About Cavuno

Hey there,

We built Himalayas from scratch and it's now one of the world's biggest remote job boards, used by millions of people every year. We've also scaled niche boards like Venture Capital Careers using off-the-shelf software, but couldn't find anything we loved. Nothing was fast, beautiful, or built with AI at its core. So we started Cavuno.

You might think a job board is something you can one shot or vibe code in a weekend. But as John Salvatier wrote, reality has a surprising amount of detail. The weekend prototype doesn't handle structured job data, location taxonomies, salary normalization, Google for Jobs schema, programmatic SEO at scale, crawl budget management, billing integrations, applicant tracking, or email deliverability.

We know because we've spent years peeling back these layers at Himalayas — figuring out how to get hundreds of thousands of pages indexed, how to structure JobPosting schema so listings actually appear in Google for Jobs, how to build programmatic landing pages that rank for thousands of long-tail searches without triggering thin content penalties. Every layer reveals more complexity underneath.

Jeff Bezos has a great talk about the early days of electricity. When breweries first got electric power, they had to build their own generators. Every brewery had a generator room, generator engineers, and fuel supply chains. An enormous amount of effort went into undifferentiated heavy lifting. But the thing that differentiates breweries isn't power, it's beer. Then the power grid came along, breweries plugged in and could focus on what made their beer taste better.

We think job board infrastructure should work the same way. You plug into Cavuno and focus on what makes your job board unique — your community, your niche, your content, your brand. As Catherine Jue wrote, fast software is good software. We're building Cavuno with Next.js, React, and PostgreSQL — the same fast, modern stack we use to run Himalayas. Linear taught us that when software is fast, it disappears — it becomes an extension of your thinking rather than something you wait on.

But fast isn't enough. It also needs to be beautiful. We learned this from working with Jordan Hughes, co-founder of Himalayas and creator of Untitled UI — the world's most popular Figma design system with over 100,000 users. We use Base UI and React Aria for accessibility, and rely heavily on Medusa for components and design tokens. Your board represents your brand. We think it should look as good as the companies posting on it.

We believe the world would be better if people didn't have to trawl through irrelevant listings on LinkedIn and Indeed to find their next job. Imagine instead thousands of job boards built for every community — each one understanding its industry, speaking its language, and run by people who genuinely care. Tobi Lütke calls it arming the rebels — giving independents the same tools previously only available to giants.

Before Cavuno, Abi was the first employee at Spaceship, one of Australia's fastest-growing fintechs, where he helped scale the business from 3 people to over 40 with $200m+ in assets under management. He then spent years as a product manager at UpGuard, a cybersecurity company, where he led their design system and product-led growth. That experience — scaling products, obsessing over design, writing content that ranks — is how Himalayas grew to millions of users.

Jack is a full-stack engineer with a degree in Computer Science and Psychology from UNSW, where he programmed VR psychology experiments for the Oculus Rift. He was engineering lead at TeachFlows, reshaping education through AI, and spent years teaching kids to code at Code Camp. He built the infrastructure behind Himalayas from the ground up — the vector search, the AI job matching, and the job aggregator that indexes millions of listings. Everything this letter describes, he engineered.

If you have questions or just want to say hello, contact us.