Hacker News: jairajs89

New comment by jairajs89 in "Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode"

jairajs89 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:08:02 +0000

ah damn, this bug came from the text color handling we added when you copy paste from google docs into substack. will be fixed in tomorrow mornings deploy

New comment by jairajs89 in "Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost"

jairajs89 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 19:09:35 +0000

Hey, Substack CTO here. We don't distribute Ghost's code at all and the only piece of code included is a client-side search library used by the third party theme. But that library is actually hotlinked and hosted on jsdelivr (via npm) with no modifications made to it what-so-ever. This includes the line at the top with the license link as Ghost originally built it

New comment by jairajs89 in "Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost"

jairajs89 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 19:09:30 +0000

New comment by jairajs89 in "Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost"

jairajs89 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 19:08:30 +0000

Hey, Substack CTO here. We don't hotlink to Ghost at all and instead use jsdelivr to link to client-side open-source libraries. jsdelivr is awesome btw, works with any npm module, and is fast and reliable https://www.jsdelivr.com

New comment by jairajs89 in "Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost"

jairajs89 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 19:06:33 +0000

Hey, Substack CTO. That's exactly right. Thank you for this

New comment by jairajs89 in "Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost"

jairajs89 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 19:04:14 +0000

Hey, Substack CTO here. The Ghost-written code in question here is the client-side search library that the third-party theme uses. We link directly to the files hosted on jsdelivr (via npm) which in-turn uses the files Ghost built for distribution. Those files include the license link at the top, as Ghost intended, and are not modified or minified by us at all

New comment by jairajs89 in "Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost"

jairajs89 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 19:01:30 +0000

New comment by jairajs89 in "Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost"

jairajs89 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:56:30 +0000

Hey Substack CTO here. We actually don't host, modify, or minify the client side library in question. We link directly to the jsdelivr CDN for it and the distributed files from there have a license link at the top

New comment by jairajs89 in "Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost"

jairajs89 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:54:28 +0000

Hey, Substack CTO here. We're actually not using Ghost's platform and have instead built a theming API that is compatible with third-party themes that are built for Ghost. The one piece of code that the theme uses that's developed by Ghost is the open source search library used on the frontend. In this case the theme links directly to the files that Ghost has distributed on jsdelivr via npm

New comment by jairajs89 in "Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost"

jairajs89 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:49:33 +0000

Hey, Substack CTO here. We actually don't minify or modify the files in question at all and simply link to the versions hosted on the public jsdelivr CDN (which includes a link to the license right at the top of the file)

New comment by jairajs89 in "Substack is (not) now powered by Ghost"

jairajs89 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:46:57 +0000

Hey, Substack CTO here. We actually link directly to the jsdeliver CDN to use the files that get built for distribution in the sodo-search npm library. We make no modifications to the files (including not minifying them anymore than they are). The files actually do have a link at the top to the license file, which is hosted in the same directory on jsdeliver.

New comment by jairajs89 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)"

jairajs89 — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 21:44:02 +0000

Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite/Remote | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 500k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making seven figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 36 people. We announced our series B with a16z recently and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://substack.com/jobs

New comment by jairajs89 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)"

jairajs89 — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:13:36 +0000

Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite/Remote | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 500k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 32 people. We raised a series A from a16z a little over a year ago and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://substack.com/jobs

New comment by jairajs89 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)"

jairajs89 — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:23:08 +0000

Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 250k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 24 people. We raised a series A from a16z a little over a year ago and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://substack.com/jobs

New comment by jairajs89 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)"

jairajs89 — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:41:46 +0000

Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 250k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

Come join us! https://substack.com/jobs

New comment by jairajs89 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)"

jairajs89 — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 16:34:28 +0000

Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 250k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 20 people. We raised a series A from a16z last summer and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://substack.com/jobs

New comment by jairajs89 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)"

jairajs89 — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 22:03:24 +0000

Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 250k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 18 people. We raised a series A from a16z last summer and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://substack.com/jobs

New comment by jairajs89 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)"

jairajs89 — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:25:51 +0000

Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 250k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 17 people. We raised a series A from a16z last summer and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://substack.com/jobs

New comment by jairajs89 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)"

jairajs89 — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 17:03:19 +0000

Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 100k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 15 people. We raised a series A from a16z this summer and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://substack.com/jobs

New comment by jairajs89 in "Malaria No More"

jairajs89 — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:48:48 +0000

From the page

> In 2017, there were 219 million malaria cases that led to 435,000 deaths. Of these 61 per cent (266,000) were children under 5 years of age.