I’ve been working on a little project over the past month… a big expansion to Boston Startups Guide, my site dedicated to bringing more attention to Boston startups and the resources & community around them. BSG’s all about collecting, curating, and organizing information about Boston’s gigantic tech scene. Ironically, the tech in that tech scene has been one of the least accessible sets of information out there.
So I reached out to the engineering leaders at a number of the 700+ startups (from early-stage to scale-stage) I’ve curated on BSG so far, and did my own parsing through their Boston-based engineering job posts. And now you can browse, search, and read any contributed highlights from the tech stacks of over 200 built-in-Boston startups.
The highlights format is my attempt at providing more context than what you’d find in most job posts, while not going into a full by-application-layer-walkthrough.
The technology tags are specific, curated, and standardized. Languages, frameworks, popular libraries & tools (particularly in DevOps) are all represented here. You can click through to browse all the startups I’ve discovered using that tech.
I’m particularly hoping this information will help:
- Developers looking for new opportunities see which startups are using the tech they have expertise in, and the tech they’d like to do more with.
- Engineering leaders learn about local peers using the same stack.
- Event & meetup organizers find the companies who could support and participate in the tech-specific communities they’re building.
- Students dig deeper into the languages, frameworks, and tools they’ll be using in their career.
There’s more to come.
As with other resources on BSG, the tech stacks section is an ongoing project. I’ll be updating it regularly with new startups & new information. If you work at a startup, you’re welcome to tell us more about the tech you use any time. It doesn’t cost anything to be included or have highlights listed; BSG only charges for posts on our job board, to support the development of this and other features on the site.
If you have feedback on how I can improve the tags, I’d love to hear it. And I’m looking for someone in the hardware community who can help me understand what tags make sense for Boston’s many robotics, 3D-printing, and consumer electronic companies.
If you’d like to stay in the loop about updates to BSG, follow us on twitter or LinkedIn. And if you like the resource I’ve put together, please spread the word — every tweet, Facebook link, mailing list post, and Medium ❤ helps show more people the awesome companies, jobs, events, and resources in Boston’s startup scene.
Thanks for your support!
