19Jul 2011

New York City, Here We Come!

That’s right, Minus has a new home! Few months ago, Carl and I met in Boston and there, Minus was born. We met with other startups and made many new friends in Boston and it was an intense few months while I finished up college. However we are now ready to take Minus to the next level.

Today marks the start of a new chapter for Minus as we enter the city that never sleeps. Since the very beginning, we started Minus with a single mission, to simplify sharing. We strongly believe in this idea of creating a simple and universal sharing platform, and we will continue our pursuit.

We’re hiring! Shoot us an email if you or a friend is interested in joining the team. Our office is in midtown manhattan and we’re looking for fulltime, parttime, and interns in software engineering, marketing and web design. Our stack is built on python, django, javascript, jquery, css, and html.

Below are some pics of our office in the works, do send us ideas for the office :)

Posted on Tuesday July 19 2011 in General, Updates by John Xie 18 Comments

18 Comments

  1. Mark
    July 22, 2011 at 8:25 am

    Congratulations on your move to the Big Apple! If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

    Thanks for helping me finally find the right alternative to the once useful drop.io which has been closed.

    One thing drop.io did right was they contacted users several times prior to closing up shop when Facebook purchased them. This helped ensure that users did not lose access to any stored files and also gave users time to move files and update links to those files so they still worked for our readers.

    Good luck!

  2. John Xie
    July 22, 2011 at 8:47 am

    Hi Mark,

    Thanks and glad to have you onboard. We are here to stay and hope you will help us spread the word as well!

    Cheers
    John

  3. Francisco
    July 25, 2011 at 5:48 am

    Hi Minus Group!

    Greetings from Seville/Spain, from a company growing up like yours!

    We had the same problem with the configuration of tables/computers when we moved our office… Now we’re in an smaller one…and we changed individual tables for a bigger one, shared by 4 developers each one… It helps when using Scrum and other Agile Methods of Software Development.

    We have to say that your chairs are really cool!

    Good luck and congratulations for your good service!

    Francisco Perez

    Mowento S.L.

  4. Thomas Smith
    July 25, 2011 at 8:38 am

    Congratulations! I’m really excited about the future of Minus. For me it was the only image host who could get it correct. It’s easy to use, feature packed, has a rather unique approach, and good communication! I wish I was in New York so I could apply for a spot on the team, but I’m in South Carolina lol. Any way, I’m really happy about all the good news, keep up the good work!

  5. John Xie
    July 25, 2011 at 9:01 am

    Hi Thomas,

    Thanks a bunch and definitely send us anyone you know that may be interested in joining in the NYC area and please continue to help us spread the word!

    Cheers

  6. John Xie
    July 25, 2011 at 9:02 am

    Hey Francisco!

    Thanks a bunch and yes we are using smaller tables and plan on combining them into larger tables so a bunch of us can just sit together.

    Glad you liked the chairs, I tried to make them as colorful as I can :)

    Cheers and best of luck w/ your ventures!

  7. Jeff Mulligan
    July 25, 2011 at 9:56 am

    Congrats on getting the minus.com domain! I remember talking about that with you a few months ago – glad to see you could acquire it. Definitely the right move.

    Jeff

  9. Ilya
    July 25, 2011 at 4:25 pm

    Good choice – midtown.

  11. James Manes
    July 26, 2011 at 2:05 am

    Looks awesome! Minus is growing fast! I hope we get some good UI designers to start helping on the project soon!

  12. John Xie
    July 26, 2011 at 2:08 am

    Thanks James and yes we are :) If you or anyone you know are interested def have them check out http://minus.com/pages/jobs !

  13. Fallof
    July 26, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    Wonderful! You’re the best image website that i ever used.

    Good luck from Argentina.

    PD: Sorry for my english, i dont know too much and im drunk.

    Good bye!

  14. John Xie
    July 26, 2011 at 12:20 pm

    Hi Fallof,

    Thanks so much! Remember we do file sharing as well :)

    Be sure to send us feedback/suggestions and we’ll continue to do our best and improve Minus.

    Cheers

  15. YiYang
    July 26, 2011 at 7:57 pm

    I love NYC but it’s too far for me.

  16. John Xie
    July 26, 2011 at 10:07 pm

    Hi YiYang

    No problem. When you get a chance to visit in the future definitely let us know!

    Cheers

  17. David Best
    August 4, 2011 at 5:20 pm

    Congrats on your new offices! And welcome to New York City!

    I’ve been in Manhattan for over twenty years. Let me know if I can be of help as you get acquainted with the city.

    Kind regards,

    David Best

  18. John Xie
    August 4, 2011 at 5:23 pm

    Thanks david, really appreciate it! Definitely shoot us an email if you have suggestions for Minus.

    Cheers

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