Kristi, what are you actually saving to the vault when I use PayPal? I know you present the merchant with a token, but how is it accomplished? Has PayPal had a charge-whenever token capability before that was not widely understood, or are you actually saving the customer's paypal email and password so you can charge arbitrary transactions in the future?
Paypal does have a future payments token capability [1]. The user must explicitly authorize the merchant the ability to use the token in order to use it for future transactions. We save the email for reference, but we never save the password.
Can Paypal (not Braintree) also authorize future Credit Card purchases from the same user without having to enter the CC number again? As in, could PayPal pass me a customer ID when someone purchases with CC via PayPal?
BOMBFELL |NEW YORK, NY | DEVELOPER | JOBS@BOMBFELL.COM
YOU
You're wicked smaht and get sht done with minimal supervision. You're familiar with web technologies, databases and can get nice 'n comfy on both the front end and back end. You write code because it's frackin' fun. You like to say words like "frack".
THE ROLE
We're looking for someone to build out the infrastructure that enables us to make clothing a solved problem for the awesome man.
You'll fundamentally shape the matching algorithms that help us figure out what clothes a certain guy will love. You'll build out internal dashboards so we can obsessively monitor the crazy highs and teary-eyed lows of our company's key metrics. You'll release code that makes our heart skip a beat, break things that make our blood boil, and then we'll all argue and make up.
PERKS
Lunch is provided every day, as are office snacks (but keep your hands off my Annie's Bunny Grahams). We also have medical and provide a monthly Unlimited Ride Metrocard.
GIDDY UP
Send us your resume at jobs@bombfell.com along with anything that highlights your ability to get sht done (github, open source work, sample code).
This is exactly the thing we're trying to solve for guys with Bombfell.com. The way I see it there are 3 main problems with shopping online (or shopping for clothes in general)
1) Sizing/Fit: A medium in brand X can be very different than brand Y. So you never end up knowing if what you're getting is actually going to fit or not until it arrives at your door.
2) What to get: There's a tremendous number of brands out there with different styles/patterns/cuts etc. What's the best style that's going to accentuate your look? What cool brands are out there? It's nearly impossible to know these things unless you devote a significant amount of time to reading up/learning fashion.
3) Taking the time out to buy stuff. Certainly this is better online than offline, but shopping online certainly requires a mental-tax and context-switching that I'd pretty much rather avoid.
We thought it would be awesome if clothes that look good and fit great just magically appeared every month and so we're trying to solve that problem with Bombfell.com.
Bombfell looks fun, but I wouldn't sign up unless I saw some photos or videos of clothes you have/had in stock. It would take a lot of trust for me to hand over $69 to an unknown company without even seeing what they sell.
All our foodmakers on our site are licensed and certified to sell food. We have a pretty rigorous standard on who can list on our site, so it's very unlikely you'll find lead in your product. In fact, most of the food on our site is much healthier than something you'd find at the supermarket.
