We're creating the first b2b neo-telco - a pure software phone network to help companies manage their connectivity as easy as saas. We're already a full MVNO in the UK, and will be launching later this year. We've also secured an agreement with a US network and will launch there next year all going well. We have an early large set of engaged prospective customers and need to get the product out ASAP and start iterating.
We're two founders, myself as the technical founder, and my cofounder is on the business side. I'm looking to bring in a great full-stack engineer who can help speed up development. We're in person by default, but flexible day-to-day, with an office in Farringdon.
Our stack is: TypeScript, SST, React, Postgres.
Package: £60K – £110K +meaningful equity as first hire
Hey HN! I'm working on Voop - a b2b phone network, leveraging eSIM & web-based UI we're turning company mobile connectivity into a SaaS. Has been really fun as an engineer getting into the telco stack - networks, switches and traffic routing take me back to university - and commercially it's been fun negotiating with the mobile networks to get wholesale access. Launching later this year in the UK and US next year, can't wait to get it off the ground.
One early achievement was buying voop.com - a very nice man in Arizona had held it since the 90s, and despite being retracted on whois, i worked out how to contact him via his custom ssl certificate on the empty holding site parked at the root domain. After a few emails and follow ups to get a response, I bought it for a not-cheap-but-not-bank-breaking amount.
It's a hard problem to solve, which doesn't have any fool-proof solutions (yet?).
Imagine, someone creates a centralized Twitter and a decentralized Twitter. How can you connect them two and being able to trust any data you receive 3rd-hand which is supposed to originate from the centralized version? The only information you can really trust, is the one you get from the centralized version, as it was built with that principle in mind, that you get it first-hand.
Similar problem with hooking together two monetary systems, one which is centralized and one which is decentralized. How could you include a centralized system within the decentralized one without making trade-offs that could potentially ruin the whole integration?
There are attempts at it, but as the problem is generally hard to solve (cryptocurrencies or tweets or any other data structure), it's hard to solve with cryptocurrencies as well.
I think a set of individuals having legal privilege by virtue of bloodline, as well as being state sponsored by tax revenue (regardless of absolute cost), is pretty anti-democratic. And yes, elected is literally democratic?
Atellio is on a mission to remove all dull admin from the creative process - currently focused on photo and video production and powering the studios of the world's biggest brands.
We're just coming out of stealth mode and hiring out across London and LA, with tech team in London
Yeah, I think MetaMask is definitely the smoothest way to integrate any kind of Ethereum apps at the moment. I use it as a temporary wallet just for when I need to use dapps like this. Just send in a small amount and use it for whatever you need to do.
I guess it could be used as a serious wallet though. They give you a recovery seed so even if your computer was destroyed, you could get the backup. The only concern would be if someone got your laptop and cracked your passcode, they would have access to your funds.
We're creating the first b2b neo-telco - a pure software phone network to help companies manage their connectivity as easy as saas. We're already a full MVNO in the UK, and will be launching later this year. We've also secured an agreement with a US network and will launch there next year all going well. We have an early large set of engaged prospective customers and need to get the product out ASAP and start iterating.
We're two founders, myself as the technical founder, and my cofounder is on the business side. I'm looking to bring in a great full-stack engineer who can help speed up development. We're in person by default, but flexible day-to-day, with an office in Farringdon.
Our stack is: TypeScript, SST, React, Postgres.
Package: £60K – £110K +meaningful equity as first hire
Email me at nick at voop dot com