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Scarf
Company blog · about.scarf.sh/postprogrammingbusiness
Scarf is the company blog at about.scarf.sh, writing about programming and business. Since 2020, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Scarf's company blog and product pages, including its Documentation Insights analytics tool, a post comparing Python wheels and eggs, and telemetry for open-source projects.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
See which companies download and use your open source across packages, containers, documentation, files, and product telemetry without storing PII by default.
What Hacker News says?
Scarf | ( https://scarf.sh ) | Remote (US Timezones) | Full Time At Scarf, we help open-source developers get compensated for their work and deliver better software to their users. We help businesses more effectively leverage their open-source dependencies. We're an early-stage startup, and are hiring our for our first engineering roles! Software Engineer (Frontend) - TypeScript, Vue, Sass, Webpack - https://about.s…
Comment linking /jobs/software-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted Are Package Registries Holding Open-Source Hostage? as a story · 91 points
HN discussionScarf | Director of Engineering | Remote (US timezones only) Scarf builds builds maintainer-friendly tools for sustainable distribution of open-source software. Scarf identifies and connects open source projects with the companies that rely on their software. If you love open source, love startups, and excel at leading great engineering teams, we'd love to hear from you. Full job description: https://about.scarf.sh/…
Comment linking /jobs/director-of-engineering
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”Submitted Show HN: Measure downloads and commercial adoption of any file you distribute as a story · 41 points
HN discussionScarf | Developer Advocate | Full Time or Part Time | Remote (American timezones only) Scarf is an early-stage startup that helps open-source developers understand how their projects are being used, and connects those maintainers with their commercial users to help them get fairly paid for their valuable work. We help businesses more effectively leverage their open-source dependencies by connecting them directly to…
Comment linking /jobs/developer-advocate
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)”Submitted The Scarf Gateway as a story · 8 points
HN discussionScarf | ( https://scarf.sh ) | Remote (American timezones) | Full Time Scarf helps open-source developers distribute their software more effectively and with better observability. We help connect OSS projects to their commercial users, and help companies leverage their open-source dependencies more effectively. We're an early-stage startup, and are growing our small team. Software Engineer (Backend / General) - Hask…
Comment linking /jobs/software-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)”Submitted Scarf Will Block Package Downloads from the Russian Government as a story · 4 points
HN discussionScarf | Senior Software Engineer (Backend/General) | Remote (American Timezones) | Full Time | https://about.scarf.sh For any functional programming (especially Haskell) fans, this one is for you! You'd be working mainly in Haskell, and our entire system is built with Nix. Scarf helps open-source maintainers understand how their software is being used and transact directly with their commercial users. We are buildin…
Comment linking /jobs/software-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)”Submitted The Scarf Tech Stack as a story · 3 points
HN discussionScarf | Sales Engineer, Marketing Manager | Remote | Full time Scarf builds advanced, maintainer-friendly tools for open-source adoption and download metrics. - Sales Engineer: https://about.scarf.sh/jobs/sales-engineer - Marketing Manager: https://about.scarf.sh/jobs/marketing-manager
Comment linking /jobs/marketing-manager
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)”Submitted Composition with Semantically Rich Names as a story · 3 points
HN discussionScarf | Director of Engineering | Remote (US timezones only) Scarf builds builds maintainer-friendly tools for sustainable distribution of open-source software. Scarf identifies and connects open source projects with the companies that rely on their software. If you love open source, love startups, and excel at leading great engineering teams, we'd love to hear from you. Full job description: https://about.scarf.sh/…
Comment linking /jobs/director-of-engineering
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)”Submitted Nix core contributor joins Scarf to build foundations of new developer tooling as a story · 3 points
HN discussionScarf | Remote (US-Timezones preferred) - Senior Software Engineer (Frontend) - Typescript, Vue ( https://about.scarf.sh/jobs/software-engineer ) - Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - Haskell, Nix, K8S, Postgres, Kafka, AWS ( https://about.scarf.sh/jobs/software-engineer-frontend ) Scarf is a startup that builds maintainer-friendly tools for sustainable distribution of open-source software. Scarf identifies and con…
Comment linking /jobs/software-engineer-frontend
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)”Submitted Switching Container Registries with Zero Downtime as a story · 2 points
HN discussionScarf | Remote (US-Timezones preferred) - Senior Software Engineer (Frontend) - Typescript ( https://about.scarf.sh/jobs/software-engineer ) - Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - Haskell, Nix, K8S, Postgres, Kafka, AWS ( https://about.scarf.sh/jobs/software-engineer-frontend ) Scarf is a startup that builds maintainer-friendly tools for sustainable distribution of open-source software. Scarf identifies and connects…
Comment linking /jobs/software-engineer-frontend
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)”Submitted Why Your Open Source Startup Is Going to Fail (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDocumentation Insights by Scarf * Simple dashboard * Displays which: * businesses are visiting your documentation pages. * locales they are coming from (geolocation data in aggregate). * pages are most frequently visited. https://about.scarf.sh/documentation-insights Edit: formatting
Comment linking /documentation-insights
on “Ask HN: Best alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021?”Submitted Scarf – help open-source developers get paid as a story · 1 points
HN discussionEggs are dying out, pointed out by this 2 year old blog post: https://about.scarf.sh/post/python-wheels-vs-eggs The metadata problem is related to the problem that pip had an unsound resolution algorithm based on "try to resolve something optimistically and hope it works when you get stuck and try to backtrack". I did a lot of research along the line that led to uv 5 years ago and came to the conclusion that install…
Comment linking /post/python-wheels-vs-eggs
on “Constraints Are Good: Python's Metadata Dilemma”How transparent is Scarf's product adoption metrics for OSS projects? https://about.scarf.sh/ I follow them on Twitter but haven't looked much into it other than reading their documentation, which makes me think that most of their telemetry is done at the point of the package distribution system: https://about.scarf.sh/package-sdks
Comment linking /package-sdks
on “Transparent Telemetry for Open-Source Projects”