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4,250karma·371submissions·September 17, 2008
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Shortwave CEO & Cofounder.
Previously, cofounder of Firebase.
http://twitter.com/startupandrew
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Shortwave | Sr. Software Engineer | ONSITE in San Francisco | $140k-$215k base + generous equity I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google /…
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I tried +create_ascii_art@shortwave.ai, sent the word "Elephant" in the body, and got back: /\_/\ ( o.o ) > ^ < __..--''``---....___ _..._ __ /// &#x…
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Shortwave | Sr. Software Engineer | Onsite in San Francisco | $150k-$225k base + generous equity I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google /…
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They can try to keep up :) We have two major advantages:
1. We can use best-in-class AI tech, from any vendor (ie. OpenAI) -- whereas Google is only going to use their internal tech
2. We can take lot…
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Thank you!
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Shortwave | Sr. Software Engineer | Onsite in San Francisco | $150k-$225k base + generous equity I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google /…
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Shortwave | Sr. Software Engineer | Onsite in San Francisco | $150k-$225k base + generous equity I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google /…
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Shortwave | Sr. Software Engineer | Onsite in San Francisco | $150k-$225k base + generous equity I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google /…
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Shortwave | Sr. Software Engineer | Onsite in San Francisco | $150k-$225k base + generous equity I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google /…
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Shortwave | Sr. Software Engineer | Onsite in San Francisco | $150k-$225k base + generous equity I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google /…
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Shortwave | Lead Designer & Sr. Software Engineers | Onsite in San Francisco | $150k-$225k base + generous equity I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our te…
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Shortwave | Designers & Software Engineers | Remote (US) or SF $140k-$220k base + generous equity I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of our team is ex-Google …
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I would have avoided the shameless plug here if it wasn't so very topical... :)
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The author notes:
"Finally, we need to talk federation. Does it make moving fast and breaking things more difficult? Yes, yes it does, and that can be a good thing." The other, super-underra…
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Shortwave | Senior & Staff Software Engineers | Remote (US) or SF $150k-$240k base + generous equity I was cofounder and CTO at Firebase, and most of our team is ex-Google / ex-Firebase. Our …
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Shortwave | Software Engineers & Product Designers | Remote (US) or SF | $130k-$250k+ base & equity Shortwave is rebuilding email from the ground up to have the features and UX of a modern mes…
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My team just launched a product on Tuesday designed to solve this exact problem. Email has a better threading model than Slack, but email clients lack the realtime features needed for synchronous coll…
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[founder here] I also founded Firebase and sold it to Google. I don’t plan to do that again.
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[Founder & CEO here] We will never sell your data, track you, or advertise to you. We only share this information as necessary to provide the service (for example, by storing it on Google Cloud …
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Keep in mind that the alternative to sending an email is not sending nothing... it's usually to send a text, or a Slack message, or something else that is even less thought through. We try to con…
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Good question. Yes, we do sync your mail to our servers. We need to do this to provide many of the features we have. We are taking security very seriously and are doing everything we can to dot our i&…
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It's coming! Very top of our to-do list!
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Your email will still come back, and you'll see it in your inbox, but you won't see it in search results . And emails from more than 90 days before you signed up won't be imported.…
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Noted!
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Thanks for the detailed thoughts! And for the kind words in here :) Re: team features -- we have Workspaces and Channels that let you solve many of the same use cases as Front. Check out our guide her…