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Blink Labs | SF Bay Area | Multiple Engineering Positions | Fully Remote + International gm hn, blink powers the creator economy by making it dirt easy for influencers to launch NF…

Blink Labs | SF Bay Area | Multiple Engineering Positions | Fully Remote + International gm hn, blink powers the creator economy by making it dirt easy for influencers to launch NF…

In the wake of Facebook copying TikTok with Reels, here's a story in 5 tweets of how my startup got xeroxed. Happy to answer questions, ama.

Blink Labs | SF Bay Area | Multiple Mobile Engineering Positions | Fully Remote Maybe you've heard about us, we are the stepchickens as featured in NYTimes, Forbes, Washington Post…

Blink Labs | SF Bay Area | Multiple Mobile Engineering Positions | Fully Remote Maybe you've heard about us, we are the stepchickens: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/style/step-…

Blink Labs | Senior GPU/Gaming Engineer | Fully Remote Want to help build a new kind of AR camera app that will power the largest network of meme communities in the world? If you'r…

Blink Labs | SF Bay Area | Senior GPU/Gaming Engineer | Fully Remote Do you ever wonder if it's possible to speak entirely in memes? Want to build a new kind of AR camera app that …

You can read (and see) more in the the App Store description without installing. We are pre-launch, so the focus has been on the app and platform rather than website & marketing ma…

This is exactly why we set out to build Blink (YC SS ‘18), where you talk to friends face-to-face with video messaging, and share your plans to gather IRL for genuine, in-person co…

Great question biasforaction! Snap/insta is used primarily for broadcasting your life "at" people. Our new video format is all about talking "with" your friends. We use speech to t…

Blink Labs | Prelaunch, early-stage startup | Full time | Bay Area, CA | Remote or onsite | $90-$130k + equity • Product: Video messaging that brings you together with your friends…

There's another part of the trend that is less obvious: the social giants haven't focused on making it easier to hang out with friends IRL. On the surface that statement might seem…

Are there any plans to make Guetzli available as a library for iOS and Android? Would be great to process images right on device with this level of compression.

Actually, the stock price is being majorly affected today! YHOO usually tracks BABA quite precisely, and BABA was up big today (+3.5%). This usually means that YHOO would be up aro…

> VR? Probably not. You are correct. AR (augmented reality) is the future, and it's going to be huge. Look at microsoft's hololens, and use your imagination as to what magic leap i…

This is a smart move by Segment, since the industry has been moving in this direction. Looks like mParticle launched support for redshift a few months ago: http://blog.mparticle.co…

You seem pretty confident in your argument that developers are just complaining while using the tool wrong. It makes me think that your experiences in UI development on large teams…

Utilizing rethinkdb on compose.io with heroku does take some hackery, mainly around deploying to the same colo (amzn us-east-1), and then using heroku env variables to store your s…

I like the steady stream of innovative projects coming out of facebook as of late, but I can't help but feel like there's quite a bit of overlap in their initiatives. Just the fact…

I definitely concur. Having just attended emberconf, there's a stark contrast in how each framework is choosing to evolve with the web. Personally, I favor ember's approach of smal…

I recently learned that Elon Musk wasn't actually the founder of Tesla, but rather an early investor. This article borders on the same theme; there's more than meets the eye to the…

I think Yahoo is moving in the right direction on many fronts, and this decision is definitely welcomed within the company. At the breakneck pace of the web, every framework must e…