Bluecode | Remote | Full-time | Head of Engineering, Elixir Dev
Bluecode (https://bluecode.com) is building a European payment scheme, mobile-first, fully anonymous. Home markets are Austria and Germany. We recently raised a $20M round to continue our mission. Tech stack is Elixir/Postgres/AWS/K18.
Happy to answer any questions. The idea originated from a client project where we replaced a legacy rails app with a 20mbyte Excel report that was updated with a script every x hours. Since then I can't get enough of Excel.
Are thieves an issue here? The parts might valuable in these low-income countries. When drones land to drop down goods, they are quite "vulnerable" for a thieve to catch them. Getting them from the air shouldn't be a problem too. There's even a sport for that too (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdIHOV6VGNU#t=196).
2'500 CHF is about the budget for a student life-style in Zurich. I expect a lot of young Swiss going on long holidays to cheaper places like south-east asia or eastern europe.
It's super popular all over south-east asia. One of the reasons are the cute and fun "stickers" that can convey 80% of your daily emotions and situations. Stuck in overcrowded subway? there's a sticker for that.
WeChat is also super popular in SEA. So we have Line from Japan, WeChat from China, KakaoTalk from Korea as the leading contenders in Asia. You see TV commercials of the apps endorsed by celebrities. They are evolving from simple chat app to a full social platform with own apps and games. You can say they compete with Facebook. I overheard a teen asking his friend why he is still using Facebook. Social apps to the teens might not be utility, more like clubs. And they want to be associated with cool clubs of the day.
You can add Whatsapp to that list, in Hong Kong at least. It's the dominant messaging app here and the company claims 50% penetration, although it's not clear by what measure.
WeChat and Line are definitely growing though. Not sure about elsewhere, but they've both been marketing pretty aggressively of late with TV and print commercials, billboards, store promotions etc.
They're sorted into packs or sets, each set with 24-40 stickers. You swipe between packs, and then between pages of 8 stickers. It's quite fast in practice, and you get used to what emotions can be expressed in each set. They also structure the sticker pages so that happy is towards the beginning, sad midway through, etc.
Bluecode (https://bluecode.com) is building a European payment scheme, mobile-first, fully anonymous. Home markets are Austria and Germany. We recently raised a $20M round to continue our mission. Tech stack is Elixir/Postgres/AWS/K18.
- Head of Engineering (Remote, within EU timezone) https://apply.workable.com/bluecode/j/0C50839757/
- Senior Elixir Developer (Fully remote) https://apply.workable.com/bluecode/j/0664DF1081/