Contentful was born several years ago (back then as StorageRoom) through Show HN:
227 karma · joined April 18, 2008
Five years, a name change and a complete rewrite later Contentful (https://www.contentful.com) has raised a Series B (total funding close to $20m), got ~100 employees and customers ranging from Jack in the Box, over Nike to Urban Outfitters.
It's been a wild ride, and it doesn't look like it's going to be over anytime soon :)
Five years, a name change and a complete rewrite later Contentful (https://www.contentful.com) has raised a Series B, got 70+ employees and customers ranging from Jack in the Box, Nike to Urban Outfitters.
It's been a wild ride, and it doesn't look like it's going to be over anytime soon :)
We are hiring for several full time positions:
1. Android Developer - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/7793
2. Dev Ops - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/8221
3. JavaScript Developer - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/2980
4. Ruby / Rails Developer - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/2954
5. Elasticsearch / Lucene Engineer - http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/2957
Contentful (https://www.contentful.com) is an API-first content management platform for web and mobile applications and the first cloud-based service to allow content to be distributed across any device, application or platform, with one single input.
Content is managed in a completely presentation-independent format and can be served to all current and future platforms, including iOS, Android, Google Glass or interactive JavaScript apps.
We are still early stage but showed significant traction and have paying customers. We are funded by the world’s leading VCs, Benchmark’s European sister Balderton (MySQL, Redhat, Twitter, New Relic, Dropbox) and SaaS expert Point Nine Capital (ZenDesk, Unbounce, Server Density, Geckoboard). Our advisory board includes key personalities from the BBC, Apple, Rovio, Symantec as well as thought leaders in the Web and Content Management space.
We are a fun international team and growing quickly.
Positions (https://www.contentful.com/jobs/):
1. Ruby / Rails Developer (http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/2954)
2. iOS / Cocoa Developer (http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/2955)
3. JavaScript Developer (http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/2980)
4. Lucene / ElasticSearch Engineer (http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/2957)
5. UI / Interaction Designer (http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/2993)
6. Product Marketing Manager (http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/2736)
7. Product Manager (http://contentful.workable.com/jobs/2956)
You need to factor in the cost of living when comparing this to US or UK salaries. For 600 Euro/month you will get a nice multi-room apartment in a central area without sharing it with anybody else. Lunch in a restaurant is about 5 Euro and food in supermarkets probably the highest quality for the cheapest price anywhere.
Does anybody have a good system for taking notes during a meeting on paper? I prefer digital tools, but recently I've been doing many presentations with screen-sharing, where I cannot type at my computer.
SPIN Selling is one of them but as an engineer I liked Solution Selling by Michael Bosworth even more, as it gives you a similar, but even more detailed process to follow.
http://www.amazon.com/Solution-Selling-Creating-Difficult-Ma...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2616041
A lot has changed since then. There's a new name and now an amazing team behind all of this.
We'd love to hear your opinions on the new platform.
We’re building a cloud-based Content Management platform that’s targeted at developers. We just received funding from prestigious VCs (unannounced).
You say Content Management sucks? That’s exactly what we think, and we see a huge opportunity to do something completely different that plays well with HTML5/JS and native mobile apps. The initial version of our platform is already used by hundreds of customers, from major global media companies to small development agencies (e.g. Viacom).
We already have a team of incredible developers that are working on the next generation of our service. We are looking for a JS dev to join us (Node + Angular).
Interested? Please send an email to sascha@thriventures.com and I can tell you more.
We’re building a cloud-based Content Management platform that’s targeted at developers. We just received funding from prestigious VCs (unannounced).
You say Content Management sucks? That’s exactly what we think, and we see a huge opportunity to do something completely different that plays well with HTML5/JS and native mobile apps. The initial version of our platform is already used by hundreds of customers, from major global media companies to small development agencies (e.g. Viacom).
We already have a team of incredible developers that are working on the next generation of our service. We are looking for a growth hacker that can help us market the service.
Interested? Please send an email to sascha@thriventures.com and we can tell you more.
We’re building a cloud-based Content Management platform that’s targeted at developers. We just received funding from prestigious VCs (unannounced).
You say Content Management sucks? That’s exactly what we think, and we see a huge opportunity to do something completely different that plays well with HTML5/JS and native mobile apps. The initial version of our platform is already used by hundreds of customers, from major global media companies to small development agencies.
We already have a team of incredible developers that are working on the next generation of our service. We are looking for a (1) product manager, (2) growth hacker to help us on the business side of things.
Interested? Please send an email to sascha@thriventures.com and tell us why you are the right candidate.
P.S.: The company language is English and living in Berlin without any knowledge of German isn't a problem at all.
Is there any way to test before you purchase? I didn't find a demo.
A lot more features are to come!
We’re building a cloud-based Content Management platform that’s targeted at developers. We just received funding from prestigious VCs (unannounced).
You say Content Management sucks? That’s exactly what we think, and we see a huge opportunity to do something completely different that plays well with HTML5/JS and native mobile apps. The initial version of our platform is already used by hundreds of customers, from major global media companies to small development agencies.
It’s now time to throw away the prototype of our API and to build a high-performance solution, from scratch. We already have a team for the backend and are now looking for an iOS developer who will create an iOS SDK and example applications.
We’re looking for someone who already has a solid experience in writing and testing iOS applications and that has a good knowledge of the iOS ecosystem and its frameworks (CoreData etc.). You should have a good Computer Science foundation and an authentic interest in working with Objective-C and Cocoa. One of the main jobs besides developing will be to involve the iOS community with talks at conferences and interesting prototypes.
Interested? Please send your GitHub account and any other interesting links about you to sascha@thriventures.com.
P.S.: The only language in the company is English and living in Berlin without any knowledge of German isn't a problem at all.
We’re building a cloud-based Content Management platform that’s targeted at developers. We just received funding from prestigious VCs (unannounced).
You say Content Management sucks? That’s exactly what we think, and we see a huge opportunity to do something completely different that plays well with HTML5/JS and native mobile apps.
The initial version of our platform is already used by hundreds of customers, from major global media companies to small development agencies.
It’s now time to throw away the prototype of our API and to build a high-performance solution, from scratch. We want to bring aboard a person who will develop the new JavaScript frontend, public JS SDK and JavaScript server component with us (yes, we’re developers too!).
We’re looking for someone who already has a solid experience in writing and testing JavaScript applications and that has a good knowledge of the JavaScript ecosystem (CoffeeScript, Node, Rhino, ClojureScript) and its frameworks (Backbone, Spine etc). You should have a good Computer Science foundation and an authentic interest in working with JavaScript. Experience in functional programming languages will be considered a plus. One of the main jobs besides developing will be to involve the JS community with talks at conferences and interesting prototypes.
Interested? Please send your GitHub account and any other interesting links about you to sascha@thriventures.com.
P.S.: The only language in the company is English and living in Berlin without any knowledge of German isn't a problem at all.
This happens sometimes to me, especially when I bundle all my JS resources together into one file. JSLint doesn't help, as some 3rd party libraries don't pass JSLint tests.
What I end up doing is adding console.log/alert statements all the way through the scripts to narrow down where the script aborts. There must be a better way?!?
Let's say we have an "Event" Resource and it belongs to a "Location" Resource and the Event belongs to "Category" Resources. If you want to provide an endpoint to search events with a GET requests and filter based on Location and Categories (which are identified by URLs) you can end up with really long query strings.
/events?location=URL1&categories[]=URL2&categories[]=URL3&categories[]=URL4&...
This is not only ugly, it can bring up problems on both clients and servers.
Any suggestions on how to handle this?
An administrator configures content types, editors manage the content and developers fetch the content through the RESTful JSON API (including CORS & JSONP support).
How is it different to Parse/StackMob/Kinvey? It is more about delivering editorial content to mobile or web apps and not about a read/write backend.
Wouldn't this invite loan sharks lending money to relatively poor unemployed people in other countries, selling them the American dream and make them work on slavery-like terms for decades until they pay of their debt?
The best I found so far is the self-hosted QuincyKit (http://quincykit.net/) or if you don't want to fiddle with your own server, use HockeyApp (http://www.hockeyapp.net/).
If Parse is "Heroku for Mobile" then StorageRoom, the startup I am working for, is "iCloud for content".
Editors manage content in our flexible service online and data is synchronized or pulled from mobile apps.
Different use-case, but we seem to have found another problem where many devs complain. Existing CMS tools suck at this.