We're building a fully remote online accelerator. A kind of YC-before-YC. We find people on the Internet that seem promising and give them "Silicon Valley", but on the Internet. It's a lot of gamification, Ruby software, Zoom, Slack, and fun. We've funded over 100 people around the world in 30+ countries. We direct them to YC once they graduate. (Tbc, we have no formal attachment to YC; just admiration. And a severe addiction to HN.)
We're looking for a competent software engineer that can do front and backend development. We're happy to take a bet on someone junior or senior. The interview process is much like the job: get a high level prompt, and then _make a thing_. That's it. Don't apply if you're looking to optimize tight C++ loops, we don't have that. Apply if you're interested in building products, end-to-end. Apply if you're energetic and excited about the idea. Apply if you can see this gig be a legitimate cornerstone of your career.
There's no formal ATS, it's a startup. Just email team@pioneer.app, mention this post.
We're building a fully remote online accelerator. A kind of YC-before-YC. We find people on the Internet that seem promising and give them "Silicon Valley", but on the Internet. It's a lot of gamification, Ruby software, Zoom, Slack, and fun. We've funded over 100 people around the world in 30+ countries. We direct them to YC once they graduate. (Tbc, we have no formal attachment to YC; just admiration. And a severe addiction to HN.)
We're looking for a competent software engineer that can do front and backend development. We're happy to take a bet on someone junior or senior. The interview process is much like the job: get a high level prompt, and then make a thing. That's it. Don't apply if you're looking to optimize tight C++ loops, we don't have that. Apply if you're interested in building products, end-to-end. Apply if you're energetic and excited about the idea. Apply if you can see this gig be a legitimate cornerstone of your career.
There's no formal ATS, it's a startup. Just email team@pioneer.app, mention this post.
Working with Stripe hasn't been error free. I've had one or two nasty bugs. But the product is fluid, works, and most importantly, they have great customer support. I wouldn't mind paying a little extra for it.
I'm a relatively small fish, but they replied within hours and fixed the issue. On a Saturday. As long this "Saturday test" remains true, I'm a happy user.
Honestly, I don't find their support helpful with fixing any of my issues, and asking the same question multiple times gives completely different responses. I managed to completely break the Stripe Test API (nothing works, always "in the process of deleting"), and I've been in support limbo for at least a week now.
Haven't looked into the alternatives, but I hope I can move most commerce over to Bitcoin since I can run that fairly cheap internally to the company (and bypass PCI compliance, etc)
EDIT: Maybe I was being overly critical in the first half, but in general implementation has been a bumpy experience. Most transactions on this platform are microtransactions, so it isn't that Stripe is expensive as much as I'm using it in an unconventional way, and not having a $0.30 static fee drastically changes my profit margins
Nah, I don't want to be that guy. In the meantime I've just locally stubbed all Stripe API calls, since internal integration tests are all I need for non-production uses. I've also reached the point where regular production deployments make sense (or at least the payments logic is stable enough).
Founder of Pioneer here.
We're building a fully remote online accelerator. A kind of YC-before-YC. We find people on the Internet that seem promising and give them "Silicon Valley", but on the Internet. It's a lot of gamification, Ruby software, Zoom, Slack, and fun. We've funded over 100 people around the world in 30+ countries. We direct them to YC once they graduate. (Tbc, we have no formal attachment to YC; just admiration. And a severe addiction to HN.)
We're looking for a competent software engineer that can do front and backend development. We're happy to take a bet on someone junior or senior. The interview process is much like the job: get a high level prompt, and then _make a thing_. That's it. Don't apply if you're looking to optimize tight C++ loops, we don't have that. Apply if you're interested in building products, end-to-end. Apply if you're energetic and excited about the idea. Apply if you can see this gig be a legitimate cornerstone of your career.
There's no formal ATS, it's a startup. Just email team@pioneer.app, mention this post.