Blog for https://findwork.co/

Apr 28, 2017

Handling false memory leaks

For the past few months, we have gotten infrequent alerts from Librato regarding hitting our memory usage threshold (600MB/1024MB). Up until today, I thought it was a slow memory leak (likely due to previously seeing articles like Eran Hammer’s Walmart Labs post) but it turns…

Todd Wolfson

Mar 30, 2017

Testing the invisible

When I started dogfooding Find Work, I found an annoying invisible issue. Try to spot it in the screenshot below:

Todd Wolfson

Mar 19, 2017

How I Find Work

Everyone’s job search is different but I think some insight can be gained (especially for new grads) from sharing our approaches. This article will document my job search from start to finish.

Todd Wolfson

Mar 13, 2017

Password-less login, continued

Last Thursday we wrote “Password-less login”, detailing our plans for building a password-less email login into Find Work. We had an ulterior motive to collect opinions from outside our organization so we can find any major flaws.

Todd Wolfson

Mar 9, 2017

Password-less login

Update: We received a lot of feedback and wrote a continuation here.

During the creation of Find Work, we used Google Sign-In for quick prototyping. Now that we have launched, we need to support more than Google users so we are adding email-based login. After some…

Designing Find Work

Now that we have launched, we can talk about our design process freely. This article is going to cover what happened from start to finish.

First things first, I’m a proponent of making things open source so here’s our mockups:

Todd Wolfson

Feb 28, 2017

Find Work is live!

It’s finally happened, we have launched our site!

https://findwork.co/

There are a bunch of small tasks remaining (e.g. removing unused icons from FontAwesome, year-tolerant date formatting) as well as a handful of larger features (e.g. email…

Todd Wolfson

Feb 12, 2017

First fire drill and post-mortem

We just had our first fire drill and we haven’t even launched yet. Thankfully it was relatively easy to patch, it was great practice, and it highlighted some areas for improvement.

What happened

Todd Wolfson

Feb 10, 2017

Getting closer to launch

We are finally out of the woods; our database is hooked up and emails are being sent. We have a bunch of small tasks before we can launch but we are definitely closing in. Here’s the abridged changelog since our last update:

September: Database setup, secret…

Todd Wolfson

Sep 25, 2016

Back to the grindstone

I returned to the USA a month ago. Berlin was lots of fun und jetzt ich kann ein bisschen Deutsch sprechen. Unfortunately I didn’t work much on the project while staying there.

After working for a few days, I came to the conclusion that my time would be better…

Todd Wolfson

May 18, 2016

3 month update

As the title suggests, it’s been 3 months since I started on this project. I have under 2 weeks left until my departure for Berlin. I’m certain that I won’t be launched but I am content with my progress thus far.

Progress since March 22

Todd Wolfson

Mar 22, 2016

Designs completed, prototyping next

It’s been approximately 5 weeks since we started our experiment. Today, we finished the first iteration of design across the entire site and its emails.

This took longer than I expected but I think it’s pretty good for my first time…

Todd Wolfson

Feb 26, 2016

Company goals

While I have stated that the point of this experiment is to build and launch a product, I feel like I haven’t stated my other goals.

Low employee count

From my observations/experience, most startups want to grow fast both in revenue and…

Todd Wolfson

Feb 26, 2016

First 2 weeks

This is now the second Friday of my first 2 weeks of experimenting with starting a company. I wanted to write this last week but I got horribly sick on Thursday/Friday last week =(

Overall, I feel like I’m going slower than I should but am confident in either finishing or…

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