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That was extremely fun -- Go Team Blue!
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taylorcooney | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)
OpenUnit | Full time | Remote only | https://www.openunit.com
OpenUnit provides management and payments software for the +$50B self-storage industry.
I’m looking for people who (still!) want to work with Ruby, and who are at least a little skeptical of JavaScript SPAs. There have been some great updates lately to the Rails ecosystem with the introduction of Hotwire.
Remote only, but US/Canada based is easiest for me to work with.
We’ve raised a small seed round, with notable investors from the self-storage industry. You’ll get full transparency of the company’s cap table and balance sheet, and you'll work alongside a small engineering team that consists of two people.
You’ll spend basically all of your time building and very little of it in synchronous meetings.
Contact via email in profile, or check out our job posting[1]
taylorcooney | 5 years ago | on: Cloudflare Service Degraded in Illinois
Yup.
taylorcooney | 5 years ago | on: Heroku API Is Down
Looks as though the issue is still persisting.
taylorcooney | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: OpenUnit (YC W20) – Software for managing self-storage facilities
Our twitter handle is @openunit (https://twitter.com/openunit)
taylorcooney | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: OpenUnit (YC W20) – Software for managing self-storage facilities
This is working now. We use G Suite to create email aliases, and for some reason the permissions automatically set to "Private".
taylorcooney | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: OpenUnit (YC W20) – Software for managing self-storage facilities
We've been exploring pricing based on the square footage of the facility for larger operators. Generally, real estate operators think of costs in terms of square feet rather than number of units. But I agree that there may be an easier way for operators to digest this, especially those that are not familiar with Stripe that may question the "+ $0.30 per transaction" structure.
taylorcooney | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: OpenUnit (YC W20) – Software for managing self-storage facilities
You rock. Thank you.
taylorcooney | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: OpenUnit (YC W20) – Software for managing self-storage facilities
You should hear the story about how we got the Twitter handle. It starts and ends with Argentina...
taylorcooney | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: OpenUnit (YC W20) – Software for managing self-storage facilities
We now offer "Digital receipts" (I just pushed up the fix)! Thank you for catching that.
taylorcooney | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: OpenUnit (YC W20) – Software for managing self-storage facilities
I got pretty in-the-weeds with the accounting stuff[1], and had thought about reaching for a 3rd party ledger, like Gnucash[2] or beancount[3]. The basics are pretty simple, but I've tried to be thoughtful about the kinds of details that most companies get wrong when they're trying to do things like track balances: using floats for money, allowing transactions to be amended or deleted[4], etc. There’s two parts to this puzzle: the accounting method you employ that keeps an audit (whether it be single or double entry accounting) and the rules governing accounting events that get trigger by the system.
The latter is where real difficulty and liability lies; an event, such as a rental payment, triggers a series of transactions that must be financially sound and sufficient for meeting the expectations of an audit. There were a few other considerations but that really is the core framework. Where the real work begins is implementing the triggers, or events (like I mentioned above), that sets off a set of entries and making those financially sound. I've been able to achieve some basic rules exclusively for the self-storage space whose types of business transactions are very similar, but the truth of this can only be revealed by third party auditors. It leads me to believe that it's very difficult, if not impossible, to come up with a universal system for all businesses and industries since the events that trigger entries are specific to each system.
Happy to riff on this a little more if you're interested!
[1]: https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial.ht...
[2]: http://www.austintek.com/gnucash/ncsa-gnucash-talk.html
[3]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/100tGcA4blh6KSXPRGCZpUlyx...
[4]: https://medium.com/@RobertKhou/double-entry-accounting-in-a-...
taylorcooney | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: OpenUnit (YC W20) – Software for managing self-storage facilities
Woh, are you familiar with this? I've never had to navigate around a flagging like that. Thank you for bringing this you my attention.
taylorcooney | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: OpenUnit (YC W20) – Software for managing self-storage facilities
Thank you.
taylorcooney | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: OpenUnit (YC W20) – Software for managing self-storage facilities
We should connect over the next few days. I think this warrants a further conversation between our groups. Please send an email when you’ve got a moment - I can be reached at [email protected]. Since Day One, Lucas and I have included operators in the discussion to dictate the functionality and we’d love to have you included at the table as well.
taylorcooney | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: OpenUnit (YC W20) – Software for managing self-storage facilities
It took us a while to get ahold of the .com from the owner in Michigan. After numerous attempts to reach the owner - including a Postmates order, a flower delivery and a hand written Christmas card - we bit the bullet and grabbed the .ca to start. openunit.com eventually expired, went live on the GoDaddy auction site and I was able to pick it up for $400 after a bot tried to outbid me. Over the next week weeks I’ll consolidate the two domains - if developer operations is of interest, please reach out to me at [email protected] and let’s talk DNS records.
taylorcooney | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: OpenUnit (YC W20) – Software for managing self-storage facilities
We're not open source at this time but if there's a large demand from facilities we may consider open sourcing certain parts of the product (such as the CRM or bookkeeping).
taylorcooney | 5 years ago | on: A bike shop should choose its customer wisely
Ah, thanks
taylorcooney | 5 years ago | on: To Get More Replies, Say Less (2017)
Agreed. Extending on /u/formerly_proven point, I think the third variation - where the subject changes - makes the email feel like it's coming from a real human even more.
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OpenUnit provides management and payments software for the +$50B self-storage industry. I’m looking for people who (still!) want to work with Ruby, and who are at least a little skeptical of JavaScript SPAs. There have been some great updates lately to the Ruby on Rails ecosystem with the introduction of Hotwire.
Remote only, but US/Canada based is easiest for me to work with.
We’ve raised a small seed round, with notable investors from the self-storage industry. You’ll get full transparency of the company’s cap table and balance sheet, and you'll work alongside a small engineering team that consists of three people.
You’ll spend basically all of your time building and very little of it in synchronous meetings.
Contact via email in profile, or check out our job posting[1]
[1] https://www.openunit.com/jobs/senior-software-engineer