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Boring is subjective.

Great work! Are you using Websockets under the hood? Or something WebRTC-based, a la https://geckosio.github.io/ ?

I know it's a lot of text, but if you're at all curious, I highly recommend at least giving it a shot. He's such an amazing writer that this post will likely hook you after a few paragraphs. (It did me.)

What happened? Looks like your site is down. :(

Check out https://ghost.org/

You should post something about what your strongest skills are (programming languages, technologies, etc) as well as your email address. Maybe edit your original post so they're easier to find. You're on the front page of HN: there are a lot of folks here who could help you find work.

Hi nudpiedo,

This is Paul from Human Interest. I'm a co-founder of the company and wrote the job post in question.

That job post was intended purely as a statement of our work culture. Our only goal in posting it was to attract the sort of folks who might enjoy working within that culture.

It's worth noting that there's a lot of cultural diversity between companies in the tech industry these days, and there are some in which "10x engineers" might thrive. And that's okay! We just wanted to find a way to catch the attention of people who might be a good fit for us.

I think a big part of building a company is deciding what you do (and don't) stand for. For example, Gusto, a company that we greatly admire, did so by saying that they were "not hiring hackers" (https://gusto.com/company-news/gusto-is-not-hiring-hackers). Again, there are plenty of companies that are.

YC kindly provides us the platform to advertise job postings on Hacker News, and doesn't allow direct comments on those job posts. I'm glad you posted this here on HN, because it gave me an opportunity to better explain where we're coming from.

Does that make sense? Let me know what you think -- I'm happy to chat more about this here or directly by email (paul@humaninterest.com).

Human Interest (YC S15) | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Software engineers, product managers

https://humaninterest.com Human Interest (formerly Captain401) is a YC-backed Series A startup with $14M raised. Our product helps over 1,000 startups and small businesses all over the USA offer their employees a great 401(k) plan. We're incredibly proud of the progress that we've made, but know there's much left to do. Our team (currently 58 strong) is ambitious yet humble, and driven by an important social mission: helping everyone save for retirement. Our engineering team includes a former VP Engineering for an 80 person team, a former Google Chrome tech lead, and several startup veterans. We're built on Node.js, TypeScript, React, and Postgres. If you're experienced with other technologies but interested in working with those, that's fine. :)

If you're an engineer and you want to help scale a rapidly growing business that helps small businesses in 47 states, drop us a line.

See our jobs and apply here: https://humaninterest.com/careers

Or reach out to me directly: paul [at] humaninterest [dot] com

Really excited to see Withfriends launch! One of the most exciting companies I saw at YC Demo Day this year :)

Human Interest (YC S15) | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | https://humaninterest.com Human Interest (formerly Captain401) is a YC-backed Series A startup with $14M raised. Our product helps over 1,000 startups and small businesses all over the USA offer their employees a great 401(k) plan. We're incredibly proud of the progress that we've made, but know there's much left to do. Our team (currently 58 strong) is ambitious yet humble, and driven by an important social mission: helping everyone save for retirement.

Our engineering team includes a former VP Engineering for an 80 person team, a former Google Chrome tech lead, and several startup veterans. We're built on Node.js, TypeScript, React, and Postgres. If you're experienced with other technologies but interested in working with those, that's fine. :)

If you're an engineer and you want to help scale a rapidly growing business that helps small businesses in 47 states, drop us a line.

See our jobs and apply here: https://humaninterest.com/careers

Or reach out to me directly: paul [at] humaninterest [dot] com

FYI: Volume II starts on page 208

Human Interest (YC S15) | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | https://humaninterest.com Human Interest (formerly Captain401) is a YC-backed Series A startup with $14M raised. Our product helps over 1,000 startups and small businesses all over the USA offer their employees a great 401(k) plan.

We're incredibly proud of the progress that we've made, but know there's much left to do. Our team (currently 52 strong) is ambitious yet humble, and driven by an important social mission: helping everyone save for retirement.

Our engineering team includes a former VP Engineering for an 80 person team, a former Google Chrome tech lead, and several startup veterans. We're built on Node.js, TypeScript, React, and Postgres. If you're experienced with other technologies but interested in working with those, that's fine. :)

If you're an engineer and you want to help scale a rapidly growing business that helps small businesses in 47 states, drop us a line.

See our jobs and apply here: https://humaninterest.com/careers

Or reach out to me directly: paul [at] humaninterest [dot] com

Human Interest (YC S15) | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | https://humaninterest.com

Human Interest (formerly Captain401) is a YC-backed Series A startup with $14M raised. Our product helps over 1,000 startups and small businesses all over the USA offer their employees a great 401(k) plan.

We're incredibly proud of the progress that we've made, but know there's much left to do. Our team (currently 52 strong) is ambitious yet humble, and driven by an important social mission: helping everyone save for retirement.

Our engineering team includes a former VP Engineering for an 80 person team, a former Google Chrome tech lead, and several startup veterans. We're built on Node.js, TypeScript, React, and Postgres. If you're experienced with other technologies but interested in working with those, that's fine. :)

If you're an engineer and you want to help scale a rapidly growing business that helps small businesses in 47 states, drop us a line.

See our jobs and apply here: https://humaninterest.com/careers

Or reach out to me directly: paul [at] humaninterest [dot] com

@jetsnoc: I totally respect wanting to keep this open to just startup CTOs, but if there's any wiggle room on this, you should totally let lpolovets in. :) As an investor in my company, he's helped me think through specific technical management issues, and is really eager to aggregate knowledge across his network.

You've addressed a real need here. I've learned so much from talking to other technical founders about managing engineers and projects. I feel that this stuff isn't as well-documented as much as other parts of startup and engineering life, and I think this could be a big first step toward fixing that.

I was especially psyched to join as soon as I saw a reference to that fantastic Camille Fournier article. Her blog is one of the few incisive resources I've found on technical management at startups.

What a great interview. There's so much under-appreciated advice here, particularly around founder/idea fit.

I've been lucky enough to know Aston over the past two years, and have always been super impressed by his insight.

Captain401 (YC S15) | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | ONSITE

We're building the perfect retirement savings plan for startups and small businesses. We make essential HR administration a snap for businesses large and small, and sound investing strategy accessible to everyone.

We also raised a substantial seed round from top investors, and were recently covered in the Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2016/02/24/captain401-ra.... If you’ve been wanting to dive into an early stage startup, this is the perfect time to start talking to us.

We have a lot of open roles, so we'd love to hear from anyone interested to working with us. Specifically, we're hiring for:

* UI Engineer (Knowledge of ES6/JavaScript, CSS, and product and design chops)

* Full-stack Engineer (We use Node.js, React.js, Golang, and PostgreSQL)

* Business Development Manager

* Account Manager

Reach out to careers@captain401.com, or apply at https://captain401.com/careers

Going through this now. It's worth highlighting that Flux is just one pattern for centralized state management in React. I see a lot of new projects being built on Redux, and Redux is (technically) not Flux: http://redux.js.org/docs/introduction/PriorArt.html

If you do decide to go the Redux route, I recommend taking a look at redux-form: https://github.com/erikras/redux-form, as complicated form logic is one of the biggest reasons for us to work on a centralized state store.

Captain401 (YC S15) | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | ONSITE (can relocate)

We're building the perfect retirement savings plan for startups and small businesses. We make essential HR administration a snap for businesses large and small, and sound investing strategy accessible to everyone.

We also raised a substantial seed round from top investors, and were recently covered in the Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2016/02/24/captain401-ra.... If you’ve been wanting to dive into an early stage startup, this is the perfect time to start talking to us.

Currently, we're in dire need of a few great software engineers.

Talk to us if:

* you love building and shipping products that matter to peoples' lives

* you want to work on a product that actually makes money and is growing like crazy (we have over 100 companies using us as their 401(k) provider already)

* making retirement savings available to all is a mission that excites

* you want to work on a new code base with a modern stack (React.js, Node, Postgres, Golang)

* working with this amazing team excites you: https://captain401.com/about

Reach out to careers@captain401.com, or apply at https://captain401.com/careers#engineer

This is a really cool idea! Especially excited about the daily updates/reporting

Captain401 | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | ONSITE

We're building the perfect retirement savings plan for startups and small businesses. We’re following in the footsteps of great companies like Gusto (formerly ZenPayroll) and Zenefits in making essential HR administration a snap for businesses large and small, and like Wealthfront, in making sound investing strategy accessible to everyone.

We also just closed a substantial seed round from top investors, but we’re currently just three people. If you’ve been wanting to dive into an early stage startup, this is the perfect time to start talking to us.

Software engineers knowledgable in (or interested in learning) React.js, Postgres, Node.js, and Golang should definitely reach out. We're especially interested in talking to full-stack hackers.

Reach out to careers@captain401.com, or apply at https://captain401.com/careers

Captain401 (YC S15) - https://captain401.com - San Francisco, CA — ONSITE (but willing to relocate)

Captain401 is building the perfect retirement savings plan for startups and small businesses. We’re following in the footsteps of great companies like Gusto (formerly ZenPayroll) and Zenefits in making essential HR administration a snap for businesses large and small, and like Wealthfront, in making sound investing strategy accessible to everyone.

We also just closed a substantial seed round from top investors, but we’re currently just three people. If you’ve been wanting to dive into an early stage startup, this is the perfect time to start talking to us.

If you’re interested in working with us, you can expect:

* A prompt response with your next steps in the interviewing process.

* A challenging in-person technical interview based around collaborative pair programming. No whiteboard coding.

* An offer with market salary and above-market equity compensation.

* A friendly work environment that emphasizes clear communication and respect.

Ideally, we’re looking for someone with experience building and scaling web services in the wild. If you’re familiar with node.js, PostgreSQL, or React, that’s a slight plus. We don’t care where (or if) you went to school.

Definitely talk if us if you’re interested in user psychology and building tools that encourage good saving habits. That’s a big part of what we’re going to be thinking about going forward.

We encourage you to include pointers to open source contributions, your GitHub profile, and personal portfolios in addition to the usual resume and LinkedIn.

Reach out to careers@captain401.com (or apply at https://captain401.com/careers)

Congrats Zac! Really respect the transparency in sharing your pitch deck and acquisition story.

Individuals are free to invest in any of the low-fee Vanguard index funds we include in our plan as they wish.

We also charge employees a low percentage assets under management yearly for the automated advising service, just as other automated advisors do.

Actually, we're still finalizing pricing. Please contact us, and we'll be happy to talk. https://captain401.com/join

Thanks Rangel! :)

Yes, please contact us. https://captain401.com/join

Thanks for the stat. Expanding access to 401ks is definitely a goal of ours.

My cofounder (hn:roger_lee) and I started working on Captain401 because we both had bad experiences with 401k accounts. As an employer, he kept putting off setting one up because of the time and cost involved. As an employee, I became frustrated by the archaic web interface my Fidelity plan had, and felt overwhelmed by the task of choosing investments.

Captain401 is designed to make both sides of the 401k experience as pleasant as possible. We offer paperless administration to employers and automatic ("robo") advising to employees. We hope a tool like this will bring retirement savings to startups that had previously considered themselves too small or too busy for a 401k.

We're especially interested in hearing from HNers who run their own business: have you set up a 401k plan for your employees?