyone is so critical of Zynga trying to hide this news among the Apple stories -- what is the argument for not doing so? "Hey guys, lets make sure EVERYONE hears that we're closing down offices and laying off employees, this is going to be important"

Would you have acted differently?