Incomparable Things is looking for talented developers to grow our engineering team as first employees. Our mission is to inspire adventures that get people outside, active, and feeling alive. This drives our product as well as our lifestyle. We follow our sense of adventure in travel, recreation, and work, and are looking for teammates who do the same. We're fresh out of the Nike+ Accelerator powered by TechStars and are moving quickly towards launch.

Read more about our product here: http://www.geekwire.com/2013/nike-accelerator-spotlight-tote...

We're looking for people with the following skills:

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iOS Developer w/ a Sixth Sense for UX You will be responsible for leading development of our iOS application and contributing to product design and user interface decisions.

You should have: * Experience building and launching native applications on iOS. These should be available in the App Store or be personal projects that you can share and demonstrate. * Experience building apps driven by web services is a plus. * Strong user experience sensibilities. You will have significant influence in defining interface and interactions. * The flexibility to learn and implement new technologies. * The desire to collaborate, move fast, and build something meaningful to you and to the world.

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Rails Developer + Scalable Infrastructure Architect You will be responsible for maintaining and continuing development of our web API as well as designing our back end infrastructure to scale with growing demand.

You should have: * Significant experience developing web applications and API's using Ruby on Rails. * Experience designing and scaling back end infrastructure on AWS or equivalent cloud services. * Knowledge to manage and optimize MySQL databases and queries * Experience in machine learning and statistical analysis is a big plus. * The flexibility to learn and implement new technologies. * The desire to collaborate, move fast, and build something meaningful to you and to the world.

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We are offering competitive salary, meaningful equity, and the opportunity to step into leadership positions as our company grows. Please contact nick@incomparablethings.com with a short summary of your experience to start the conversation and learn more about us.

How did you like Portland? Are you sticking around or are the positions in New York?

NYC - iOS / Mobile Developer - Incomparable Things

We are a three person team just out of the Nike+ Accelerator powered by TechStars and moving fast towards launch. Our product provides a new way for people to discover and share outdoor adventures that get them active and feeling alive.

You are an engineer with proven experience on iOS, as well as a passion for taking on new technologies across the stack and learning fast. You want a position that offers a significant role and responsibility in shaping product, opportunities for growth and leadership, and meaningful equity.

We're looking for the right fit to grow our team and contribute to our culture. Contact nick@incomparablethings.com for more information and to get to know us a little better.

Fair, but dismissing a thread that could be really valuable to entrepreneurs considering applying isn't great behavior either.

This is partly true. Start-Up Chile makes a big effort to bring in speakers and mentors. That being said, Santiago isn't Silicon Valley, and Start-Up Chile doesn't have the network of a YCombinator or TechStars. I'll also say that outside of formal mentoring, there is a lot of value in the community of international entrepreneurs that take part.

I'm also participating in the current round and happy to answer questions. Start-Up Chile isn't for everyone, but it is an awesome opportunity if the fit is right and a great way to experience a new part of the world.

I picture a payments system on Facebook being geared to person-to-person payments and web payments, not in store, mobile payments. Need to pay back a friend for dinner, split the rent, pitch in for a co-workers gift? FB is a natural place. These type of payments could make people very used to paying with FB as well, potentially opening the door for use in more traditional payment scenarios. Year after year I've been surprised that nothing like this has emerged on FB.

But what about Facebook makes them positioned to do this? They're Contact list? That's openly available to devs.

If I'm paying a friend, why not use PayPal, or Bump, or just cash?

The contact list, consumer trust, and appropriate context. A third-party developer offering this has the significant challenge of making users trust them with a payment. People know Facebook and (most) trust them. PayPal or Bump are options, but are distanced from social interactions. I'd be interested to see the usage numbers from younger consumers, as I also imagine (with no data to back me up) that not many teenagers or college students use PayPal. As for cash, again it's an option, but it's pretty clear the world is going plastic. There's a reason Square is a big deal.

The contact list is part of Facebook's open API. They give it away for free.

As far as Facebook being trusting in terms of commerce, well... I don't buy it.

http://threatmetrix.com/study-reveals-only-a-quarter-of-cons...

Also - anyone remember Facebook Marketplace? Me neither. It's been stagnating for years.

Indeed, but this time someone is actually making a profit! That's a refreshing change.

Pandora's problem is that they are locked into paying royalties on every song they stream. So as their listenership and total ad market increases, so do their costs. So far they've managed to scale their profits with the rising costs, but that might not be possible in the future. From their S-1:

SoundExchange, has consistently established royalty rates that would, if paid by us, consume an unsustainable percentage of our revenue. If we are unable to reach a new agreement with SoundExchange for the period after 2015, our operating costs may significantly increase, which could harm our financial condition and inhibit the implementation of our business plan. [http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1230276/0001193125111...]

Earbits instead makes new agreements with artists and labels which allow them to stream music without royalty costs in return for marketing the musician. The important difference is their focus on independent, and the fact that they aren't selling generic ads against the music.

This doesn't prove anything about the quality of a 'startup idea' It just proves that you are able to convince a small number of people to drop five bucks. I don't see how that has a correlation to the future success of a business.

This would be much more interesting if it were pitched as a way to build a group of active early adopters. Pledging to an idea should give the user some perks from the start, and you should make it easy for the companies collecting pledges to incentivize these users.

You're completely right, and also just described Kickstarter.com :)

Although... kickstarter does seem a bit more oriented to creative and industrial endeavors than, say web app startups.

It'd also be cool to give the start-ups ideas of what kind of perks they could offer early adopters. I thought lunch with a founder was a fun idea, but I had trouble thinking of perks that were genuinely worthwhile and incentivizing.

I've got to admit, the board game idea for the ipad is pretty cool. In general, though, I'm not convinced I see the game market for the ipad being as large as it is on the iphone. A phone is in your pocket when you're on the bus, in the waiting room, or in the bathroom (you know you do it). These are perfect opportunities to pull out the device and play a game for a few minutes. I don't see people having as quick of access to the ipad or planning to bring it somewhere just to game on.

That being said, I'm guessing we can assume that the next flash sdk's ability to build for iPhone will extend to the iPad, in which case the games floodgates are going to open regardless.