UpCodes provides tools to help architects and developers design safe, accessible buildings that speed through government approval. Inefficiencies and mistakes navigating complex building codes cost companies billions yearly in the US alone. Our SaaS platform enables industry professionals to find, understand, and apply the codes so they can build better.

Tech Stack

• Python 3
• Typescript
• Flask
• Postgres
• Redis
• Heroku
• AWS

Why Join Us?

• Our product is already at 250,000 monthly active users. To put that in perspective, there are ~1.5M architects and structural engineers in the US, so we already have a significant chunk of the market.

• This is one of the construction industry's worst problems and we're the only ones solving it.

• We're a YCombinator company, backed by Liquid 2 and Foundation Capital. We've been approached for acquisition more than once, but declined because we believe this could become something big.

• The work is meaningful. Cheaper construction means more affordable housing, airports, hospitals, schools, etc. Oh and we're fighting the good fight (try googling "Can the Law be Copyrighted?")

• We believe the best perk is working with talented colleagues, so we're keeping the team small and experienced / talented.

Example Projects

• Create an internal tool that allows contractors to write formulas to identify when a building code section applies for a user's building, so we can help them find relevant information.

• Add users' bookmarked code snippets onto blueprint PDFs (and have some kind of UI for them specifying the right area in the PDF or detect automatically).

• Create Rap Genius-style annotations on sections of building code, to better explain it.

• Past project example: for links to other building code sections, create a preview modal that pops up similar to Wikipedia's previews.