Flow Club | Software Engineers | SF or Remote (US only) | Full-Time | https://www.flow.club
Flow Club is a virtual co-working space where people work in high-intensity sprints designed to double their productivity. Our mission is to build the software that powers the most inspiring and productive work environment for knowledge workers. Our members love Flow Club (https://www.flow.club/wall-of-love).
We’re growing quickly, just presented at Y Combinator's Summer 2021 Demo Day, raised $5M, and hiring our founding team. We are backed by Worklife Ventures, a firm investing in companies re-designing the way work gets done in the future, and 100 more of the world's best investors and operators. Among our investors are Paul Graham and the founders of iconic companies like Dropbox, Mercury, Quora, Outschool, and Sendbird.
If this sounds interesting to you, send me an email. I'm ry (at) flow (dot) club. Or apply on our jobs page: https://bit.ly/fc-is-hiring
Many members are in your age group and older and I'd just say that we've been described as an "introvert-friendly" social network. Reason being that the focus of the sharing is mostly about priming yourself to do the work, and while you can pick up cues about other people from the video and the work they bring to Flow Club, that's secondary. Our hosts also do a good job putting the focus on the work.
We haven't had to do that. Each session has a host who facilitates and there are regulars who help reinforce the norm.
I led a Startup School cohort a few years ago when I was in-between projects. Yes, kind of like that in terms of the kind of people you'll get to meet in Flow Club, but the primary purpose of sharing in Flow Club is not to learn from each other but to prime yourself into focus.
I like how disciplined you are with only checking messages in the morning. It's just three of us here at Flow Club so I can't really do that yet. One day...
I think motivation is messier than just self-motivated vs not self-motivated. Could depend on the task you're tackling, time of day, other things in life that happened that day. Work is so personal and so varied. I'd say Flow Club members are very self-motivated, some are wildly successful by conventional standards, and yet there are still moments where Flow Club is a reliable environment to fall back on or to pick themselves up just a little.
You'd be happy to learn that it's not so unconventional a request among Flow Club members. Everyone comes to Flow Club primarily to get work done, so people want the software to find ways to keep them even more accountable. We want to offer more "intense" experiences like that for sure.
Working in limited timed sprints could feel odd if you're not used to pomodoro, and it could be difficult for certain tasks. David shared his experiment in the other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28222665
We have worked with several employers to bring Flow Club to their employees to help create opportunities for deep work, but the problem is bigger than that. From Cal Newport's New Yorker article last year (https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-rise...):
"The knowledge sector’s insistence that productivity is a personal issue seems to have created a so-called “tragedy of the commons” scenario, in which individuals making reasonable decisions for themselves insure a negative group outcome. An office worker’s life is dramatically easier, in the moment, if she can send messages that demand immediate responses from her colleagues, or disseminate requests and tasks to others in an ad-hoc manner. But the cumulative effect of such constant, unstructured communication is cognitively harmful: on the receiving end, the deluge of information and demands makes work unmanageable. There’s little that any one individual can do to fix the problem."
I've found that individuals absolutely can change organizational behavior. Setting teams norms is a simple first step that establishes what the expectations on response times truly are for various communication channels. It takes 15 minutes in a team meeting, and almost instantly improves team culture. All it takes is one leader to put that discussion on an agenda, and the entire team can relax and let message piles up while they get work done, because everyone has a shared understanding of how the team has chosen to operate.
This isn't just theory - My company was downright sad when the pandemic started when it came to remote culture. But a handful of us stepped up, made suggestions and recommendations, and things have improved greatly. At this point, we have established communication guidelines that are shared with the company, and mostly followed.
The tragedy comes when everybody believes that one person cannot make a difference, so nobody tries.
I think you can definitely gel with a stranger, but you have to know how to date. Tinder works because we know how to date. There's no protocol to founder dating...so I made one up: https://github.com/rickyyean/founder-dating-ritual
DIRT is a protocol for decentralized information curation. Communities can crowd curate trusted data. DIRT defines a set of rules for writing and moderating data that uses token staking to incentivize honesty. We raised funding from Greylock, General Catalyst, Lightspeed, SV Angel, etc, and are hiring.
FULL STACK ENGINEERS
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1. Our stack includes Solidity (protocol deployed as smart contracts on Ethereum), Typescript (developer libraries that interact with smart contracts), NodeJS + React (web apps for users).
2. Architect high level protocol designs. Build, test, and optimize protocol features.
3. Develop APIs to be consumed by web, mobile, and command line clients. Work with a high degree of autonomy on a small engineering team.
4. We are the first customer for the protocol. Work with data pipelines and front end development to build the first application that uses DIRT.
If you're looking to learn about startups to start your own or want to work in the cryptocurrency space, we have some things you can't find anywhere else.
- You'll learn lots about startups from us. We're currently a team of five that has 3 YC alumni.
- You'll get autonomy to make decisions AND mistakes. We're a team that biases towards shipping code and learning.
- You'll find a team that trusts each other. We step up for each other to create space for the team to do their job.
- You'll learn how to express your thoughts. We actively work on clear and succinct communication of ideas
- You'll learn to build decentralized apps and be a early thought leader in the space.
Flow Club is a virtual co-working space where people work in high-intensity sprints designed to double their productivity. Our mission is to build the software that powers the most inspiring and productive work environment for knowledge workers. Our members love Flow Club (https://www.flow.club/wall-of-love).
We’re growing quickly, just presented at Y Combinator's Summer 2021 Demo Day, raised $5M, and hiring our founding team. We are backed by Worklife Ventures, a firm investing in companies re-designing the way work gets done in the future, and 100 more of the world's best investors and operators. Among our investors are Paul Graham and the founders of iconic companies like Dropbox, Mercury, Quora, Outschool, and Sendbird.
If this sounds interesting to you, send me an email. I'm ry (at) flow (dot) club. Or apply on our jobs page: https://bit.ly/fc-is-hiring