I've been fiddling with a long-term niche product for WordPress plugin and theme updates. It's 10(!) years old this year. Working in a code base that old 100% of my own commits is both amazing and terrifying. Past me was not as experienced at current me :)
We're building the restaurant operating system of the future! From point of sale systems to labor management, come help us make restaurants easier to operate..
Role Overview:
As a Senior Software Engineer at SpotOn, you'll be working with the Teamwork team to help build the future of restaurant labor management.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, test, and deploy our legacy PHP monolith.
- Decompose our PHP monolith and extract into our Laravel API.
Requirements:
- Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
Nice to Have:
- Startup experience.
- Experience in Fintech or Restaurant tech.
What’s on Offer:
- A competitive compensation package.
- RSUs
- Fully remote
How to Apply: Email your resume, a brief introduction, and relevant portfolio or GitHub links to [email protected]. Mention you saw this on HN.
Are there any Raspberry Pi competitors that people like? I've see a few referenced in different articles but I don't have any idea how reliable or useful they are.
I've been using Django with Vue sprinkled in on https://candid.work and it's been a pleasure. Using Vue for reactive stuff and then modifying form fields after the changes so Django can still do the updates has been a pretty great experience so far.
Back when I was in middle school I used a copy FrontPage 98 at school to generate frames for my Star Wars site and then finished up the rest at home with FrontPage Express. A few years ago I restored the site after finding a broken version of it on the WayBack machine.
I've been working on https://kernl.us for a little over 2 years now.
It's currently making $650 / month and growing.
Something I "knew" but never really understood about growing a business is how long it can take. Granted this is completely on the side, but it still takes a long time to find your market, grow, get customers, etc. Learning that this is actually a marathon was valuable.
The other thing I have to actively manage is building things that are valuable -vs- things that I find interesting. As a developer I LOVE tinkering with new technology, but when I'm wearing my business hat upgrading to the new hot frontend framework doesn't make that much sense.
Many years ago when I was still a PHP + Wordpress developer, I discovered that getting updates to private plugins and themes was a huge pain.
Fast-forward a few years and I finally built out https://kernl.us as a learning project (Mongo, Node.js, Angular). It's mostly passive income now, pulling in ~$450 per month.
I started https://kernl.us last May and brought it out of beta in January. I've been growing at the rate of around 5 new paying customers a month.
After the closed beta I started out with about $140 / month in profits, which has grown to $330 / month over time. The growth rate has been pretty steady, but nothing so large that I could go full time on it.
I build a developer tool for premium plugin / theme authors in the Wordpress ecosystem. If you can build something that scratches an itch in a programming ecosystem, people are likely to pay for it.
Although with the amount of work I do on it, I'm not sure I'd call it passive ;)
I just finished the work today of migrating from Mandrill to SendGrid. I can't speak for the other providers, but so far it has been a fairly painless process. The client libraries for Node are similar enough between the two that I didn't have to put a ton of thought into refactoring.
It's awesome because I get to work on fun technologies (MEAN stack), learn how to scale Node.js, and interact with a great community. Also, I have paying customers which makes it even better :)