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Rocketable (YC W25) | Founding Engineer - Automation Platform | Onsite (San Francisco or Marin County) | $200K-$250K | 1-4% Rocketable acquires profitable SaaS companies and transf…

Happy Mastra user here! Strikes the right balance between letting me build with higher level abstractions but providing lower level controls when needed. I looked at a handful of o…

Zoomo | Full Time | Remote (USA Pacific, USA Mountain time zones) and Hybrid (Sydney, Australia) | Multiple Roles I'm the VP of Product at Zoomo, the industry leader in light elect…

2 kids here (10 months old and 2 years old). The early morning schedule has been key for me too, it’s the only way I’ve found to get a consistent 8-9 hr workday in while still bein…

Some topics worth exploring that I've seen become areas of co-founder conflict: * When faced with a difficult decision and incomplete information, how do you decide what course of …

Hi there, fellow designer here who also doesn't like to fit in the narrow box of most product design roles. I've been doing this generalist thing for 10 years, and I've found that …

Check out the neo platform that comma.ai is building for self driving vehicles. It is meant for cars not drones but it might be a good starting point for you: https://github.com/co…

I recently had a proposal accepted to teach a 6 week agile product design seminar to students in the UC Davis design program this summer. My goal as the instructor of this course i…

If you really like the site & community you have built and are in it for the long term, here's an idea: build a stock market for buying a share of an individual musician's or song'…

Years ago, when computers were more crash-prone and and autosave wasn't yet a feature in MS Word, I ran a keylogger on my own computer for just this reason. On several occasions, i…

I think I'm going to send this one to my (also very sane) girlfriend so she understands better why I crawl into bed and then 30 minutes later get up again and go back to the comput…