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Apsis Labs
Company blog · apsis.io/blog · on HN as niallwinghambusinesscareerprogramming
Apsis Labs is the company blog at apsis.io, writing about business, career and programming. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Apsis Labs, a small consulting company's blog. HN commenters link its posts on sustainable working hours, estimating development tasks, and vacation policy, mostly while describing the company or its hiring.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Apsis Labs offers expert software and DevOps solutions with 60 years of combined experience in front-end, back-end, web, and mobile app development. We specialize in HIPAA-compliant systems, infrastructure management, and agile development. From design to deployment, we help you build scalable, user
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/2015/04/23/work-sustainably2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-07
What Hacker News says?
While I think it's totally fair to be in a position where you don't care about the work, I'd also encourage you to look for workplaces that seek to provide additional compensation in the form of additional flexibility, freedom, and your time rather than just in additional money. The company I started is a software consultancy where we try and focus on giving everyone a 20-hour work-week and consider that a full-time…
Comment linking /blog/2015/04/23/work-sustainably
on “Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?”Submitted Communicating Software Estimates as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSure. We're a small consulting company called Apsis Labs ( http://apsis.io/ ). We started in Seattle, although our hiring has been entirely remote across the US and Canada.
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on “Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is good for you and your boss”Submitted One of our clients hasn't paid us $130k – or "Why Every Contract Clause Matters" as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSeattle, WA - REMOTE: Apsis Labs is looking to add another engineer. We are a small independent development firm located in Seattle, WA, but work as a distributed team. We have a stable client base, offer retirement and health benefits, competitive salary, and a 20-hour work week. Read more about our job philosophy here: http://apsis.io/apsis/blog/2015/04/23/work-sustainably/ . Questions, contact: jobs at apsis.io
Comment linking /apsis/blog/2015/04/23/work-sustainably/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)”Submitted The Books I Kept as a story · 17 points
HN discussionWe work 20-hour weeks (remotely) at Apsis and it goes fine for us. We're a small consulting company with very little overhead, but I imagine it could work in other contexts as well. It certainly encourages you to eliminate unnecessary meetings! I'm earning about 2/3 of the salary from my previous job, where I worked 60-80 hours a week. In practice this has meant a more-than-doubling of my free time outside work with…
Comment linking /blog/2015/04/23/work-sustainably
on “Ask HN: Why don't companies hire programmers for fewer hours per day?”Submitted Be Easy to Fire as a story · 6 points
HN discussionApsis Labs | Multiple Positions | Seattle, WA | REMOTE, http://www.apsis.io/jobs We are a small design & development company working as a fully distributed team. We offer retirement and health benefits, a competitive salary, an unlimited vacation and parental leave policy, and a 20-hour work week. We are hiring: 1. A full-stack software developer, with interest and experience in user interface design 2. A project/bu…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)”Submitted Parsing JSON with Types (Part 1) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLooks like there's a list here: http://apsis.io/apsis/blog/2015/05/04/were-hiring/
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)”Submitted Bash Programmable Autocompletion as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSeattle, WA - REMOTE: Apsis Labs is looking to add our 4th engineer. We are a small design & development shop located in Seattle, WA, but work as a distributed team. We have a stable client base, offer retirement and health benefits, competitive salary, and a 20-hour work week. Read more about our job philosophy here: http://apsis.io/apsis/blog/2015/04/23/work-sustainably/ . Questions, contact: jobs at apsis.io
Comment linking /apsis/blog/2015/04/23/work-sustainably/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)”Submitted Asynchronous Action Creators in Redux as a story · 3 points
HN discussionApsis Labs | Sr. Software Engineer | REMOTE | $108,400 | https://www.apsis.io We are a small design & development company working as a fully distributed team looking to hire our 6th developer. We build whatever software our clients need typically web applications, mobile applications, and marketing websites. We're looking for a full-stack software developer (ideally with interest and experience in user interface des…
Comment linking /blog/2015/04/23/work-sustainably
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)”Submitted Read the Source: Encryption Draft Bill as a story · 3 points
HN discussionApsis Labs | Staff Frontend Engineer | REMOTE (US, Canada) | $132,000 | https://www.apsis.io Seeking a skilled frontend-focused full-stack engineer who thrives on building beautiful and functional user interfaces, but still feels comfortable on the back-end. While we’re looking for developers with strong technical skills we don’t typically hire for experience in a particular framework or technology. We’re mostly see…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)”Submitted Thanks, ElectronConf as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy boss wrote up our way of communicating those estimates: http://www.apsis.io/blog/2016/04/18/communicating-estimates As a rule we have a few techniques that have produces our most accurate estimates: One: since we're a team we get more than one person to estimate independent of each other, then we talk about it. If you're solo, you can still have a trusted friend do the same. Two, we measure the uncertainty: clien…
Comment linking /blog/2016/04/18/communicating-estimates
on “Ask HN: Best practice for estimating development tasks?”Submitted Read the Source: Encryption Draft Bill as a story · 2 points
HN discussionApsis Labs, http://apsis.io
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on “Why Basecamp CEO Jason Fried Believes 40 Hours Is Plenty”Submitted Communicating Estimates as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe internet. We're at http://apsis.io
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on “Why Basecamp CEO Jason Fried Believes 40 Hours Is Plenty”Your website says that your minimum vacation is three weeks[1]. Have you since changed your policy :P ? [1] http://apsis.io/blog/2015/04/23/work-sustainably
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on “Why Basecamp CEO Jason Fried Believes 40 Hours Is Plenty”