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jairajs89

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CTO, co-founder at Substack
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jairajs89··on Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode
ah damn, this bug came from the text color handling we added when you copy paste from google docs into substack. will be fixed in tomorrow mornings deploy
jairajs89··on Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost
Hey, Substack CTO here. We don't distribute Ghost's code at all and the only piece of code included is a client-side search library used by the third party theme. But that library is actually hotlinked and hosted on jsdelivr (via npm) with no modifications made to it what-so-ever. This includes the line at the top with the license link as Ghost originally built it
jairajs89··on Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost
Hey, Substack CTO here. We don't distribute Ghost's code at all and the only piece of code included is a client-side search library used by the third party theme. But that library is actually hotlinked and hosted on jsdelivr (via npm) with no modifications made to it what-so-ever. This includes the line at the top with the license link as Ghost originally built it
jairajs89··on Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost
Hey, Substack CTO here. We don't hotlink to Ghost at all and instead use jsdelivr to link to client-side open-source libraries. jsdelivr is awesome btw, works with any npm module, and is fast and reliable https://www.jsdelivr.com
jairajs89··on Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost
Hey, Substack CTO. That's exactly right. Thank you for this
jairajs89··on Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost
Hey, Substack CTO here. The Ghost-written code in question here is the client-side search library that the third-party theme uses. We link directly to the files hosted on jsdelivr (via npm) which in-turn uses the files Ghost built for distribution. Those files include the license link at the top, as Ghost intended, and are not modified or minified by us at all
jairajs89··on Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost
Hey, Substack CTO here. We don't distribute Ghost's code at all and the only piece of code included is a client-side search library used by the third party theme. But that library is actually hotlinked and hosted on jsdelivr (via npm) with no modifications made to it what-so-ever. This includes the line at the top with the license link as Ghost originally built it
jairajs89··on Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost
Hey Substack CTO here. We actually don't host, modify, or minify the client side library in question. We link directly to the jsdelivr CDN for it and the distributed files from there have a license link at the top
jairajs89··on Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost
Hey, Substack CTO here. We're actually not using Ghost's platform and have instead built a theming API that is compatible with third-party themes that are built for Ghost. The one piece of code that the theme uses that's developed by Ghost is the open source search library used on the frontend. In this case the theme links directly to the files that Ghost has distributed on jsdelivr via npm
jairajs89··on Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost
Hey, Substack CTO here. We actually don't minify or modify the files in question at all and simply link to the versions hosted on the public jsdelivr CDN (which includes a link to the license right at the top of the file)
jairajs89··on Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost
Hey, Substack CTO here. We actually link directly to the jsdeliver CDN to use the files that get built for distribution in the sodo-search npm library. We make no modifications to the files (including not minifying them anymore than they are). The files actually do have a link at the top to the license file, which is hosted in the same directory on jsdeliver.
jairajs89··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)
Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite/Remote | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 500k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making seven figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 36 people. We announced our series B with a16z recently and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://substack.com/jobs

jairajs89··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite/Remote | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 500k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 32 people. We raised a series A from a16z a little over a year ago and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://substack.com/jobs

jairajs89··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)
Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 250k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 24 people. We raised a series A from a16z a little over a year ago and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://substack.com/jobs

jairajs89··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)
Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 250k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 24 people. We raised a series A from a16z a little over a year ago and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://substack.com/jobs

jairajs89··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)
Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 250k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 20 people. We raised a series A from a16z last summer and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://substack.com/jobs

jairajs89··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)
Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 250k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 18 people. We raised a series A from a16z last summer and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://substack.com/jobs

jairajs89··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 250k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 17 people. We raised a series A from a16z last summer and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://substack.com/jobs

jairajs89··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)
Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 100k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 15 people. We raised a series A from a16z this summer and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://substack.com/jobs

jairajs89··on Malaria No More
From the page

> In 2017, there were 219 million malaria cases that led to 435,000 deaths. Of these 61 per cent (266,000) were children under 5 years of age.

jairajs89··on Malaria No More
UNICEF seems to contradict themselves here then https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-health/malaria/
jairajs89··on Malaria No More
WHO says ~1100 deaths/day, well below 3000

https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/world-m...

jairajs89··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)
Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 100k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 12 people. We raised a series A from a16z this summer and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://substack.com/jobs

jairajs89··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)
Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 100k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 12 people. We raised a series A from a16z last summer and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://jobs.lever.co/substackinc

jairajs89··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)
Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 100k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 11 people. We raised a series A from a16z last summer and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://careers.substack.com

jairajs89··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)
Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 50k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 10 people. We raised a series A from a16z this summer and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://careers.substack.com

jairajs89··on Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?
Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 50k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 10 people. We raised a series A from a16z this summer and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://careers.substack.com

jairajs89··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)
Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 50k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 8 people. We raised a series A from a16z this summer and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://careers.substack.com

jairajs89··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)
Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 50k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 6 people. We raised a series A from a16z this summer and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us!

https://careers.substack.com

jairajs89··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)
Substack | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | ONSITE

Substack’s mission is to build a better business model for culture. We let writers connect with their audience on their own terms and earn money doing it. We make it simple to publish to an email list that you own, get discovered on the web, and charge for subscriptions.

The three of us recently closed our Series A with Andreessen Horowitz and are looking to scale the team with our first hires.

Reach out: careers@substackinc.com

Tech Stack: Node, React, Postgres, Heroku, AWS

Pitch: https://on.substack.com/p/the-future-of-substack

Press:

- https://a16z.com/2019/07/16/substack/

- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/technology/new-social-net...

- https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/16/substack-series-a/

- https://fortune.com/2019/07/16/term-sheet-tuesday-july-17-2/

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