Whalesync (YC S21) | Founding Engineer | US Time Zones | Fully Remote (can hire internationally) | Full-time

I'm the cofounder of Whalesync (YC S21) and we're hiring a founding engineer. We're a small team building a technically-challenging product, starting with two-way data syncing between SaaS applications.

Tech stack: GCP, TypeScript, Node/NestJS backend, Next.js frontend (React, Mantine), Postgres and Redis data stores

If interested, please reach out to us here! https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/whalesync/jobs/F6EHHs3...

Love the concept! A few questions:

(1) Does the RUV work in a similar way to a SAFE or a convertible debt note?

(2) If so, how are valuation caps/discounts and interest rates handled?

(3) What happens if someone invests and they claim to be an accredited investor, but they aren't?

Interesting variant on the max cover problem, but using visible surface area rather than the total surface area of visible sides. If only this existed when I was playing the Sims.

For years we've claimed that we're on the brink of a world without work. However I believe that this claim is fundamentally flawed because it goes against Parkinson's law, which we've seen to be consistently true.

We naturally try to gather more material wealth, and this involves having a system where we give bigger rewards to those who work harder and smarter. No matter how much we eliminate menial tasks, we will always find more ways to spend our energy to reward those willing to do so.

Has little to do with work and a lot to do with sociology and economics. If you are paying someone, make them do shit. That's what good managers do. And then when this happens the expectations go way up alongside that... and now everyone is a whiny baby that wants things RIGHT NOW!

Parkinson's law doesn't apply to this situation. We are in a situation where the same amount (or more) work is being done, just with fewer humans. This might lead to bigger rewards to people who work harder and smarter but that will be an ever smaller group.