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gregarious··on YC W2019 Invite/Rejection
I don't remember if this is rolling, but I can confirm they're not out yet :)
gregarious··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)
We're building out our marketing technology platform (http://www.getchute.com/) that is used by Coke, Condé Nast, Starbucks, Benefit, Vogue, ESPN, NBC, NYT among others, as well as many independent developers. We work with the latest technologies and <3 open source (https://github.com/chute). Our product makes it easy to analyze a large volume of images and videos from Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to discover the best, most-interesting content for our customers and then enable them to use great images in their own marketing.

For our backend, we use Ruby/Rails/Sinatra, and Python on the data science front (with some Go). We're running on AWS, Postgres, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka + Storm. On the frontend we're using React/Flux/ES6.

We're looking for:

Frontend engineers

Fullstack engineers

AI engineers

For more about our openings: http://getchute.com/jobs or email us your github profile: hiring [at] getchute [dot] com

gregarious··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)
Chute (YC W2012) - http://getchute.com - San Francisco, CA or [REMOTE] (US time zones) - Full Time

We're hiring fullstack and AI engineers to build our marketing technology platform that is used by Coke, Condé Nast, Starbucks, Benefit, Vogue, ESPN, NBC, NYT among others, as well as many independent developers.

We work with the latest technologies and <3 open source (https://github.com/chute). Our product makes it easy to analyze a large volume of images and videos from Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to discover the best, most-interesting content for our customers and then enable them to use great images in their own marketing.

For our backend, we use Ruby/Rails/Sinatra, Node.js and Go (plus Python on the data science front). We're running on AWS, Postgres, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka + Storm. On the frontend we're using React/Flux/ES6.

For more about our openings: http://getchute.com/jobs or email us your github profile: hiring [at] getchute [dot] com

gregarious··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)
Chute (YC W2012) - http://getchute.com - San Francisco, CA or [REMOTE] (US time zones) - Full Time

We're hiring engineers to build our marketing technology platform that is used by Coke, Condé Nast, Starbucks, Benefit, Vogue, ESPN, NBC, NYT among others, as well as many independent developers.

We work with the latest technologies and <3 open source (https://github.com/chute). Our product makes it easy to analyze a large volume of images and videos from Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to discover the best, most-interesting content for our customers and then enable them to use great images in their own marketing.

For our backend, we use Ruby/Rails/Sinatra, Node.js and Go (plus Python on the data science front). We're running on AWS, Postgres, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka + Storm. On the frontend we're using React/Flux/ES6.

For more about our openings: http://getchute.com/jobs or email us your github profile: hiring [at] getchute [dot] com

gregarious··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)
Chute (YC W2012) - http://getchute.com - San Francisco, CA or [REMOTE] (US time zones) - Full Time

We're hiring engineers to build our marketing technology platform that is used by Coke, Condé Nast, Starbucks, Benefit, Vogue, ESPN, NBC, NYT among others, as well as many independent developers.

We work with the latest technologies and <3 open source (https://github.com/chute). Our product makes it easy to analyze a large volume of images and videos from Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to discover the best, most-interesting content for our customers and then enable them to use great images in their own marketing.

For our backend, we use Ruby/Rails/Sinatra, Node.js and Go (plus Python on the data science front). We're running on AWS, Postgres, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka + Storm. On the frontend we're using React/Flux/ES6.

For more about our openings: http://getchute.com/jobs or email us your github profile: hiring [at] getchute [dot] com

gregarious··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)
Chute (YC W2012) - http://getchute.com - San Francisco, CA or [REMOTE] (US time zones)

We're hiring engineers to build our marketing technology platform that is used by Coke, Condé Nast, Starbucks, Benefit, Vogue, ESPN, NBC, NYT among others, as well as many independent developers.

We work with the latest technologies and <3 open source (https://github.com/chute). Our product makes it easy to analyze a large volume of images and videos from Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to discover the best, most-interesting content for our customers and then enable them to use great images in their own marketing.

For our backend, we use Ruby/Rails/Sinatra, Node.js and Go (plus Python on the data science front). We're running on AWS, Postgres, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka + Storm. On the front-end we're using React/Flux/ES6.

For more about our openings: http://getchute.com/jobs or email us your github profile: hiring [at] getchute [dot] com

gregarious··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
Chute (YC W2012) - http://getchute.com - San Francisco, CA or Itapema, BR or [REMOTE] (US time zones)

We're hiring engineers to build our marketing technology platform that is used by Coke, Condé Nast, Starbucks, Benefit, Vogue, ESPN, NBC, NYT among others, as well as many independent developers.

We work with the latest technologies and <3 open source (https://github.com/chute). Our product makes it easy to analyze a large volume of images and videos from Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to discover the best, most-interesting content for our customers and then enable them to use great images in their own marketing.

For our backend, we use Ruby/Rails/Sinatra, Node.js and Go (plus Python on the data science front). We're running on AWS, Postgres, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka + Storm. On the front-end we're using React/Flux/ES6.

For more about our openings: http://getchute.com/jobs or email us your github profile: hiring [at] getchute [dot] com

gregarious··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)
Chute (YC W2012) - http://getchute.com - San Francisco, CA or Itapema, BR or [REMOTE] (US time zones)

We're hiring full-stack engineers to build our marketing technology platform that is used by Coke, Condé Nast, Starbucks, Benefit, Vogue, ESPN, NBC, NYT among others, as well as many independent developers.

We work with the latest technologies and <3 open source (https://github.com/chute). We analyze images and videos from Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to discover the best, most-interesting content for our customers and then enable them to use those images in their own marketing.

For our backend, we use Ruby/Rails/Sinatra, Node.js and Go (plus Python on the data science front). We're running on AWS, Postgres, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka + Storm. On the front-end we're using React/Flux/ES6 (transitioning from Backbone/Marionette).

For more info: http://getchute.com/jobs or email us: hiring [at] getchute [dot] com

gregarious··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)
Chute (YC W2012) - http://getchute.com - San Francisco, CA or Itapema, BR or REMOTE (US time zones)

Hiring full-stack engineers to build our marketing technology platform that is used by Nike, Condé Nast, Starbucks, Benefit, Vogue, ESPN, NBC, NYT among others, as well as many independent developers. We're working with the latest technologies and <3 open source. We analyze images and videos from Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to discover the best, most-interesting content for our customers and then enable them to use those images in their own marketing.

We're using Ruby/Rails/Sinatra, Node.js and Go on the backend (plus Python on the data science front). We're running on AWS, Postgres, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Redis, Storm. On the front-end we're using React/Flux/ES6 (transitioning from Backbone/Marionette).

For more info: http://getchute.com/jobs or email us: hiring [at] getchute [dot] com

gregarious··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)
Chute (YC W2012) - http://getchute.com - San Francisco, CA or Itapema, BR or REMOTE (US time zones)

Hiring full-stack and front-end engineers to build our marketing technology platform that is used by Nike, Condé Nast, Starbucks, Benefit, Vogue, ESPN, NBC, NYT among others, as well as many independent developers. We're working with the latest technologies and <3 open source.

We're using Ruby/Rails/Sinatra, Node.js and Go on the backend (plus Python on the data science front). We're running on AWS, Postgres, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Redis, Storm. On the front-end we're using React/Flux/ES6 (transitioning from Backbone/Marionette).

For more info: http://getchute.com/jobs

gregarious··on EcoMom Founder Jody Sherman Has Passed Away
Jody was a great guy and an inspiration for all of us who believed in what we were building, in spite of what everyone else had to say.

I was lucky enough to know him for several years and always walked away the better for it.

He'll be missed.

gregarious··on Show HN: picsofwords.com a hack from TC Disrupt by Chute (W12)
Heroku's reference:

http://picsofwords.herokuapp.com

gregarious··on Show HN: picsofwords.com a hack from TC Disrupt by Chute (W12)
Just was reading GoDaddy's DNS is down - which explains a lot.
gregarious··on Show HN: picsofwords.com a hack from TC Disrupt by Chute (W12)
I wonder if it's some weird DNS thing. It's running on a free heroku instance.

I can see it from our office. Maybe with www?

http://www.picsofwords.com/

gregarious··on Show HN: picsofwords.com a hack from TC Disrupt by Chute (W12)
Something was goofy in the blog post but we fixed it. Here's a few with images:

http://www.picsofwords.com/conference http://www.picsofwords.com/bottle http://www.picsofwords.com/chair

gregarious··on Haiku Deck - visual presentations, photo support by Chute (W12)
Thanks! We really love the implementation you've done and are glad that this small part of our platform is helping folks use their photos in new and interesting ways.
gregarious··on Avatars.io serving 500K avatars a day, 10MM served in first month
While I hope we're a fun place to work, I'm even more concerned with building a scalable platform and a profitable business.

Avatars are just one of the many ways we're helping serve media for developers, brands and publishers. Fortunately, many of these same folks are also now using our API and other services, which we do in fact charge for.

gregarious··on Avatars.io serving 500K avatars a day, 10MM served in first month
We already support HTTPS for all avatars we serve actually.
gregarious··on Avatars.io serving 500K avatars a day, 10MM served in first month
We are compliant with the publicly available information so we're not trying to unearth something that can't be determined.
gregarious··on Avatars.io serving 500K avatars a day, 10MM served in first month
It's been quite surprising actually. We had originally thought that it would be Instagram or direct uploads but it's quite different.

Top Services

1. Twitter 2. Facebook 3. Direct Uploads / New Avatars

Most surprisingly, the largest number of avatars are served via mobile - by a HUGE margin.

gregarious··on Chute releases jQuery lib to collect photos from users with 1 LOC
So the main tool we've seen that can handle this is offered by Aviary.
gregarious··on Chute releases jQuery lib to collect photos from users with 1 LOC
Hi Scott,

Actually if you sign up for a full Chute API account here: http://bit.ly/chute-signup

You can customize your credentials immediately!

Greg

gregarious··on Chute releases jQuery lib to collect photos from users with 1 LOC
We've looked into Web Intents but haven't quite taken the complete leap towards implementation.

We're definitely huge fans and think that it is an area we should aim for. Native browser support would be ideal but the shim looks really promising.

Have you successfully implemented this intent anywhere? Would love to see it.

gregarious··on Chute releases jQuery lib to collect photos from users with 1 LOC
Great question.

The window itself can be styled using a custom CSS which you pass into the chooser.

We definitely want to extend the functionality further to enable other features like cropping, filters and more.

gregarious··on Chute releases jQuery lib to collect photos from users with 1 LOC
For pricing, we will ultimately charge for API interactions with Chute. The first 100k per month will be free.

We will also provide some free, permanent storage for all developers. We haven't finalized the amounts but right now there's no limit. Anyone wanting more control will be able to plug in their own S3 credentials - this is already enable for full Chute API accounts.

gregarious··on Chute releases jQuery lib to collect photos from users with 1 LOC
OK, updated here: https://github.com/chute/media-chooser/#browser-compatabilit...
gregarious··on Chute releases jQuery lib to collect photos from users with 1 LOC
We are already testing video actually and URL-based imports will be added even sooner.
gregarious··on Chute releases jQuery lib to collect photos from users with 1 LOC
Ahh, that's definitely an oversight on our part. Adding in a list!
gregarious··on MVP: The Features Are Silent
Yeah Daniel, I agree.

I think Ash's post goes even further actually. Your product is not your business either.

The concept of the MVP is becoming a proxy for both of these important aspects of the business.

gregarious··on Referly Goes Social - You Can Now Follow Profiles
Perfect :)
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