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Why stick with for-profit companies? But on measure I'd say System76, n8n, Nextcloud, GridX, Odoo, Tuxedo, GitLab, Uplight, Aurora Solar, Bandcamp (maybe), Bitw
by troyvit 6mo ago
Why stick with for-profit companies? But on measure I'd say System76, n8n, Nextcloud, GridX, Odoo, Tuxedo, GitLab, Uplight, Aurora Solar, Bandcamp (maybe), Bitwarden, Canonical (maybe), Scribd, Arcadia, Wikihow. Basically any time you find yourself enjoying a product you're using, see who made it and if they're hiring.
Sure it's an uphill battle. This is late-stage capitalism after all and unless you're comfortable with a role that extracts from people who weren't planning in being extracted from you're not going to make a ton of money. That's what it takes to be on the side of the angels though.
- BeetleB 6mo agoGitLab is for profit, isn't it?
- troyvit 6mo agoI tried to focus on for-profit, but I'm just saying there's nothing wrong with non-profits either. In fact I don't think I consciously mentioned a non-profit but I might have.
- raw_anon_1111 6mo agoBecause for profits have the most employment opportunities? All of the companies named in replies to my initial comment hire a minuscule number of people.
- troyvit 6mo agoIf you're looking to scale, then you're looking for companies that scale, and if you're looking for companies that scale, you're not looking for angels. I used to think Cloudflare was an exception to this belief but today I'm not so sure.
- tombert 6mo agoWait what's wrong with Cloudflare?
- troyvit 6mo agohttps://www.theregister.com/2026/01/12/cloudflare_vs_italy/ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/12/cloudflare_vs_italy/ Definitely my bias here so take it with a grain of salt. I still use cloudflare and I'd probably still work for them.
- tombert 6mo agoI'm not unemployed right now, but in the past have applied to literally every one of those companies and been declined from every one of those companies. It's hard to find jobs at companies that aren't run by monsters; even if you can identify a company that isn't terrible, there's still a relatively low likelihood of getting a job there. I'm not blaming the companies for not hiring me, I'm sure they have their reasons for their terrible decision of passing up on someone as handsome and smart as me [1], and I am certainly not entitled to a job, but when I run out of companies that seem ethical, what do you do then? It's easy to say "well start your own company!", and sure if you have the ability to do that then that's great, but I don't even really know where to begin with finding investors for stuff I'm working on, and I'm not sure that anything I'm working on would be interesting to investors anyway. [1] It's true, my mom told me!
- troyvit 6mo agoHaha I built that list almost entirely from companies that rejected me so I hear you.