Technical CTO wanted for Audio and location-based Social Media app

Would you like to be part in creating a new, better, more authentic and fun social media? No to doom-scrolling, yes to being active and exploring your city and creating authentic and fun experiences for your friends and loved ones.

We're searching for a Technical Co-founder for an Audio and Location -Based Social Media App.

About Us: StoryDrops is a location and audio-based social media application, currently available on the Apple App Store. The app is developed using React Native, Expo, and TypeScript. Our backend, including authentication, database, and storage, is powered by Supabase. The website is built with Next.js, TypeScript, and TinaCMS, hosted on Vercel. We utilize Sentry for error tracking to maintain our app’s reliability. (www.storydrops.app)

What We’re Looking For: We are seeking a Technical Co-founder to take the lead in our app development efforts. As the primary developer in our small startup, you will be part of the team making all the big decisions of the app’s future, including roadmap, new features and strategy. We'll also need your help in some non-tech parts of the startup-life, so we hope you like to network, meet investors and sometimes maybe even pitch, if necessary.

For us diversity isn't just a buzzword, and we would like to encourage especially those coming from various gender/race/sexuality/etc expressions. We want to be a good company and try to do things the right way and we hope you feel the same way.

You would join our four person company as a co-founder and naturally with shares (20%). To be transparent, at the moment we're bootstrapping and in the process of starting to raise funding, so currently we're not paying ourselves, but we hope this changes soon and we have some funds allocated for the CTO for the beginning of 2024. Our current CTO will be stepping down and will be guiding us and you in the beginning.

If you are a dedicated developer eager to contribute to the growth of StoryDrops and shape the future of audio-based social media, we encourage you to get in touch with us. DM is good, or [email protected]

• ReactNative
• Expo
• Typescript
• NextJS

You have strengths in...

• design and visuals
• structuring and strategic thinking

You already have...

• founded a company
• worked as fulltime employee

We're currently working hard to bring as much as possible great content to the platform. Currently we are bootstrapping, so to be honest there will not be much compensation (but something though) in the beginning.

We've just started fundraising and even though it is a challenge, there have been some good signs. Our current CTO will be stepping down and is committed to bring you onboard and help you get started.

You would have lots of autonomy as in which way to build the the app not only from a technical but also design, storytelling and strategic viewpoint.

As a startup, it would be valuable that you've been part of other startups before and that you feel comfortable in other stuff that developing (e.g. being part of the fundraising effort, using your networks to find users and collaborators, reaching out to investors and potential collaborators.)
We are in Helsinki, but you can be anywhere, if that is ok for you.

We want you to be as a co-founder of our company, naturally with shares. We're a kind and fun team, and we hope you want to be creating and are passionate about creating something truly new and unique, and making great and exciting experiences for everyone.

We are the Pokemon Go of meaningful audio content, making our cities fun and exciting places and experiences, and creating a more kind, authentic and fair SoMe.

StoryDrops is an audio and location-based social media app, where you can create audio "drops" for your friends, loved ones, fans and customers. These drops, audio content, can be listened to only at selected real world locations. So think: a true crime story which you listen to where everything happened, a unreleased song from your favourite artist, a love letter for your partner at that street corner you met at for the first time.

Challenges

How to populate the world of the app with enough really valuable content, so people come back over and over again.

Target group

People who are passionate about their cities and surroundings, and want to find new ways of experiencing them. People, who want to make their surroundings more fun and accessible for their friends, loved ones or e.g. tourists, and create interesting new experiences for them.