Version Story (YC W21), created Git for docs, hired first engineer

Hi HN,

I'm Jordan, co-founder of Version Story (YC W21).

Imagine a world without Git. In this Mordor versioning, even basic operations would be tedious and confusing.

To submit changes to your code base, you designate someone on your team to manually update your repository. To get your changes approved, you email your code to the team and wait for your colleagues to send you feedback. When a colleague shares their changes before you, you manually rebase your changes on theirs.

This is how professionals collaborate in many of the most important fields. These include lawyers drafting contracts, academics drafting research papers, legislators drafting bills, and engineers managing CAD files. They meet all the fundamental problems that git solves for coders. In the absence of git, they perform most git actions manually

Version Story solves this problem. We've integrated git's functionality into an intuitive Figma-style visual interface.

My co-founder Kevin and I are both techies and we built our initial product ourselves. We recently secured our first corporate contract with a major law firm () and have many more in our sales pipeline. Now that we are convinced that our product will be a success, we are expanding our team.

At the moment, our team consists of Kevin and me. Kevin is a Stanford Law School-trained lawyer turned coder with experience working in mergers and acquisitions at Simpson Thatcher, and also as a software engineer at LinkedIn. I studied computer science at the University of Michigan and worked as a senior software engineer at LinkedIn before founding Version Story. We are backed by investors such as Y Combinator and Accel Ventures.

We are looking for a strong generalist engineer who wants to walk all parts of the stack to build new features, design our infrastructure architecture, and help us design git for docs.

For more information on this role, click here.

If this position interests you, contact us!