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Funded social impact venture seeking founding developer

Hi Indie Hackers! Roote, a recently launched nonprofit startup studio, is hiring a founding developer to build a project called Tweetscape! Here's our vision.

The TL;DR is that the internet has a tremendous information problem. For every bit of useful information, there are 1000's of bits of bad information—clickbait, fake news, affiliate content, misinformation, spinned articles, etc.

Tweetscape's mission is to solve this problem, starting with Twitter. We'll analyze measures of account trustworthiness and content quality to display the best Tweets and external links for any given topic. We then plan on expanding to improve the broader information ecosystem on the web.

If this sounds interesting, feel free to leave a comment or email careers@roote.co with information about yourself and why you're interested in helping found Tweetscape! We're searching for someone to lead the product, UI/UX, and technical development of the app. We plan on offering $75k/year, equity if we spin Tweetscape out as a for-profit, and a chance to greatly improve humanity's epistemic commons. Here's a link to a longer description of the opportunity.

on January 28, 2022
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    Looks like you going a bit sideways with the tech stack and the opensource approach, but it is a good idea, hopefully you can make it happen.

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      Thanks for the thoughts Nikolay! Just reviewed the tech stack described in the job description. What tech stack would you recommend? Do you mean that directly using HTML and CSS is a bit dated, and we should go with something like Next.js?

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        The tech stack in general depends on your CTO, but in general it is a good idea to stay away from hype tech (python) and things that are in a process of being replaced (JavaScript), native app development (Kotlin & Swift) and messy tech (Angular, React, PHP)
        but again, the CTO is the one responsible to selecting the tech and running the team that builds it, if only 1 person will be building it better find someone that have experience building bigger things with a team or you going to end up with a mess that no one but the original dev can handle and that will practically kill any progress in the future