Congrats on the launch.
We have been using Chatwoot (https://chatwoot.com/) - an open source solution for customer messaging. Great to see all the open source project. How are you differentiating Airy?
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This is just my personal knowledge. What if for example, Ycombinator curates a path to learn how to build a startup, or Airbnb curates a path on how to build two sided marketplaces.
That's how I'm thinking about it now.
Hey folks,
I built Tinyschool - It is a collection of curated learning paths to help developers learn skills to climb up their career path. The skills include more than just coding - things like documentation, collaboration, communication, engineering processes etc.
When I was in the early stage of my career, a question that always bothered me was - I can code well, but what is next? It took years of learning at work and research to figure out what those skills are(and the list is still incomplete).
This is my humble attempt to curate all those skills. Along with a couple of other senior engineering managers, we have curated over 25 skills so far. Will be adding more soon.
And it's all free to use.
Thanks! Hope it helps.
This is what I came up with.
The Oyster Cost Calculator lets you estimate how much it will cost to employ someone in a country. Currently, Oyster can help you hire in over 70 countries.
Just to clarify - By using us all companies will be doing is post ads to reach a different kind of audience they otherwise won't.
The fact is that there aren't many women from emerging economies in the pipeline of a typical remote company. This is what we are trying to change. These companies use social media, linkedin ads, other famous job boards to attract talent. But still the outcome is not much different.
By listing on HerJobs, companies can also reach a different demographic that is hard to reach(typically for a company in US or Europe)
Agree that there might be people who use this with not the ideal intentions. But we have to start somewhere. We also try our best to vet companies, not just candidates.
> A less patronizing solution would be to figure out why women from emerging countries are underrepresented in existing pipelines and address those factors there. This is exactly we are doing. Currently the community consists of mentors(both male, and female) and helps applicants identify their talent gaps and train them. These gaps are not necessarily technical - but cultural and language gaps.
I'm a female. I'm from India, currently living in Europe. I'm an Engineering Manager in a remote team. I started this because in most of the teams I have worked, there was a lack of female in tech. And wanted to contribute towards changing this.
In an ideal world, opportunity will be equal - but unfortunately that is not the case right now. Not everyone have access to the equal opportunity.
And we are technically not a company yet, we are just a small community. What we try to do is coach people who apply, identify their skill gaps and help them get a job in remote teams. These skills mostly are not technical skills - but cultural and communication gaps.
I hope that helps.
But remote work can be most useful for people from emerging economies. It can bring them better salary, better living conditions and this has huge implications in long term. We are trying to do our part in accelerating that.
Over the past few months, I’ve been learning about the missing pieces with guidance from a few great mentors. I have curated a list of blog posts, books, and videos I’ve consumed along the way.
I want to make it clear that YC definitely recommends a healthy life style and this was strictly our choice.
YC is as good as what you can make out of it. It can be anything from average to great, depending on how much effort you put into learn from smart people.