davidcoronado

Offer | Full-time Remote (4 day work week) | Ruby on Rails Engineer | Salary + Equity (1-2%)

Offer is on a mission to make a home purchase as easy as the click of a button. We are backed by Antler (www.antler.co)

Senior or Staff Level - Ruby on Rails Software Engineer

Skills: - Strong knowledge of Ruby and Rails - Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Javascript - Strong knowledge of JavaScript frameworks such as React and Node.js - Experience in database design and data modeling - Excellent understanding of design patterns and architectural styles

Responsibilities: - Own and ship features and experiments end-to-end, taking a sketched idea (or a pain point from a user call) to a deployed feature. - Maintain and extend all parts of the stack when needed, such as one-time scripts, new API endpoints, and adding new micro-services. - Proactively address issues, create features, and build tools for the product roadmap and stability without much guidance.

*UPDATE* Role had been filled.

Hi Adam,

I just sent an email about a role. We are an early stage startup looking to hire our first senior/staff level engineer. I hope to talk to you soon.

YC will not help you with "growth hacking" or "marketing". I worked at a YC company (Magic YC'S15) while they were in YC before Demo Day. The one thing YC helped us with was to help build the best product for our users. Our service had gone viral and the focus was to focus on a specific KPI and grow it 10% week over week before demo day. YC doesn't help you with your first users, YC helps you know what to focus on for the best organic growth and building a product your users love.

My advice for you to get into YC is build a product that small group of users love. Then when you apply to YC you'll have traction. Also your team plays a big role, you'll need a technical cofounder & sales cofounder. Then the last thing is DOMAIN EXPERTISE. Someone on your team has to be an expert in their field. If you don't have these three things (traction, team and domain expertise) then the chance of you getting into YC are 0%.

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They have such a cool concept. Safer, cleaner and user friendly controls for a Helicopter alternative. I do hope they increase the flying altitude so it can meet the FAA guidelines (500 ft) of flying in congested areas (town/cities).

He currently lives with my mother and that has been the biggest hurdle with having him move out. Finding someone who can check up on him like a care giver.

He is high functional and can take of himself. He just has a hard time picking up social cues and takes a little longer to process things. He just needs a little help when it comes to motivation. It's interesting because he doesn't see himself as disabled or being autistic. He does love scifi movies which is why I think this chatbot could be like his personal Jarvis.

I'll have to check out the Hackaday, this voice chatbot is more of solving a personal problem than a startup idea but open sourcing this could be really great. Thanks for the suggestion.

That's a great point about if he wants to be independent himself. He is pretty high functional. He has a hard time picking up social cues and tends to take a bit longer to process things. We've had so many conversation about him one day being in a relationship and living on his own.

As for this idea, I haven't run it by him yet. That why I was curious to see what others thought. I already have an Alexa and this is more of an experiment. I do like the voice recording alarm clock. I think I'm going to start there. Thanks for the suggestion.

He does respond to text and Facebook Messenger but only hours later. He listens to anyone who encourages him to do things. He's a great kid and has a sense of humor. I've just noticed that it takes having a conversation with him to help to get things started. He can take care of himself but just needs a little push to do things or else he'll just lay in bed and watch YouTube videos all day.

That's a really good idea! I love the concept of "the voice in our heads". Thanks for the idea!

Those are some great points. He needs a constant reminder to do things. We've tried alarms before but it's only when we talk to him that he responds. I think the Amazon Echo could be a good first start with testing. I was thinking of manually dictating Alexa to see how effective it is and how he reacts.

He has social interaction at work but my mother travels often which makes it difficult for her because she has to constantly be calling him to make sure he is up and ready to get out the door. I'm just looking for a solution to help him be more independent and make it easier for her when she travels.