Where things actually stand
Fomio is early. There are real users, real money is about to start moving, and there is exactly one pair of hands. Hiring happens when the product is growing faster than one person can keep up with, and it isn’t there yet.
What that means for you: if you write in, you are not entering a pipeline. You are emailing the person who would make the decision, and they will read it themselves.
What would change that
Some people are worth finding money for before there is a job. Broadly, that means:
- You’ve shipped something people use. Not a side-project graveyard — one thing, live, with strangers on it. That says more than any CV.
- You can write like a human. Half of this product is wording. Turning “500 Internal Server Error” into a sentence a non-technical founder can act on is the hard part, not the checker.
- You understand this audience. People building real apps with Lovable, Replit, Bolt, Cursor. If you think that’s not real engineering, this is the wrong company.
The kinds of help most likely to be needed first
- Product engineering — Next.js and Postgres, end to end.
- Writing — the plain-language explanations, the emails, the docs that don’t exist yet.
- Community — being genuinely useful in the places this audience already is, which is a real job and not marketing.
None of these are open. All of them are things that will be needed before they’re advertised.
Write in anyway
Tell us what you’ve built and why this is the thing you want to work on. Skip the cover letter — a few honest paragraphs beat a formatted one. Everything is read, and you’ll get a reply even when the answer is “not yet”.
Not looking for a job?
The contact page is for everything else.