Staffjoy is shutting down

In 2015 we started Staffjoy with the goal of creating flexibility for workers and businesses. The project began as an automated scheduling algorithm that I started as a college senior project. We found first customers in on-demand startups, which needed help managing growing…

Denouement

Today, we are filing the Certificate of Dissolution for Staffjoy. Since announcing our shutdown, I have been busy. I helped our former team transition, and they now all have accepted stable contract work or jobs. I open-sourced ten repos of our code on Github (see below). I published the pitch decks we used…

Retro on the Julia Programming Language

When we launched Staffjoy last year, we were one of the first commercial users of the Julia programming language. With the publication of our Mobius algorithm last month, I am sad to share that Staffjoy no longer uses Julia. In this post, I will share what…

Staffjoy’s Pitch Decks That Raised $1.7M

Staffjoy is shutting down. This post is a part of our efforts to open source parts of our startup journey.

To raise money for a company, you pitch potential investors on your business. They evaluate it on a variety of metrics such as…

Staffjoy’s V2 Architecture

Summary

• Docker on Kubernetes using Google Container Engine

The Design Journey of Staffjoy V2

Background

How Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence Overlap

Operations Research (OR) uses advanced analysis to make decisions by drawing heavily on mathematics, computer science, and business. It rose to prominence in military and industry during World War II as it was used to optimize…

Don’t Migrate Databases Automatically

When we started Staffjoy, the original continuous deployment script automatically migrated schemas in our MySQL database prior to deploying the application version. However, with Staffjoy V2, we stopped automated database migrations in favor of manual migrations.

Staffjoy’s YC Fellowship Application

Staffjoy is shutting down. This post is a part of our efforts to open source parts of our startup journey.

On July 20, 2015, Y Combinator announced a new program called the Fellowship. It was a shorter accelerator program for earlier-stage…

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