Wayin is a campaign management platform for marketers and agencies, helping them build consumer facing interactive applications and is used by household name brands to run high volume marketing campaigns. We're a growing startup with offices in Oxford, London, New York & Sydney and an HQ in Denver, CO and we think we have a roadmap with some really interesting stuff to work on.
We are looking for Senior Backend or Full Stack Engineers to be based in Oxford, UK.
Our stack is Java, Groovy, Vert.x, Grails, Redis, ElasticSearch, MySql on the backend and React, Redux, Webpack, ES6, LESS, Yarn on the frontend.
Wayin is a campaign management platform for marketers and agencies, helping them build consumer facing interactive applications. Our platform is used by enterprise household names to run high volume marketing campaigns. We are a growing startup with offices in Oxford, London, New York & Sydney and an HQ in Denver, CO and we think we have a great roadmap with some really interesting stuff to work on.
We are looking for:
- Senior Frontend Engineers (Oxford, UK and Denver, CO)
- Senior Backend or Full Stack Engineers (Oxford, UK)
- Infrastructure Lead Engineer (Oxford, UK)
- Senior QA Engineer (Denver, CO)
Our stack is:
-Backend: Java, Groovy, Vert.x, Grails, Redis, Kafka, MySql
The choice of Stellenbosch in South Africa as an example is perhaps not ideal. While SA may be a third world country in parts, it is very "first-world" in others and has a GDP greater than Denmark, Finland, Singapore and Ireland. Stellenbosch is also one of the countries premier Universities. I am not sure we'd be as surprised if Universities from those countries were chosen as an example.
I'm sure it's more of a case of Elsevier charging whatever it could to each university.
> has a GDP greater than Denmark, Finland, Singapore and Ireland.
That says absolutely nothing. You'd need to look at it on a GDP per person basis. There all those countries you listed are far ahead of South Africa, in some cases by a factor of 10x.
Speaking as a South African, you do not want to go to prison there. People try to avoid it at all costs. Corruption is rife, and reports have surfaced of guards selling sexual access to prisoners amongst other unpleasant activities.
Just 4-5 years ago most Telco's were building portals and walled gardens where they were licensing the content themselves (or even had teams creating it in house) and selling it in various ways to their customer base. So never mind a 30% cut, they were competing with content producers. If you were trying to sell content the Telco was hoping to sell forget a 30% cut, you couldn't even get on their platform and you earned a big fat $0.
If you really were lucky they'd decide to let you on but would take a 50/50 or 60/40 revenue share.
30% is starting to seem not so bad...compared to that at least.
You've missed the point. Apple is providing access to hundreds of millions of potential customers who can purchase your product in a frictionless manner. The people on this platform spend more $ per person than other ecosystems because the platform is easy to use and has the widest choice of product. That makes the platform very valuable.
If it was so easy to get this kind of distribution, then why don't you just develop an Android app and put it up on your website and watch the millions of users roll in? Oh wait, there aren't hundreds of millions of customers searching for apps on your website?
A user base, especially one that spends more $ per person that another, is extremely valuable. Historically this kind of access to a large distribution platform was just not available to mere mortals. I remember just 4-5 years ago, large companies would have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars just to have their app listed on the Vodafone Live app store, and then have 50% taken as commission for the privilege.
And for content, many Telco's just didn't allow it...because they had their own content subscriptions they were trying to sell to their users..so forget 30%, you simply couldn't sell your content subscription.
Apple's app store, and a 30% cut is starting to look fair compared to the above.
I'm starting to see a whole bunch of posts/comments about people reacting to losing 30% of their SaaS software revenue but no one seems to be calling out the Apple contract specifically lists content as defined as magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, video. So I don't see where the SaaS angst is coming from.
Apple can charge 30% for apps and content because the ENTIRE product is being delivered on iOS. They can't charge that cut for SaaS because only a subset of the product is being delivered.
Could Apple attempt to take a cut from SaaS products if a user signed up from within your app IN THE FUTURE...sure, but I doubt they'd be stupid enough to try for 30%. Should Apple be compensated in some way for hosting/downloading your mobile app for your SaaS backend...maybe, and I'd be prepared to pay some commission if it drove signups, it might just be a tad lower than 30% though.
The argument in your last paragraph is almost exactly what everyone said about Apple's approach to subscriptions. "Apple would be crazy to demand 30% from publishers and distributors. Amazon can't afford 30%!"
Yet here we are today, wondering just how the hell everyone is going to carve 30% out of their business model. Anyone who thinks that task is anything even approaching trivial has never run a business.
I wasn't arguing that Apple won't do it, just that they would be even more crazy to try this for SaaS than for content subscriptions. It's one thing to charge 30% for when someone is selling an entire product through your platform.
It would be unprecedented if they tried to charge 30% merely for access from your iOS device to a SaaS app. I think there is a pretty big difference.
Lastly, carving 30% out from your list price is pretty common if you're the wholesaler, manufacturer or orignal producer. For most of those scenarios they'll often be able to afford much more than 30%. It's the middlemen and distributors that get really hosed...and unfortunately services that do provide value but licence their content from others are collateral damage.
It's simply due to the regional monopolies the telcos and cable cos have in the US. If you had open competition it might go something like what happened in the UK.
Bandwidth was pretty expensive in the UK back in the nineties, but then OFCOM (the regulator) forced British Telecom to be broken into two companies...one wholesale and one retail. BT retail has to buy from BT wholesale at the same price as everyone else, and even small ISP's could now offer ADSL, and were allowed to install their own equipment at the exchange.
Fast forward to today...I pay £10 p/month for 24/2. If you have a satellite package with Sky TV you can get 2Mbps for free, or 20Mbps for £5 p/m or so. BT is just launching a 40Mbps service for around £25 p/m. Normally in the UK we get stung on prices and everything else I can think of is 20-50% higher in cost than the US...so it's pretty amazing our broadband costs are more competitive than many other countries. There just happens to be very health competition in this category.
It's going to be pretty interesting watching this play out. But Apple and Android have an unfair advantage right now...apps, and lots of them. If you've got an iOS or Android phone and already own some apps the other guys are going to have to ship something amazing or dirt cheap to get your attention.
As great as the new HP stuff looks, I wouldn't like to be HP, RIM (or Nokia and their potential Meego tablet) right now...tough road ahead building app ecosystem momentum. Who cares if the tablet is slightly better when I can't get my favourite apps.
I find it greatly amusing the roles are reversed from back when Apple struggled on the desktop due to lack of apps while microsoft dominated. My how times change in 10 years. At least this time we might have more than one platform that dominated 90% which is good for everyone.
The first step is to build a great device, and it looks like HP might be there. It seems to be the best iPad contender yet, stealing that crown from Motorola's zoom from just a few days ago.
Wayin is a campaign management platform for marketers and agencies, helping them build consumer facing interactive applications and is used by household name brands to run high volume marketing campaigns. We're a growing startup with offices in Oxford, London, New York & Sydney and an HQ in Denver, CO and we think we have a roadmap with some really interesting stuff to work on.
We are looking for Senior Backend or Full Stack Engineers to be based in Oxford, UK.
Our stack is Java, Groovy, Vert.x, Grails, Redis, ElasticSearch, MySql on the backend and React, Redux, Webpack, ES6, LESS, Yarn on the frontend.
Sound interesting? Contact us at engj@wayin.com