Say you've raised your rates because the industry lately have been getting you A LOT OF WORK, then ask for a value that would be interesting to you($200+/h?). If the client runs away, you still have chance to get back to him after a while.
This sounds alright in principle, but I could be shooting myself in the foot for later - I hate to go down on rate ever so setting the bar higher is probably not the answer.
This is Nathan from Late Labs. Our goal as a company is to create a community of high level developers who can work on projects together. We are also playing around with the idea of using successful existing companies to let developers work on project together for them. What type of horror stories have you worked on? I know we all have these, our goal in the long run is to help make sure developers don't wast their time on projects that aren't stable :)
If you're a developer, then you know what sort of ridiculous proposals are common.
"Build my facebook clone for absolutely zero pay, but I'm feeling gracious so you get 15%!"
I do, however, like the idea of working on granular bits of startups and distributing my risk in a way that makes me more likely to have something take-off than committing to a single startup but not necessarily having any more control than the 'freelancer' mode.
That's our long-term goal for developers. Think of the projects we'll let developers work on as creating a diversified portfolio of equity. A developer can either work on one project and take more of a lead position, or work on multiple projects over time (from Late Labs and from other startups we partner with), for a specific equity base. We know how much time and effort building a site/app takes, so we understand. And I've seen so many "facebook clones" proposals over time so I know the feeling, where the team tells you that they potentially have a 1Billion user market. We're going to keep away from that and focus on smart business and marketing strategy :)
I can do:
C/C++, Ruby on Rails(with TDD/BDD), Node.js/real-time(socket.io) and front-end(html/css/javascript). I can work with the following the relational databases: postgres/mysql and nosql databases: mongodb, dynamodb, neo4j. Some devops(good unix knowledge, can set up your server with nginx/unicorn or passenger and automate with capistrano).
I currently maintain the carrierwave gem, which is a _very popular_ choice for file uploads, had a pull request accept in rails/rails... my github is: https://github.com/thiagofm
I have previously worked for a startup that got sold to one of the largest e-commerce platform in Brazil.
Just in case you want to know, I do have a computer science degree and I'm willing to tackle any hard problem that might come.
I love to do great work and I would appreciate any inquires you have to use my expertise in order to help you.
go is very fast(it's aimed at somewhere between C and C++).
it's a systems programming language, you supposedly can do anything. there's some companies already using it like soundcloud. it's awesome for api's because of it's speed.
also, it's a well thought language with many different decisions from common languages, it does not have exceptions and so on. it's an awesome language if you want to expand your mind.
Make the "sign in with facebook text" be "facebook sign in". The text is too big and it seems that both the facebook and the "get an invitation buttons" have to be of the same size in order to be aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
Hi everyone from hacker news. I'm currently a maintainer of the carrierwave gem, worked on a startup that got sold and I'm looking for a team OR people to join me in railsrumble. I can do frontend, pretty well versed with memcached and node.js also.
