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Throne | (Mid/Senior/Staff) Full-Stack Engineers | Berlin, Germany (onsite) | Full Time | jointhrone.com

Throne is a gifting platform for creators, servicing 100k+ content creators from Twitch, YouTube & Co and millions of fans every month. We launched in Sept '21 and are already processing $20M+ in annual gifting volume with a small & highly capable team.

Our tech stack is TypeScript + React (frontend) and TypesScript + NodeJS (backend).

Hiring mid/senior/staff engineers, job description & details: https://angel.co/l/2wZSSg

Email: pat [at] jointhrone [dot] com

Throne (jointhrone.com) | Full Time | Berlin, Germany | Onsite | https://jointhrone.com

Roles: Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Backend Engineer

You'll ideally...

- Have at least 2-3 years of software engineering experience

- Have led engineering teams in the past (for our senior positions)

- Have experience in our tech stack: React/Redux/Typescript on the frontend and Node/Typescript on the backend

- Have fun writing clean, maintainable, and performant code

- Be a builder - you ship MVPs that are not always perfect and improve these over time based on user feedback

- Incorporate test-driven development

- Be comfortable shipping features end-to-end, from defining the product spec to deploying to production

Throne is a social commerce platform that allows creators on Twitch, Instagram, YouTube & Co. to connect with their communities in new ways. Creators on Throne can safely receive gifts from their communities in a gamified way while maintaining their privacy.

We raised a seed round from Ryan Hoover (ProductHunt), Cory Levy (FirstText) & Vibhu Norby (B8ta) in January and are processing $20M+ in annualised GMV already.

Throne launched in Sept '21 and we're growing very quickly. If you're interested, please reach out to us via [email protected]

Meeter still earns subscription revenue via SetApp. The company running Meeter now is funded and builds it into a larger ecosystem [0]

[0] https://bardeen.ai

If you don’t want to spend 10$/month for Superpowered, checkout trymeeter.com. My cofounder and I built Meeter about a year ago and it’s fully free currently.

For me it was just looking for a procedure that annoyed me so much that I just had to build a tool to fix this.

Why do we still have to open our calendars, look through endless event notes to copy and paste a link into a browser that then launches the native meeting app? That's why I built an app called Meeter [0] for that.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/de/app/meeter-fast-call-initiation/id...

I am, I don't see much a difference at all compared to my 2016 15" MacBook Pro for Xcode projects. Whenever I need more power, I just ssh into my server with strong specs and start the process.

Really glad I bought this year's MacBook Air instead of waiting for this. Seems like a much better deal to me

Not here, tuition is very low (<2k per year) at ETH (due to being heavily subsidized) and doesn’t depend on nationality

I actually wasn't aware (I am not Swiss myself but apparently it was easy to get a permit as a EU citizen). Thanks for the info!

Hm, at least speaking for my uni (ETH Zurich), lots of grad students from Asia come here for cheap tuition & good PhD salaries, but almost all Chinese grad students I asked want to go back to China afterwards. Ideally we would keep talented people here instead of paying for their education with taxes and have them go back afterwards.

On Slack, you need to wait for your colleague to accept the call. We want to give users the option to be in an "active" state, where they immediately can talk to each other. If I am working on a project in XCode for example and want to ask my coworker about an idea i have, I don't have to switch apps, search the colleague, press call and wait for them to answer. I just move the mouse to the menu, see that they are active and I am instantly connected

I honestly doubt this, the virus triggered some events that will ripple through the economy and companies with WFH tools like Zoom and Slack won't be able to make up for the losses. There's plenty of big companies I know that need to cut costs, spend less on ads (which is bad for Google & Facebook), lay off people who then won't be able to consume as much and this will get worse in the coming months

I had the T400 and the physical WIFI switch was more of a bug for me instead of a feature

BahnCard is great, but what we really need is an inner-European loyalty card for trains. BahnCard only works in Germany and I don’t want to buy another loyalty card whenever I go to another European country.

Might have been a bad example, I was about to book the TGV from Zurich to Paris 5 weeks in advance for a weekend trip and I have the Swiss half-fare subscription (like BahnCard 50). Still would’ve been ~170€ instead of 90 CHF for a direct flight (both ways)

For some journeys, the train takes disproportionately longer (Zurich -> Vienna) but when you consider that the journey is way more comfortable on a train (more space, ability to walk around), train stations are in the middle of the city and there is no security or check in queue, the longer journey is more bearable

Glad that they’re working on it, right now flying is just cheaper on many cases. Need to go from Zurich to Paris? The TGV Train will cost you almost twice as much as a short direct flight. Berlin to Munich? Also cheaper by plane. Being a student with a limited budget, this very much affects my decision.

Well the train network in all of Switzerland is great. If I want to go skiing, I just hop on a train towards any ski resort and arrive within 1-2h. Wanna go hiking? Take the train. Wanna visit the French or Italian part of Switzerland? Take the train. Works very well and covers most out-of-town trips for me and most people I know. In those rare cases when I do need a car, I just get a rental or use car-sharing (for example when leaving Switzerland). Factoring in the train tickets and the rental car, my transport expenses are still significantly less than they would be if I owned a car.

Great point! In Zurich, using public transport is just the way to go for everyone. High-profile banking executives as well as blue-collar workers. Works like a charm

Zurich had this problem, the city was built before cars were a thing and thus it is inept of handling much traffic. The authorities decided to disincentivize driving cars by blocking roads and reducing available parking spaces [0] while offering good public transport. Worked well, now only 17% commute by car.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zürich_model