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mitchellshow | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)

Boomy Corporation | Multiple Roles | REMOTE New York, NY | REMOTE Raleigh-Durham, NC

At Boomy (https://boomy.com), we're developing market-leading AI-powered music generation systems, which people use to create, release, and monetize instant songs regardless of access to musical knowledge or talent. Think smartphone camera, but one-click songs instead of photos. Launched in February 2019 out of Boost Accelerator and backed by both VC and music industry, our users have already created 1.5M+ original songs and released tens of thousands of them to streaming services... and we've only just started building.

Open roles:

- Frontend Developer: if you're a JS (specifically VueJS) whiz, and want to hack on an unprecedented set of product challenges, this is the role for you!

- A&R Associate: if the idea of listening to 10,000 songs to find 10 great ones is not only compelling but fascinating to you, you're just the kind of weirdo we want to meet.

- Customer Success Manager: we didn't want to call it "answering tons of customers, managing the social media no one has time for, oh and also managing email and probably 10 other things we aren't thinking about right now" so we called it "Customer Success Manager"

Apply at your own risk: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boomy-corporation

mitchellshow | 5 years ago | on: Ask YC: We applied to S2020 and nobody looked at our videos?

Someone outside of the startup world asked me "what is YC" and my reply was "the accelerator that rejects you."

My impression from having applied, and from knowing founders at various stages (some of whom went through YC, others who were rejected at various stages, one rejected at interview 5+ times in a row!), is that there is such a high volume of applications now that the person you get matched with to review yours is a total shot in the dark. If it isn't someone who "gets" your industry, you'll kind of just be thrown to the back of their pile. There is a lot of serendipity to who advances. I have heard some insiders complain that their recommendations aren't really taken seriously.

YC was the only accelerator who rejected us. We did a different one (at a true "idea stage") and it went great. Make sure to apply to others like Techstars, Capital Factory, Masschallenge, Betaworks, Boost VC, the list goes on. If it's a numbers game now, then whether you get picked for any particular accelerator is probably more a function of the total number of applications to that accelerator than anything else.

If you're super early stage, I'd recommend trying to find out if there are any accelerators sponsored by your local government, they tend to have way less applications since they're only pulling from a local pool.

There is probably a value-add to YC besides just money, but there are literally hundreds of accelerators that have copied the model at this point. If you really have something, the venture community that YC taps will notice regardless. It's always better just to take the cash and build IMO.

mitchellshow | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Detect when VIPs (investors, journalists, etc) sign up for your product

Great point. Our DB actually does include quite a few of these “hidden” gmails that some VIPs use - we’re getting better at that - but FWIW the vast majority of VIPs aren’t using those.

Re your harvesting comment, we don’t even keep a temporary copy of the CSV you upload, for privacy reasons - it’s all handled on the frontend. Clearly, customer trust is paramount for a business like ours :)

mitchellshow | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: I would pay X for Y

I would pay $20/month for a simple, easy to set up affiliate management service.

Seriously - there are literally hundreds of affiliate management services out there, I've looked at dozens of them, and none of them quite fit the following requirements:

- Simple setup - Reasonably low cost - Dashboard for affiliates to track clicks & signups

Most existing systems also wrap up some sort of customer referral widgety thing, which I don't need. Or, the websites are broken / look like they're from 2001.

ReferralCandy is probably the closest thing, but again, it's way more set up for "customer referrals" vs professional or semi-pro affiliates. The integration process is also super heavy.

We literally built our own affiliate management since everything that fit our requirements was so expensive. This seems like an obvious side-project for someone to knock out.

mitchellshow | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)

ReverbNation | Full Stack Web Developer, DevOps Engineer | Raleigh-Durham, NC | FULLTIME, ONSITE

http://corporate.reverbnation.com/careers/

ReverbNation is in the business of helping the aspiring Artist at any stage of their career, but we care just as much about helping our team members advance themselves, too. Looking to grow in a creative, collaborative space that will push you to do your best? You’ve come to the right place.

Full Stack Web Developer: http://reverbnation.applytojob.com/apply/xL4UIzlrkJ/Full-Sta... DevOps Engineer: http://reverbnation.applytojob.com/apply/WMtf3F4PQE/DevOps-E...

mitchellshow | 8 years ago | on: How Kids See the World Depends a Lot on Genetics

Yes, and in order to state "this is definitely a genetic cause" you would need to rule out other factors. Including fraternal twins is interesting, but unless they were separated at birth (and not even then really) this could just as easily read "How Kids See the World Depends a Lot on How They Were Raised" which is a pretty obvious conclusion to draw and not particularly headline worthy.
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