I didn’t realize it until visiting your HN profile but I see you are one of the people behind reMarkable!
And you guys are based in Norway too!
A few questions if you don’t mind.
How many people are in your company?
What are the current and future plans of the company in terms of product? Keep improving the software for the current hardware? Make new models with different hardware?
Where in Norway are you located?
Are you looking to increase the number of people working in your company? Planning to hire more software developers?
And in terms of the open source parts of it, I don’t have this product, nor have I really heard about it before, so I haven’t had a chance to try it but, is everything that the community would need available in order to create a fully open source alternative “firmware” (or really, a “distro” might be a better name for it since it’s running a Linux kernel and all) that can run on your hardware?
We generally have a policy of not communicating externally by default (way too many startups have failed because of loose lips and over-promising), but I'll answer with what's already known publicly. :-)
> How many people are in your company?
Around 70¹.
> Where in Norway are you located?
Oslo¹ (or you can search for reMarkable on google maps).
> Are you looking to increase the number of people working in your company? Planning to hire more software developers?
> [...] is everything that the community would need available in order to create a fully open source alternative “firmware” (or really, a “distro” might be a better name for it since it’s running a Linux kernel and all) that can run on your hardware?
It's just a completely standard Linux system, and as required we publish the source code for u-boot and Linux and whatnot, so yes.
I originally wanted to just run plain Debian on it (or ALARM), but it was easier to just start with a minimal system and put on as little as possible, especially when you're a single person trying to keep track of everything.
Now we've expanded the team a bit, and ideally we could upstream at least the kernel patches so we don't have to forward-port everything ourselves, but it's not a high priority unfortunately.
And we're still a relatively small team, it's a bit hard to find a lot of good kernel developers who want to switch jobs in Norway.
Have you considered hiring remotely? (I read your recruitment pages and while it does not say that you don’t explicitly your hiring process looks as if you are recruiting only for on-site positions).
And you guys are based in Norway too!
A few questions if you don’t mind.
How many people are in your company?
What are the current and future plans of the company in terms of product? Keep improving the software for the current hardware? Make new models with different hardware?
Where in Norway are you located?
Are you looking to increase the number of people working in your company? Planning to hire more software developers?
And in terms of the open source parts of it, I don’t have this product, nor have I really heard about it before, so I haven’t had a chance to try it but, is everything that the community would need available in order to create a fully open source alternative “firmware” (or really, a “distro” might be a better name for it since it’s running a Linux kernel and all) that can run on your hardware?