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PHP Hacker for Democracy
3 points by jrr2015 on Jan 22, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments
VC-backed free speech platform needs front-end hacker

The goal of BoredAt is to surface the top thoughts and ideas of communities, attempting to democratize information and shed light on the question 'what are the people around you really thinking?'

Our contextual, uncensored social media company for universities is expanding its student-led pilot project to users at top companies and we're poised for rapid growth

Founded in February 2006, BoredAt took off w/ same trajectory as Facebook and 50% penetration on college campuses

Backed by Redpoint Ventures and Draper Richards

Located in downtown San Mateo

You should join BoredAt if you: Are motivated by solving hard problems Like the idea of working in a small and agile startup environment Appreciate the idea of being one of the first employees in a company with unlimited potential You like to implement features quickly without bureaucratic overhead You start a lot of sentences with "What if.." You don't wait for others to tell you what to do You are awesome

We offer competitive salaries, stock options, healthcare benefits, and an open culture

The Spec:

Looking for talented front-end UI expert. This individual should be able to program all steps required for front-end UI feature and product development which includes:

1. Convert design mockups to cross-browser compatible XHTML/CSS.

2. Build necessary JavaScript required for front-end UI functionality.

3. Develop front-end PHP code for new and existing features.

Mastery in: - XHTML - CSS - JavaScript (OO) - PHP - Heavy DOM manipulation - AJAX via JSON

Knowledge of: - PHP MVC frameworks - Object Oriented application development - Prototype/Scriptaculous JavaScript Packages - Cross-browser compatibility issues and ability to develop solutions - MySQL

Strong plus: - Experience building Flash applications

Availability: Full-time Location: downtown San Mateo, next to Caltrain

Send your resume to [email protected] No recruitment agencies, please




"poised for rapid growth"

we don't take kindly to your kind round here


super, thanks!


"Founded in February 2006, BoredAt took off w/ same trajectory as Facebook and 50% penetration on college campuses"

Thank you for the comic relief.


your welcome


you're


You just posted this four days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100030

And it was duly voted up.

I think you could stand to wait a few months prior to posting again.


ok, thanks for the advice




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