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jack7890on How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes

Are you like an internet economist or something?

jack7890on We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m

How many days per week did you work on your first company, before you were internet famous?

jack7890on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2012)

New York, NY -- Web Engineer -- Fulltime -- SeatGeek

SeatGeek is the web's largest search engine for live event tickets. Think "Kayak for sports/music/theater tickets."

Our dev team currently has seven people. We're looking to add one or two more. We're specialization-agnostic. Most of our current guys are pretty full stack, so wherever in the web stack you like to spend your time, we can find a place for you.

We're using lots of Python these days. A bit of Ruby and PHP too. And always plenty of JS, supported by backbone. Mongo and MySQL for data stores.

More details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/

jack7890on Ticket engine SeatGeek launches developer platform, offers 50/50 revenue split

Sounds great. Let us know if we can help with anything.

jack7890on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (March 2012)

New York, NY -- Web Engineer -- Fulltime -- SeatGeek

SeatGeek is the web's largest search engine for live event tickets. Think "Kayak for sports/music/theater tickets."

We're using lots of Python these days. A bit of Ruby and PHP too.

More details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/

jack7890on Show HN: LiveRover, Visual Event Discovery (Weekend Project)

Yeah, good call, I need to add that. I'm not a big fan of HTML5 geolocation b/c it's so easy to miss, so I'll either do it via IP or add a zip code box.

jack7890on Show HN: LiveRover, Visual Event Discovery (Weekend Project)

Agreed. I was surprised that was the Google Maps JS default behavior. I'll add that.

jack7890on Show HN: LiveRover, Visual Event Discovery (Weekend Project)

I built this about a week ago while experimenting with the new SeatGeek Dev Platform, which we announced today. Would love any thoughts/feedback.

Github repo is here: https://github.com/jack7890/LiveRover

jack7890on Ticket engine SeatGeek launches developer platform, offers 50/50 revenue split

1. No, we don't do white labels.

2. Probably easier to discuss directly. Mind shooting me an email at jack@seatgeek.com?

jack7890on Ticket engine SeatGeek launches developer platform, offers 50/50 revenue split

It was important to us that we be hyper-permissive in the way people can use this thing. We want our data to be free (as in both "free beer" and "free speech"). And EC2 instances are damn cheap, so we'll bring up as many as we need to support demand.

jack7890on About Gatekeeper

I think it almost goes without saying that the messaging will be changed before the public release.

jack7890on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (February 2012)

Web Engineer - SeatGeek - New York, NY

We're a data-driven web app that's trying to use analytics and exceptional UX to making buying event tickets a wholly better experience. #Python #Ruby #PHP #MySQL #Redis #MongoDB #Javascript

Competitive comp, outstanding benefits, and a kick ass team. Only looking for folks in NYC.

http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/

jack7890on We're Going Full Stack

Zeratul, great feedback, thanks. The proximity issue is critical and tricky, and we haven't solved it yet. Really like your suggestions; I'm going to play around with prototyping them.

jack7890on We're Going Full Stack

Hmmm, Windows or OS X? I haven't had any problems or other bug reports. If you don't mind emailing the details to jack@seatgeek.com, I'd be endlessly grateful.

jack7890on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (December 2011)

New York, NY -- Full Time, On-site -- SeatGeek

We're building a ticket search engine (think "Kayak for sports/concert tickets").

We're hiring across the entire web stack, but are particularly interested in people who like to work in the middle-to-front end.

More info: http://seatgeek.com/jobs http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/

jack7890on VC Decries Airbnb’s Recent Funding for Founder Control and Cashout

No, that money doesn't go directly into the partners' pockets. It also goes to pay the VC firm's rent, travel cost, salaries of associates and support staff, legal/accounting costs associated with the deal, and a bunch of other things.

It is generally accepted that a vast majority of a VC partner's income comes from their share of the fund's return, not from the management fee. It is not unheard of for a VC firm's costs exceed the management fee, such that the partners loose money unless the fund has a positive return.

jack7890on Google Maps 3D Directions

Press this button: http://cl.ly/261T2E0h0V3n28163k1x

jack7890on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)

Web Engineer - SeatGeek - New York, NY

We're looking for a hacker who is super-hungry and sees building web apps as more than just a job. We're a data-driven web app that's trying to use analytics and exceptional UX to making buying event tickets a wholly better experience. #Python #Ruby #PHP #MySQL #Redis #MongoDB #Javascript

Competitive comp, outstanding benefits, and a kick ass team. Only looking for folks in NYC. http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/

jack7890on Lifepath.me on eBay

I'd pay a non-trivial amount just for the PSDs, in order to learn from them.

jack7890on In Case You Wondered, a Real Human Wrote This Column

If this works as advertised, it would have important (bad) consequences for SEO, right?

jack7890on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2011)

Web Engineer - SeatGeek - New York, NY

We're looking for a web engineer who is super-hungry and sees building web apps as more than just a job. We're a data-driven web app that's trying to use analytics and exceptional UX to making buying event tickets a wholly better experience. #Python #Ruby #PHP #MySQL #Redis #MongoDB #Javascript

Competitive comp, outstanding benefits, and a kick ass team. Only looking for folks in NYC.

http://seatgeek.com/jobs/web_engineer/

jack7890on The Arduino Solution to Selectively Mute Over-Exposed Celebrities

I think you're missing the point here. He isn't actually suggesting this is the best possible solution to the problem. He's just showing off a cool hack and giving it a little backstory for fun.

jack7890on How to Measure PR Coverage

Big thanks to Geckoboard for creating a kick-ass interface that makes our metric tracking a lot easier on the eyes.

jack7890on We have 5 ideas and can't decide on what to build, so we made this site

Event promoters need a service that will allow them to sell tickets and promote their events online.

I disagree. There are kick-ass startups already doing this, e.g. TicketFly, Eventbrite, and TicketLeap. That isn't to say that you couldn't beat those folks, but I don't get the sense that there's a desperate need in the marketplace that those companies aren't filling. The real battles for promoters are structural and legal (Ticketmasters long-term exclusive contracts).

jack7890on Fire the workaholics (2008)

How many hours per week do you think the average startup employee (not founder) works?

jack7890on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (June 2011)

New York City -- Frontend Dev/UI Person -- SeatGeek

We're a data-driven search engine for sports and concert tickets. We're trying to use analytics and exceptional UX to make buying event tickets a wholly better experience.

We currently have a four-person dev team, but everyone prefers to work on the backend. We're looking for someone to come in and own the frontend of the web app, which will involve creating interfaces in Photoshop, brining them to life in HTML/CSS, and (ideally, but not necessarily) doing some Javascript work.

More details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/frontend/

jack7890on All accelerator programs are not the same

Is that seriously true? As a graduate of DreamIt Ventures, I can confirm that it's also not the case with DreamIt. We spent most of our time building, first month included.

jack7890on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (May 2011)

Certainly a fair question. We use it as a signal. Of the 100+ UI folks I admire and respect, I think all of them use OS X. So while it's certainly possible to be a great interface developer using a different platform, in my experience such people are exceedingly rare.

By focusing on those that use OS X we can narrow down the applicant pool and spend more time with folks that are likely to be a good fit.

jack7890on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (May 2011)

New York City -- UI Architect -- SeatGeek

We're a data-driven search engine for sports and concert tickets. We're trying to use analytics and exceptional UX to make buying event tickets a wholly better experience.

More details here: http://seatgeek.com/jobs/frontend/