Hacker News: justin

New comment by justin in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

justin — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 22:19:02 +0000

Who hurt you?

New comment by justin in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"

justin — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:35:11 +0000

Prediction markets serve as a hedge against real world events, which enables risk taking.

New comment by justin in "Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app"

justin — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 02:27:12 +0000

Why don’t they deserve to see the light of day? Maybe the market gets to decide what “sucks” or doesn’t. More ideas in the marketplace gives users more choice.

New comment by justin in "Cargo Airships Are Happening"

justin — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:59:50 +0000

CRISPR, Yamanaka factors, computational biology, brain computer interfaces, Starship, LLMs... we are nowhere near the top of the tech S curve.

New comment by justin in "Sell Anything on Your Social Platform"

justin — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 19:46:25 +0000

Guide to add end-to-end shopping experience to any social platform you're building

Sell Anything on Your Social Platform

justin — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 19:46:24 +0000

Article URL: https://rye.com/blog/sell-anything-on-social-platform

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38181815

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by justin in "Order Amazon from Your Terminal"

justin — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 08:11:16 +0000

Guide to order any Amazon products from your terminal with 3 API requests

Order Amazon from Your Terminal

justin — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 08:11:15 +0000

Article URL: https://rye.com/blog/order-amazon-from-your-terminal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38159957

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by justin in "Crypto Wants a Central Bank"

justin — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 20:22:27 +0000

https://archive.ph/YZfvw

New comment by justin in "Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession"

justin — Wed, 25 May 2022 04:33:20 +0000

1) Games will move from closed economies to open economies, just as they transitioned to free-to-play 15 years ago. Blockchain is just the technology through which this will happen.

2) This transition will take 10 years - we are building for that timeline

3) We raised a ton of money and have a lean team, and can exist for >5 years without revenue. We are keeping our team lean to maintain that level of runway.

4) For whatever reason, people are still buying gaming NFTs right now (as of this week). Of course, that may change quickly.

New comment by justin in "Tell HN: Job interview canceled due to looming recession"

justin — Wed, 25 May 2022 03:47:34 +0000

We are still hiring at Fractal (NFT marketplace for gaming assets). We're a revenue generating company with fewer than 15 team members that just raised $35m in new funding. Founded by experienced founders. https://jobs.lever.co/fractal-is/

New comment by justin in "We need a middle class for startups"

justin — Tue, 10 May 2022 20:29:54 +0000

Even startups not aiming to be the next FAANG company have trouble estimating revenue, product development time, etc. It's just extremely hard to know all the unknowns when you are starting a new business, especially since it is likely that you are only an expert in one of the required fields (eng, product, marketing, sales) to bring your product to market and will have to learn everything else on the fly. Most business plans for startups are useless.

New comment by justin in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)"

justin — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 19:00:05 +0000

Fractal | Many Eng Roles | Remote | Fulltime

I'm Justin, cofounder of Twitch, former YC partner, and founder of many more startups. I am cofounder of a new company, Fractal, an NFT marketplace for gamers to discover, buy and sell gaming NFTs. We just closed a $35M seed round from Paradigm and Multicoin today. The company is fully remote and we are having a lot of fun building in the crypto space. Culturally, we optimize to reduce the time between talking to customers, coming up with product ideas, and execution. This is a product and engineering-led, customer-focused company.

We are hiring many eng roles. No previous crypto experience required. The team is mostly from Google and Stripe.

Fundraising post: https://fractal.medium.com/fractal-raises-35-million-dollar-... Job roles: https://jobs.lever.co/fractal-is

New comment by justin in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)"

justin — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 21:23:06 +0000

Operator | Fully Remote | Full Stack & Backend Engineer | Full-time

Operator Protocol is an open and decentralized protocol for e-commerce. Anyone can participate as a buyer or seller, and the network will be governed by the marketplace participants. Instead of a giant, monopolistic rent-seeker owning the customer and taking a large toll on every transaction, OP is an alternative for buyers and sellers to diversify off Amazon and other centralized marketplaces.

Our founding team consists of veteran founders: Justin Kan co-founded Twitch and Fractal, has been investing in crypto since 2013, and has been an advisor to decentralized projects like Theta and Audius; Jamie Quint comes from an e-commerce background but has also led Growth @Notion and monetization @Reddit; Robin Chan co-founded Fractal and Operator v1, founded and sold a mobile gaming company, XPD Media, to Zynga, and was previously head of Zynga Asia; and Tikhon Bernstam founded and sold the cloud application platform, Parse, to Facebook, and also founded Scribd. Our CEO, Arjun Bhargava, led Growth Engineering at Reddit and was previously at Goldman Sachs.

We’re looking for strong, motivated, and talented full stack and backend engineers to build out the future of e-commerce with us. Previous experience in web 3.0/crypto tech is not required but is a plus.

If interested, apply on our job board:

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/operator/f4c81ed8-2169-480c-a276-1b...

See our Medium article introducing Operator:

https://medium.com/@Operator/introducing-operator-3e66cba9a1...

Visit us at https://www.operator.com

New comment by justin in "Dead Startup Toys"

justin — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:09:40 +0000

I made a video of these toys, which were hilarious to play with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhJye7Xfmys

New comment by justin in "Ask HN: How do you grow a pod?"

justin — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 05:52:34 +0000

Great feedback. Definitely hoping to bring more people from outside of tech into the pod.

Ask HN: How do you grow a pod?

justin — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 03:44:52 +0000

Justin Kan here. Been trying to grow my pod The Quest (https://listen.justin.quest), would love to hear some tips about how to best scale audience and distribution.

Atm downloads averaging ~3K/week, trying YouTube next.

Feedback on pod welcome too!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26695106

Points: 10

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