We just launched a product called Upscoop that is really cool. The premise of the site: upload your contacts from your email address book and see what social networking and online community sites your friends use.
We’re featured on TechCrunch. Check it out here:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/26/stalk-your-contact-list-with-upscoop/
Go here to see the Upscoop blog.
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And if you have any comments, questions, or concerns, please email us at:
help@upscoop.com
We’d love to hear what you have to say about Upscoop
The Upscoop blog is officially launched! It’s appropriately titled “99% Searched” because we’re always going to keep searching (never finishing).So we’ve been beta testing Upscoop for the past few weeks now. What is Upscoop you say?Upscoop is going to change the game. Upload your email address book and find out what social networking sites your friends use. It’s as simple as that.
Thus far, we’ve had people say the following:
“Much easier than searching each networking site” – Jeff L.
“A cool way to have a ‘social networks hub” of sorts.’ – Valerie R.
“I could find a person I was unable to locate previously for the past four years.” – Jay S.
Intrigued yet? You’ll just have to wait until Upscoop publicly launches before you can try it out yourself. Rest assured, you’ll find yourself thinking “Holy smokes, [insert name] is on [insert site]? I didn’t know that.”
The SF Chronicle recently put out an article on startups that penny-pinch in this post-bubble era (compared to the excess of the Web 1.0). And yes, we made the cut (you’ll need to scroll 2/3 of the way down).
We can proudly say that we are really cheap. Dirt cheap. You won’t see us spending thousands of dollars on launch parties. That money could be better used to add more hardware.
We share office space with another startup and that drives our costs down. Our landlord wanted $230 for an official sign on our door…we told them we’ll hold on that (we’d rather use that money to buy more hardware).
We even steal office supplies from our own home and bring them to work. Is that considered theft? No, that’s considered being lean, mean, and Rapleaf green! And more green equates to longevity.
We’re looking for another amazing software engineer. Right now we’re a team of seven…that would make him/her employee #8. And that equates to high cash compensation, high equity, and mucho responsibilities. Testimonials from some of our other engineers:
“I love Rapleaf” - Manish
“Working at Rapleaf changed my life” - Dayo
“My quality of life has increased 1000%” - Jeremy
Enough said…check out the job spec:
Rapleaf recently raised a $1 MM angel round from the top angels in Silicon Valley led by Peter Thiel (former founder and CEO of PayPal), Eric Di Benedetto, Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut, and Ron Conway. We’ll be raising a venture round this spring … so this is an opportunity to join pre-VC. You will be one of the key hires.
The goal: To make it more profitable to be ethical
The criteria:
- You’re a kick-butt coder. You take no prisoners. You’re a master of all things Internet. You’re one of the best coders you know.
- You can learn new languages fast (we use Ruby on Rails but if you don’t know this, you can learn it fast)
- You should have a strong desire to build a more ethical society
- You want to be an early employee and want to be a real owner in Rapleaf’s future
- Intensely driven and proactive person
- Extremely hard working. This is a start-up. We work 70-80 hour weeks you should too.
- Quick learner and real doer (and you err on execution over strategy)
- You thrive on working with A-players and you’re too good to spend 70+ hrs/wk with B-players
- People like you and like working with you
- You thrive on chaos, risk, and uncertainty
- Should be easy to get along with, nice, fun, smart, ethical, and low-maintenance
- All levels of experiences should apply (0-25+ years experience)The role:
- Building out Rapleaf’s next set of ground-breaking features
- Building algorithms to detect and attack fraud
- Changing the world and making it more profitable to be ethicalThe location:
- Downtown San Francisco, at New Montgomery and Mission (near BART, MUNI, every conceivable restaurant, etc.)
- You should want to live in or near San Francisco (we’ll move you if you’re not already here)The compensation:
- High cash comp | high equity — we are willing to pay for the best talent.
- We’re happy to pay you significantly more than your current job. Our philosophy: A players rock. So have fewer people and pay them more.The additional perks:
- Your own MacBook Pro or Windows based machine.
- Kitchen stocked with food
We’re only looking for people that really want to change the world.Interested? Please email your resume to jobs@rapleaf.com
(and be sure to sign up for Rapleaf if you are not already a member)p.s. - If you are not interested, we pay $10,007 referral bonus if you refer us to the person we hire. We’re happy to pay you directly or to send the money to your favorite approved charity (NOTE: Human Fund does not count).
