sugnid

The term is used very loosely.

Actually, they are! We host many document types on RG, not just song lyrics, so the “lyrics” field of a song is just a specific case of the general “body” field of a text. And texts can definitely have rich formatting via HTML markup.

sugnid

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Rap Genius (YC S11) - Brooklyn, NY - http://rapgenius.com - Help us build the Internet Talmud

[email protected]

Rap Genius is at an unusual point in our history: we're one of the fastest-growing sites on the internet, we get 25MM unique visitors per month, we've raised $15m from Andreesen Horowitz, and yet our tech team is still only six people.

What this means is that for anyone who joins us now it's a best-of-all-possible-worlds–type situation: you'll get to work on something that a ton of people are obsessed with, you'll eat a lot of sushi, and yet you'll still have the chance to experience the small-team vibe and pick everyone else who works here / "define the culture."

WHO WE ARE

We're a tiny, quick-shipping team. Each of us makes product decisions and owns whole features. We're close and we all enjoy spending time together.

Our house library includes Metaprogramming in Ruby; Godel, Escher, Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid; The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich; POODR; and "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?".

Loving rap is not a prerequisite for working here, though an appreciation osmoses to everyone after a while.

WHAT WE'RE BUILDING

We started Rap Genius in 2009 to explain the meaning of rap lyrics, but the big vision goes beyond music and touches all of text – whether it's the Bill of Rights (http://news.rapgenius.com/United-states-congress-the-us-cons...), the Bible (http://news.rapgenius.com/God-10-commandments-lyrics), “The Waste Land” (http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Ts-eliot-the-waste-land-lyrics), or the Supreme Court’s DOMA ruling (http://news.rapgenius.com/The-supreme-court-of-the-united-st...), it's all on Rap Genius (or Poetry Genius, or News Genius, or... you get the idea). One of our favorite recent examples is Junot Diaz's amazing annotations on an excerpt from his own The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Junot-diaz-the-brief-wondrous-li...).

BENEFITS

  * Bomb salary and equity—you won't be taking a pay cut to work here
  * We don't count vacation days
  * Free meals in the office, free unlimited Seamless, free unlimited Fresh Direct
  * Free gym in the building
  * We pay your phone bill and when you join we'll upgrade you to the newest iPhone (or, if you insist, Droid (just kidding, you're getting an iPhone))
  * Laundry and shower in the office
  * Free indoor bike parking
  * Free health, dental, and vision benefits
  * The deluxe computer setup of your choice

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  * Experienced full-stack Rails engineers
  * Front-end developers with an eye for design
  * iOS devs to build our iPhone app from the ground up

INTERESTED? Hit us up at [email protected] with:

  * Your name and GitHub profile, your Twitter, blog, StackOverflow account, personal website, etc. The more, the better
  * A cool side project you built, library you've released, or some code that's impressive
  * Something brief about what you like and dislike about the technologies you've used
  * Your résumé
  * Location—you can't get the true RG cult effect working remotely, so only apply if you live in NYC or are willing to relocate. Our office is in Williamsburg.

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Rap Genius - Brooklyn, NY - http://rapgenius.com

[email protected]

Building the "Internet Talmud" to annotate and explain the world's primary source text

  * Front-end developer with an eye for design (UI/UX/CSS/jQuery)
  * iOS Developer (you know, iOS)
  * Full stack software engineer (Rails)

Over the past few years, Rap Genius has gone from tiny side-project to one of the biggest music sites on the internet. We’ve raised 15 mil from some pretty dope investors and grown to employ some of the most talented devs this world has ever seen. We’re expanding from explaining rap into ALL OF TEXT, starting with poetry, rock, and news. Now were looking for genius full-stack web and iOS developers to help build the “Internet Talmud”, the one platform for explaining the world’s primary source texts.

Why would you want to work for us?

  * One of the fastest-growing sites on the internet, SERIOUSLY THIS IS BASED ON
    ACTUAL NUMBERS.
  * Tiny, quick-shipping team with a ton of autonomy – so you never think to yourself:
    “what did i accomplish this year/month/30 seconds ago?”
  * A development and design agenda that is led by developers and designers –
    so no marketing or product people telling you how the image carousel should work.
  * Gym in building, free food, sweet benefits, whatever computer you want, more
    money than your last job, equity, etc.
  * Live in New York, where a new restaurant is born every 1.5 seconds!

A little about the dev team:

  * Seven people total: five backend, one front-end/design, and one TOTALLY
    SICK intern.
  * Independently led projects.
  * We iterate quickly and push code to production constantly.
    We're not afraid to put the "first draft" of a feature in production
    to see how it behaves in the wild before perfecting it.
  * Projects and priorities are determined communally (usually over burritos).
  * Ruby on Rails via Heroku + Sass, Compass, jQuery, Git, and more!

More about the positions:

Are you a boss front-end developer with an eye for design? Hit us up. A bomb iOS developer who wants to build the Rap Genius iPhone app from the ground up? An experienced and creative full-stack Rails engineer? We’ve been waiting for you. Send us your deets.

Interested? Hit us up at [email protected] with:

  * Your name and online identity – i.e., your Twitter, Github, blog,
    Stack Overflow account, personal website, etc.
    The more info the better.
  * Location – you can’t get the true RG cult effect working remotely, so only apply
    if you live in NYC or are willing to relocate.
    Our office is in Williamsburg.
  * Educational background and/or most recent job
  * A little bit about your technical background,
    including something brief about what you like
    and dislike about the technologies you’ve used.
  * If you come in for an interview, you’ll start by making a short
    technical presentation to the team and taking their questions.
    What will you present?
  * THE MOST IMPORTANT: What have you built online that you’re proud of?

Submissions

Installing CharlockHolmes on Heroku cedar-14

Passenger standalone with debugger and pry

Microsoft's layoff announcement, annotated

Rap Genius wants to annotate the news

Mark Zuckerberg's statement on the WhatsApp acquisition, annotated

Cequel is a full-featured Cassandra ORM for Ruby

HubMeme: How big a meme are you on GitHub?

Al Gore concedes U.S. Presidential election (13 years ago today)

XPath is actually pretty useful once it stops being confusing

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