neodude
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My twitter is @neodude, contact me there! I'm building Watsi with some awesome folks: https://watsi.org.
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Comment · 9 years ago
A lot of YC non-profits produce "actual software". I know Watsi does, because I run the product and engineering team there.
Comment · 11 years ago
Watsi (YCW13) / SF / Full-stack engineers (onsite)
Watsi is a global crowdfunding platform that enables anyone to directly fund healthcare for people around the world.
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
We’re a team of engineers, designers, doctors, and marketers working at Watsi because we believe that everyone, everywhere deserves access to healthcare. We move fast, take risks, and come to work every day excited about building an organization that matters more than we do.
We’re looking for a full-stack engineer to join our eight-person team in San Francisco. The ideal candidate is a self-directed, product-focused generalist who’s excited to work on whatever is needed to bring healthcare to the world – everything from optimizing donation flows to designing a patient management system for hospitals.
If this sounds interesting to you, please send us an email at [email protected], include your linkedin, github, etc, and tell us a little about yourself.
For more about what we do and what it’s like to work at Watsi, check out our recent trips to Guatemala (http://exposure.watsi.org/saying-yes), Cambodia (http://exposure.watsi.org/rehabilitation-nation), and East Africa (http://exposure.watsi.org/a-dose-of-perspective)
Comment · 11 years ago
Hey there, Thomas from Watsi here. We actually used to have a "Donate monthly" checkout during the one-time donation flow, but in the several months that the checkbox was live, I think exactly one person ever checked it. We also have a link to the Universal Fund after you make a one-time donation, and that's seen good conversions.
That said, I definitely agree that there are other ways to solicit a donor to join the Universal Fund during / after a one-time donation. Our next idea for a test is to add a quick option immediately after a one-time donation that let's you sign up right there, something like, "Donate $5 every month! [Yes] / [No]".
Comment · 12 years ago
No worries - I'll fix that for you right now! Look for an email in your inbox shortly.
Comment · 12 years ago
Running out of money is the most common way for a startup to die, so successfully living in SF on the cheap certainly mitigates that.
Comment · 12 years ago
A quick clarification here: joining the Universal Fund doesn't mean that we charge your credit card an amount every month and you have no idea where or who your donation is going towards. Every month, we automatically pick a patient your donation goes towards, and you get an email with the patient's story, and an update email after the patient's medical procedure.
Comment · 12 years ago
Thomas from Watsi here! When we were initially building the recurring donation feature, we experimented with using Stripe's recurring billing functionality, but we ended up building our own monthly charging (still through Stripe's API). Stripe's feature is more designed for fixed-price "plans" that folks can sign up for - i.e., SaaS products, rather than the Universal Fund's pick-your-own-amount recurring charge.
Comment · 12 years ago
Where do you draw the line between "creating new software" and a "large scale project"? Every large scale project starts as a small project, so at some point you must decide to start writing tests; and then you have the burden of backfilling 'em.
Comment · 12 years ago
Watsi – http://watsi.org – San Francisco, CA; FULLTIME, possible VISA
Watsi is a global crowdfunding platform that enables anyone to directly fund healthcare for people around the world.
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“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
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We’re a team of developers, designers, doctors, and marketers working at Watsi because we believe that everyone, everywhere deserves access to healthcare. We move fast, take risks, and come to work every day excited about building an organization that matters more than we do.
We’re looking for a full-stack developer (engineer #2) to join our five-person team in San Francisco. The ideal candidate is an experienced, product-focused generalist who wants to use their skills to bring healthcare to the world. Our stack is Rails, Backbone.js, SCSS, Postgres, Redis, Sidekiq, Heroku, RSpec, and Jasmine. You don't have to be familiar with our stack, but you do need to learn fast :)
If you’re interested in learning more, please send whatever info you have (linkedin, github, personal site) to [email protected].
For more info, check out our recent trip to East Africa - http://exposure.watsi.org/a-dose-of-perspective.
Comment · 12 years ago
Mike, I'm curious if you think Sidekiq suffers from a similar issue on Heroku, and what the solutions - ideas or already implemented - look like?
Comment · 14 years ago
San Francisco, CA
Pivotal Labs - FULLTIME, REMOTE, H1B.
We're one of the best agile development consultancies around. We're looking for sharp, empathetic software developers, mainly working on web (Rails, JS) and mobile (iPhone, Android) projects. Past clients include Groupon, Twitter, Google, Gowalla. We also build Pivotal Tracker, an agile project management tool.
You don't have to be an expert in Rails or the mobile frameworks to get a job here - as long as you are pleasant to work with and willing to learn, that's good enough. Since we pair every day, you'll pick up what you need to know very quickly. After just a month at Pivotal I felt I had improved leaps and bounds as a developer and learnt a tremendous amount about Rails that I didn't know before.
Give me a ping - [email protected]. Read more about how we work: http://pivotallabs.com/jobs/welcome