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Comment · 4 months ago
Kiloforge | Founding Engineer | Early-Stage | Full-time | San Francisco | Onsite
- Product: Kiloforge is a company factory: a system that autonomously ideates, validates, builds, and distributes software products.
- Why: Before AI, countless niche communities and problems had no way of being served with first-class, high-quality software. As software trends towards zero cost, solving these problems is now economically feasible.
- $5M+ Funding: a16z, Uncork Capital, Rahul Vohra
==Who You Are==
- You're a scrappy, generalist builder with strong product taste and a founder's mindset
- You thrive in chaos, love learning everything, and have built things real people use
==Team==
- Founded companies before, including one that scaled to $25M+ per year
- Built dozens of products with thousands of users
- Shipped patented technology and features used by billions of people
==Interview==
Meet with founder [15 mins] >> In-person [2 hr] >> Onsite w/team [half-day]
==Contact==
More info: https://kiloforge.com/careers
Comment · 5 months ago
Kiloforge | Founding Engineer | Early-Stage | Full-time | San Francisco | Onsite
- Product: Kiloforge is a company factory: a system that autonomously ideates, validates, builds, and distributes software products.
- Why: Before AI, countless niche communities and problems had no way of being served with first-class, high-quality software. As software trends towards zero cost, solving these problems is now economically feasible.
- $5M+ Funding: a16z, Uncork Capital, Rahul Vohra
==Who You Are==
- You're a scrappy, generalist builder with strong product taste and a founder's mindset
- You thrive in chaos, love learning everything, and have built things real people use
==Team==
- Founded companies before, including one that scaled to $20M ARR
- Built dozens of products with thousands of users
- Shipped patented technology and features used by billions of people
==Interview==
Meet with founder [15 mins] >> In-person [1 hr] >> Onsite w/team [half-to-full day]
==Contact==
[email protected]
More info: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kiloforge/b5ebae38-a1de-4a26-bac0-e...
Comment · 6 months ago
Kiloforge | Founding Engineer | Early-Stage | Full-time | San Francisco | Onsite
- Product: Kiloforge is a company factory: a system that autonomously ideates, validates, builds, and distributes software products.
- Why: Before AI, countless niche communities and problems had no way of being served with first-class, high-quality software. As software trends towards zero cost, solving these problems is now economically feasible.
- $5M+ Funding: a16z, Uncork Capital, Rahul Vohra
==Who You Are==
- You're a scrappy, generalist builder with strong product taste and a founder's mindset
- You thrive in chaos, love learning everything, and have built things real people use
==Team==
- Founded companies before, including one that scaled to $20M ARR
- Built dozens of products with thousands of users
- Shipped patented technology and features used by billions of people
==Interview==
Meet with founder [15 mins] >> In-person [1 hr] >> Onsite w/team [half-to-full day]
==Contact==
[email protected]
More info: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kiloforge/b5ebae38-a1de-4a26-bac0-e...
Comment · 1 year ago
Not a massive poster on hacker news. But I thought the style of this one matched the vibe here. Would love to know y'all's experience with current "SOTA" vibe coding as well
Comment · 6 years ago
Yeah that's what I love about this game. Each game builds on each other and you end up with something super meaty. Where many games feel like snack food for me tabletop RPGs feel like a full meal :)
Comment · 6 years ago
Hi all! We're Nate, Devon, and Jared, the founders of StartPlaying.Games. StartPlaying.Games is a platform that helps players find tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) and professional Game Masters.
I (Devon) have been a professional Game Master for over five years, running games for players all across the country. I even started hiring other professional GMs because I had more groups than I could run! The biggest issue I've been seeing with people getting into the hobby or trying new game systems is finding someone to run the game for them. A lot of solutions involve digging through discord servers and forums, which aren't very friendly to new players and require a lot of time and effort. I knew there had to be a better solution to this, and started creating some Pro GM groups to network with others.
A few days after the pandemic hit San Francisco in March 2020, I got a call from Nate, who wanted to pick my brain about being a professional Game Master. He was working on a similar idea, but with a tech-focused twist: an Airbnb-type marketplace to find Game masters and other virtual game masters. That first night, we spent hours on the phone chatting about what the platform could be, and for hours each evening for the next several weeks as we began to build StartPlaying.Games.
Over the next few months, we spoke with over a hundred Game Masters and Players while building out StartPlaying.Games. We launched our platform 3 months ago, and since then we have had over 2000 bookings and around 300 GMs join our platform. And with 40 million+ D&D fans around the world, we know there is a market for our platform.
We offer users the ability to join solo, book for yourself, and a group, as well as hand-picked options for custom and corporate requests. We make money by taking a percentage of game bookings.
On StartPlaying.Games, Game Masters get more time to focus on planning and running games instead of building a website and business platform. We’re now chatting with game publishers to help them find players for their game systems, and working with convention organizers to help them run virtual conventions. We are also chatting with charities on how to get more involved in helping them run game-driven fundraisers.
We would love to hear your ideas and any feedback you have!