DrSwarm is building AI-driven workflow automation for healthcare clinics / health systems (scheduling, RCM/billing workflows, patient ops). This is a true 0→1 role: ship fast, talk to customers, own systems end-to-end.

You will: - Build product end-to-end (Next.js + Django) - Ship integrations + workflow automation (APIs, webhooks, background jobs, queues) - Own reliability (logs/metrics, retries, failure modes) and pragmatic security (HIPAA-aware)

Stack: Next.js, React/TypeScript, Django/Python, Postgres, Celery/Redis, Docker, AWS/DigitalOcean, LLM APIs.

Looking for: Strong full-stack builder. Good to work with. Can talk to customers / users / salespeople. Uses AI to generate 90%+ of their code, interested in AI + Healthcare.

Comp: Market with mix of base + bonus + meaningful equity Process: 30m intro → 60m technical/product deep dive → short paid work trial → references. I (founder) read every email and reply.

Contact: jobs@drswarm.com (include “HN Founding Engineer” in subject) + GitHub/LinkedIn + 2–3 projects you’re proud of.

DrSwarm builds AI-driven workflow automation for healthcare clinics (scheduling, RCM/billing, patient ops). 0→1 role: ship fast, own systems end-to-end, talk to customers.

Near-term: ship a production integration for a design partner; build an auditable human-in-the-loop workflow/agent pipeline.

Stack: Next.js/TS, Django/Python, Postgres, Celery/Redis, Docker, AWS/DO, LLM APIs.

You: strong full-stack shipper, reliable teammate, comfortable with customer feedback.

Comp: market base + bonus + meaningful equity.

Email jobs@drswarm.com (subject: “HN Founding Engineer”) with GitHub/LinkedIn, 2–3 shipped projects, and your time zone/overlap.

DrSwarm is building AI-driven workflow automation for healthcare clinics / health systems (scheduling, RCM/billing workflows, patient ops). This is a true 0→1 role: ship fast, talk to customers, own systems end-to-end.

You will: - Build product end-to-end (Next.js + Django) - Ship integrations + workflow automation (APIs, webhooks, background jobs, queues) - Own reliability (logs/metrics, retries, failure modes) and pragmatic security (HIPAA-aware)

Stack: Next.js, React/TypeScript, Django/Python, Postgres, Celery/Redis, Docker, AWS/DigitalOcean, LLM APIs.

Looking for: - Strong full-stack builder who ships - Good to work with - Can talk to customers / users / salespeople - High integrity, cares about healthcare

Comp: Market with mix of base + bonus + meaningful equity

Process: 30m intro → 60m technical/product deep dive → short paid work trial → references. I (founder) read every email and reply.

Contact: jobs@drswarm.com (include “HN Founding Engineer” in subject) + GitHub/LinkedIn + 2–3 projects you’re proud of.

It’s a useful and fun-to-use app that will help you organize and remember all of your friend’s birthdays/weddings/anniversaries and help you find interesting and new gifts to get them based on their likes and dislikes! There are collaboration features and surveys you can use to farm your friends likes/dislikes and work together with friends to pick out gifts for people.

All of the functionality is in the mobile app:

iOS:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/thoughtful-post/id1636275228

Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thoughtful...

Here is a YouTube video demo’ing the product made by my cofounder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdAwGlv9Lao&t=3s

Please try it out and share any feedback with us!

I think that with everything going on in the world the people you are close to are more important than ever. You don’t always have to spend a lot of money on people to make them feel loved! Investing time and energy into finding a gift or experience can make people feel really special.

Our app can send surveys to the gift recipient and your friend circle to find out about the “giftee” and just receiving these surveys will let the people in your life know you really care about them.

Some interesting technical notes:

The mobile apps are built in React Native.

The backend is in Python/Django.

We monetize by being affiliate partners with the products we recommend through our gift giving engine.

We are using Natural Language processing to map your friend’s likes/dislikes with our product catalogue to recommend new ideas.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33609822

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

One idea I didn't see listed elsewhere: Try to go and work for an early stage startup if you are having trouble getting a startup off of the ground yourself. You will learn a lot more as one of the first 10 employees as you do as one of the first 10k. If you tell startups founders you eventually want to do your own startup they respect that and will try to give you opportunities and can share a lot with you about their startup experience.

Also hopefully if you are part of a successful startup exit you will get some street cred and some money to live off of. If it's a failed startup even better as you will learn even more from that experience.

https://www.drchrono.com/careers/

drchrono is a medical platform for doctors and patients. We are crafting the best mobile healthcare experience, with a focus on iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch and web.

The driving force of our efforts is in changing the way people engage and experience healthcare through electronic health records. You would be part of an entrepreneurial, sharp and capable team.

We’re hiring Python/Django Devs, Frontend Developers, Graphic Designers, and we are hiring for Dev-ops.

Take our healthcare hacker challenge here or apply through https://www.drchrono.com/careers/

https://www.hackerrank.com/tests/2tenc80md2q/5dc28bc357687ab... to getting hired

Step 1: Take our Hackerchallenge

Step 2: Phone call with our People Operations Manager

Step 3: On-Site Healthcare Hackathon

Step 4: Join the team & change healthcare!!!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4383886?start=0&tstart=...

I clean my personal iPhone/iPad once every few months. I think it's much easier and more possible to sterilize a glass/metal ipad than a keyboard (especially for onboarding of patients in a waiting room.)

Mobility (iPad's for drchrono) are just starting to make a bigger impact on the market and I think over the next 5 years 80% of providers in the US will be using a mobile interface (probably an iPad) and not touching a keyboard/mouse while a patient is in the room.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14052658

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

I think these tools would be even better if they released their code under LGPL (instead of GPL) so that lazy commercial EHR developers would reuse and help maintain some core modules to promote more interoperability.

I don't think it's going to ever be possible (or that it is even desirable) to ever have a "Universal EHR" that everyone is forced to use through either government intervention or through market/economic forces. We can all exchange emails with each other, but we aren't all forced to use the same email client

The reason that the entire healthcare system seems broken to most consumers is legacy EHR systems in large hospitals. These legacy enterprise vendors are essentially what Oracle was 20 years ago in the rest of the enterprise software market before companies like Salesforce.com came along. Another part of this "broken" feeling is the difficulty of exchanging data between different EHR systems; but this doesn't have to be the case.

"If you've seen one HL7 standard implementation, you have seen exactly one HL7 standard implementation." Which means most systems don't interoperates with anyone else's systems unless there is an existing commercial relationship that forced everyone to interoperate on a local scale.

For anyone looking to work on an idea to improve healthcare check out: https://www.drchrono.com/api/ and/or https://www.drchrono.com/careers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13179783

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

1) Mike Bloomberg: Talk about founding and tech development of Bloomberg Professional Service (don't talk about politics at all)

2) Judy Faulkner: Founder and CEO of EPIC systems, a large privately held Hospital EHR vendor (Epic is one of the largest and most insular tech companies in the world)

3) Jack Ma: Founder of Alibaba

4) Pierre Omidyar: Founder Ebay

5) Bill Gates and/or Steve Ballmer

6) Mark Cuban

More traditional Silicon Valley:

1) Larry Ellison: CEO of Oracle

2) Marc Benioff: CEO/Founder Salesforce

3) Paul Buccheit: Talk about gmail and early Google R&D product only

4) Matt Cutts: Get him to tell us how SEO really works

5) Scott Cook: Founder Intuit

6) Jeff Bezos: Founder/CEO Amazon

7) Tony Fadell: iPod Designer & CEO of Nest