152 karma · joined March 19, 2018
> At the moment we don't provide support for easily self-hosting the code. Currently, the purpose of keeping the code open-source is to be transparent with the community about how we collect and process data.
So basically you ask people to work for free on something only you can use? No thank you.
> We collect every new submission and comment from Hacker News, and once every 5 minutes or so (assuming I don't break something).
nit - you should decide if your tone is "we" or "I".
edit: another idea would be to add notifications for upvote/downvote you get. it's harder to implement so maybe just when your score changes...
edit2: why downvote? ️
1 - take-home task of "only" 6 hours. that's on top of the onsite (~6 hours) and a few hours for phone call and followups. that's too much for an unpaid job.
2 - they try to find people they know to sniff around about the candidate. that's usually bad as you can jeopardize the candidate's current job (usually people interview while still working at another place). overall this post made me want to work at firebase even less now.