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Funding and backers

Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
open roles
Backers
1
Y Combinator
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 2020 Went through Y Combinator 2020 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.46%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity HOT PLATE LLC SEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Overview

Hotplate is the easiest way for chefs to start, manage, and grow a food business with online ordering, pickup, and customer tools.

News

News Los Angeles Times 1 year ago
Hotplate: A savvy way to heat up food sales
Want to make money with your delicious cooking? Hotplate is a site that helps professional chefs as well as home cooks organize food sales.
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News embedded-ideas.de 1 year ago
Manual Assembly of Modern PCBs Using Low-Cost Tools
A brief guide on assembling PCBs with challenging chips like the RP2350B (Pi Pico 2) using basic, affordable tools.
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News Hackaday 2 years ago
A Compact SMD Reflow Hotplate Powered By USB-PD
When it comes to home-lab reflow work, there are a lot of ways to get the job done. The easiest thing to do perhaps is to slap a PID controller on an old toaster oven and call it a day. But if your be...
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News Hackaday 4 years ago
Throwback: USB Hotplate Used 30 Whole Ports
Once upon a time, USB was still hip, cool, and easy to understand. You could get up to 500 mA out of a port, which wasn't much, but some companies produced USB cup warmers anyway which were a bit of a...
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News Hackaday 10 years ago
Ask Hackaday: How Do You Make A Hotplate?
Greetings fellow nerds. TheInternet's favorite artificial baritone chemist has a problem. His hotplates burn up too fast. He needs your help to fix this problem.NurdRage is famous around these...
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Hotplate over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
9
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
76/100
Languages
TypeScript
JavaScript
Frameworks & libraries
SolidJS
Next.js
React.js
Databases
PostgreSQL
Cloud & platforms
Figma
AWS
Developer tools
Chef
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$198k
Typical range
$185k – $210k
Open positions
2
1 Jobs
Middle 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 1 $185k $185k
Highest paying role Design Engineer $210k
Normalized to USD per year

People

Sarah Real
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
2
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
100% ▲

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco United States
HQ
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff $198k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Industrial Engineering
seen since Jan 2026 job postings

Jobs

$165k – $185k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • San Francisco
JavaScript
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Chef
AWS
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