Help Us Build the Future of the Web

“[Ideaflow] is a key step to realizing the potential of the Web as a medium for collective intelligence.”
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Marty Weiner, Former CTO, Reddit
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Hiring Key Roles

Our mission

How can we solve problems too big to fit in any individual's head?

Ray Kurzweil projects that, by 2045, humanity will be hooked up to a "shared neocortex in the cloud" by brain-computer interfaces. We will leave the brain-computer interfaces to Elon Musk, but we believe it’s possible to build that "shared brain" now, and that it might look different than many imagine.

We're starting by creating a notebook that augments the user's intelligence.

We want to create a future where nobody feels alone with their ideas, where intellectual soulmates find each other,  where superconnectors are empowered. We see our software as critical to creating the frame for humans and machines to work together to solve the world's most important problems.

With a raise of $10 million and the backing of prominent thought-leaders in the field, we are ready to take on these challenges. We are looking for fearlessly creative individuals who can fall in love with personal information management systems with us – which we see as integral to the destiny of the Web.

Advisors

Naval Ravikant

Founder of AngelList

Joe Lonsdale

Founder of Palantir

Marty Weiner

Former CTO of Reddit

Tim Draper

Founder of Draper Associates

Kelvin Beachum Jr.

Investor, Humanitarian, NFL Player

Alysia Silberg

Street Global Ventures, Unemployable AI

Team

Jacob Cole

CEO

Past: MIT Media Lab; researcher with Tim Berners-Lee. Venture Partner at Outliers Fund.

Taylor Mitchell

Engineering Lead

R Phillip Castagna, III

Engineering Lead

Phil Filippak

Full Stack Engineer

Sid Mani

Full Stack Engineer

Piyush Jha

Full Stack Engineer

Wendell Yamada

QA Engineer

Cody Hergenroeder

Operations

Agustin Seguí

Designer

Sam Hodak

iOS Engineer

Nate Kelkay

Full-Stack Intern

Evan Walch

Intern

Who we are

We are: engineers with an artistic impulse, veteran entrepreneurs, community builders, curators of quotes, hosts of intellectual salons, side project fanatics, lovers of nature and human nature – all united by a desire to scale our ability to help people, and to help the Internet continue to truly serve on the side of the user.

We believe in the power of small, highly-skilled teams with a deep sense of mutual respect. In each role, we are looking for a special sort of person with strong bias towards action to become deeply passionate about the product and take tremendous ownership.
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At Ideaflow, it’s important for you to be yourself, nurture your creativity, and grow in well being. Join us in building a future where humans and machines work together to solve the world’s most important problems.

People-centric policies

$500 per month to promote well being

Comprehensive healthcare coverage (including acupuncture!)

Donation matching to your favorite charities

Open Positions

Ideaflow.io Engineering Hiring Update 2023

Full Stack Engineer

Remote

Who has significant frontend experience and is up to the challenge of writing something as complex and high performance as an IDE in JavaScript.

Apply now


"We need to create extensions of our ability to make sense of the world together." ~Jerry Michalski

iOS Engineer

Remote

Who wants to build the best-ever, low-friction personal notes app.

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Apply now

Product Designer

Remote

Who has an excellent product sense, as well as exceptional user experience & user interface skills.

Apply now

Marketing Associate

Remote

Who is an outstanding writer and strategic mind.

Apply now

ML (NLP) Engineer

Remote

Who has the gumption to write something on par with a new search engine. Ideally you are familiar with dependency parse trees and have written an interpreter in the past.

Apply now



"Art is that which holds your attention beyond practicality."


We believe diverse teams are the most effective – female and minority candidates strongly encouraged to apply!

Further Reading: hiringblurb.jacobcole.net



Job Postings

Founding Engineer: Ideaflow.io – A Notebook that Augments Your Intelligence 
‍Video Intro to Ideaflow
‍Hey guys, we're looking for a standout full stack engineer to build ideaflow.io with us, possibly becoming a principal engineer. We are a unique company both in structure and mission, and raised >$10M in seed from top VCs, including First Round Capital, Naval, and the former CTO of Reddit. Our first product is a notebook that augments your intelligence — an ultra-low friction personal knowledge management system with aspirations to become a global brain.
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We have a large vision, unique history, and you can read more about some of the background ideas here: ideaflowbackground.jacobcole.net. We're trying to build a culture that feels like a merry band of skilled, emotionally intelligent hackers, living righteously off the land :) We'd like nothing more than to create true “assistive technology”, a suite of tools to make life easier for everyone – starting with the part of the computer closest to your brain: your notebook.

We believe that what we're doing is on the critical path to unlock global collective intelligence, and tap the capacity of the Internet to help us care for each other more effectively. We aspire to be the bridge that enables AI to become a true extension of our minds.

Technical challenges on the horizon include performance UX engineering across the stack, such as collaborative editing in prosemirror.net, IDE-like autocompletes with tens of thousands of items, and building an LLM of your notes you can talk to. 

Email me at jacob+hiringVIP@ideaflow.io – I am a former MIT Media Lab Collective Intelligence researcher, and this project has been my life mission for over 7 years. I’d love to share why it matters so much to me, and why I think it’s so important.

Our team is currently 9 fascinating, heart-centered, and inquisitive people 🌱. This is a chance to join the founding team of a company we hope becomes a new intellectual hub, and be a creative partner with huge autonomy and upside in what our investors think could be a $10B+ business in size and impact. We're a great fit for someone who can really fall in love with building a super fast personal notetaking system or has a lot of thoughts (writings, lists, quotes, ideas, or notes on people!). Also a great fit some someone who is philosophical, spiritual, and oriented towards emotional and physical healing 🤗
• Try it:  ideaflow.app, guide at http://onboarding.ideaflow.app
• Ideaflow Speech + Parse with AI Demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQaLg4o73yY
• Bullet View https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4feZo9PqTlo 

Open Roles:
🚀 full stack JavaScript engineer up to the challenge of building something as complex and high-performance as an IDE
📱 iOS engineer with a deep care for UX engineering
💼 Warm-hearted, highly organized, fast-typing, operations person who loves our product and wants to share it with everyone, enthusiastic to be a human superconnector