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About Joy
Joy aims to foster real relationships and real communication by helping people organize, share, and remember their important life events. Since launching two years ago, Joy has signed up 4% of American weddings, and each Joy wedding generates about seven new weddings within a year, illustrating its viral network effects. The platform serves millions of users annually and is used in more than 120 countries, signaling broad global reach. Joy has received funding from Y Combinator, and its founders previously worked at Microsoft and Adobe, underscoring experienced leadership. Approximately 80% of Joy's employees work on the product, and the service has gone viral, reflecting strong user engagement.
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Joy aims to foster real relationships and real communication, using software to bring people closer online and offline.
The engineering team operates on two-week cycles (sprints).
There is a weekly Friday demo and drinks where everyone showcases the work they have completed.
Engineers collaborate with Designers, and a Product Manager coordinates multi-engineer features to ensure alignment.
All engineers are empowered to take their features to production, and deployments happen multiple times a week.
The team uses a standard pull-request model with Git (Bitbucket) and uses JIRA for bug tracking.
There's a focus on learning and data-driven improvement through machine learning related to weddings worldwide.
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