Goody | Engineering Manager | REMOTE (US and Canada) | Full time | $150-200K + equity | https://ongoody.com
Goody is a gifting platform that makes personal and professional gifting easy. Founded 5 years ago, our product is the UI/UX leader in the space and is used by Google, Stripe, Meta, Notion, NBCUniversal, DHL, and others.
Our market has hundreds of billions in TAM with no established leader, and our goal is to build the best product in the space, win the market, and bring more delight into the world.
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow our small and talented team of 4 full-stack software engineers at Goody. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to build an insanely great product, influence the growth of our team members, and cultivate an exceptional engineering culture.
Goody | Remote within North/South America | $170-220K + equity and benefits | Full-time
Goody is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Ruby, Rails, React) who moves at a startup pace, likes to ship fast, and is motivated by building delightful products.
I'm Mark, the technical co-founder and CTO at Goody. Despite being something everyone does, gifting is one of the areas of commerce yet to be disrupted. Our goal is to make people's days by making gifting easy, while building a sustainable business on that market opportunity.
We're looking for engineers who like to build at a startup pace, have a critical eye for detail and user experience, and thrive when given autonomy and ownership.
Our product is used by Google, Stripe, Meta, NBCUniversal, Notion, and others, and we also offer a developer API for commerce.
Take a look at our application (and a cool WebGL thing I built for it) at https://jobs.ongoody.com/swe and feel free to email me at mark@ongoody.com.
Goody | Remote within North/South America | $170-240K + equity and benefits | Full-time
Goody is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Ruby, Rails, React) who moves at a startup pace, likes to ship fast, and is motivated by building delightful products.
I'm Mark, the technical co-founder and CTO at Goody. Despite being something everyone does, gifting is one of the areas of commerce yet to be disrupted. Our goal is to make people's days by making gifting easy, while building a sustainable business on that market opportunity.
We're looking for engineers who like to build at a startup pace, have a critical eye for detail and user experience, and thrive when given autonomy and ownership.
Our product is used by Google, Stripe, Meta, NBCUniversal, Notion, and others, and we also offer a developer API for commerce.
Take a look at our application (and a cool WebGL thing I built for it) at https://jobs.ongoody.com/swe and feel free to email me at mark@ongoody.com.
I also hate empty speak, but I think the issue here is not that it doesn't communicate anything, but it does so with overly flowery language. What I'm reading is the "material" concept unifies 1) location in space and 2) motion, and it's based in objects in the real world (e.g. paper and ink) but is a framework that can be creatively extended and built upon.
I'm not sure I entirely agree with you on your first point. Writing isn't like code in that code is like a complete system of logic. I think having ways to show how that logic is organized, using positioning (whitespace) and coloring of logical operators is a pretty useful addition, whereas highlighting parts of speech (which don't express a logical structure) isn't that useful.
God, it took all my energy not to close the tab after reading this opening sentence.
> But it [freeze-dried ice cream] wasn’t ice cream, it was a simulation of ice cream, and no one in their right mind would chose it over the cold, creamy stuff on a hot day. Not even an astronaut.
The "people aren't eating it because it's inferior" line is easily defeated by the fact that people are eating Soylent. I and a good number of other people choose Soylent over real food sometimes, so that line of reasoning is pretty much bunk. What is inferior, anyway? "Real food" is definitely inferior in terms of how much time it takes to prepare, say – and you can't assume that everyone has the same value system (e.g. taste over everything). Cost and convenience are absolutely essential factors to consider with food.
> Most humans are happy to eat real food, and crave it in its most natural form. A strawberry picked at the height of summer. Fish pulled from a river and grilled over wood coals. Sourdough bread made from a twenty-year-old starter, and kneaded by hand. Wine grown on knobby vines, and aged in a dark cellar. Why would you disrupt that?
Some humans, like myself, are also happy to eat "not-real" food like Soylent. Why would you disrupt that? Why is having more choice not just a problem, but a "sickness" as the title suggests?
I frequently see (and dislike) HN comments like "what was the point of this article?" but, in this case, I really have to ask. There are some really good reasons for not liking Soylent, like that it's not entirely proven yet that 100% of nutrients are absorbed when in the form that Soylent takes, so eating it daily may not be giving you all the nutrients you need—along with a bunch of other reasons. Yet this article settles for "it's not real food and people shouldn't be eating it."
N.B. Maybe the real Soylent sickness is that people like me who drink Soylent go on online forums to write walls of text defending it.
A nontrivial number of people eating the new Soylent bar are reporting sickness. That you can't admit that at the same time you want to feel superior about your own choice of food speaks more to your quality as a person than their quality as a company.
That said, it was only a few years ago that Soylent had a problem with rat and mold. It's not news to anybody that they've played a bit fast and loose with their product dev--they've just suckered a lot of tech folks into defending them.
> That you can't admit that at the same time you want to feel superior about your own choice of food speaks more to your quality as a person than their quality as a company
How on earth did you get this from reading that comment? OP's whole point is that different people have different priorities when it comes to food - nothing about superiority.
> which is fair after his previous posts have outright caused Apple PR issues for something that is his own fault
1. That it's his fault isn't so clear. The developer claims he was not notified that there was a linked account until two days after a ban. If you listen to the recording, he asks why he was not notified, and the representative does not give a good answer.
> Developer doesn't release said blog post, so Apple releases statement with said facts to protect themselves for further incorrect accusations.
2. If we are to believe the developer, then he actually sent a draft of the blog post to Apple, then Apple doesn't respond and instead posts a public statement.
> What is the developer trying to achieve here exactly?
3. Telling his side of the story and what happened. If we just heard the Apple side of the story and that was it, then we would assume, as many did, that the developer did do review manipulation. If we didn't hear about his side, we would have had no idea that Apple discovered the fraud on a linked account and wanted a blog post explanation to reinstate the account. Apple's statement was incomplete given everything they knew; there was no talk of "linked" accounts or anything of that sort.
> Sounds like the developer is guilty as sin for this fraud
4. Again, if we are to believe the developer, there was no intent to defraud anyone, so I think it's a stretch to say that he's "guilty as sin" for it. The only fraud would be his cousin's fraud that his account is connected to, which Apple failed to notify the developer about until two days after closing his account and after the blog post.
Unicode does not dictate how glyphs are presented. It just describes and categorizes them.
So how they look comes from the font that is used. For the proposal these fonts probably didn't exist yet, so it was probably just a (slightly sloppy) photoshop.
That's a good point, and I should have clarified, I'm referring to the full stars (not half-stars in the new proposal). Not a Unicode issue, but definitely something I've seen at least on macOS machines.
Goody is a gifting platform that makes personal and professional gifting easy. Founded 5 years ago, our product is the UI/UX leader in the space and is used by Google, Stripe, Meta, Notion, NBCUniversal, DHL, and others.
Our market has hundreds of billions in TAM with no established leader, and our goal is to build the best product in the space, win the market, and bring more delight into the world.
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow our small and talented team of 4 full-stack software engineers at Goody. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to build an insanely great product, influence the growth of our team members, and cultivate an exceptional engineering culture.
See the full description and apply here (and mention HN): https://jobs.ongoody.com/engineering-manager
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