Sudowrite/H++ | Right Hand to the CEO | REMOTE (US) or Honolulu | 80-130K + equity + profit share
Hi, I'm Amit, co-founder of Sudowrite. Every other post in this thread is hiring someone to build software. I'm hiring someone to help build the company.
Our company is weird. No VCs, 30,000+ paying users, 3+ years of profitability, and the nicest coworkers you've ever worked with.
You should read the job listing even if you don't want the job b/c it is the best one here:
One of our first employees just quit and it kind of broke my heart.
Founders are supposed to bluster through this kind of thing, but I struggled to even write a proper job listing to hire his replacement.
Finally I just decided to write to spend a week writing those feelings into the listing. Surprisingly, this yielded more applications than we've ever had for a position!
PROFITABLE, SUSTAINABLE SMALL TEAM, MAKING SOMETHING PEOPLE WANT
Kind, smart, low-drama people, seeking the same to help make writing tools authors dream about.
Our users have published thousands of books using Sudowrite, and we're building a sustainable company, not chasing unrealistic growth targets set by VCs.
* We help the next generation of storytellers tell better stories.
* We believe the future of writing is AI & human collaboration.
* This is the 3rd year we'll pay a profit-sharing bonus.
* Co-founders both had prior exits.
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Hiring: Product Design Lead
* Craft clean, playful new UX/UI and talk to users. A lot.
* You should have: Great taste and product sense, lots of agency, and a sense of humor, adventure, and hope.
* Nice to have: You write, you code, you're good at animation.
Wow, so many assumptions here that don't make sense to me, but I realize we all have different perspectives on this stuff. Thank you for sharing yours! I really do appreciate it.
I won't go line-by-line here defending the cutesy copy and all that since it's not my job to argue with people on the internet either… but on a few key points that interested me:
- language support: I don't believe we're being disingenuous. Sudowrite works well in many languages. We have authors teaching classes on using Sudowrite in multiple languages. In fact, there's one on German tomorrow and one on French next week: https://lu.ma/sudowrite Our community runs classes nearly every day.
- student usage - We do sometimes offer a student discount when people write in to ask for it, and we've had multiple collage and high school classes use sudowrite in writing classes. We'll often give free accounts to the class when professors reach out. I don't believe AI use in education is unethical. I think AI as copilot is the future of most creative work, and it will seem silly for teachers not to incorporate these tools in the future. Many already are! All that said, we do not market to students as you claim. Not because we think it's immoral -- we do not -- but because we think they have better options. ChatGPT is free, students are cheap. We make a professional tool for professional authors and it is not free nor cheap. It would not make sense for our business to market to students.
- press quotes -- Yes, we quote journalists because they're the ones who've written articles about us. You can google "New Yorker sudowrite" etc and see the articles. Some of those journalists also write fiction -- that one who wrote the New Yorker feature had a book he co-wrote with AI reviewed in The New York Times.
> I then noticed it was last updated in 2020? I highly doubt you guys have been around for that long
So many of these objections feel bizarre to me because they're trivial to fact-check. Here's a New York Times article that mentions us, written in 2020. We were one of the first companies to use LLMs in this wave and sought and gained access to GPT-3 prior to public API availability. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/science/artificial-intell...
Hey co-founder of Sudowrite here. We indeed have thousands of writers paying for and using the platform. However, we aim to serve professional novelists, not journalists or students. We have some of both using it, but it's heavily designed and priced for novelists making a living off their work.
A much-improved version 1.5 came out today -- it's preferred 2-to-1 vs Claude in blind tests with our users.
You're right on the faq -- alas, we've been very product-focused and haven't done the best job keeping the marketing site up to date. What questions do you wish we'd answer there?
Hi, I'm Amit, co-founder of Sudowrite. Every other post in this thread is hiring someone to build software. I'm hiring someone to help build the company.
Our company is weird. No VCs, 30,000+ paying users, 3+ years of profitability, and the nicest coworkers you've ever worked with.
You should read the job listing even if you don't want the job b/c it is the best one here:
https://sudowrite.com/jobs/right-hand