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Yeah my wife is a math teacher, and getting a PhD in Math is no joke. I honestly have no idea what this process will look like. But we don't have kids yet so it's now or never to make big life changes haha

My wife is in a similar situation. She's a middle-school teacher at a public school in a state that doesn't value public education. While she still loves teaching, her experience mirrors your's in regards to overwork, attrition, etc. For a job that should get off at 3pm, she routinely works all evening on grading, lesson planning and other admin tasks.

We also live in an area where teachers are poorly compensated relative to the cost of living. I'm well paid as a software engineer, which just makes her feel worse about the value of her career in teaching when she works longer hours than I do.

We've talked about her leaving teaching at the end of the school year with the plan to get her PhD so she can teach at a college level.

Not OP, but I'm in a similar situation and a lover of App Annie's product. Are you hiring only in Vancouver or is the role open to remote? (US, Pacific Timezone)

This sounds interesting! I have direct experience with Twilio in video/audio streaming apps. Would love to hear more about your project. My email is in my profile.

Thanks! I really appreciate it!

That's a great question, thanks for asking!

This idea was largely inspired by the way Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@ocasio2018) uses Instagram. She’s a US Congresswoman and has 2M followers on instagram. In her IG stories she often uses an app called “Clipomatic” that does much the same thing as my app, but lacks a few key features which I believe makes my app a significant upgrade. Clipomatic doesn’t let you import videos from your library, and it forces you to use “cute” themed message bubbles with your captions.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is just one example. Plenty of influencers use Clipomatic, and others use Adobe Premiere to add captions.

So that demonstrated significant market validation to me, so I took this idea and talked to a few "influencers" that I know. Photographers and YouTube creators and such—people with 1 to 10k followers, so not huge accounts, but larger than most. They’ve helped me refine the idea, and some have tested it one their own accounts where it’s gotten positive feedback.

There's also a service called Rev.com (rev.com/caption) that charges per minute to add captions to videos. Since humans transcribe your video manually, they also have a longer turn around. I've seen several brands on Instagram use this, but I believe Caption This is a cheaper, faster alternative with the a high quality result.

SEEKING WORK Location: USA

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Technologies: react, react native, gatsby, swift, objc, java

Website: https://jonbrennecke.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonbrennecke/

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I’m an experienced React Native app developer and consultant. I’ve worked for startups and agencies all over the States, and many well-known companies in the bay area. If your company is working on a React Native app, I’d love to get in touch!

As another anecdote in favor of homeschooling, as a kid I was homeschooled in a small town in north Idaho and I believe I've escaped all the stereotypes of the awkward homeschooled adult. Quite the contrary, I'm a very successful app developer. And even though I work remotely I have a great social circle.

Of the childhood friends I still keep in touch with, I know several other who were homeschooled. None of them are awkward, antisocial or unsuccessful.

Hey there HN, thanks for taking a look at my site!

I made ProjectEthos.co for two purposes:

- to try to encourage people to share information about environmentally (and socially) responsible companies.

- to call out those that aren't.

When I want to do research on a brand, I have all these questions like "What does this company's supply chain look like?" and "Are they using sustainable manufacturing techniques?". But as a consumer, I never know where to find this kind of information.

So I made ProjectEthos.co as a platform where people could do just that: share links about companies/products. You can also follow products and discussions to get a personalized feed :D

Thoughts and feedback are welcome! This is the first full-stack app I've released to the public, so it's likely to have some rough edges...

Are you open to applicants from the US who don't speak Spanish/Catalan? (would relocate)

looks like your site is broken. The front page of 'sourceress.co' just says 'Hello'. If you need someone who can fix it email me at [email protected] ;)