Clearbit | https://clearbit.com | Ruby dev | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full time
Clearbit is a one year old profitable and well funded startup building out a suite of business data APIs. The team is currently 8 - we're looking for someone who'll:
* Mainly work with a Ruby/Sinatra/Sequel/Postgres stack
* Bring new features from concept to shipped product.
* Come up with new product directions and APIs.
We currently provide the data behind the sales teams of many successful companies in the valley (e.g. Stripe, Zendesk, ZenPayroll). Our goal is to be the data backbone for modern businesses, powering everything from credit checks to lead scoring.
In general we've found that companies are using the icon rel for favicons (16x16 icons) which don't do a good job of representing a company logo at larger sizes.
Behind the scenes we're using Clearbit's Company API which does a lot of sleuthing: scanning the page for social accounts, meta tags etc. Then we try and return the best logo we can find.
Dokku's definitely a young project and has its teething problems. We've been using a fork of it called Dokku-alt which is getting a bit more love these days - I'd give that a shot.
It's absolutely true that Heroku is a lot more than what Dokku, Docker & Vagrant provide, especially when it comes to auto-scaling. Heroku is a good choice for many - but it's also good to have alternatives. For us (at Clearbit), it made sense to build our own infrastructure for cost reasons, especially since we're using EC2's spot instances.
To your points though:
* Dokku uses Heroku's buildpacks and auto-detects your stack when you git push
Thanks for the recommendation Sylvain! Yes, we've been busy improving our data over the last month. Give it another shot - I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
I'm am extremely excited about Chain.com, and the other tools being build up around the Bitcoin ecosystem. The power of giving developers simple tools and building blocks is often underestimated - but it often results in radical innovations.
A case in point is Stripe's API, and the ecosystem that has been subsequently built around it. Yes, it's possible to send CC auths/settlements and ACH transactions yourself - but the barrier to entry stifles innovation. Often the most interesting innovations in tech occur when there's an innovation in tooling.
I'm particularly interesting in Chain.com though, because I think currency is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Blockchains. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a number of other use-cases for Blockchains soon. [1]
We actually originally started generating a 'score' for engineers, and it's still part of our API. However, we dropped it from the interface since it was confusing a lot of people, and the score tended to reflect how popular an engineer was, rather than how good they were. As you can imagine, figuring out the latter is a very complex problem. For now, we've removed it.
Hi, I'm the co-founder of Sourcing.io, and the engineer who built it. Stoked that we're on HN, and get the chance to respond to the engineering and hacker community.
Our introduction blog post says a bit more about our mission.
We're not here to increase the spam problem - quite the opposite. We've put a number of safe guards in place against this kind of abuse:
* We don't allow big recruitment agencies known for spamming on the system.
* Our system is geared around referral based recruiting - finding people already connected to your company. For example, promoting candidates who follow one of your engineers on Twitter. This is the type of recruiting we live for and want to promote.
That said, there are definitely some things we should (and will) do.
* Allow developers to see, edit and update their own profiles
* An instant opt-out button
Let me know if there's anything else I can answer.
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WorkGPT - framework for working with GPT functions. https://github.com/team-openpm/workgpt
Everything is open source.