Last week I thought "oh I should totally do devrel for this place" and it was a place I respected.
The recruitment challenge is "find some ideas for this API." Fine. I read the API. I get to know the space a bit.
I have come to the understanding that I just don't get the design of this service and in reality what they are looking for is someone who is intimately familiar with the product already to come and work on it full time.
This actually matches up perfectly with my experience the last time I applied -- I got through their project just fine but I lacked an intimate knowledge of the usage and failure points of the product, so I wasn't interesting to them.
I was mildly encouraged by someone I know to go and apply for this but I just
I looked at this API for four goddamn days trying to think of clever uses for it and the service it backs. I came up with a few that might work but quickly fall apart because it's orthogonal to the operating model of the service.
indrora, hacker at small /
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