seanMeverett

I have products that need built for days. It all starts with science. You are in an incredible position that I never have been. Had to self fund everything myself and all ultimately failed due to lack of capital even with traction. Hold on to what you have. It’s the most valuable thing ever.

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SEEKING FREELANCE - REMOTE [PRODUCT MANAGEMENT]

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sean at prome dot ai

After 3.5 years leading Product and doing a global video streaming company turnaround (Piksel, formerly known as KIT Digital), I left last week to build PROME's Biologic Intelligence product for industrial sensors and robotics.

Our team is doing some freelance work to keep the lights on as we're self-funding everything.

I reported directly to the CPO, now the CEO, pulled together teams in Milan (new analytics), Paris (old OVP integration, new HTML5 player), Atlanta (50,000 live events annually), Solana Beach (UX) and York/London (net new microservices video platform) and managed high value customers including former ESPN, VW, Herbalife, and resellers in Japan, LATAM, and the US.

I’ve got patents in mobile live streaming, personalized linear channels, connected cars with video, and soon Biologic Intelligence. I’ve founded or been an executive at a number of startups across algo trading, gamification, social video with voice/AI/emotion, mobile apps, and some robotics.

Finally, I’ve created/invented a number of things in my free time (PROME: emulated the brain and nervous systems of animals in software and robotics plus Humanizing Tech media publication, one of the top 0.007% websites in the world).

I’ve written articles for Fortune, HuffPo, been featured in CNBC, Pando Daily, The Information, etc and am a top writer on Medium for a large number of topics.

Happy to help you figure out your hairiest of problems and then execute them.

Howdy. I used them and write up my thoughts with screenshots: https://humanizing.tech/beta-testing-magics-assistant-servic...

INTERN - NYC or ATL, Product Management Intern.

Piksel.com -- need help running our Online Video Platform that has nearly 4 billion views annually. We're a global startup with offices in NYC, ATL, Solana Beach, Milan, Rome, London, Paris, etc. We do work for some of the largest broadcasters like AT&T, Channel 4, BSkyB, etc. We push our digital video to mobile apps, home TVs, playstion, and digital signs.

Contact sean.everett@piksel.com

Atlanta -- PHP Full-Time

We're building a massive online video and live streaming video platform, powering much of the Faith market and entering new territory with Sports and Enterprise customers including AT&T and ESPN. We're global with offices in the US and EMEAs.

Get almost 6 weeks of vacation, a brand new office, fun team to work with, great salary, and a new tricked out machine of your choice.

As long as you have about 4 years of PHP experience we're not too worried about whether you have an official CS degree.

Happy New Year!

http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/piksel/software-engineer-php/bo...

C'mon guys. Let's ease up. It's an elegant product in a physical package that I think most everyday people would use, especially if they're able to get the price down to free like square.

The real issue I see is that I don't want to carry a phone AND a card. I just want to pay with my iPhone 5S + thumbprint.

Or, if I'm in NYC and want to go running through the streets slash central park, I want to pay with my iPod Nano for the train, for some water, and even some food.

Heck, take it a step further. Just imbed a bluetooth chip inside my thumb so I just have to press it to a payment terminal anywhere.

It's just a roadmap, but you have to start somewhere.

Don't listen to the naysayers. You've created something simple, elegant, and instantly understandable. In a world where we're constantly bombarded with technical discussions of whiz-bang jetpacks, an app like this turns the corner into the basics of what can be done with one simple mechanic: infinite zoom.

I, for one, downloaded it because I want to take notes on my iPad, but the resolution isn't built for that with a stylus. Now I can take sketch notes, written notes, and doodle to my hearts desire.

Kudos on taking the leap a few years back and kudos on building something "featureless".

Monetization will always be your biggest hurdle. The sure bet that I've found, and you can look no further than Candy Crush for this mechanic, is to get someone as close as possible to the end of what they want to do and if they can't do it in that amount of time/moves/etc, they have to pay to get one more move/life. How that integrates with a "drawing" app will require time and thought.

Interviews are a horrible test of how someone will perform on the job. Never in work life are you required to come up with a solution immediately. Those types of solutions are almost always wrong. It's only after deep thought and 100s of hours toiling on a problem from every angle that an elegant solution that simplifies presents itself. But sadly, the only way to know if someone is capable of that is to actually hire them for a trial week or 30 days and see how they do and immediately fire or sign for a longer term contract.

StoryApp (http://www.itunes.com/apps/StoryApp) - Remote, looking for equal equity CTO to help build the next version of a wooden robotic friend become indistinguishable from a human being. Objective-C on the front and Rails on the back. Using Redis, Mongo, Elastic Beanstalk.

A bit info on the culture can be found on https://adamandluna.com

Sure, I just didn't want to be spammy. Have a great weekend it, here it is:

<a href="http://www.itunes.com/apps/StoryApp">StoryApp</a>

Not sure if these HN comments pick up HTML. If not, apologies!

This is the exact use case for why we built StoryApp.

Dig it.

Clearly you have issues with your personal appearance. Because you took beautiful to mean outward appearance instead of inner beauty.

So no, I will most definitely not "NICK" that entire sentence. And maybe you should welcome yourself to the new 'millennia', where people know how to spell it correctly and also understand the tone of an entire piece of work before taking one sentence out of context.

Have a wonderful Monday.

I was referring to social games

made a learning tool based totally around IFTTT and Zapier: http://becomeabuilder.com

I wish these folks all the best. Just one quick comment. My first question is what else have you built that I can see and play with? As with most things, show rather than tell.

Happy to interview your team on my podcast to get you some more exposure if you'd like.

Yes, we've considered this and spoken to our lawyer about it. Unfortunately, can't really talk about the details of that at the moment.

Hahah, clearly you're referring to http://www.gimp.org

Thanks, understood about the HTML formatting. That's something that HN shoved into my writing. Not sure why.

Totally understand, apologies if my comment came across as harsh, just trying to make sure we look at compensation data correctly since some of those numbers look a bit high relative to what I would imagine the market 50th percentile being for newer startups.

I spent years as an executive compensation consultant both creating and analyzing salary surveys for the world's largest companies.

What it teaches you is that: 1. Never use averages, always use medians 2. Sample sizes are critical, and anything below 5 samples you just can't trust (ideally 30, as the Central Limit Theorem suggests) 3. Garbage in, garbage out: if you don't know the population of the sample, then you can't trust the output (i.e., how many employees, what's the revenue run rate, what's the user growth look like, what's the valuation and how many funding rounds, etc).

I love the spirit of this data, but based on the core principles outlined above, you can't hang your hat on this data.

In software engineering land, not knowing these three principles is like not knowing the principles of MVC.

Subscribe to dribbble's popular RSS feed. You'd be surprised how good your taste becomes just by being surrounded by it. Also, you'll start to pick up details about how they do it. You just study it at the pixel level and try to replicate in photoshop. That's the best way I've found...

Sounds like a storyboard artist who worked on the Ice Age movies.

Or a concept artist who's done work for Disney, Konami, and Warner Brothers.

Humanizing technology must go further than simply a name and a voice.

Looks great!

The problem with all blogging platforms though is that we always focus on making the writing experience better rather than making the audience experience better.

Give me this simplicity, plus a built in way for me to get eyeballs and I'm all yours!

Great stuff guys, keep it up! There's nothing out there for product people. Actually starting a 180 day blog series on every day in th life of building my team's latest product. We should chat sometime!

Very cool and kudos on the idea. We built something about a year ago that's very similar (http://confideapp.com). It's a place where people have talked about suicide, sex, relationships, pain and joy. I'd be happy to chat about what we learned in hopes you could grow something bigger that will positively impact more people than we're able to. Happy holidays!

I agree with most of what you said. I'm not a designer nor a developer, and had to hack this together in the last few days since, as I'm sure you're aware, the startup hiring market is red hot and am already getting a few offers. This was all meant to be temporary, an MVP if you will.

Unfortunately, it had to go up today and ran out of time to handle these "devil details". There are reasons for some of this, but I did want to thank you for your candid response! :)

Just because your product is at MVP stage doesn't mean you're B-team. It just means you're the new news :)