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Felt is the best way to make maps and work with geospatial data on the internet. It's surprisingly hard to make a map today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. We are taking on an industry that's been stagnant for more than 30 years, but is essential to the workings of practically every company.

Felt is the first easy-to-use collaborative mapping software, founded by a team of technologists with a proven track-record. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.

First, we are looking for a Community and Social Media Rep. who will put our platform in the front the eyes of the right people, foster the right kind of community and be our voice online. The ideal person will have worked for a technical product and knows how to talk about it, have worked on launches (we do a lot! [2]]) and is comfortable in a start-up environment.

Second, we are looking for sales engineers who will help close the loop with our customers. We operate in a very technical field and our sales engineers will be bridging the gap between what our customers want and what our tools can do for them.

We are well-funded, and have been around. You can read more about it our funding here [3], and our announcement here [4]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year…

I work on geospatial apps and the software I think I am most excited about is https://felt.com/. I want to see them expand their tooling such that maps and data source authentication/authorization was controllable by the developer, to enable tenant isolation with proprietary data access. They could really disrupt how geospatial tech gets integrated into consumer apps.

This article doesn't acknowledge how niche this stuff is and it's a lot of training to get people to up to speed on coordinate systems, projections, transformations, etc. I would replace a lot of my custom built mapping tools with Felt if it were possible, so I could focus on our core geospatial processes and not the code to display and play with it in the browser, which is almost as big if not bigger in terms of LOC to maintain.

As mentioned by another commenter, this DuckDB DX as described is basically the same as PostGIS too.

Felt | Front-end Engineers, Product Designers | Oakland, CA | Full-time, On-site | https://www.felt.com/jobs

I'm the former founder & CEO of Remix (YC W15)[1], a city planning software company which recently sold for $100M[2].

Now I'm teaming up with the best technologist I know and starting something new: Felt[3]. We're keeping a low profile, but it's an interactive web tool in the same vein as Figma, Webflow, etc but for a very different industry and with a climate focus. We can share the full details when we chat.

We're well-funded and hiring our founding team. Looking for senior software engineers and product designers.

Reach out to us to learn more: hello@felt.com

[1] https://www.remix.com/solutions/transit

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/via-buys-mapping-startup-r...

[3] https://www.felt.com

For an upcoming trip to NYC, I was trying to map some NYC walks and highlights using Google Maps, but I stumbled into a lot of limitations (limit on number of layers, limits of number of legs of an itinerary, ect.).

I was able to import all my existing NYC geo-points into Felt and quickly chart some itineraries from different sources. Way, way faster than Google Map.

Let's see how fast it will render once I'm on the ground in the city with mobile interent.

One major difference with Google Map is the lack of custom layers, but so far it hasn't been a problem.

This is my NYC 2022 trip map :) https://felt.com/map/New-York-2022-u7J1aE2ZSLOmdwCP4WGCOA

I don't know if there's a readymade tool for this, but maybe you could plot it as a collaborative map so that it's clear which drivers/passengers are close to each other? Something like https://felt.com/ might help. Like if you just plot everyone's neighborhoods, you can then draw shapes around each carpool.

Or there's this that I've used before, but I think it's really just a signup list and not something that automatically tries to geo-optimize your routes or anything: https://www.groupcarpool.com/#video_demo You can DIY something similar in Airtable, which is a bit nicer to use than Excel for something like this.

For modern AMQP back ends, people usually implement a quorum queue based on this paper:

https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf

An overview of why this replaced many traditional non-durable queue use-cases in RabbitMQ:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuZC7m6dCDA

https://www.rabbitmq.com/docs/quorum-queues

What are Elixir/Erlang channels:

https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/channels.html

What types of problems channels are used to solve:

https://felt.com/blog/pheonix-channel-routing-patterns

Have a great day, =3