BackerKit | ONSITE | San Francisco, CA | Senior Software Engineer | Full-time
BackerKit is the market-leading platform for post-crowdfunding experiences for both creators and backers.
We’re looking for someone who gravitates towards leveling up team members through pair-programming, continuously improving, and open discussion about decisions and process.
Phone call or coffee, on-site conversations, on-site coding. We have a strict no whiteboards interviewing policy. You’ll likely spend half of the time pairing (actually pairing) on a coding challenge and half of the time pairing on a story from our backlog.
Contact: ryan@backerkit.com (Head of Engineering, hiring manager)
We're still learning, but so far we've had overwhelmingly positive feedback from folks that feel encouraged by our pledges. We're also working to raise more funds so we can increase the amount of each pledge. It's in the article, but 100% of the funds we raise on Patreon will go towards that goal.
As we mention in the article, a lot of it IS about the token statement, and we have thousands of KS messages at least of grateful folks supporting. Do you value your $1 supporters on Patreon? Do they have a material benefit for you?
If we figured out how to make the fund work for Patreon, how would you feel?
I do value my $1 supporters on Patreon - emotionally because they chose to support my work in particular rather than the mindless shotgun approach, and financially because there are 46 of them.
If this project raises enough to give $46 to every project, they'll need $92,000 by their own reckoning and will still be giving little more than a vapid pittance to each. Can you really not think of something better to do with 92 grand?
Haha, thanks, I guess. If you actually use and apprecitate my work, then of course I appreciate your support, but otherwise I'd rather you kept the money.
People putting themselves out there, even if it's not quite there, is still something worth encouraging IMHO.
It's hard to get a single person to care. The Creative Fund now is a group of folks want to see people take the leap and try and put new things into the world.
Probably nothing to do with decision makers being aggressively lobbied by major car-makers that would prefer to make the easier-to-sell hybrids than full-blown electric cars.
But this is the main problem right? The companies are not allowing other companies to grow, they have done so successfully since a few decades, if they had not lobbied so aggressively, we'd have practical electric cars long time ago. It was purely due to Tesla's brand that Electric cars are now alive. nothing else.
This is pretty awesome, but could definitely use persistent data so we can just share the map. Could also use off-client/background processing - might be working on this piece soon...
Hey subsection1h, I'm Ryan from Ninefold. We're working on getting our docs in place around multiple environments. Our setup is different from Heroku and they do a great job of describing why you'd want more than one environment, so I think our article will be much different, but I'd like to make sure it's informative.
Is there any specific information you'd like to see in there?
We're working on a new feature to further reduce the chance of diminished performance during deploys. There will be information about it in our docs and on our blog as soon as we release it.
Thanks,
Ryan Clark
Lead Rails Support Engineer | Ninefold.com
