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Source: hackernews
Website: getartcraft.com
Location: SF (Onsite) / Atlanta (Onsite)
Compensation: $150k–$250k + Equity
About the Role
We’re a tiny team looking for strong engineers to own major parts of the product: desktop apps, lots of completely open source backend infrastructure, agent workflows, agentic app factories.
Stack: Rust, a sprinkle of TypeScript/React, egui, Tauri, MySQL/Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes. Lots and lots of Rust. We’re systems engineers by trade, but we like to vibe code Rust. Did I say Rust? Rust. Rust Rust Rust. Maybe that's a filter.
You have to be self-directed and independent. If you want to:
- open source Salesforce with half your time, do it!
- work on SolidWorks 3D printing applications, great!
- write music apps and DAWs, go for it!
- build custom Discord/Slack clients for our custom, completely open source chat API and platform, hell yeah!
Our organization is flat, and we're going to go after everybody and everything.
Our Mission
Those fucking rent-seeking hyperscalers took the internet away from you, and we’re going to give it back to you and to everyone.
Web 1.0 was great - we had IRC, file sharing, third party chat clients. There were personal websites, forums. Flash was a format kids could use. Everything supported embedding and uploading. Websites actually had APIs and RSS. File sharing, FTP, MP3s, discs, owned media.
Broadband brought our parents and grandparents online, but the shift to the non-technical majority created an opportunity to grossly oversimplify everything. Everything dumbed down into a pre-packaged product. Startups began turning their offerings into walled gardens. Platforms took precedence over protocols. APIs and access and data export went away. And then the rent-seeking began. The era of ownership ended.
Corporate Memphis. Jesus Christ.
We’ve rallied a massive community to build MIT/Apache-licensed alternatives to Adobe, Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, Autodesk, SolidWorks, Slack, Discord, Unreal Engine, OpenRouter, RunPod, and more. The goal is full feature parity, with code anyone can own, inspect, modify, and build on.
We’re digesting second-class apps and platforms into first-class applications, libraries, and APIs with full MCP support. We’re distilling out the good parts, and we’re building the connective tissue that draws them together.
100% of the internet is going to be open source soon, and we’re going to force it open. Loudly.
Traction & Culture
We have eight figures in run rate revenue, over 20M app downloads and growing. Our community is the best part, and it’s energetic like a wildfire. Everyone resonates with our mission.
We’re missionaries, not mercenaries. We are going to slay the incumbents by being better. Our motto is Google’s old motto - “Don't be evil (tm)”.
Open Source
Everything you build here will be open source. We have no private repos.
We can reclaim the internet. That’s our mission.
How to Apply
Want to know more about us? Look up “Adobe ArtCraft” on YouTube / TikTok / your platform of choice.
If this resonates with you, email hn@storyteller.ai with your Github, a little about yourself and something you’ve built. Write the sentence, “don’t take my RAM, Sam!” so we know you’re one of the good guys.