Raremarq (raremarq.com) is building the Stripe for Auctions — a no-code/low-code platform that lets brands, creators, and businesses embed auctions and dynamic pricing directly into their stores. Our auction engine already powers real-time bidding, payments, and fulfillment for tens of thousands of users, helping sellers earn millions. We’re backed by notable investors including LAUNCH (Jason Calacanis) and Blockchain Founders Capital with more to be announced soon. Our founding team is ex-Google and ex-Amazon, and we’ve been founding employees at multiple startups.
We’re hiring a Founding Engineer to join as one of our first hires. You’ll own the evolution of our core API — taking it from an internal product to a public developer platform powering auctions, bidding, payments, and notifications anywhere on the internet. The stack includes TypeScript (Hono, SvelteKit), Convex, Stripe/PayPal, and modern developer tooling.
The ideal candidate has 4+ years of software engineering experience, strong API design skills, and familiarity with payments, databases, and full-stack frameworks. This person should be eager to take the vision of “Stripe for Auctions” and make it their own with the goal of building a best-in-class, developer-facing platform that can help millions of businesses. Bonus points for experience building developer platforms and/or early-stage startup experience.
We offer competitive salary, founding engineer-level equity, full healthcare, unlimited PTO, and a remote-first culture. Interested? Apply here: https://forms.gle/KnwFTiTigyQnXrzy9
Just applied with my marketplace nerdcrawler.com (easiest way for artists to auction their art and earn 4x more starting with comic artists). Since launching in January 2024, registered users are growing at 40% MoM; we've generated >$148K in GMV and ~$10K in revenue (>350% CMGR).
Applied twice in the past. Got 1 interview and 2 rejections. But, this is the best traction I've ever had so I hope third time's the charm.
It might not be, but I couldn't find much about the topic so I figured I'd write it up and share. And you're right that this may be a bit of whack-a-mole, but for now I've cut my bandwidth down which means I may be able to downgrade my cloudinary plan to a lower tier, which is a big win for me since it accounts for like 20-30% of my total operating cost
ClaudeBot (second worst crawler) and GPTBot are the only ones that identify themselves in an obvious way. The rest I am blocking by network. I assume AI when the crawler is very aggressively downloading images - it must be costing them an absolute fortune!
Yeah...I suck at optimizing for dark mode and I think I'm about to get too much traffic from this post so I can't fix it right now. Probably a tomorrow task haha
I’ve been an early beta tester of rubberduck for a few months now and it’s come along way! I started by taking the Rails class to test my knowledge and then Cam added a bunch of new classes and RubberDuck has become another fun game I play a bit every day.
Comic drops can be valuable if there's a rare print run, but what Nerd Crawler focuses on is the original art for comics. For example: there might be 100,000 copies of a 22 page comic called X-Men #50. Drops for the 100,000 are less valuable, but when 1 of the 22 pages goes on sale then it's REALLY valuable because once that 1 page is done you can't get it again until the new owner sells it. Nerd Crawler exists to let you know when the artist puts that 1 page on sale so you can get it.
Not exactly. I don't store anything; instead, I just send an email and/or text alert to a user if an update is detected on a page they've selected.
The main gap it's solving for is that great original comic art is usually sold within minutes of dropping so a passive RSS feed isn't great. You need the alert quickly to decide if you're buying or not so the email/text alerts help with that.
Raremarq (raremarq.com) is building the Stripe for Auctions — a no-code/low-code platform that lets brands, creators, and businesses embed auctions and dynamic pricing directly into their stores. Our auction engine already powers real-time bidding, payments, and fulfillment for tens of thousands of users, helping sellers earn millions. We’re backed by notable investors including LAUNCH (Jason Calacanis) and Blockchain Founders Capital with more to be announced soon. Our founding team is ex-Google and ex-Amazon, and we’ve been founding employees at multiple startups.
We’re hiring a Founding Engineer to join as one of our first hires. You’ll own the evolution of our core API — taking it from an internal product to a public developer platform powering auctions, bidding, payments, and notifications anywhere on the internet. The stack includes TypeScript (Hono, SvelteKit), Convex, Stripe/PayPal, and modern developer tooling.
The ideal candidate has 4+ years of software engineering experience, strong API design skills, and familiarity with payments, databases, and full-stack frameworks. This person should be eager to take the vision of “Stripe for Auctions” and make it their own with the goal of building a best-in-class, developer-facing platform that can help millions of businesses. Bonus points for experience building developer platforms and/or early-stage startup experience.
We offer competitive salary, founding engineer-level equity, full healthcare, unlimited PTO, and a remote-first culture. Interested? Apply here: https://forms.gle/KnwFTiTigyQnXrzy9