Lernip | Remote Global

We're building a game that turns highschool kids into autodidacts.

We're going for our first crowdfunding raise this month and we're backed by Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari + Chuck E Cheese.

We're looking for driven people from all backgrounds and with diverse experiences.

Here are some key skills we're looking for:

Designing the browser game

marketing to parents

building the product

creating learning content

+ more

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Our culture is remote-first, inclusive, and evolving (it should always be getting better)

--- please apply through angellist - look up “Lernip” and please note how you found us

The remote is for LA only? Angelist does not allow to submit application

who's reading the code?

this story is 100% me except girl discovered BASIC.

Software engineering is just the start. gotta explore the whole gamut - product - learn how your work actually makes money design - learn how value is added to end user

If you discovered/fell in love with coding at an early age, you are not a programmer or an engineer, you are a builder.

join a startup really early stage. to have fun and build cool shit u gotta roll a hard 6.

This is essentially the only solution to this sort of question that I’ve seen work bar leaving the industry entirely.

Solo development IME is 90% sabbatical or very early stage startup anyways.

Find some other malcontents OP, it generally works itself out naturally from there.

depends what else you have tbh. are you broke? sell it. is this 1-4% of your portfolio? dont worry about it

I was working for Walmart once, and I typically did FE JavaScript engagements, but one time they asked for a script that hid bad reviews on individual product pages in a "natural" manner - ie don't hide all the bad ones, but artificially bump up the score. And they bumped up the score only for particular products that were profitable or they had more in stock of. This was yeaaaars ago.

Needless to say, I never trusted a review again!

I hate hearing that.

i predict this industry will face the same issues as edtech - crappy products that aim to "virtualize" the real life experience, instead of designing a superior digital experience designed from zero

Good point. What opportunities are there? Seems like low-hanging fruit is building video / audio calls with presentation sharing.

Check out Kumospace.com. I attended a virtual holiday party there this week. Same basic web tools and pixels rearranged, but felt like a fundamentally different (and fun) type of experience with a lot of potential extensibility; whether it's fun-fun or just novel-fun, time will tell.

Wow this is incredible! Thank you so much for the suggestion.

Check out http://topia.io/festivus too!

there's a romanian saying that goes something like, stuff happens on the minute hand, not on the hour hand

I don't pay rent, own property and spend very little, but yes I do 'live' off savings - its just not really making a dent for me. I wouldn't do it otherwise.

This is super cool, thanks for sharing! I have a tiny audience and I write but I rarely share my projects. This is inspiring tbh