Instabridge | Instabridge.com | Several positions | Stockholm, Sweden | onsite, relocation offered
Do you want to bring internet to 4 bn people with no or limited access to the internet? Instabridge is a community of people sharing wifi to bring internet to everyone. We are growing fast and are already live in several markets: Brazil, Mexico and India for example.
We are funded by large investors in the US (Tim Draper) and in Europe (Balderton, Creandum). Learn from some of the best people in the industry. Our team comes from Dropbox, Rovio, Yelp etc.
Read more about working at Instabridge and living in Stockholm here:
Instabridge | Instabridge.com | Several positions | Stockholm, Sweden | Remote or onsite
Instabridge is changing the way people connect to wireless internet on smartphones by crowdsourcing the world’s largest WiFi network. Users all over the world are using our app to find WiFi and get automatically connected to WiFi. We are especially popular in emerging markets where 4G remains expensive and slow.
As noted by another comment in Swedish, that appears to be your project[1]. I don't see anything in the HN guidelines specifically[2], but I think it's customary to include a disclaimer when recommending one's own project. Just might bear that in mind for next time.
How does this list get updated? Do users manually upload the credentials or does it pull them automatically from the currently connected WiFi of the user?
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First of all, it does feel like this solves a genuine problem. Despite standards it still feels like every external API is unique.
With that said, I'm not sure I 100% grasp what Brightwork does from your description and website. Maybe you could describe a specific use case of how it would help me as a developer?
It seems that one of the use cases is easily switching between APIs that serve the same purpose (eg Google Maps to Mapbox). How big a use case do you think this will be? Ie if I use the Facebook API there's is no replacement. I have to use their API if I want to use their platform.
We feel it's a pretty big problem. Are you familiar with Object Relational Mapping (ORM) in the database world? In the past, we coded our solutions direclty to the database technology (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server). I think you'll find most modern solutions leverage an ORM to decouple the database. We are doing the same thing with APIs. Think Email, SMS, Push Notifications, Analytics, Payments, Object Storage and on and on. In each of these verticals there a re multiple providers/APIs that offer similar features. Then think about version to version migrations, mobile and IOT devices. The problem space is pretty big.
Curiously, I've seen a lot of pushback in recent years (post-2012) on the idea that you should use an ORM. Many recent apps are firmly in the "pick a database, use it to its fullest, and stick with it" camp, probably because
a.) a number of new databases have come out recently that don't fit nicely into the SQL query paradigm
b.) many of the early ORMs (Hibernate, ActiveRecord, etc.) had terrible performance and that unfortunately has tarnished the reputation of all ORMs.
and c.) people try to use an abstraction layer, and then they actually switch databases and find out that the abstraction layer hasn't actually saved them any work.
It remains a contentious topic. Most programmers I know who learned to program in the 2000s think that you're crazy if you don't use an ORM, and setting yourself up for a lot of pain. Most programmers I know who learned to program in the 2010s think that you're out of touch if you do, and missing out on many of the new features in their favorite database. Most programmers I know who learned to program in the 1980s look on with amusement, because they know that the tech industry is driven by fads and you're screwed no matter what you do, so just muddle your way through it as best you can.
Be aware of this as you craft your messaging to different groups: this is not an effective comparison for the post-Node, post-mobile-app developers I know.
Makes sense. This explanation was much better than what was on your website. Maybe you should describe yourself as the "ORM for APIs". A bit geeky maybe but would make developers get it.
Thanks for the kind words. We're pretty excited about the platform.
For our first sets of APIs we'll probably focus on payment since this is where we've heard consistently that this is a struggle. Either users cannot effectively switch easily or they want to use more than one. So we're focusing there.
As for APIs that may not have another solution like Facebook, not sure there's much we can do there. We're offering social integration for FB, Twitter, Github, etc.
Another great use case is Analytics. On a recent project we started out using Facebook Analytics, switched to Google (code change everywhere) then wanted to move to MixPanel (again lot of code change). Would be great if there was a single API that allowed me to change the backend API seamlessly. Essentially an abstraction layer.
Yeah we've heard this as a big painpoint as well. We will be offering some basic usage information ourselves that we can abstract, but it would be good to be able to give more flexibility here. Definitely on our roadmap!
Wouldn't it make more sense to abstract away the analytics code in your app and write it as an independent entity and then just implement an entity gateway for all the providers you want to support?
You can abstract in your code using a Provider pattern but if this product can provide it out of the box along with the other features I wouldn't spend time on coding the Abstraction.
Really weird to read this being someone who is using the Expensify app on a daily basis. Super simple, I just photo the receipts as I go about during the month and then at the beginning of the next month I create my expense report.
For me the main pain point of expenses is feeding the data into the archaic web app the company uses for expenses and matching every receipt with the right project number and project activity. Any solution that doesn't remove my need to interact with that web app isn't solving my main problem.
LOL - totally. However, their interface actually looked sexy compared to expensify. But epensify works and I can use it on desktop....that's the killer. The mobile app is awesome for capturing but I like desktop for putting together reports.
Ultimately - I believe in Expensify's VISION - which is to GET RID OF EXPENSE REPORTS!
That's why I'll stick with Expensify - and I'm now at my third company that I am bringing it into....that is how software expands its footprint. By excited users bringing it into new businesses.
Stockholm, Sweden (relocation services available) | Instabridge | On Site | Several positions
Instabridge is creating "the SIM-card for WiFi". Just as you can plug in a 4G SIM-card in your phone and get 4G wherever Instabridge gets you seamlessly connected to free WiFi crowdsourced by our community. We're crowdsourcing the world’s largest WiFi network and just passed 1m registered users.
We are recruiting for a number of roles. All roles are based in Stockholm, Sweden but we are happy to relocate people from all over the world here. We are an international team and English is the day-to-day language in the office.
Stockholm, Sweden (relocation offered) | Instabridge | On Site | Several positions
Instabridge is creating "the SIM-card for WiFi". Just as you can plug in a 4G SIM-card in your phone and get 4G wherever Instabridge gets you seamlessly connected to free WiFi crowdsourced by our community. We're crowdsourcing the world’s largest WiFi network and are just about to pass 1M users.
We are recruiting for a number of roles. All roles are based in Stockholm, Sweden but we are happy to relocate people from all over the world here. We are an international team and english is the day-to-day language in the office.
Do you want to bring internet to 4 bn people with no or limited access to the internet? Instabridge is a community of people sharing wifi to bring internet to everyone. We are growing fast and are already live in several markets: Brazil, Mexico and India for example.
We are funded by large investors in the US (Tim Draper) and in Europe (Balderton, Creandum). Learn from some of the best people in the industry. Our team comes from Dropbox, Rovio, Yelp etc.
Read more about working at Instabridge and living in Stockholm here:
https://jobs.instabridge.com
We are recruiting for several positions:
UX Designer https://jobs.instabridge.com/jobs/66247-ux-designer
Lead Data Scientist https://jobs.instabridge.com/jobs/60087-lead-data-scientist
QA Engineer https://jobs.instabridge.com/jobs/60526-qa-engineer
Senior Android Developer https://jobs.instabridge.com/jobs/4111-senior-android-develo...
Data Engineer https://jobs.instabridge.com/jobs/4167-data-engineer
Senior Backend developer https://jobs.instabridge.com/jobs/4166-senior-backend-develo...