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Cardbox | $60k part-time (20hr/wk) | Remote (PST ±5) | Fullstack, Rails & React.JS | https://getcardbox.com/

Cardbox is one of the fastest-growing power-ups for Trello (100,000+ installs).

Bootstrapped, no plans to raise VC. This is the first hire, you'll be working alongside myself. I was technical founder of Yardsale (YC S11, acq. 2015), and lead technical advisor for HBO Silicon Valley (s3).

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Stack: React.JS, Rails, and Redis to coordinate 1m+ synchronizations per day. Most of the UI runs in an iframe on Trello.com, which requires cross domain considerations [1].

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There are plenty of tools to add Kanban boards to Gmail, and they're all pretty successful. Kanban boards are better than lists for organizing workflows.

But Cardbox is the first to do the inverse. We add a Gmail inbox to Trello. Other tools can only support some subset of Trello features, usually poorly.

This 1) is harder to build (so more valuable), 2) offers better UX than a Trello knock-off, and 3) works with existing integrations, so it benefits from Trello's significant network effects.

Lastly, Gmail is missing from Trello as a built-in feature but present in almost every competitor (e.g. Monday.com). They will either build or buy this, so it's important to move fast.

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Contact ed+hn@getcardbox.com for more info

[1] - Learn more about power-ups at https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/trello/guides/power-up...




I wish there were more opportunities like this. IME it's very hard to find part-time jobs that pay reasonably (pro-rata), but it seems it could offer a great work/life balance especially with the remote factor.


Agreed 100%. I would love the opportunity to work 20 hrs a week with a reasonable hourly rate. I have a side business which has been getting neglected due to the mental (and time) demand of my fulltime job. If I had experience in Rails I'd jump on this but all my experience is in the .NET realm.


Interesting product, looks similar to kanbanmail.app although kanbanmail does not make nearly as much as your company probably does.


I love the idea behind this, it looks great.




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