josephcohen
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founder and ceo at http://onuniverse.com
http://joe.onuniverse.com
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Comment · 5 years ago
Universe | Full time | Remote | Engineering | workatuniverse.com
With Universe (http://apple.co/Universe), anyone on earth can build a custom website or online store in seconds — without code, all from a phone. We're looking for a few engineers to join our team:
1. Senior DevOps Engineer to take our infrastructure to the next level and unlock our development team’s potential: https://workatuniverse.com/senior-devops-engineer
2. Senior CSS Engineer, a problem solver who loves CSS way more than is reasonable: https://workatuniverse.com/senior-css-engineer
3. UI-focused React Web Engineer who loves building tools to help others: https://workatuniverse.com/react-web-engineer
We are a remote-first 25+ person company with people all over the US. We joined Y Combinator in 2018 and have raised $17.2MM in funding from Google Ventures, General Catalyst, Javelin Venture Partners, Box Group, and more top investors.
We value individual agency and ownership — which guides our product design and our company’s culture. We believe that an individual’s capacity for growth is far larger than most understand, and we’ve designed an environment to support rapid, continuous learning. Ideas here come from everyone, initiative is respected, and quality matters. We are here to build something special and enduring.
Mention HN in the text box at the bottom when you apply!
Comment · 5 years ago
With Universe (http://apple.co/Universe), anyone on earth can build a custom website or online store in seconds — without code, all from a phone. We're looking for a few engineers to join our team:
1. Senior DevOps Engineer to take our infrastructure to the next level and unlock our development team’s potential: https://workatuniverse.com/senior-devops-engineer
2. Senior CSS Engineer, a problem solver who loves CSS way more than is reasonable: https://workatuniverse.com/senior-css-engineer
3. UI-focused React Web Engineer who loves building tools to help others: https://workatuniverse.com/react-web-engineer
We are a remote-first 25+ person company with people all over the US. We joined Y Combinator in 2018 and have raised $17.2MM in funding from Google Ventures, General Catalyst, Javelin Venture Partners, Box Group, and more top investors.
We value individual agency and ownership — which guides our product design and our company’s culture. We believe that an individual’s capacity for growth is far larger than most understand, and we’ve designed an environment to support rapid, continuous learning. Ideas here come from everyone, initiative is respected, and quality matters. We are here to build something special and enduring.
Mention HN in the text box at the bottom when you apply!
Comment · 6 years ago
We’re making Universe Pro free for all organizers, groups, & grassroots movements to support the Black Lives Matter movement. Activists can create a website, take donations, link their social media accounts, and keep an email list. Details here: http://empowerment.tools
For those who don't know about Universe: we're an iOS-based website builder. You can download the app here: http://apple.co/Universe
Comment · 7 years ago
Universe (YC W18) | Brooklyn, NY or Remote
Our mission is to empower everyone to build the internet. Universe is the first website builder designed from the ground up for phones. In less than a minute, anyone can make a beautiful site from their mobile device. This is possible because of our breakthrough modular grid editor (https://vimeo.com/260165283), which makes building a site as fun as playing with Lego.
To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/universe
Here are our open roles:
- Head of Backend Engineering: https://workatuniverse.com/engineering/api
- iOS Engineer: https://workatuniverse.com/engineering/ios
- Web Engineer: https://workatuniverse.com/web
- Product Designer: https://shape.onuniverse.com/
- Growth: https://workatuniverse.com/grow
Tech Stack: Swift, Node.js, React, Vapor, Heroku, Cloudkit, Postgres
Comment · 7 years ago
Universe (YC W18) | Brooklyn, NY / Distributed | Onsite or Remote (US) | http://onuniverse.com
Our mission is to empower everyone to build the internet. Universe is the first website builder designed from the ground up for phones. In less than a minute, anyone can make a beautiful site from their mobile device. This is possible because of our breakthrough modular grid editor, which makes building a site as fun as playing with Lego.
To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/universe
Here are our open roles:
- Full-Stack Engineer
- iOS Engineer
- Product Designer
Tech Stack: Swift, Node.js, React, Vapor, Heroku, Cloudkit, Postgres
Please email [email protected] if you're interested!
Comment · 7 years ago
Only a matter of time, we think
Comment · 7 years ago
Facebook is now many things, but when it started it was about identity: this is who I am, this is who I know, this is what I care about.
As Facebook has expanded, it's become a mostly passive experience. This is a byproduct of Facebook's business model, which is to sell other people's time. Like any business, it's incentivized to maximized its inventory, which in this case is time spent on Facebook properties.
People are waking up to the fact that Facebook doesn't add value to your life, it extracts value by consuming your time.
There is another way. You don't need to be the product.
This is why I created Universe (YC W'18), a new kind of tool that allows everyone to build their place on the internet—their own website, with their own domain, and their own design.
The internet should look more like a bustling, erratic metropolis and less like a centrally-planned suburb. To do that, it needs to be built by everyone.
Check out Universe and let me know what you think: http://apple.co/Universe
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Some sites made on Universe: http://showcase.onuniverse.com
More about our story: http://fastcompany.com/90174165/the-future-of-web-design-doe...