# Ethan Call D9684

Class: Customer
Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GGU-egBW4KYDKxTF6HvWpv2Y95OsSkeK/view?usp=sharing

# Call Plan

Ethan founded Simplify Jobs. Introduction from Alex Paek. Makes a browser extension that recommends, autofills, and tracks job applications for them. 

1. Introduce targets of the call
    1. I am helping startups ship user-touching apps and features. In our call today, I will ask you questions to learn what you went through to develop your product, and what’s next for you, to understand what software startups like yours are going through. 
    2. First of all, I want to make sure I understand what you are making. I read your website, and I understand that you are making a browser extension that provides recommendations, reviews, autofill, and tracking of job applications to students. Is my understanding correct?
    3. What is your business model?  
2. Why did you choose to make an extension as opposed to a standalone website or an app?
    1. How many users do you have today? 
    2. How long did it take you to get to your first user? 
    3. How long did it take you to grow from the first user to the user base you have now?
3. Any plans to make a standalone app?
4. I want to know what kind of technology you and your team used and are familiar with. 
    1. Which CS track did you concentrate in? 
    2. What kind of courses were relevant to developing your app? 
    3. Were you in any class or activities that were for entrepreneurs?
5. What is your current tech stack? 
    1. Programming Languages? Frameworks? Frontend? Backend? 
    2. What did you consider? What were your decision criteria?
    3. What is your next milestone, and how will you get there?
6. I am making Junwon App Platform, which provides a shell for apps based on module federation. This means... 
    1. Would this be a solution to your problem?
    2. You can sign up with a deposit. 
        1. If No: What are the concerns?
7. What kind of startups would be a good fit for this solution? 
    1. Do you know such founders that you can introduce me to? 

# Call Review

1. Simplify Jobs started 2.5 years ago. Got 5K users to sign up for a waitlist before starting to build. Grew to 50K users in a year. 
2. Ethan considers his product to be stable. He will only make incremental changes to the product that is working well. And focus on growing by marketing. 
3. Ethan took Systems and AI classes at Stanford. Studied React and frontend skills on his own outside of school classes in order to build his frontend app. 
4. Ethan is focusing on frontend. His co-founder is technical and wanted to build the backend in-house. First, made Flask. Then switched to Fast API for web server. Ethan is not sure how the backend works. He interfaces with backend team via documentation, following different routes for different functionalities. 
5. When he was in YC, he noticed the following behavior patterns in the engineering teams of his own company and other startups: 1) minimize time to launch, 2) give up fidelity or performance, 3) give up scalability. There were at least as many web apps as mobile apps.