SocialPilot | Software Engineer - node.js, react.js | REMOTE only | Full Time | Interns OK

SocialPilot is a social media management platform used by agencies to manage social for their clients. We are bootstrapped and profitable since 2 years. Our team is remote with a few engineers concentrated in our office in Ahmedabad. You can learn more about SocialPilot at - www.socialpilot.co.

If you are interested, please reach out to Rachel at rachel@socialpilot.co.

Early Final adopter here. I liked the product but wasn't able to differentiate between Final and other VCCs.

Bank of America and Citibank offer virtual credit card creation which is very close to what Final does. Their UI is very clunky but does the trick without worrying about the liability part.

I was using Bank of America's ShopSafe system a decade ago. Remember all those "Get a free Xbox for completing these 12 free trial offers" scams?

Well, it turned out that some of them weren't necessarily scams, and there were whole forums dedicated to actually completing the offers, keeping proper documentation and claiming the prizes.

Most of the free trial offers validated your credit card for the initial free month, and then made it incredibly difficult to cancel the service. So I'd just sign up with a ShopSafe number that was valid for 1 month with a $1 limit.

Typically, instead of actually shipping you the Xbox or whatever the prize was, if you completed the offer they'd just send you a check. The year after I got out of college when I had plenty of free time, I managed to get about $1,200 thanks to those offers and ShopSafe.

It's not a feature I'd use enough to have it dictate my overall credit card choice, but I'd love it if more issuers added to their products.

Ahhh the good old days. I'd have spreadsheets of when to cancel trial offers. Probably earned about $20-30k in electronics and cash overall during Freshman year in college.

Me and my roommates did this as well. We did it so much that one of my roommates actually got a legally threatening letter from on of the companies behind most of them (Trilegent I think it was) telling him to stop because he was abusing the system. Which was funny because they were so scammy to begin with.

Yikes. The worst I got was being sent to collections for a teeth whitening product that was designed to bill regardless of trial cancellation. I learned a ton about negotiating with customer service departments during this time too.

I use both of the BofA and Citi virtual credit card services, as I used to do a lot of QA testing on payments processing systems. They both seem to be using the same backend service.

I even made a crappy WinForm app that would generate a ton of credit card numbers at once: https://github.com/ch4/ss_gen

I kept wanting to make something like this but I’ve always been too lazy. Thank you! Does it still work? I haven’t used shopsafe in years but I remember it being a pretty crappy interface

That's good to know. I've been eyeing the Citi Doublecash for the longest time, but being rather new to the US, I haven't built up a long enough credit history for them to accept my application (I was rejected the last time I applied).

Hopefully the service will still be there when I finally get my hands on that card.

Get a secured card and you'll be eligible for a Double Cash in no time. A secured card is for people with little to no history, its a credit card where you have to put up some collateral, a deposit account usually equal to the credit limit. Many cards just automatically convert to non-secured card after a while of good account history.

I've heard good things about Discover IT Secured https://www.discover.com/credit-cards/secured/ no fees, has rewards, and it automatically converts to a non secured version quickly.

Oh yeah, Citibank's website absolutely sucks. Very buggy.

You could also look at Abine's Blur. It avoids the liability problem. But is more expensive, in general.

Try ChargeBee? Solves a lot of subscription-related problems. It's a product and not API.

If she's looking just at the posting part, she should try Buffer/SocialPilot.co/HootSuite. That should do the trick. If she's looking to monitor for replies and engage with the community overall, then she might need to use more than one tool.

I was going to mention HootSuite too.

A quick Google search will find you lots of alternatives (apparently https://kuku.io/ as well as Buffer & SocialPilot that tejasm mentioned)

Do these tools provide ways for engagement on social media as well? They all seem to be schedulers/automation tools.

Also, do they do email as well?

Here's how I would do it:

1. Register a Delaware Inc or LLC with Harvard Business Services - https://www.delawareinc.com/. They can also act as your registered agent for $50/year.

2. Get an EIN number - you can call IRS directly at their Philly Office - 267-941-1099

3. Once you have an EIN, open a small business account with BoA - https://www.bankofamerica.com/smallbusiness/

4. Setup your postal office at www.virtualpostmail.com or https://travelingmailbox.com/

If you have any questions, do drop me a note at tejas3 at gmail dot com.

All the best!

Thanks. I looked at smallbusiness link of BoA. They seem to not accept non-resident aliens when applying for Bank Account.

Do I have to visit US ?.

instead of BoA - consider First Republic. They are very friendly to startups and have a great online system.

Also remember that getting an EIN and an ITIN (a replacement for social security number for foreign residents) is a bit involved. The most important tip - get something called a "True Copy" of your passport done withing a US Embassy in your country (e.g. http://mumbai.usconsulate.gov/notary-services.html). NOT AN ATTESTATION.

That is going to be the most important piece.

Check out SocialPilot.co - might solve your issue of managing multiple social media accounts.

How do current YC companies fill-in non-technical positions? Are there plans in near-future to cover these positions too?

That's something we could definitely expand to in the future. For now we're focusing on programmers both because that's the biggest need and it's likely a big challenge just becoming experts at that.

This is a huge need as well

trafacs.com - wanted to build a Transaction Facilitation System (TraFacS)

zendatalabs.com - want to do something in analytics domain

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I'm personally not a big fan of working from home at night. However, at times, I have to work from home due to personal reasons and hence the questions.

Thanks for sharing your current solutions.

The girls from priorilegal.com are lawyers and they're pretty regulars at HN.