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samingrassia··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
Hiring: Fullstack Engineer and UI Designer (Remote, LATAM) – BudgetSimple

BudgetSimple is a no-code app and site builder for personal finance coaches, creators, and advisors.

We’re growing the platform and looking for: * Fullstack Engineer * UI Designer

Both roles will work directly with the founder on a real, production SaaS used by paying customers.

Fullstack Engineer React, Python (Flask), Postgres Build and ship full features end to end Care about clean code and simple systems Bonus: SaaS, no-code tools, Stripe

UI Designer Design clean, modern, highly usable web app interfaces Dashboards, forms, workflows, design systems Strong product thinking and attention to detail Bonus: SaaS, fintech, no-code products

Both roles are fully remote. We are specifically looking for candidates based in South America, Central America, or Mexico.

Email sam [at] budgetsimple [dot] com with: A short intro Links to work you’ve built or designed

Thanks!

samingrassia··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)
BudgetSimple is a no-code site builder for personal finance coaches, creators and advisors. We’re looking for a fullstack engineer to help grow the platform.

You’ll work directly with the founder using React, Python (Flask), and Postgres. Ideal if you’ve built fullstack apps and enjoy clean, simple products. Experience with SaaS, no-code tools, or Stripe is a bonus.

Email sam [at] budgetsimple [dot] com with a quick intro and something you’ve built.

Thanks!

samingrassia··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)
Audiencekey.com - Reflexive Media (Phoenix, AZ) | JavaScript & TypeScript Dev (Edge SEO) | Full-Time | REMOTE

We’re a boutique search & digital marketing agency expanding our dev team. Work with JS/TS, modern frameworks (React/Vue/Astro), Cloudflare Workers (KV, R2, D1), caching, and front-end components from Figma. Bonus if you’ve done headless WordPress (WPGraphQL, ACF). Join us to push boundaries with Edge SEO, advanced caching, and data-driven content strategies.

Stack: JS/TS, React/Vue/Astro, REST/GraphQL, Cloudflare (Workers, Pages), Git, QA, SEO best practices Nice-to-Have: Headless WP, WPGraphQL, Gutenberg dev Perks: Competitive comp, remote flexibility, hairy projects Interested? Email: singrassia@reflexive.io

samingrassia··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)
Audiencekey.com - Reflexive Media (Phoenix, AZ) | JavaScript & TypeScript Dev (Edge SEO) | Full-Time | REMOTE

We’re a boutique search & digital marketing agency expanding our dev team. Work with JS/TS, modern frameworks (React/Vue/Astro), Cloudflare Workers (KV, R2, D1), caching, and front-end components from Figma. Bonus if you’ve done headless WordPress (WPGraphQL, ACF). Join us to push boundaries with Edge SEO, advanced caching, and data-driven content strategies.

Stack: JS/TS, React/Vue/Astro, REST/GraphQL, Cloudflare (Workers, Pages), Git, QA, SEO best practices Nice-to-Have: Headless WP, WPGraphQL, Gutenberg dev Perks: Competitive comp, remote flexibility, hairy projects Interested? Email: singrassia@reflexive.io

samingrassia··on Is the S&P 500 Broken?
If you want a good framework for understanding the composition & mechanics of why this is happening - do a quick google search of "Mike Green Passive Flows".

TLDR: SP500 + auto-enrolling 401ks + buying the index without valuation = That scene in The Sorcerer's Apprentice where the brooms won't stop filling cauldron.

samingrassia··on Australia gives world-first approval for fecal transplants to restore gut health
What you are describing is LPR/respiratory reflux/silent reflux. It’s likely caused by diet, stress and posture that causes issues with the lower esophageal sphincter and unlikely to be bacterial overgrowth.

Check this whole blog out if you can: https://jamiekoufman.com/silent-reflux-silent-night/

samingrassia··on Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
I had a similar idea, but swapped the Legos for the ikea replacement parts catalog. What’s the cheapest standing desk you can build with these cheap and easily available parts?
samingrassia··on Billions in 'unknown' funds flowing into Canada's housing market [video]
When the fed suppresses interest rates and back stops the mortgage market, residential realestate starts to look like risk free treasuries with a ~9% yield.
samingrassia··on Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ reveals a $530M bet against Tesla
All the weak shorts have washed out or got tired of bleeding premiums for the past 3-5 years - it will be interesting to see if this will reignite that community to put them back on. Long Tesla is very much a pro-cyclical business, if you read between the lines, Burry is also expressing his $500mm opinion that this cycle is coming to an end.
samingrassia··on The Hazards of Asset Allocation in a Late-Stage Major Bubble
Skip the article, read this tweet instead - compresses the current state of affairs into its simplest form: https://twitter.com/vol_christopher/status/13587927314647203...
samingrassia··on Dad, Are We Rich?
Rich = can you live off the interest from the risk free rate(US Treasury coupon)?

In the US - thats about $5mm saving or pretax $100k interest income.

samingrassia··on Ask HN: How to pursue acquisition?
I highly recommend Joe/Mark at quietlightbrokerage.com.

quietlightbrokerage/FEinternational.com/empireflippers.com all share the same buyer list FYI

I would suggest reaching out to each and finding out who you are comfortable with.

I would also suggest taking a look at: centurica.com/website-buyers-report

This will give you a sense of the multiple on SDE you are likely to get. Lots of credit available to buyers right now so its a great time to sell, specifically saas.

Good luck

samingrassia··on With New Ad Platform, Facebook Opens Gates to Its Vault of User Data
Apples to apples, this is less of an answer to adwords and more along the lines of an adsense competitor. IMHO This launch will take a huge bite out of quantcast + any cookie pooling/dmp companies. It will also be interesting to see how adroll and other retargeting companies end up fairing.

Budget-wise, I think this will expand the pie for over all ad spend rather than suck out any air from googles ad platforms.

Chris Dixon basically describes this game plan 4 years ago, http://cdixon.org/2010/05/15/facebook-is-about-to-try-to-dom...

samingrassia··on Ask HN: Where can I learn about the online/mobile ad industry?
the adtech ecosystem is pretty massive - for the generic (and even more confusing) breakdown of the value chain, check this out:

http://www.lumapartners.com/resource-center/lumascapes-2/

So where to start? it really depends on your business, will you have direct relationships with publishers? if so how will you do outreach to them + onboard them - if not will you get distribution on an exchange (if so this is capital intensive and there are usually min monthly buys $10-20k+), in which case you will then need advertisers (how will you acquire them?) - lots of questions pop out here

What's an exchange vs a marketplace? Whenever an ad loads on a web page or in an app (this is called an impression) a bid is placed by various entities in an auction and who ever wins shows their ad - this is an exchange

A marketplace is usually geared towards advertisers looking to purchase placements on publisher sites/apps - the marketplace has the rate info + ad format/size/specs and makes it easier to purchase from a large number of publishers in a curated way without having to go talk with each publisher directly.

How does a small startup get involved? it really depends on if you have funding or not, but adtech is one of the few places that make it easy to bootstrap

Shoot me an e-mail (in my profile) if you have any other specific questions, i have worked on the vendor and agency side.

samingrassia··on Hackathon Starter – Boilerplate for Node.js web application
You should also checkout Drywall (http://jedireza.github.io/drywall/)

Has all major oauth integrations and a fantastic user system... I have also heard that it was used a bunch at node knockout recently. Definitely worth checking out-

samingrassia··on This startup tells you when companies try your competitors’ software
Mixrank(YCS11) provides very similar data in addition to their ad and mobile app datasets.
samingrassia··on Facebook news feed ads generate 49 times more clicks at 45% less cost
The problem with fb has never been CTR %, but volume. This is why they will never end up eating into search budgets, specifically with midsize e-commerce businesses (largest group of retargeting advertisers).