Data point of one (as is this essay), but Twitter hasn’t changed that much for me.
In some ways the timeline algo actually feels more addictive.
I do see posts that might have been flagged under the previous team, but if I don’t like them I can mute or unfollow - it’s not that big a deal.
A bigger issue in my opinion is the government demanding that social media companies censor things, and I think Elon has done a good job shining light on this.
The way I see it though is it's a solution looking for a problem.
"Look, we can build a decentralized database."
"Wow, let's try and use this to replace EVERYTHING"... and yet so far it has replaced nothing.
The most basic and obvious use cases – a Venmo replacement, a credit card replacement, and sending money across borders – these are all still done the traditional way, and it doesn't seem like that's about to change.
I'm hoping to be proven wrong, especially for the credit cards use case. Would be nice if everything cost 3% less. But it doesn't appear to be on the horizon.
There are those pre-installed samples there already, they couldn't just be swapped out with an imported file – there's something special about those files?
Anyway I think it's hugely underrated, hopefully you guys can do a v2 sometime. I'm blown away whenever I use it, it feels like a huge technical achievement.
AdQuick is building the marketplace for Outdoor Advertising. Our mission is to make outdoor ads easy to buy and measure. We are a Series A-stage startup with 40 people and a product team of 18. The founding team consists of people who helped build Instacart.
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- You take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
If you're interested email me at vic [at] adquick [dot] com and we can hop on a quick call. I'm a co-founder, and before AdQuick I was a tech lead at Instacart.
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- You take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
If you're interested email me at vic [at] adquick [dot] com and we can hop on a quick call. I'm a co-founder, and before AdQuick I was a tech lead at Instacart.
AdQuick is building the marketplace for Outdoor Advertising. Our mission is to make outdoor ads easy to buy and measure. We are a Series A-stage startup with 40 people and a product team of 18. The founding team consists of people who helped build Instacart.
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- You take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
If you're interested email me at vic [at] adquick [dot] com and we can hop on a quick call. I'm a co-founder, and before AdQuick I was a tech lead at Instacart.
AdQuick is building the marketplace for Outdoor Advertising. Our mission is to make outdoor ads easy to buy and measure. We are a Series A-stage startup with 40 people and a product team of 18. The founding team consists of people who helped build Instacart.
- 3+ years experience working on production systems
- You take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
If you're interested email me at vic [at] adquick [dot] com and we can hop on a quick call. I'm a co-founder, and before AdQuick I was a tech lead at Instacart.
AdQuick | Senior Software Engineer, Full-time | Venice, CA | Onsite or Remote | https://www.adquick.com
AdQuick is building the AirBnb for Outdoor Advertising. Our mission is to make outdoor ads easy to buy and measure (think billboards, posters, transit ads, etc.).
We are a Series A-stage startup with 30 people and a product team of 15. The founding team consists of startup veterans who were early at Instacart. We are funded by Garry Tan & Alexis Ohanian's VC firm, Initialized.
Our engineering team has been remote/distributed since well before Covid, so remote is in our DNA.
We have big problems to solve:
* Getting the entire supply-side on our platform (we're 20% of the way there)
* Getting the entire market demand on our platform (we're making significant headway)
* Making outdoor advertising measurable (we're using interesting data science models to do this)
* Making outdoor advertising INSTANT like AdWords/FB Ads
Our tech stack:
* Ruby
* Rails
* Postgres
* Heroku
* React
* Kotlin & Kafka for high-throughput systems
* Stimulus JS / Stimulus Reflex
We're looking for:
- Experience in our stack or similar technologies
- 3+ years experience in working on production systems
- Folks who explicitly want to be at a startup – you take a lot of ownership and care deeply about building great products
Shoot me an email at vic [at] adquick [dot] com if this sounds interesting to you!
In some ways the timeline algo actually feels more addictive.
I do see posts that might have been flagged under the previous team, but if I don’t like them I can mute or unfollow - it’s not that big a deal.
A bigger issue in my opinion is the government demanding that social media companies censor things, and I think Elon has done a good job shining light on this.