Kable.io | Lead Engineer | Remote / USA | Full-time
Kable (YC W22) is the all-in-one toolkit for API companies. We build usage-based billing tools, embeddable dashboards, and product analytics for businesses building API products. We were part of Y Combinator last year (W22) and are looking for a Lead/Principal Engineer to join our team.
Learn more at https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kable/jobs.
You: You love to build. You ask great questions. You are a team player. You are passionate. You're an engineer at heart, but you have some product manager in you too. You have a strong sense of how things should be done, and you don't hesitate to speak your mind. You are a 10x engineer, capable of getting more done than others and in a fraction of the time. You want to be a part of something great.
Apply: Email contact AT kable DOT io with a bit of information about yourself and let's chat.
Stripe is great for payments, but they don’t make usage data super useful for data purposes — their primary use case is payments.
If you want access to your data for other business purposes - stakeholder data, embedded dashboards, alerts and notifications about usage, etc - then you’ll want a system more purpose-built for usage data than Stripe.
Check out https://kable.io. Kable is purpose built as a data and billing solution, where your data is available for purposes ancillary to payments.
[Disclaimer: I am a Kable founder, but what you’re describing is precisely what we’re built for. If you’d like to chat, either about Kable or about your design in general to build this in-house, I’d be happy to.]
Kable is building the all-in-one toolkit for API companies.
The world of software is changing. Subscription billing has given way to usage-based pricing, and API-first businesses are one of the fastest-growing segments in SaaS. Yet still most API businesses reinvent the wheel, stitching together gateways, usage data infrastructure, customer-facing dashboards, and payments.
Kable is a drop-in solution that handles everything from API security to usage-metering to customer-facing dashboards to processing customer invoices.
We're a small team of two in search of two additional Founding Engineers to join us. We're a highly-collaborative Remote-first team, well-funded by leading investors (Y Combinator and Matrix Partners).
Want to join us? Email me at adam@kable.io and let's chat.
This company/team distinction describes what we're looking for next in our implementation :)
Also, hey, I'm Adam, a very happy customer of PropelAuth at Kable.io. Andrew is an incredibly responsive founder, who has been a great partner in the launch of our own B2B business. High recommend from me -- PropelAuth rules
Our Test environment offers all of the functionality that our Live environment offers. You can get the entire Kable experience in the Test environment without registering a credit card. Only when you're ready to deploy Kable to your Live production environment do we require a payment method.
The goal here is definitely not a lock-in strategy. Our lack of clear pricing is simply the nature of being a brand new company who hasn't yet had sufficient time to work with customers to solidify the right price point. As we iron out our business model we'll absolutely make pricing more transparent on our site.
Amazing idea, and actually something we're actively developing.
Soon you'll be able to connect Kable to any of your other data sources through Segment. Then, if your application is hooked up to services like Zapier, Amplitude, Mixpanel, etc, you'll be able to funnel data into Kable for billing purposes with no additional code.
Our goal here is to make it super easy to use Kable for billing no matter what your existing stack looks like
1. your current value prop is help users build API
2. value add is help them get distro for same API by abstracting away having their team deal with writing Zapier blocks, get into app stores for same, etc.
3. doing (2) is a long road, so could kickstart that with organic content for now, since a natural question after build API is ok, how do I get our block on their app store, same for integromat, mulesoft, etc.
That page is actually hosted by one of our partners, PropelAuth, who manages end user authentication for access our dashboard. (End user login wasn't core to our business at Kable, so we found a partner who could manage this for us.)
Highly recommend PropelAuth for anyone looking for user authentication, they've been an amazing partner!
Great feedback, thank you. From what I can gather, the biggest differences between Kable and Saasify are the target market and core focus. Where Saasify is focused on micro SaaS projects, Kable is aimed at helping the growing population of API-first businesses. And from a core focus perspective, where Saasify is focused on a wide range of developer needs (user accounts, marketing sites, documentation, etc), Kable is focused on the core elements of an API business: authentication, metrics, and billing. But there's definitely a good amount of similarity here, and I love to meet folks building in a similar space.
Kable (YC W22) is the all-in-one toolkit for API companies. We build usage-based billing tools, embeddable dashboards, and product analytics for businesses building API products. We were part of Y Combinator last year (W22) and are looking for a Lead/Principal Engineer to join our team. Learn more at https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kable/jobs.
Stack: Node, Typescript, Nest, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Clickhouse
You: You love to build. You ask great questions. You are a team player. You are passionate. You're an engineer at heart, but you have some product manager in you too. You have a strong sense of how things should be done, and you don't hesitate to speak your mind. You are a 10x engineer, capable of getting more done than others and in a fraction of the time. You want to be a part of something great.
Apply: Email contact AT kable DOT io with a bit of information about yourself and let's chat.