DnsLearning.org | REMOTE | part-time | co-founder (tech or marketing) | hourly rate + equity
DnsLearning.org is looking to hire remote founder #3. We often work long hours on Saturday, but we have a lot of fun solving problems that involve DNS, Linux, MySQL, bootstrap, iOS, Android, etc.. Founder #2 is interviewing today with one of the big 5 tech companies which means we need another founder who can manage at least one of the following areas: PHP, iOS and Android. Git experience and Linux skills are important. We are also interested in a founder who can fully manage a professional Kickstarter/Indiegogo/Fundly launch.
DnsLearning was created to help parents who have young kids whose minds are beginning to be taken over by YouTube's deep neural network recommendation system. In other words, we are trying to restore some balance between how much time a young child spends watching minecraft videos vs the time spent on education sites like DuoLingo and Khan Academy.
Our tech works by setting a child's computer or tablet to use one of our DNSLearning servers. After 30 mins, the server will switch the device from "play mode" to "learn mode". In learn mode, entertainment sites are blocked. When the user earns a few points on one of our supported education sites, we will detect this and switch the device back to play mode. It only takes 3 or 4 mins for a child to earn enough points to get back to play mode.
Real marketing will begin once the apps are 100% ready. Currently we have 130 users that have signed up to use our app manually, using manual DNS config. Android and Apple apps are very close to being feature complete.
A few tech details about us:
There are always interesting PHP, C++, MySQL, iOS and Android problems to solve. For example, how do you uniquely identify different users coming from the same IP address in Android, iOS, or using a manual DNS setup? For manual DNS, our answer is to use a separate server for multiple users in the same house. If a customer has IPv6, we are able to assign a unique IP address to every customer. It is easy to assign hundreds of IP addresses to a single server. One of the problems we had to solve with IPv6 has to do with knowing, in our C++, what address the incoming UDP packet used to access the server. When we were working on this problem, the Linux kernel did not save this information. Last time I checked, Go still does not support this. Ngnix added similar support only a few months before we did.
We are looking for a hard working, passionate co-founder WHO BELIEVES LIKE WE DO, that parents deserve technology that is able to guide young minds away from junk grade online entertainment toward, at least for a few minutes, education sites that will help young minds to develop confidence and skills to hopefully provide a stronger knowledge foundation that is critical for their future.
support@dnslearning.org