Hacker News: kbanman

New comment by kbanman in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)"

kbanman — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:03:15 +0000

Ema | Software Engineer | Vancouver, BC | Hybrid (3 days/wk) | Full-time

Ema is building the Universal AI Employee — AI that handles repetitive enterprise tasks so people can focus on creative, high-impact work. Founded by ex-Google and Coinbase execs. $75M raised from Accel, Section 32, Prosus, KPMG, and others.

We're hiring software engineers to build the core platform: APIs, backend systems, data infrastructure, and front-end interfaces.

Stack: Go, Python, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch. Multi-tenant SaaS.

You'd be a great fit if you care about clean, test-driven code, have experience with enterprise integrations and auth, and thrive in a fast-moving startup where scope is broad and ambiguity is the norm.

Comp includes salary + equity + benefits, scaled to experience and level.

https://www.ema.ai/careers

New comment by kbanman in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

kbanman — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:24:26 +0000

Would love to hear about the same but in Canada - As far as I know we don't have any Hetzner-like providers here.

New comment by kbanman in "Show HN: Jelly – A simpler shared inbox for small teams"

kbanman — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:34:08 +0000

Love the product and you've nailed the simple design!

I'm concerned about email deliverability--Even more so after the email verification ended up in my spam. Handling incoming email is simple enough, but for this to be useful to my team we would want to be confident that the emails are ending up in the right place.

New comment by kbanman in "Show HN: An opinionated and statically-typed TypeScript SDK generator"

kbanman — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 17:26:02 +0000

Congrats on launching!

For anyone looking for more (open-source) alternatives, here's one I just discovered today: https://microsoft.github.io/kiota/

New comment by kbanman in "It's not your imagination – iPhone users are worse drivers"

kbanman — Sat, 07 May 2022 17:45:00 +0000

The article doesn't dive into why this group performed worse; to me that is of much more interest than the conclusion.

Just from my own observations I would expect that this is largely due to income differences in the two groups. Rich people are more likely to own iPhones and in my experience also more likely to be careless drivers.

New comment by kbanman in "MailChimp: A side project that turned into a $700m/year revenue business"

kbanman — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:30:47 +0000

Hootsuite also started as an agency side project, and I'm sure there are more.

Intentionally following this model doesn't seem sensible though; with VC money so accessible if you have already put together a good team you might as well focus on the product itself. Agency work is not fun.

New comment by kbanman in "AWS releases Glue Databrew, a visual ETL tool"

kbanman — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:23:59 +0000

Speaking as a former AWS Engineer, I disagree with the sentiment that they are able to glue AWS services together better than what a competing non-AWS company can do. Internally the use of AWS is subject to the same constraints and APIs you and I have.

Their competitive advantage is their captive customer base, which will much rather pay a premium to use an AWS-managed service than use another vendor.

New comment by kbanman in "The good parts of AWS: a visual summary"

kbanman — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 20:32:25 +0000

I've seen this done for new projects, and it works really well. If your data access patterns are truly relational (varied lookup paths) then it is probably not the right tool, but many apps can be modeled in a way that DDB handles well.

Highly recommended viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaEPXoXVf2k this talk explains how relational data can be efficiently modeled for key-value stores.

New comment by kbanman in "Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes"

kbanman — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 22:34:45 +0000

Very well done!

I had started on a similar idea a while back, but never got around to it. Even have a cute domain for it (pifork.com) in case you're interested :)

New comment by kbanman in "I've been a software engineer for 10 years and I can't do interview questions"

kbanman — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 18:11:17 +0000

Having been in your position, I understand that having built a product from the ground up makes you feel like you are qualified to do anything. I was lucky enough to get hired at a late-stage startup after my endeavor failed, and am constantly reminded that time in the industry matters. Two years of intense coding is worth a lot, but you've only been exposed to a limited set of problems, both technical and business. 6+ years sounds reasonable to me if they are looking for someone with well-rounded experience.

Mind you, as someone else mentioned, some folks spend 6 years in the industry and don't gain the knowledge and experience you already have, but that doesn't mean you've attained 6 years worth of knowledge and experience.

New comment by kbanman in "The advantages of static typing, simply stated"

kbanman — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:40:24 +0000

I've recently joined a team writing primarily in Clojure, whose proponents often tout repl-driven programming as a unique benefit to the language.

In a statically typed language (the stronger the better), aided by a good IDE, I don't need to be constantly executing my code against data during development; My editor is constantly validating my code, and when it stops complaining, my code will work. And months later when I or someone else uses that code in another part of the system, they won't need to execute that code to see how it behaves, as the types themselves provide documentation and as-you-code feedback.

New comment by kbanman in "Facebook Is Preparing to Launch Facebook at Work"

kbanman — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:55:43 +0000

We have been using this at Hootsuite, and it's been a really smooth experience, especially when compared to Yammer.

New comment by kbanman in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)"

kbanman — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:05:16 +0000

Hootsuite | Vancouver, BC, Canada | Onsite | Full-time

We currently have openings for the following positions:

  Build and Deploy Engineer
  Data Scientist
  Intermediate Software Engineer, Data Lab
  Intermediate Software Engineer, Mobile Web
  Junior Network Engineer
  Junior Software Engineer, Android
  Senior Operations Engineer
  Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack
  Senior Software Engineer, iOS
  Technical Project Manager
  Technical Project Manager, Operations

Learn more about our engineering challenges on our code blog: http://code.hootsuite.com/ Apply here: https://hootsuite.com/about/careers

New comment by kbanman in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)"

kbanman — Fri, 01 May 2015 21:46:13 +0000

Hootsuite - Vancouver, BC, Canada - Full-time scala and full-stack engineers

See https://hootsuite.com/about/careers

New comment by kbanman in "Ask HN: What are your unused domain names?"

kbanman — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:42:43 +0000

I've got plenty of these left over from my hoarding days:

  ajaxapart.com - alistpart for javascript
  alpinefog.com
  bidsoup.com
  boostwire.com
  buildzen.com
  checkalope.com
  cloudboards.com
  express.build
  freshlinux.com
  giftitude.com
  gitnest.com
  gridyard.com
  hugepixel.com
  mindski.com
  mumblemonitor.com
  nearlyneighbors.com
  pifork.com
  pixelpeer.com
  roamsense.com
  threadsfortwo.com / threads42.com - T-shirts for couples

If anyone is interested, I can post them up on the namecheap marketplace.

New comment by kbanman in "Presenting the Most Over-Engineered Blog Ever"

kbanman — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:16:23 +0000

Here at Hootsuite we just finished rolling out webpack, and we're using it with grunt. If there is interest, I could probably get the project lead to do a writeup on our code blog.

How Do You Know It’s Time to Rebrand?

kbanman — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 22:07:32 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.hootsuite.com/hootsuite-rebrand

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7848710

Points: 1

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New comment by kbanman in "Why Node.js is becoming the go-to technology in the Enterprise"

kbanman — Tue, 13 May 2014 16:40:27 +0000

I don't think enterprise ever has or will adopt Rails. Even node.js isn't at the point where it can really be considered "enterprise".

Java is dead. Long live Java!

Five Famous First Tweets

kbanman — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:09:51 +0000

Article URL: http://www.fastcompany.com/3029632/bottom-line/5-famous-first-tweets-and-what-they-tell-us-about-social-media-today