if you find this sort of 'research' fun and/or you find this sort of stuff to be the norm rather than the exception ;), you should chk out https://www.appthority.com/careers
We make no money and hope people use our social-local-mobile solution!
Just kidding, our customers are some of the largest companies in the world.
10 years ago it was relatively easy for big companies to provision devices with 'approved software' - now it's hard as hell cause everyone and their mom is a 'developer' and if you goto the itunes store there are tens of thousands of them - how do you vouch for their software? You don't have the source and you don't know them! Is this the 'correct' version of angry birds to approve? What about this BoA app?
We give them information on what apps do - 'does it talk to twitter? does it use this ad sdk? does it send out sms? to this particular number?' How? Through static/dynamic analysis and other solutions.
If your idea of fun is implementing an arm instruction set or you aren't afraid of terrabytes of smali output you should talk to us.
If you like having to middle ssl traffic on emulators to reverse a non-public API so that you can create 1000 fake accounts you should talk to us.
If you don't mind converting a 300k json blob of crap into 64bits of bliss we'd like to talk to you.
We might be an enterprise company where your options are actually worth a crap, but we still have the horse masks, the poker chips, and full bar just like everyone else.
What are you waiting for!? Email me now at ieyberg@appthority.com !
We provide an API for very large companies to scan mobile applications against. We perform static/dynamic analysis (amongst other things) and prepare reports against them.
If you join you'll have the ability to own entire projects. You won't be wasting anytime doing boring webdev work. No social local mobile here. Screw that. We have quite a few projects that will allow you to really utilize your knowledge.
Yes, we have the booze and the nerf guns and the snacks and all that crap but we actually pay our developers too. Since this is the case we don't do startup slave interns or junior developers.
We are funded and have the biggest companies in the world as paying customers and they are asking some quite crazy things of us - step up to the challenge. On a side note - we basically don't build anything until someone hands us a check.
We need help but we need people who can write code that is very efficient and very fast.
Our office is near Embarcadero, SF.
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dood - just make that shit a service - I've talked to a # of companies that were looking for something like that and were dismayed that they couldn't just sign up w/a credit card, seriously
> In fact, if played correctly, I could see it as an acquisition target of a company like Github.
GitHub already has pages and wikis and is heavily invested in GFM and is killing it in the commercial market. Why would they want a non-Ruby reST product?
> You can make money and serve the open source community at the same time.
And Gittip might turn out to be a way to do that.
Maybe Eric wants to be a person, not an acquisition target.
True, Sentry is a good example of a successful open source business model. GitHub itself is probably the best example of a company that's #winning at open source. They don't give their source away, but they give their service away. But it's pretty well-established that there are business models that can subsidize open source, isn't it?
The interesting thing about Gittip is that there's no strings attached for receivers. We've already got a company advertising itself on the Gittip givers leaderboard (https://workforpie.com/). But there's a decoupling of corporate interests from personal interests on Gittip that I think is worth continuing to explore. Even if Gittip were filled with corporate donors, their contributions would still be anonymous to the receivers. There's no strings attached. To me, that's new and interesting.
> They don't give their source away, but they give their service away.
github is not open source - they have a closed source service that is available for free, with limitations. Unless you meant that they are building a business based on an open source piece of software, which is a little different from e.g. Sentry.
They don't just use an open source piece of software (RoR), they use the open source community to build street cred that they then cash in to score their real customers.
Don't get me wrong: I love GitHub. It's a fantastic product and an inspiration to me. Instead of paying $7/mo for private repos, I choose to give back by gittiping members of the organization:
fyi - SF min. wage is $10.24/hr - although I just got an invite to the app and if it's true to their word I'll use it all the time - I was using safeway delivery before as I don't have a car currently and it's a real pita to do groceries w/out - even zipcar will cost around that much plus your time
this is extremely common in a lot of meetups in SF - really the only reason they want your name on the list is so if you are a crazy homeless person looking for free booze and free food with a lot of expensive ass computer shit laying around you can't just waltz in
also, I am in that meetup group and yesterday was insane email traffic w/the amount of people that couldn't follow the most simplest of advice -- "we need your name"
I didn't get this context from the post when I read it first - I guess this begs the question - was this a former employee of yelp or was it a true mixup?
I'm a crazy homeless person, my name is Adam Smith, nice to meet you. Or was it John Brown? Do they check government-issued ID? I'm visiting from BC or Ontario, you think they could recognize a fake ID?
I think the logic is that if you have successfully guessed a name that is good enough for them - remember - we are talking about people who are literally walking in off the street - they aren't trying to 'game the system' - they might not even know where the hell they are
some places ask for ids - but really a lot of places you just need to have the name - that's all
This question comes up a lot and frankly I think it's a really bad idea.
I'm a big proponent of the JOBs act but for different reasons.
Let's assume you have 10-15k that you want to throw at a startup. Let's also assume that being an 'investor' you have maxed out your tax accounts (IRAs, HSAs, etc.) and you have a year's supply of rent/mortgage, food, electricity, etc.
So you have 10-15k that you can just blow immediately and not worry about ever seeing it again. What do you do? Buy 5% of a startup?
Unless you are actively involved with the startup your chances of ever seeing that cash again are practically none.
Also, through the sheer fact that a startup allowed you to invest in them being that you have nothing else to give them but money (I'm guessing here) shows you that they are not being serious about it and that money is going to go up in flames.
You'd be better off going anywhere but places like California and buying a house with 20% down.
Why? You get immediate returns by placing it under property management.
If not property buy shipping containers. If not those, go buy oil royalties from producing wells. If not those, throw it into something like betterment.com or lendingclub.com.
All of these investments will give you a yield that, while not guaranteed, is better than the craps roll you are placing into a 'startup'.
Now, I know you didn't want to read that so I'll give you the answer you are looking for.
Even without the JOBs act not being in place, you as an un-accredited investor (which I assume you are being 'ordinary') can invest in a startup as long as they are raising no more than 1M for the first year and you aren't going to be un-lucky #36 of the guys that bought shares with them.
If you really know these guys (and you should if you are wanting to throw your money in the paper shredder) they could organize a SCOR offering as well.
I was really disappointed that 1884 was tacked on -- it forces funds to be raised through a 3rd party intermediary rather than direct general solicitation -- oh well, baby steps, baby steps
