nateps

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Founder and CTO of https://www.lever.co/.

Author of DerbyJS full-stack, realtime MVC framework: http://derbyjs.com/

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Comment · 7 years ago
As many of the news articles have talked about, Google Hire's origin was the acquisition of Bebop. Some discussion on this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10839516

In this case, I know that Diane Greene advocated for her team to have the opportunity to launch their product, which they had been developing in stealth from 2012-2016.

I haven't worked there for some time now, but Google has historically supported teams in launching into the market through experiments, labs, new product launches, etc. However, Google's current scale makes it very difficult for a new product to be worth improving and maintaining. They must make billions in revenue directly or indirectly to show up in a meaningful way. In most cases, products are given a few years, tested for impact, and ultimately the most likely outcome is that a product will fail when that is the bar. It is not entirely different from the reality of a startup—the majority of startups don't last either.

Comment · 7 years ago
Sure thing. Send me a note and I can forward
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Thank you! I appreciate the support. Means a lot.
Comment · 7 years ago
Send me a note, <first name>@lever.co, and we'll take it from there!
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm the founder and CTO of Lever, YC S12. I also worked at Google as a PM prior to founding Lever.

Let me know how I can help if anyone has questions! We're a great alternative to Google Hire.

Comment · 7 years ago
I'm the founder and CTO of Lever (https://www.lever.co), a similar product and part of YC S12. I recommend you check us out!

I was also a PM at Google from 2007-2011. A big part of why I left and founded Lever is that I'm super passionate about enterprise software, and vertical enterprise software (even in huge markets) isn't aligned well with Google's core business.

Comment · 7 years ago
Glad to hear! I'm the Founder and CTO of Lever. Anything I can do to help?
Comment · 7 years ago
That's awesome! Let us know how it goes.
Comment · 7 years ago
Hey houshuang! Thanks for mentioning this. I do think that replay and the potential to invert operations (including some operations and not others) is a very interesting feature of OT and we use it at Lever quite often. It is incredibly useful when doing enterprise customer support in addition to something that you can build user-facing features around.
Comment · 7 years ago
Thanks for the shoutout! We are actively developing on ShareDB (https://github.com/share/sharedb) and if anyone is really interested in this, please reach out to me (https://github.com/nateps). Also, Lever is looking to hire someone to work full time on our internal + open source frameworks including ShareDB.
Comment · 8 years ago
Thanks, Eric for writing this fantastic overview! It covers why we have made some key technology choices, both building off well established technologies such as Node.js, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, and AWS as well as some areas in which we've made outside of the box choices. It's been a fun adventure!

I think that this particular and special combination of leveraging open source and finding ways we can innovate technically makes being an engineer at Lever a fun and exciting challenge. I also think it comes through in our product, which stands out in a software category with many choices, but few of them innovative.

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