D_R_Farrell
Joined 10 years ago
Joined 10 years ago
Is this kind of like a Karpathy 2nd brain for investing then?
Onlook is an AI-native visual editor that lets designers, PMS, and engineers collaborate directly in the browser. We launched earlier this year, hit #1 on Hacker News, became the #1 trending repo on GitHub (above DeepSeek + Anthropic), and have grown to 22,000+ stars. We’re now hiring our first Founding Engineer.
We’re a design-led, product-obsessed team backed by YC, and we’re building a next-generation visual IDE used by tens of thousands of designers and engineers.
What we’re looking for:
• Full-stack engineer comfortable owning large, ambiguous problems
• Strong bias toward building fast and shipping often
• High craft, strong opinions, and willingness to defend them
• Desire to build an open-source product in public
• Someone who wants to help shape the culture, architecture, and direction from day one
Tech: Next.js, Tailwind, tRPC, Supabase, Drizzle, Bun, Docker, Anthropic, AI SDK.
What you’ll do: You’ll work across the stack, contribute to one of the fastest-growing OSS projects ever backed by YC, design and ship core parts of the visual editor, work with 100+ contributors, and help define the product with real users. If you’re in SF, we have a beautiful office near South Park.
How to stand out: Share something you’ve built. A project, repo, or portfolio tells us more than a resume.
Email me directly [email protected] or apply at https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/onlook/jobs/e4gHv1n-fo...
- How are you handling tax/VAT and edge cases? Like usage backfills or retroactive credit grants, etc. etc.
- What’s the failure mode if your service is down?
Either way, refreshing to see someone go after this with the opinionated DX!
Definitely going to ask my cofounder to look into implementing this.
- Are there other use cases for this tech besides language translation? Wondering if there are other eng problems that something like this could solve.
- Where are you guys thinking of taking this next? Seems like you're able to handle a lot of languages, so are you just continuing to refine the product or what's the plan for the next couple months and years?
Thanks for tackling this!
Sonnet 4 has been producing much more reliable outputs, but it's always a challenge to push it to get really creative. I think there are probably great ways we could be prompting for more creative output, but something we'll need to keep experimenting with for sure.
Cool to see someone has!