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Joined 7 years ago
Joined 7 years ago
We're a seed stage insurance technology company building insurance for small businesses. The team is small (just over 10 people), but experienced. We have folks with 20+ years of insurance expertise as well as a strong engineering culture from folks who've been working in fintech for decades. We're backed by top investors who've also invested in Asana, Vercel, and Brex.
Our Stack:
- React / Typescript Frontend
- GraphQL API
- Golang Backend
- On AWS
If you're interested reach out with a resume or a link to your linkedin at [email protected].
Not new, but just been here the whole time.
You can use monads to implement exception handling, global state (without actually having global state), and async/await.
It's difficult to explain how all those features can be implemented through one generic interface. But it's easy to see how each of those things would require a "lightweight" runtime.
We already know that billions of humans have genetic mutations that specifically are there to protect us from mosquitos. So I'm not surprised that mosquitos have specific adaptations made for us either.
Decision like this come from the leadership team, and I don't think they have people with enough sense of what they're actually doing -- breaking trust with their end customers to understand this is terrible idea.
It smells a lot like what happened with Unity a few weeks ago. It's the same story. Leadership team weren't actually users of the product, they didn't understand that the company's key value was the trust they've built with the customers and they broke it.