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25
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +67% in a year
Hiring now
1
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
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Momentum
28/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
70 public repositories
Hacker News stories
12
best: 119 points
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Overview

Zoo creates infrastructure for hardware design. We're laying the foundation for a modern hardware design toolkit, so that you can create new design tools never before possible.

News

News X (formerly Twitter) 1 month ago
Zoo (@zoodotdev) on X
1st Place: ThreeDSViewer - https://t.co/zcjnRJFC95 Yes. In its full stereoscopic beauty, @GuiEspada has made the "CAD on DS" meme real. ThreeDSViewer uses the Zoo Engine API to sketch using the stylus on the bottom screen, and compute models to then show
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News X (formerly Twitter) 8 months ago
Alex Nichol (@unixpickle) on X
I finally tried @zoodotdev, and found it to be frustrating. Walk with me as I attempt to make a rounded 3D heart.First, I created half of a heart (with rough edges, but that's fine for a start). My plan is to duplicate it and join the two sides; let's try
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News zoodotdev 1 year ago
Zoo: Makefile.md - Possibly Use(fulless) Polyglot Synthesis of Makefile and Markdown
This is a short story of how my coworker Jace sniped me into creating a polyglot Makefile-Markdown file.
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News zoodotdev 1 year ago
Zoo: Zoo Design Studio v1: A New Stack for Mechanical CAD
Spoiler: we wrote our own geometry engine, programming language, ML model, and CAD GUI
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News zoodotdev 1 year ago
Zoo: Zoo CAD Engine Overview
A summary of the motivations and methodologies behind the Zoo CAD Engine.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Zoo over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
1
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
73/100
Growing
Open positions
1
1 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Hiring Dynamics +100%
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.
Solutions
100% ▲

Jobs

$170k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
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