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Stockholm, Sweden. Unfortunately we're not able to provide much in the way of relocation assistance :(

Looking for a Javascript developer with some Haskell understanding and an interest in doing growth related work with me at a ~10 people startup.

You'll be helping me with Scrive's growth, which involves doing some A/B testing, some Haskell, some support and a lot of JS. You don't need to know Swedish.

In return you'll be working at Sveavägen in a sweet office with very nice people. You can work a day or so a week from home, and we practice "flextid". You'll also get to disrupt some seriously wasteful practices related to printing papers and scanning signatures. And you'll interact with Poland and Swedens finest Haskell programmers.

Also Haskell. Haskell Haskell Haskell.

I'm available at johan at scrive dot com.


What browser does this? I've never run in to it.


It happens in mobile Safari IIRC.


Stockholm, Sweden. Full time. Looking for JS/Python developers.

We help people discover the web of others, by enjoying web browsing together.

We are looking for a sixth employee excited about by cross-browser Javascript, Django development, real time sharing of a web browsing experience.

We offer a great work environment (you don't have to speak swedish), a nice office (at Kungsgatan) and a pretty awesome team.

Email me at johanhil@surftrain.com to apply / to find out more about us.


A scoreboard is also available at http://scrool.se/icpc/wf2011/


Yes, + is definitely more common. Do non-technically versed visitors know and/or care about the different parts of a URL?


If you glance up at a URL and see a bunch of %20 it's going to just look like a mess, whereas seeing a short and relevant URL makes sense.


Did they really burn through their $4.85M from their Series C in 6 months?


If you are burning $500,000/month, which is not unreasonable, then you get 10 months with $5mm.

If you haven't turned the corner after 5 months, you know you won't get out of the hole before you run out of cash.

Therefore, you sell the company and reduce your burn as much as possible to make a sale happen.

If your sale is all about talent and not the technology there is almost no due diligence required and a deal can happen quickly, in about a month.


It's not unreasonable for drop.io to burn $500k/mo? I run a ten-man startup and I can't fathom burning that much.


Do you host an unlimited number of 100MB files, indefinitely, for an unlimited number of non-paying users?


No, but if I did, I'm fairly certain I could do it for less than $500,000/mo, assuming I can do something like "once your file has been hosted without being downloaded for more than x amount of time, users will get a link sent to an email a few hours or so after requesting the file".

Some tuning on that, and I'm fairly certain you could run things for less than $500,000k a month -- most files are probably uploaded, downed a few times in a week or two by a select number of people, and then forgotten.

Then again, and this is key here, I have not tried this. It's also something that could be difficult to patch into codebase if it wasn't considered early -- we're all familiar with the problem of coding ourselves into corners, especially when time is on the table.


You pay people less than 50k/mo?


If he doesn't, I'm working for the wrong company.


This looks pretty damn awesome. Please port it to Chrome!


Someone should do a surfing game where the waves are generated from the DOM of a site that the user inputs. This would take surfing the web to the next level.


This would bring a whole new meaning to bad DOM.


How about you? :)


I'm really liking the efficient market trend. What will be next?

Is there a market for letting individuals deliver packages instead of FedEx/DHL?

Perhaps with the private wind mills/solar cells that are becoming more common, something that helps the owner sell electricity to their neighbors.


vs standard courier/messenger service? or are you asking about removing the dispatch service from the equation?


Distributed, peer to peer mail. That sounds like something from a sci-fi novel.

I can see it now - you sign up and log where/when you're going, and how much space you have to take packages/letters with you. Some algorithm matches your as a courier up with people who need stuff taken where you're going.

The service is free if you act as the courier (...or mule, I can totally see that being misused rapidly).

I don't know how you get around the depot and 'guy who goes door to door' model though.


Oh! Maybe that's a good startup idea - some kind of 'mail is here to be picked up' notification for the USPS, which could then optimize it's route and only hit places it had mail to deliver/pick up from. I go days with no in or outgoing snail mail, but the poor postman has to walk up to my mailbox and check (no flag, it's inside the building).

In a way, Fedex/UPS already do this...


Sounds like a contestant in the AWS Startup Challenge.


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