ShoutOut City helps businesses connect with local influencers and request shoutouts to help grow their business. We are launching in Chicago and will soon expand to other US cities. We are a distributed company, team is on 3 continents.
We just launched our MVP and are looking for 2-3 full-stack engineers to join our team. It's still early days and a great opportunity to have a meaningful influence into how the product is shaped.
Starting salary is around $5-6K range (depending on seniority) per month + generous equity package.
Commercial aviation is a tightly knit community of people, thriving on collaboration, knowledge sharing and operational excellence.
When COVID-19 hit -- and it hit hard -- leaders had to make tough decisions to let people go in order to ensure their organisations' survival. Despite these tough actions, the community not only lives on but is getting stronger by the day, becoming ever more important.
We are announcing the launch of We Work In Aviation -- a directory and community of aviation professionals that literally moved aviation before they were let go. We want to see them do it again when the industry comes calling -- because it will, it is only a matter of time.
Anyone who worked in aviation and was let go recently is invited to register for free, to increase their chances of being found by new employers.
We use Discourse for all complex conversations that can happen asynchronously (meaning not urgent) and we want to capture/document decisions for. Discourse is also great as internal knowledge base.
Moving this sort of comms out of Slack has also made Slack better for us, as there is less FOMO and thus more deep work.
Just gave it a try but everything is too segmented. This feels like pinterest meets basecamp... and i find both very distracting, personally. Appreciate the suggestion though.
3 months is indeed a long time for us to have to wait for revenue. However, it's good for users because if they get to the 100 transaction limit, it means that they use it, which means that they get value out of it and would be more willing to pay to continue to use it.
Or at least that's our line of thought.
Also, it takes at least a month of transactions to be able to look at stats and get some insights from your spendings.
For existing users, we'll set the transaction counter at 0 (zero) when we launch this. Also, we are thinking of offering them 50% lifetime discount.
I'm glad you're thinking about your existing users. I don't have a problem with your plan but I would suggest cohort analysis to test different free trial versions. Eric Ries talks about this on his blog and in his book.
Also the sure I was referring to is in a completely different niche.
HN karma would be a great metric for vetting experience and track-record. It's one of the trickiest things when trying to hire above-average talent.
May I recommend using jobberBase (http://www.jobberbase.com) as a platform? Also open-source, with a great community around it.
Disclaimer: I've built jobberBase, so I'm biased :).
