Launch HN: Onfolk (YC S21) – Modern HR and Payroll in One Place (For the UK)
Hey, we’re Naz and Charlie! We're building Onfolk ( https://onfolk.com/ ). We’re a couple of engineers who discovered that payroll in the UK is pretty backward and that building good software can raise the bar. You can check out some pics on our Product Hunt post [1] or see a quick video [2]. To set the scene: we were software engineers at Monzo for 4 years. Joined at 400k customers, left at 5.5M. We took voluntary furlough in April 2020 ("furlough" is the UK government’s scheme for keeping workers paid for a bit so that companies don't have to lay them off). During that time, Monzo changed payroll provider. The old one sucked and had errors. The new one sucked and had errors. It took a consultant a year to implement the new one. We wondered how on earth a company with our funding, whose main asset was its people, couldn't find a good way to pay th
Why it failed
Hey, we’re Naz and Charlie! We're building Onfolk ( https://onfolk.com/ ). We’re a couple of engineers who discovered that payroll in the UK is pretty backward and that building good software can raise the bar. You can check out some pics on our Product Hunt p
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- 4thstreet
- Ended
- 2021
- Source
- hackernews