Haystack
About Haystack
Haystack provides an analytics platform for engineering teams. Its mission is to bring the competitive advantage of data-driven engineering teams to everyone. Customers include Microsoft, The Economist, and Indiegogo. The company is backed by Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Funders Club, and strategic angels (Founder @Optimizely, SVP Sales @Amplitude). Haystack was founded by two technical founders who scaled their startups from 0 to 100m+ users.
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Haystack's culture is described as tinkering, learning, testing and iterating.
There is a culture of shipping quickly and helping customers do the same.
The company focuses on developer happiness and improving team velocity.
Life at Haystack
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