NYC, New York - Full stack developer - TeachBoost.
TeachBoost is a performance management platform in K-12 to help instructional leaders (principals, coaches) better support the educators they work with. We're VC backed and have had success where others haven't in edtech - we have hundreds of paying schools and districts throughout the country.
We're growing our development team and looking for developers passionate about their craft and helping one of the most important sectors get over their terrible addiction to bad enterprise software. We're a small team and you'll have tremendous influence and independence on our tools that thousands of educators use daily.
TeachBoost is looking for a full-time software developer for our New York, NY office who can manage support development, usability testing, and bug fixes as well as contribute to a number of internal and production projects. We're a fast-growing team and we need someone who can work closely with our support team to handle usability issues in real time and interface between our support and development teams. PHP experience and familiarity with the Unix environment are big pluses!
Importantly, we're an education startup and we love working with schools, teachers, and principals. You should be willing to work in our industry and handle the unique set of problems that come up with education and institutional clients (as well as going up against large institutional competitors!). You should have experience working on a small team with tight deadlines, and you should be familiar with OO concepts as well as design patterns. You should learn new languages and technologies quickly, be innovative, enjoy challenges, and have a great work ethic.
Please contact jason AT teachboost.com if interested; include a few things you've built that you're proud of.
TeachBoost is looking for a full-time web developer for our Brooklyn, NY office who can handle all aspects of front-end web application development. We're looking for someone to be a key member of the development team - so experience (or the ability to learn quickly) and attention to detail are massively important.
We're moving from a single-repo PHP legacy application towards a client-service, multi-repo application codebase. To do that we'll be slicing off features from the PHP legacy app and re-writing them into front-end, client applications, in Node.js.
TeachBoost is a performance management platform for education; we help educators improve by streamlining and improving the coaching/evaluation process, and using that data to better inform educator development/training. We're a growing team of passionate, mission driven people - and looking for more of the same!
Get in touch with jason AT teachboost.com if you're interested!
Not the same company. URL2PNG takes better screenshots as they didn't just throw up PhantomJS on a server, lift some wording from a competitor, leave the placeholders in a template and call it a day. Missing fonts are the main reason for the worse screenshot quality -- the default fonts that replace them mess up layouts.
as we said in other comment, we have several generators, currently we are using a phantomjs based one, we are investigating more options as we mark this period "Early Access Preview", we are collecting feedback , at the end of it, you will have the best experience ever
I'm assuming the grandparent comment is sarcasm (if it's not, it should be).
Leverage this enthusiasm to build the MVP. If you don't know how or it's beyond your capabilities, there's plenty of resources available now to learn how. Get something in the hands of these early adopters and move on from there.
Especially if you run a website designed to find you the cheapest airfares. But seriously, you can get a return flight SYD or MEL to AKL for about $200+taxes.
I think that's a pretty broad and unfair generalization about entrepreneurs in the education space. It's not exactly a common skillset to be well versed in the science of education and technology, so I won't back down from the unqualified statement. That being said, I've yet to meet these "shady" characters you claim are attracted to the space.
The shadiness comes in whenever a product is sold to government or generally when the person authorizing the payment isn't spending their "own" money, and when it is hard to measure the delivered value of the product. This is common for education and other government-contract work, and also happens in the private sector (for example, corporate bulk IT services shopping)
The issue with fragmentation that ultimately leads to consolidation is the cost incurred by companies and developers to support all of these platforms.
I can't tell you how much it pains me as an android user to see an app only available for the iPhone. As a developer, it's magnitudes worse to have to send messages to my users saying "we'll be getting to an [x] platform app soon!" when realistically it just stunts our growth to develop the same thing 3 times.
I can't wait for the end of this native app nonsense.
Don't forget that the end of fragmentation can be the end of innovation. It's 2011 and browser standards don't support taking a photo. There's tons of other things that standards don't support and there will be more. And if or when browsers are the only platform, fragmentation will come there. It's already happening, Chrome supports native code, IE will not support the same format.
I was coming strictly from the standpoint of time being the scarcest factor and thus the most important; I completely agree with you on the intellectual satisfaction of developing native apps :)
TeachBoost is a performance management platform in K-12 to help instructional leaders (principals, coaches) better support the educators they work with. We're VC backed and have had success where others haven't in edtech - we have hundreds of paying schools and districts throughout the country.
We're growing our development team and looking for developers passionate about their craft and helping one of the most important sectors get over their terrible addiction to bad enterprise software. We're a small team and you'll have tremendous influence and independence on our tools that thousands of educators use daily.
More details here: https://angel.co/teachboost/jobs/49950-php-javascript-develo...
Contact jason AT teachboost.com if you're interested!