Taxwire is solving a frustrating problem that every business has to deal with: sales tax. If you haven’t dealt with the problem firsthand: the US alone has over 10,000 legal jurisdictions, each with their own set of rules locked up in outdated government websites and PDFs. Our job is to understand these rules, understand company data, match them together, and build services to automate all the tedious work. We’re using experts, automation, and ML to do this better than it has ever been done.
We have raised a large initial funding round from institutional investors in Ramp, Expensify, and more, and we are hiring our first two engineers. We care deeply about intentionality around remote, async, and writing-first culture, having led fully remote teams and orgs at Series B companies.
This is a great role for someone who wants to work on a seriously painful problem with massive TAM, and someone who loves reverse engineering, data-driven “expert + LLM” systems, and who wants a core role in building a team and company from the ground up.
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On Deck is on a mission to build a modern education institution for the future of work. Today, On Deck has become the place top talent and ambitious builders go to accelerate their ideas and careers, empowered by a world-class community of their peers. Our customers f'ing LOVE us - nearly one in three of our all-time customers have added On Deck to their Twitter bios and/or LinkedIn.
On Deck has just one goal when building product for our community - helping them achieve their personal and professional goals. The goal of our product is to match and connect people with the answers, information, resources, and people to realize their potential.
Day to day:
- The culture is fantastic - one of experimentation, rolling with new ideas, positive sum, ambitious, and service mindset.
- The leadership is stellar - our CTO was previously CTO at Product Hunt and Head of Remote at AngelList.
- We are ~10 engineers spread across the globe, and growing extremely quickly. Many of our engineers were previous entrepreneurs themselves.
- Our customers are incredible people. I feel lucky every day to build for them.
Positions: Senior engineers (Fullstack, ML, DevOps), and lots more. We are also looking for those interested in engineering community & education to design & lead our upcoming Engineering Fellowship.
We work with: TypeScript, Postgres, Next.js, Express
Interested? Not sure if you fit? Email steven@beondeck.com
Yes you can! :)
I just put my email up on my profile, ping me and I'll let you know when the private beta is online! I'm aiming to get an MVP and a landing page online in the coming month.
It is much nicer in general, but what about when used with Codespaces?
My old MBP bricked the other day, and while I wait for a new laptop I’m going to use a random cheap computer to do my dev work. I love the idea of having a full fledged cloud IDE with all the bells and whistles already set up for me. This helps enable that!
EDIT: I made a [Github project](https://github.com/stevenschmatz/did) which adds a few niceties to this blog post, like better dates, no date duplication, and syntax highlighting in Markdown.
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If you want syntax highlighting and better dates, you can use a Markdown file with the following command:
I found that through some careful sleuthing, you can find pretty much any font committed to open-source repositories. So now I have a command-line tool to get any font I want (for personal use only).
> Atom IDE UI is fast and lightweight by design. It extracts only the subset of the core UI features from Nuclide necessary to support Atom’s atom-languageclient library in displaying features supported by the language server protocol.
> These drugs have no accepted medical use and a high potential for dependence and abuse, according to the DEA. Heroin, LSD, and marijuana are in the same category.
This is a pretty absurd comparison, grouping marijuana and heroin in the same category.
Methamphetamine is only Schedule II. You can buy it at Target. There's a fun video of a congressional hearing with the DEA head and a few reps hammer her on this, only to get lots of talking in circles.
With ID, might I add. CVS wouldn't sell me pseudoephedrine using my foreign license, which enraged me. I had to settle for phenylephrine which is a very poor replacement. Mind you, I've bought liquor using that license and never been hassled.
Downvoters: this is literally true. Quote from Nixon policy chief John Erlichman, also in the sibling comment's link:
"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
Wait, it's not what he said. It's what Dan Baum said he said, 22 years after he supposedly said it, 17 years after Ehrlichman died. Since John isn't around to corroborate the story, I guess we just have to take Dan's word on it?
Yes, Erlichman is known to have lied to support his political goals. The quote in question supports that claim.
A quick wiki search finds numerous clinical marijuana and LSD trials conducted in the 50's and 60's suggesting therapeutic applications. The CSA of 1970 classifies these drugs, counter to the then growing body of evidence, as having no known medicinal use.
We know that later, the CIA bought Nicaraguan cocaine specifically to sell in American black inner cities.
We know the US peddles patently absurd, fear and lie based anti-drug propaganda to school children in the form of the DARE program.
We also know, well, everything we currently know about various psychoactive substances.
The consistent thread this weaves is a bit more convincing to me than, "this politician lied about some stuff. Maybe I can't believe anything he's said?"
Peculiar that you are being downvoted for a statement that is (a) true and (b) recently confirmed by John Ehrlichman in a huge recent article in Harpers.
Taxwire is solving a frustrating problem that every business has to deal with: sales tax. If you haven’t dealt with the problem firsthand: the US alone has over 10,000 legal jurisdictions, each with their own set of rules locked up in outdated government websites and PDFs. Our job is to understand these rules, understand company data, match them together, and build services to automate all the tedious work. We’re using experts, automation, and ML to do this better than it has ever been done.
We have raised a large initial funding round from institutional investors in Ramp, Expensify, and more, and we are hiring our first two engineers. We care deeply about intentionality around remote, async, and writing-first culture, having led fully remote teams and orgs at Series B companies.
This is a great role for someone who wants to work on a seriously painful problem with massive TAM, and someone who loves reverse engineering, data-driven “expert + LLM” systems, and who wants a core role in building a team and company from the ground up.
Email me (CTO) at steven+hn@taxwire.co.