Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2016) - <AUTHOR> Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility. <comment><USER18> Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: YES

Technologies: Java, AWS (S3, SQS, SNS), Spring Framework, Hibernate, Escenic CMS, Solr, Varnish Cache, Spring Test, Junit, EasyMock, PowerMock, Struts Framework, TestNG, Maven

Résumé/CV: [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102403557/Mossaddeque_5Y...](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102403557/Mossaddeque_5YearsExp_Java_CV.pdf)

Email: email@example.com

Hello. I'm an expert with 14+ years experience, and i'm looking for remote work related to java development.

</comment><comment><USER19> SEEKING WORK

Location: Boulder/Fort Collins/Denver, Colorado (CO), USA and San Francisco Bay Area, California (CA)

Remote: yes

Technologies: python (Django, Flask, GAE), javascript (AngularJS, Knockout, React, Backbone, Node), MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, full stack, UX design, front- end, back-end, product management, small business consulting, microservices (SOA), Test Driven Development (TDD), mobile web, and more

Résumé/CV: [http://uplift.agency](http://uplift.agency)

Email: email@example.com

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</comment><comment><USER20> SEEKING WORK

Location: Prague

Remote: yes

I'm a passionate full-stack software developer with over three years of experience turning ideas into production apps. I've designed and developed front-end and back-end web applications.

Technologies/Skills: JavaScript, React, ES6, Webpack, Gulp, Backbone, D3.js, Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery, Git, SASS, LESS, Java, JSP, Spring MVC, Liferay, Portlets, JMS, ActiveMQ, Maven

Blog: [http://andrejgajdos.com/](http://andrejgajdos.com/)

Contact: [http://andrejgajdos.com/contact/](http://andrejgajdos.com/contact/)

</comment><comment><USER21> SEEKING WORK - Riverside, CA (REMOTE)

Web Developer

\- Languages: Javascript, Python, C++, x86 Assembly(MASM)

\- Hourly rate $45/hr.

\- Understanding of OOP fundamentals, discrete math, and basic data structures/algorithms.

\- Can do HTML/CSS, as well as work with Front-end frameworks such as Angular/Polymer/React.

\- Experience building back-ends in Node.js and Django.

\- Willing to learn, looking for contract part-time remote work.

\- Former professional experience in software QA.

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\- LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonhinshaw](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonhinshaw)

\- GitHub: [https://github.com/bioid](https://github.com/bioid)

\- email: bkhinshaw (at) gmail.com

</comment><comment><USER22> SEEKING WORK - Berlin/Remote

I spent the last two years building compilers and relational databases at Eve ([http://witheve.com/](http://witheve.com/)).

Before that I spent several years consulting. Some highlights:

Item-item article recommendations for Springer users based on ~600m past downloads. Uses locality-sensitive hashing and external sorting to run on a single low-powered server. [https://github.com/jamii/springer- recommendations](https://github.com/jamii/springer-recommendations)

Built a prototype replacement for the core trading engine at the Smarkets betting exchange: 10x less code, 40x better throughput, 10x better 99% latency.

Built a LaTeX aware search engine to power latexsearch.com. Covers the entire Springer library – more than 8m LaTeX equations. Searches by tree-edit distance on compressed syntax trees, using suffix arrays as a first-pass filter. [https://github.com/jamii/texsearch](https://github.com/jamii/texsearch)

Parallelized a constrain-logic programming DSL - [http://scattered- thoughts.net/blog/2012/12/19/search-trees-a...](http://scattered- thoughts.net/blog/2012/12/19/search-trees-and-core-dot-logic/)

email@example.com - [http://scattered- thoughts.net/resume/](http://scattered-thoughts.net/resume/) \- [https://github.com/jamii/](https://github.com/jamii/)

</comment><comment><USER23> SEEKING WORK

Location: Bangalore, India

Remote: yes

Experience: 16 years

Currently, I am bootstrapping (self-funding) a somewhat large-ish opensource project/startup called Fora ([https://github.com/foraproject](https://github.com/foraproject)), a Collaborative Development Tool and Marketplace for Node.JS apps. I can do about 15-20 hours/week of programming/consulting; which goes towards funding Fora.

Linux-based: Node.JS, React, Redux, Relay, Flow, Typescript, AngularJS, Backbone, Express & MongoDb; Python, Django, Postgres; Bash scripting

Windows-based: Asp.Net/MVC, C#, Sql Server, EF, Powershell, Windows Automation, Sharepoint

Domains: Development tools and platforms, Healthcare, E-commerce, Industrial automation, Social Networks

Samples of work: (Linux) Node.JS build tool [https://github.com/foraproject/crankshaft/](https://github.com/foraproject/crankshaft/) (Windows) LINQ-based ORM tool and VS GUI Modeling tools [https://github.com/jeswin/AgileFx](https://github.com/jeswin/AgileFx)

jeswinpk (that symbol) agilehead.com

</comment><comment><USER24> [SEEKING WORK] Looking for a remote startup junior dev position. Willing to learn anything with a sleep can wait and get it done no matter what attitude.

Planning to move to Canada(Toronto) this year from Philippines. Getting a Job Offer would greatly help in immigration process if you're from Canada. High appreciation if you can do that.

Nonetheless, if you think that I am a possible fit, I am just an email away. Thanks a lot for your time.

RESUME: bit.ly/1n3gUvZ SKYPE: markenranosa AVAILABILITY: ASAP

</comment><comment><USER25> SEEKING FREEELANCERS & SELLSWORDS

Location: Singapore (GMT +8), remote's totally cool with us!

### Hackers only

We're looking for an independent, inquisitive full-stack dev to help us set up a custom Shopify or node.js/Rails/Python site for a frozen food delivery startup.

Must be familiar with ecommerce and using tools like Git for versioning and collaborating with a designer.

We're looking for someone who's able to be agile and work with our designer to figure out a tech stack that fits with what we're trying to achieve.

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### The Project

* A responsive ecommerce and membership website

* For a packaged food delivery startup

* Serving busy fitness-conscious professionals

* Existing company, existing website, looking for a long term maintainable solution

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### The Brief

There are a few custom features that need to be built:

1\. Membership portal with credit points that can be used in lieu of cash

2\. Step-by-step onboarding wizard that helps new customers find the product that fits them

3\. A human friendly CRUD interface for the staff to administer the site on a day-to-day basis including product inventory, orders, payments and content.

4\. Some kind of CRM dashboard that allows the staff to target specific user segments (based on conditional filters) for promotions.

And of course:

Standard ecommerce interface for searching and browsing products, customizing products, adding to cart, feature products on the front page, sort products by category, checking out via Stripe/PayPal/Braintree.

We are okay with using existing platforms like Shopify, Intercom, or Stripe, since we are a lean startup, so bonus points if you can do integrations very well.

This will be a 2-3 month long project and we're willing to pay up to 15,000 USD. You'll be working with a UX/visual designer.

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### Sound good?

Email me: email@example.com

</comment><comment><USER26> SEEKING WORK New York, NY or Remote

My partner and I design and build mobile apps for early-stage companies. Most recently we've helped a number of companies build out their video recording, editing, and sharing platforms. If you need help building compelling and efficient mobile applications, or have any questions about mobile video, shoot me an email at: firstname.lastname@example.com.

Some past work of ours includes:

\- Reveal: We worked with Reveal to improve their video quality 3x while simultaneously reducing the amount of time their users have to wait for videos to begin playing. ([http://reveal.me](http://reveal.me))

\- SNBL: My partner developed Snowball's iOS application and backend, including a system for reordering server-side playlists on the fly, removing the processing burden from the user's device and moving it to the cloud. ([http://samk.name/work#snbl](http://samk.name/work#snbl))

\- Romotive: I was Romotive's lead engineer and led development for our initial iOS and Android applications, including our realtime two-way H264 audio/video streaming libraries. ([http://www.romotive.com/](http://www.romotive.com/))

We're based in NYC, but work with partners around the world.

Email: email@example.com

Keywords: mobile, iOS, Android, design, development, product, UX, video, New York, Brooklyn, NY, remote, beacon, iBeacon.

</comment><comment><USER27> SEEKING WORK – Remote

Specialization: Full-stask Web and mobile development. Python (Django, Flask), Javascript (AngularJS, Meteor, jQuery, etc.), Coffeescript, MongoDB, Swift.

Based in EU, Lithuania. UTC +2

A senior software engineer who is always concerned about the user experience and the quality of software. Focused on developing high-end web and mobile applications. A technology fan and a perfectionist by nature.

A self-motivated team player who is keen to take on additional responsibilities and meet the challenge. Good at hiring and managing geographically distributed teams of developers. Effective in working under pressure with tight deadlines.

The CV is accessible at [http://careers.stackoverflow.com/msamoylov](http://careers.stackoverflow.com/msamoylov)

LinkedIn: [http://linkedin.com/in/msamoylov](http://linkedin.com/in/msamoylov)

Email: firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER28> SEEKING WORK / based in Portugal / remote or on-site (Europe/US preferred)

I'm a software developer with 10 years of professional experience with an interest in clean code and getting things done. Lately I have been working with Python and Python web frameworks such as Flask and Django, but my interests range from computer networks to data processing.

My main interest is in creating MVPs but I am also available for maintenance, refactoring and bug-fix work.

Languages: Python, C, Java (Java and Kotlin)

About:

      * I started my career as Computer Science teacher.
      * I have a PhD and published peer-reviewed work in statistical Natural Language Processing.
      * I am the founder of http://flatangle.com, an online project which aims to provide software tools for traditional astrologers.
      * I have 5+ years of experience in full stack web development.
      * With a background in teaching and strong communication skills I'm a very strong adept on passing on knowledge (e.g, you can check my blog at http://joaoventura.net/blog/).

Profile: [http://joaoventura.net/](http://joaoventura.net/)

Github: [https://github.com/joaoventura](https://github.com/joaoventura), [https://github.com/flatangle](https://github.com/flatangle)

Contact: joaojonesventura at gmail dot com

</comment><comment><USER29> SEEKING WORK - Toronto, ON (but remote is fine)

Hi there! I'm a software developer / engineering leader with 15 years experience, who has ventured out into the freelance world in the past couple of months.

Here's how I can help your business:

        * Full-stack implementation of web applications - I'm accustomed to
          B2B and B2C applications operating at high scale with complex data
          models and business logic.
        * Prototyping and proof-of-concept building
        * Architectural guidance - In particular, I'm experienced with deep
          integrations with CRM and other systems as well as distributed
          systems.
        * Agile coaching and training.

I've worked professionally in Ruby, C#, C++, VB.NET, Java and Javascript on the server side. I'm well versed in SQL, and most modern front-end frameworks.

I've worked as a developer and a manager of developers for Eloqua, Influitive, Indigo Books and Music, and many other Canadian startups. I'm also passionate about teaching, and teach a Rails bootcamp for HackerYou.

Drop me a line at ryan at ryanbrunner.ca if interested.

</comment><comment><USER30> SEEKING WORK - New York/Brooklyn, NY or remote

I'm a full stack web developer with over five years of experience turning ideas into production apps. My clients have been startups, agencies, big companies and non-profits, examples include the New York Times, Cleversafe, Planted and Charitybuzz. I prefer writing Ruby and using Rails on the server side but I have also built apps using Ruby with Sinatra and Python with Django or Flask and node.js with Express. I prefer Angular.js for client side apps, though I have also used Ember.js. I'm a good communicator and one of my favorite recent professional experiences was tutoring a beginner programmer in web development (now he's a fulltime dev). In addition to development I also do UX design. Recent projects include: A custom CMS built with Rails for the New York Times Conferences series, UX and Django app for scheduling test suite runs at Cleversafe, a Sinatra + clientside JS application for an international study abroad non-profit.

Github: [https://github.com/ritchiea](https://github.com/ritchiea)

Resume: [http://andrewritchie.info/docs/andrewritchie.pdf](http://andrewritchie.info/docs/andrewritchie.pdf)

More info: [http://andrewritchie.info](http://andrewritchie.info)

Email: email@example.com

</comment><comment><USER31> SEEKING WORK - Switzerland, Remote

Tim is a scientist at the Large Hadron Collider and open source tool maker. I help develop open source software that is used by thousands of businesses and organisations to effectively model and learn about their data ([http://github.com/betatim](http://github.com/betatim)). I also lead a team of five to innovate on pattern reconstruction, particle detection, and experiment design which helped CERN develop a system able to process data at an unprecedented rate.

Tim consults on machine-learning, statistics and software development. Tim helps companies make data driven decisions by taking advantage of the data they have, building predictive models with that data, integrating expert knowledge, solving computational challenges and interpreting the results.

Blog: [http://betatim.github.io](http://betatim.github.io) GitHub: [http://github.com/betatim](http://github.com/betatim)

</comment><comment><USER32> SEEKING WORK REMOTE

I want to join your team. I bring really strong, general business case understanding, analysis and advice to your team, as well as advanced coding skills and a thorough knowledge of Google Cloud Platform.

Maybe I don't know your stack specifically, and I have great, solid skills in JS, Python and databases. I'm looking for a place that's moving fast, where I'll learn new things. If what you're building sounds good, and tho I have a preference for remote, I wouldn't say no to onsite if everything else worked. I'm pretty much a generalist, and am interested in learning something more specific.

Here's my resume online with a little code: [https://dosaygo.com/~cris](https://dosaygo.com/~cris)

Here's my LinkedIn : [https://hk.linkedin.com/in/cris-stringfellow- aa08b987](https://hk.linkedin.com/in/cris-stringfellow-aa08b987)

Please, no time wasters / people who use sample-work-for-hiring to build their site.

Cris

</comment><comment><USER33> SEEKING WORK - based in SF Bay Area or US/Canada remote

Hi, I'm an IT infrastructure operations manager, director, architect and whatnot, working on my own project to make life of other IT infrastructure folks easier.

I can:

1\. Help you build your infrastructure, if you already decided to migrate from AWS

2\. Run the cost analysis for you if you're not yet decided

3\. Tell you if it is worth the effort and why and when and how

4\. Help you find right people to run your infrastructure

5\. Select vendors, work with them and get you the best price

6\. If necessary, I can build a small datacenter with my bare hands and then run it :-)

7\. Help you with your application to scale it and make it effectively use the infrastructure you just invested in.

I've built infrastructures from 1-2 racks of used servers 3 generations old in dirt cheap crappy colo space to $10M brand new bleeding etch hardware in a shiny new facility in the heart of Silicon Valley (or Midwest, or East Coast, or Europe).

I have 20+ years of experience in software development (everything from kernel drivers and network stacks to Erlang backends and JS single page application frontends) of which 10+ years I spent as a devops guy for different web/software companies of which, in turn, 5+ years as "director of infrastructure/devops/cloud" for quite large software/SaaS companies.

To build my product I want to help as much companies as possible. As such, even if you don't have money (or have very little) to pay for my services, but your case is somewhat interesting for me, we still can work together.

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kikap](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kikap)

email@example.com

</comment><comment><USER34> SEEKING WORK - Remote & Atlanta

We're a group of experienced developers, designers, and product managers who have decades of combined experience building websites, applications, and user interfaces for clients ranging from giants like Coke and AT&T to agile Silicon Valley startups.

We specialize in rapid prototyping, but we can handle projects at any stage of development--from sketches on the back of a napkin, to 20 year old legacy code. Whether you need someone to design, build, and deploy a complete product from the ground up, or untangle an existing mess, we can handle it.

We are excellent communicators, and we will provide clear and concise status reports through every phase of the project. Our job is to make sure you never have to worry about how your project is going. We can handle anything you can throw at us--get in touch and we'll get started.

We are experienced with Ruby/Rails, JavaScript (plus many js frameworks), C#, Java, Go, CSS3, HTML5, UI/UX design, user testing, product management, and branding. We can handle anything you can throw at us, so don't hesitate to contact us if you don't see your technology stack listed.

Email: email@example.com Website: [http://skape.works](http://skape.works)

</comment><comment><USER35> SEEKING FREELANCERS

Location: New York City (Or remote inside of the USA or CA) Technologies: Swift, iOS, Android

Hey all, we're Black Ops. We're a tech studio based out of NYC with clients and developers around the country. We have a few projects coming in that will require some additional help on the mobile client side. This includes all iOS Platforms (iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Apple Watch) and Android phone and tablet. Open to stickily contract and contact-to-hire.

Ping me with any questions at email@example.com

</comment><comment><USER36> SEEKING WORK

      Location: Chicago
      Remote: Yes
      Email: t.lekkas[at]practalis.com

Looking for PM or developer opportunities.

Experienced Python/Django developer focused on web application development and data analytics. Experienced in client facing project/product management roles. Experienced in using & implementing technology in order to resolve client/stake-holder issues. Experienced in managing technical teams in order to deliver on stated objectives.

</comment><comment><USER37> SEEKING WORK - Remote (GMT+2)

Building software applications is as much about coding as it is about understanding and solving the actual business problems!

I'm a Zend & SensioLabs certified web developer / consultant with a focus on solving business problems and adding value through product optimisation. This can be done in many ways: creating a new application, suggesting an action plan or architecture, optimizing current set-up / architecture / applications, etc.

At the moment my technology focus is on PHP, Symfony, AWS, MongoDB, MySQL, APIs, NodeJS and Docker. I also care a lot about security (InfoSec), performance, quality, best practices & continuous learning. You can contact me for projects at [http://ifdattic.com](http://ifdattic.com)

Few of the problems I solved for my clients:

        * optimize infrastructure to reduce costs by $10000+ per year
        * implement backup & work flow to avoid using data due to
          incompetent developers
        * custom applications for improving work flows (document
          submission, sports coaching, inventory system, etc.)

Website: [http://ifdattic.com](http://ifdattic.com)

LinkedIn: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/ifdattic](http://www.linkedin.com/in/ifdattic)

AngelList: [https://angel.co/ifdattic](https://angel.co/ifdattic)

Twitter: [https://twitter.com/ifdattic](https://twitter.com/ifdattic)

GitHub: [https://github.com/ifdattic](https://github.com/ifdattic)

</comment><comment><USER38> SEEKING WORK

Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes

I'm a C++ expert with over 15 years professional experience in the games industry (EA, THQ, several smaller independent developers). I have extensive realtime 3D graphics experience as well as expertise in optimization, debugging and console development.

I'm currently working on a Virtual Reality project as I see massive potential for VR over the next few years but I'm interested in remote contracting opportunities up to 50% of my time, particularly in the VR space.

I have experience working on many different platforms and in teams ranging in size from small indie projects to AAA game teams with 100s of members. My background is game development but my expertise in C++, optimization and 3D and GPGPU programming are relevant to a number of non-games applications.

Resume: [https://careers.stackoverflow.com/mattnewport](https://careers.stackoverflow.com/mattnewport)

Game Credits: [http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,14...](http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,14..).

Github: [https://github.com/mattnewport](https://github.com/mattnewport)

LinkedIn: [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/mattnewport](https://ca.linkedin.com/in/mattnewport)

Email: firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER39> SEEKING WORK - <USER17>

I'm a full stack web developer specialized in front-end development and UI Design.

My primary service to clients is the creation of landing pages, using my understanding of interface design as well as user behavior patterns which ultimately lead to higher conversion rates.

The most recent landing page I've built was for Slice Capital ([http://slice.capital](http://slice.capital)) and am currently working part- time as a design consultant with them.

I typically charge from $700 - $1k for a single-page landing page with optional features such as contact forms, and custom integrations/demos based on your product.

I also particularly enjoy conceptualizing/implementing weird esoteric media projects for the web, so if somehow you're here and looking for a really unique brand presence online, let's talk :)

My skillset:

        HTML/Jade/EJS
        CSS/LESS/Sass
            (visual design both in terms of user behavior +
             aesthetic is a notable strength of mine)
        JavaScript/React
            (worked on real estate automation startup on
             property valuation tooling, implementing
              data migration/sanitization/analysis on a
             database of more than 1M property records)
        Node.js/Express/etc
        MongoDB
        PostgreSQL
        Git
        PaaS/IaaS setup/deployment

Email me @ firstname.lastname@example.com

Thanks!

Krish Dholakiya - [http://itskrish.co](http://itskrish.co)

</comment><comment><USER40> SEEKING FREELANCER

Location: Berlin, Germany

Technologies: Swift, iOS

We, [http://www.commercetools.com](http://www.commercetools.com) offer SDKs for the JVM, Node JS and PHP and our e-commerce platform is used for many web shops. With your help, we want to bring it to iOS. Support us to optimize our REST API for mobile use cases and offer a SDK for Swift!

We're looking for a freelancer with lots of iOS knowledge and a good grasp on the Swift ecosystem. I'm a backend dev with some mobile experience, and together with the (web-)SDK devs I want to bring our API to iOS. We've built this before for other ecosystems, and therefore we know it's important to have experience with the ecosystem one is building for (which we are currently lacking).

You will then use the SDK in small demo apps, and you will port an existing app from Obj-C to Swift and the new SDK (basically, throw everything away but the UI ;) ).

All your work will be open-source, developed publicly on GitHub.

We're planning with ~3 months of work currently.

Regarding remote: We'd prefer it if you could spend at least some time in our office (If you're a digital nomad, Berlin is a great city to visit :) )

Feel free to ping me with any questions at christoph.neijenhuis (at) commercetools.de

</comment><comment><USER41> SEEKING WORK

Remote: yes

Location: currently in SE Asia

Languages (primary): Ruby, Python, Scala, Clojure, C#, Rust;

Languages (secondary): Perl 6, Java, Haskell, C, SQL, JavaScript, R;

Email: me (at) gildedhonour dot com

Github: [https://github.com/GildedHonour](https://github.com/GildedHonour)

Web-sites: [http://www.gildedhonour.com](http://www.gildedhonour.com) (CV, contacts), [http://www.alexmaslakov.com](http://www.alexmaslakov.com)

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I'm Alex.

I've been building web, desktop and mobile applications for the last 6 years. In 2015 I partially switched to data science: big data, nlp, machine learning, etc and this has become one more area I'm interested in.

I don't just do programming. Rather I solve your problem choosing the most appropriate tool and technology. I'm up for fixed-price jobs as well as permanent or long-term remote ones which are more preferable.

My average hourly rate is $30, but it might vary depending on the volume of work you have.

When emailing me, please provide the details of what you need to implement, your approximate budget and deadline.

Thanks && Cheers!

</comment><comment><USER42> SEEKING WORK - Mobile app developer.

Remote: Yes Location: London, UK Technologies: Android, iOS Availability: 10-15 hours per week

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Hi, I'm Neil. I've been developing Android and iOS apps for five years. I've worked with everyone from very small startups to Fortune 500 companies. I'm used to working closely with designers, server-side developers, product owners and other key stakeholders to deliver great apps.

I love working on greenfield projects and building on existing products. I've been heavily involved in turning apps from prototypes into production-quality software, and have also been solely responsible for designing and building new applications from the ground up.

I currently have 10-15 hours per week free in my schedule, and am looking to take on a freelance project.

Email me: neil [AT] multicolouredsoftware.com

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My LinkedIn profile, with details of past work: [https://uk.linkedin.com/in/neilmcguiggan](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/neilmcguiggan)

Some of my personal projects: [http://www.multicolouredsoftware.com/](http://www.multicolouredsoftware.com/)

My personal site: [http://mcguiggan.org/](http://mcguiggan.org/)

</comment><comment><USER43> SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: Reliable, scalable services.

In the past I've run large-scale Debian installations doing devops before it had a name, and been responsible for servers in Antarctica. I have experience with a wide range of different Unix tools and technologies, at various levels of the stack. This gives me the ability—and the perspective—to pick the best combination of tools for any particular job, rather than simply treating everything as a nail because all I have is a hammer.

I can help you build a back end for your new web or mobile app, or architect a scalable platform to power it.

Previous work:

\- School data processing app (Elixir/Phoenix, PostgreSQL)

\- Custom data dashboards (R, Geckoboard)

\- High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

\- Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

\- Feasibility study investigating the possiblility of writing custom code to interface with a biometric timeclock (Common Lisp)

\- Proof-of-concept hardware development for projects linking the physical and virtual worlds in real time (Arduino, Node.js)

\- Project management webapp for construction companies (Rails, AngularJS, Bootstrap)

Buzzwords: Debian, Ubuntu, AWS, PostgreSQL, Perl, Common Lisp, Ruby, Go, Arduino / AVR, Elixir, FreeBSD

Got something you think is a good fit? Drop me a line at mike -at- lambdafunctions -dot- com

</comment><comment><USER44> SEEKING WORK - Portugal or REMOTE

Experience: 12

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: No, but I'm willing to travel internationally for short periods (1-3 weeks) on occasion.

Location: Portugal (Europe), GMT+00

Technologies: Python, JavaScript, Django, C#, ASP.NET MVC, PostgreSQL, SQL Server

Email: marco (at) marcocampos.net

CV: [https://www.dropbox.com/s/9d58kdre55dv6dr/marco_campos_cv_en...](https://www.dropbox.com/s/9d58kdre55dv6dr/marco_campos_cv_english.pdf?dl=0)

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Hi,

I'm Marco and I've been doing software development for about 12 years. I'm currently looking for new opportunities doing either full-stack or back-end development. I've built software used by both big (Fortune 500) and small (local businesses) companies and I pride myself for being self-motivated, focused and very easy to work with. My degree is both in Software Engineering and Business Management so I have both the skills and the experience of shipping a product, helping with sales and marketing and talking with customers.

If you're interested don't hesitate. Shoot me an email. I would love to know more about your business.

</comment><comment><USER45> SEEKING WORK - Boulder, Colorado or Remote

We are a 3-person full stack digital agency that's more or less just getting started. We are looking for clients who have challenging projects and who have the time and money to prioritize quality execution. Check out our portfolio at [http://stratosphere.digital](http://stratosphere.digital). Check out or most recent client project at [http://divvydose.com](http://divvydose.com).

Some of the technologies we're most familiar with:

Web and mobile design, UI, UX, iconography, illustration, design prototyping, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SASS, LESS, Stylus, CoffeeScript, WebSockets, AJAX, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, Cordova, PhoneGap, iOS, Android, Browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox, Safari), AWS, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, C, C++, C#, Java, Objective-C, Swift, QS/1, HL7, HIPAA

We bid projects or offer hourly/daily/weekly rates.

Contact: via our website or you can contact me directly at firstname.lastname@example.com.

</comment><comment><USER46> SEEKING WORK

Remote: Yes

Relocation: No

Location: GMT+1 (US expat, traveling)

Python/Web Developer

Hi!

I have 3 years of mixed Python (Django/scripting), Ruby on Rails, and DevOps experience. Throughout this time I've built web apps (back and front-end), efficient APIs, deployment pipelines, lots of infrastructure and automation (Saltstack, bash, Vagrant, AWS, etc.), and I serviced ailing systems and deployments.

I can build a project solo or as part of a team. I'm also interested in working with legacy code.

What I've been working on recently:

\+ Exploring Python 3 by writing a TFTP server: [https://github.com/sirMackk/py3tftp](https://github.com/sirMackk/py3tftp)

\+ Exploring security via the HackerOne platform: [https://hackerone.com/pr0tagon1st](https://hackerone.com/pr0tagon1st)

If you think we could work together on a project, let me know!

\+ Github: [http://github.com/sirMackk](http://github.com/sirMackk)

\+ More info: [http://mattscodecave.com/hire- me.html](http://mattscodecave.com/hire-me.html)

\+ SO Careers: [http://careers.stackoverflow.com/matto](http://careers.stackoverflow.com/matto)

\+ Contact: matt+hn at mattscodecave.com

Tags: Python, Django, Postgresql, ELK, Saltstack, Debian, Nginx, Ubuntu, AWS, Elixir.

</comment><comment><USER47> SEEKING WORK - New York City or Remote

Sr. Technical Consultant

My name is Patrick. I'm an award winning developer with broad technical and business knowledge, most recently focused on building web apps that convert and perform at scale.

 _Authorized to work in US and EU, bilingual in German /English (native)._

      • Full-stack web on mobile and desktop

      • Wide DevOps experience (AWS, Heroku, Vagrant, CI/Jenkins, self-hosting)

      • OS internals (forensics, Unix/Windows, network security/firewalls/Cisco)

      • formerly Microsoft and Princeton

Results:

      • ~40,000 users totaling ~$18 mil in donations (fundraising platform)

      • ~$1 mil/yr revenue (e-commerce site from scratch, non-physical goods)

      • $25k/yr hosting cost reduction by re-architecting AWS infrastructure

      • 200% improvement in forensics turnaround time by revamping imaging lab

      • 350% page speed improvement by rewriting JS & deps from scratch

Public-facing projects: [http://revv.co](http://revv.co), [http://petwellnessreport.com](http://petwellnessreport.com), [http://bfa.com](http://bfa.com)

email: me at onpaws.com

github: github.com/onpaws

More info: [http://iforgotyoursite.com](http://iforgotyoursite.com)

Mention HN, please.

keywords for you cmd-f folks: rails, ruby, es6, javascript, js, es2015, react, angular, sass, less, css3, html5, mobile, ios, elasticsearch, devops, linux, security, cisco, stripe, braintree, paypal, brooklyn, nyc, new york

</comment><comment><USER48> SEEKING WORK - San Francisco - Remote OK - Travel Possible Experienced software developer with a history in startups.

Proficient in:

      * Python  ['django', 'bottle', 'google.app.engine', 'pyramid']
      * Javascript  ['angular','backbone','node','firebase','react'];
      * Clojure  '(compojure om)
      * Ruby ['rails', 'sinatra']
      * Go {'appengine'}
      * Haskell, Prolog (and other esoterics)

We've helped entrepreneurs develop their MVP, as well as large companies develop core features. We provide services such as feature development, product management, and software auditing.

Previous engagements include Fuze, DriveShift.com, Sosh, Getaround, Codecademy, Factset, Wakemate, drip.fm, and Swiftstack, among others. Currently represented by [http://www.10xmanagement.com](http://www.10xmanagement.com)

For more info see our page at [http://turbines.io](http://turbines.io), or talk to us at email@example.com

</comment><comment><USER49> Seeking freelancers: SF and remote (SF working hours preferred)

PagerDuty is looking for two types of freelancers:

If you're experienced with enterprise monitoring tools (CA, HP, IBM, Microsoft etc) or ITSM and looking to do some integration work, we'd love to put you to work writing integrations between those tools and PagerDuty. If you know how to get those tools to send an HTTP request, we can use you. Contact us at: firstname.lastname@example.com

We're also building a collection of open sourced examples of what you can do with our API. We've had some good developers reach out to us already but there's always room for more. These generally take the form of some javascript & html that's embeddable in an iframe. If you're good with JavaScript and looking to get paid to build an open source portfolio, contact us at: firstname.lastname@example.com

Why work with us:

* Everything will be open source, build your portfolio

* We have experience working with contractors — no surprises from our end

* We prefer do a lot of small iterative projects, rather than one big quote

* We don't mind if it's your first solo gig ever, but we'll start you out with something small

</comment><comment><USER50> SEEKING WORK / based in Germany / remote or on-site (Europe/US preferred)

I'm a generalist developer with two decades of experience. I also have a background in biosciences and have worked for advertising agencies, research labs, and the chemicals industry.

My primary interest is in creating MVPs, but I also do maintenance, refactoring, and bugfixing work. I'm also proficient in making games with WebGL/Pixi/Three.js and Unity3D/C#.

Languages: PHP, JavaScript / Node.js, C#, Lua, Ruby, Java, C/C++

About me:

      * I started my career at an advertising agency
      * made a toy programming language called np: http://np-lang.org
        and I'm generally a language design enthusiast
      * I'm a Ludum Darer: http://ludumdare.com/compo/author/udo/
      * Github: https://github.com/Udo/
      * My indie game project: http://udven.com/

Profile: [http://udo.click/](http://udo.click/)

Contact me at email@example.com

<comment><USER50> PS: if you post here, please remember to upvote the freelancer thread itself!

</comment></comment><comment><USER51> SEEKING WORK - Consultancy, London UK or remote. NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES.

I'm a DevOps consultant with 15 years experience hosting web applications and I'm on the lookout for interesting new projects.

I work closely with developers throughout the application lifecycle to build scalable and long-term robust architectures. Load testing, CI, deploy systems, monitoring, config management, security audits, dev projects of my own - <USER3> name it I've done it. For larger organisations I've even led whole infrastructure teams.

Recent work includes:

\+ AWS/Docker platform to securely host a large public-sector microservice- based web app taking millions of pounds per month (yes, PCI) in payments.

\+ Physical platform hosting a large, successful news site for the financial sector.

\+ Large multithreaded Python 3 application for automated cryptocurrency trading. Don't try this, you won't get rich.

\+ Lots, lots more.

email@example.com / [https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/alex- hewson/b6/50a/8b4](https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/alex-hewson/b6/50a/8b4)

</comment><comment><USER52> SEEKING WORK - <USER17>

Need a solid, secure app on multiple platforms, on a tight deadline? I'm your man.

One of the winners at SyScan Hardcode, two-time grand prize winner of Google Code-in, and Angelhack 2015 Series Regional Winner. References on request.

If you need quick 1-on-1 development help, try my profile on Codementor: [https://www.codementor.io/aviraldg](https://www.codementor.io/aviraldg)

Platforms (in order of experience):

\- Web Applications (Python, Node.js, Frontend/JS, MEAN stack)

\- Android apps

\- Cross Platform Desktop Apps (Qt)

\- I love experimenting. Currently studying advanced algorithms.

Accounts: [https://github.com/aviraldg](https://github.com/aviraldg), [http://stackoverflow.com/users/152873/aviraldg](http://stackoverflow.com/users/152873/aviraldg), [http://in.linkedin.com/in/aviraldg/](http://in.linkedin.com/in/aviraldg/), [http://codeforces.com/profile/aviraldg](http://codeforces.com/profile/aviraldg)

Resume: [http://www.aviraldg.com/files/aviral-dasgupta- resume.pdf](http://www.aviraldg.com/files/aviral-dasgupta-resume.pdf)

Location: India

Contact: me [at] aviraldg.com (prefix subject with 'work', please)

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Keyword Soup: C, C++, Python, JavaScript, Node.js, Qt, Django, Flask, Web2py, Android, HTML5, Angular.js

</comment><comment><USER53> SEEKING FREELANCER - Phoenix, AZ - <USER17>

I have a project related to an M&A of two mid-sized web hosting companies. I need a bunch of resources. Specific roles and tasks are listed below!

\- C# .NET developer (some classic ASP) (x2)

The acquired company has some user-facing hosting management tools, as well as some internal tools that are used to manage the business. They need to maintain and extend these tools.

The acquiring company has a large client who needs a custom cloud server provisioning application completed.

\- Microsoft Dynamics expert (x1, maybe more depending on complexity)

The two companies have separate Dynamics deployments that need to be merged and extended.

\- Zimbra expert (x1, maybe more depending on complexity)

The acquired company has 55,000 email accounts currently hosted on an old version of Zimbra. They need to upgrade Zimbra to the latest version and limit breakage.

\- Ceph expert (x1, maybe more depending on complexity)

The acquiring company needs someone to manage their Ceph environment. I don't have too much detail on this one, other than Ceph is a thing they need to deal with.

\- Flexiant expert (x1)

As a hosting company trying to go after AWS, they need someone to handle scripting their virtual machines, or so I gather. Like the Ceph expert above, there is not a lot that I know about this particular task right now.

This is likely going to be a 3-6 month full-time contract for all of the above resources. If you are local to the Phoenix area, a full-time position as a C# dev is quite possible as well.

I need to fill these positions immediately, so if you or someone you know is interested, please email me at my HN uname (AT) Google's famous email service.

Pay is negotiable depending on experience! Make me an offer!

</comment><comment><USER54> SEEKING WORK - Berlin or remote

Rails, Nodejs, JS/Coffeescript, React, Backbone/Marionette, Erlang/Elixir

Rails since 2005

more then 20 years of experience from Linux kernel drivers to web apps.

We did more then 100 projects since 2005, with many successful startups and bigger companies. I have a lot of experience helping startups from early stages to production. Can help with defining the product, scope for the MVP, and general advice on how to increase your chances of success.

[https://github.com/vitaly/](https://github.com/vitaly/)

[https://github.com/astrails/](https://github.com/astrails/)

[http://linkedin.com/i/vkushner](http://linkedin.com/i/vkushner)

Skype: vitaly.k

Phone: +49 152 09235503

Email: firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER55> SEEKING WORK

I am available to work about 15-20 hours per week. I have been doing web application development in Django for past 5 years. I love to solve problems which makes life easier for the users.

Location: Mumbai, India

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Django, Javascript, HTML, CSS

Résumé/CV: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalsodani](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalsodani)

Github: [http://github.com/vishalsodani/](http://github.com/vishalsodani/)

Website: [http://vishalsodani.com/freelance- experience/](http://vishalsodani.com/freelance-experience/)

Email: email@example.com

</comment><comment><USER56> SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote

I'm a polygot, full-stack developer with 15 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres, Chef, and Ember, although I'm comfortable on a variety of platforms. I am reliable, easy to work with, quick to turn things around, and a good communicator. I can work solo or on a team, either as lead or a team member. I value client satisfaction as highly as technical excellence.

You can see some of my recent work here:

[http://illuminatedcomputing.com/portfolio](http://illuminatedcomputing.com/portfolio)

[https://github.com/pjungwir/aggs_for_arrays](https://github.com/pjungwir/aggs_for_arrays)

[https://github.com/pjungwir/db_leftovers](https://github.com/pjungwir/db_leftovers)

If you'd like to work together, I'd be happy to discuss your project!: email@example.com

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SEEKING WORK - UK Possibly On-site | Remote Preferred

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• Impressive client history, with over 15 years of experience with agencies and startups

• Team Management / Technical Director / Project delivery specialist on small to large projects

• Experienced Remote Worker

• Excellent Communicator

• Full stack front-end and back-end developer

• Frontend: HTML5,JS,CSS - Experienced in supporting modern / legacy browsers

• Back end: PHP Specialist, Composer, Symfony, Silex, Doctrine + much more

• Databases: MySQL, SQLite, Postgres, NoSQL

• Experience with Backbone, EmberJS, Cordova, NodeJS, Ruby / Rails

• Solid experience with deployment/setup to Linux, AWS, Docker

• Plenty of experience on security-focussed projects, PCI compliance, multi- million + e-commerce projects.

• Plus experienced Open-Source contributor, core-team for Bolt CMS (PHP/Symfony).

Get in touch if you'd like to talk. I currently have availability in March and April.

Email: firstname.lastname@example.com,

Github: [http://github.com/rossriley](http://github.com/rossriley)

</comment><comment><USER58> SEEKING WORK - Based in Cologne, Germany, remote or Europe preferred

I do custom electronics, robotics, and embedded software development - <USER6> specialize in quickly turning ideas into prototypes. I've built custom automation equipment for chemistry labs, sensors that are in use in household/utility applications, control circuitry for construction equipment, 3d printing electronics, data acquisition equipment. No project too small. Few projects too large. Deep discounts for open source hardware work.

I would also be happy to come over (anywhere in Europe) and teach any of the above skills to a small group of interested people. I've taught courses in electronic assembly (SMD), 3d printing (building/using printers, iterative 3d model design using programming) and robot design and construction. I've taught courses at several universities, hackspaces, and conferences.

Contact me on Freenode IRC (nick Kliment) or by email at email@example.com

</comment><comment><USER59> SEEKING WORK (Remote; live in Connecticut)

WordPress!

Developer and designer (5+ years), work out of my own shop, HetaThemes. Flagship theme is MidLaw, a WordPress theme for small to mid-sized law firms.

Primarily develop, design, and customize WordPress themes, or convert PSD designs or HTML/CSS/jQuery to WordPress. I'm also building an app and run my own server (Ubuntu) as a hobby.

I've worked on complex sites for digital agencies (30+ templates, 25+ plugins), as well as on smaller sites for small businesses/individuals (10 templates, 10 plugins). References available.

Technologies I use: PHP, HTML, CSS/LESS, jQuery, WordPress, mySQL, Foundation, Bootstrap, SVN or Git for version control, Sifter for issue tracking, Slack to keep in touch with clients. Self-taught and resourceful.

Reach out to me at: hn [at] heta [dot] co (not com). I can send you links to live sites I've designed and developed, sites I've converted to WP, etc.

Thanks for your consideration.

</comment><comment><USER60> SEEKING WORK Cleveland, OH or Remote

Currently looking for freelance work. I have experience working Python/Flask/Django, Java, and Go. I also have a lot of DevOps-based experience if you're in need of some consulting or advising around that.

Check out my site for more info on past projects, or feel free to shoot me an email to chat!

Email: email@example.com Website: [http://hire.nickcaley.com](http://hire.nickcaley.com)

</comment><comment><USER61> SEEKING WORK - <USER17>

I'm a passionate full-stack software developer with 10+ years experience in web and desktop development. I have experience managing projects and teams and consulting. In my years in the industry I've been involved in a variety of software companies as a developer focusing in sharpening my skills. I love to work with unfamiliar technologies and am always up for projects that require me to learn something new. I want to keep learning and growing as a software developer, working in challenging endeavors and using all my experience to improve the product and the team I work with.

Stack: PHP, Node, C#, ASP.Net (MVC/Web API) Laravel, Drupal, Web Angular/KnockOut/Backbone

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ionisolarz/

Remote: yes Willing to relocate: yes Email: firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER62> SEEKING WORK - Remote (US) I am a senior full-stack Java developer and DevOps/infrastructure engineer. I can help you with:

      * Understanding your goals and translating them to a technical solution
      * Prototyping/MVP
      * Full-stack development work
      * Improving your development tools
      * Setting up continuous integration and deployment
      * Automated testing
      * DevOps and automating your infrastructure

Technologies: Java, JavaScript, Chef, Jenkins, AWS

GitHub: [https://github.com/crwohlfeil](https://github.com/crwohlfeil)

LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigwohlfeil](https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigwohlfeil)

You can get in touch with me at firstname.lastname@example.com.

</comment><comment><USER63> -

SEEKING WORK - <USER17>

UI/UX designer and front-end developer with great solutions to your frustrating problems. Self-motivated and easy to work with.

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I can help you with:

* Understanding user needs and intentions trough analytics research and testing.

* Clarifying goals and planning web structure.

* Web and mobile design in general.

* Front-end development.

* Usability.

* Prototyping.

* Estimation of time needed to complete projects.

* Accessibility.

* Quality control

* And more!

-

Links:

* About: [http://axe.is/about](http://axe.is/about)

* Dribbble: [http://dribbble.com/gilli](http://dribbble.com/gilli)

* Blog and case-studies: [http://axe.is](http://axe.is)

* Twitter: [http://twitter.com/gillisig](http://twitter.com/gillisig)

* Github: [http://github.com/gillisig](http://github.com/gillisig)

Contact me at email@example.com

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</comment><comment><USER64> SEEKING WORK: Belgium, Europe; Manchester, UK

Remote: No. Yes please, not required though.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C, FFmpeg, Lua, Win32, x86 assembly

Resume/Résumé/CV: [http://j_darnley.neocities.org/resume-2015-10.pdf](http://j_darnley.neocities.org/resume-2015-10.pdf)

Email: firstname.lastname@example.com

PGP key ID: 0x99412908 fingerprint: 5612 F4E9 53A6 ADA1 0E9B 285A CC26 DD10 9941 2908

OpenHub profile: [https://www.openhub.net/accounts/J_Darnley](https://www.openhub.net/accounts/J_Darnley)

GitLab profile: [https://gitlab.com/u/J_Darnley](https://gitlab.com/u/J_Darnley)

I speak English and Dutch. I have no problem adjusting my day to suit your timezone. Desperate enough to accept almost any offer.

</comment><comment><USER65> SEEKING FREELANCER - <USER17>

We are looking for a Ruby/Rails developer to support us with our projects at CloudGear. Technologies used are Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, etcd. You should be an experienced Ruby programmer with a strong interest in Docker and Kubernetes. We are working on a product and have interesting challenges ahead. You will work together with the founder: starting with stories, to architecture and the final implementation and with a high impact on the product, too.

60 - 100% for at least 6 months.

Location: remote, but Europe is preferred. Please let me know if you're interested in working with us: georg (at) cloudgear.net - [https://www.cloudgear.net](https://www.cloudgear.net)

</comment><comment><USER66> SEEKING WORK - Europe (Prague) - <USER17>

Seasoned software developer. Experience with remote work.

How can I help you? build a prototype, MVP or application, review code or design, analyze performance and propose optimizations, write critical and reliable code

\- My values: simple solutions, good design, clean and tested code

\- I enjoy: hard problems, performance optimization, learning

\- Past projects: security, web apps, Linux system development, enterprise ETL and OLTP database apps

\- Technologies: Clojure & ClojureScript, Datomic, Oracle PL/SQL, Perl, C/C++, JavaScript, Java, Om, Scheme, Lisp

\- Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com

[https://cz.linkedin.com/in/danskarda](https://cz.linkedin.com/in/danskarda)

</comment><comment><USER67> SEEKING WORK - Remote/Freelance

Python/Django/Mobile/Front-end, with extensive experience building all sorts of web applications, especially e-commerce marketplaces. I've worked a lot over the years with AWS, and have a lot of sys admin experience with config management like Ansible, Chef, Docker. I have a research background in data analysis. I also have experience with Golang, React, Clojure, scipy, numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, nltk etc. Contact details are below. Here're some recent examples from my portfolio:

* [http://www.igrowfit.com](http://www.igrowfit.com) \- A corporate fitness subscription platform

* [http://www.grapevinelogic.com](http://www.grapevinelogic.com) \- A platform for advertisers to work with Youtube content creators. and many more

* [http://turbotaxcpaselect.intuit.com](http://turbotaxcpaselect.intuit.com) \- Turbotax CPA Select, to help select accountants. Formerly Teaspiller.com, acquired by Intuit

* [http://publish.saxo.com](http://publish.saxo.com) \- publishing platfo rm where anyone can publish e-books, and soon printed books (print on demand) and online courses.

* [http://www.hypedsound.com](http://www.hypedsound.com) \- A platform for music artists to share their content from various networks.

You can look at [http://www.sidmitra.com/portfolio.html](http://www.sidmitra.com/portfolio.html) for further links

Github: [http://github.com/sidmitra](http://github.com/sidmitra)

Homepage: [http://www.sidmitra.com](http://www.sidmitra.com)

Linkedin: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/sidmitra](http://www.linkedin.com/in/sidmitra)

Email: firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER68> SEEKING WORK - <USER17>

Technologies: Javascript, react native, iOS

[https://github.com/halilb](https://github.com/halilb)

[https://careers.stackoverflow.com/halilb](https://careers.stackoverflow.com/halilb)

I'm experienced in developing native iOS applications with objective-c, single page applications with javascript. And i've been developing iOS applications with react-native lately.

I can help building your react-native app and/or create custom native components using objective-c.

I'm currently available for 20 hours/week. My rate is 40$/hour.

You can reach out to me at hbilir [at] gmail [dot] com.

</comment><comment><USER69> SEEKING WORK - Portugal / Europe (on-site) / Remove

Me and my partner develop Android mobile products, development & design. We enjoy working together with an internal team to give Android the effort it deserves.

Here's out portfolio: [https://www.bloco.io](https://www.bloco.io)

Email: email@example.com

</comment><comment><USER70> SEEKING WORK - NYC Metro and Remote

I'm a full stack developer, with a strong design sense, that has worked with small startups and large companies to build iOS, OS X, and web applications. I have proven experience taking products from idea to launch, as well as improving existing products.

I have a knack for learning new languages and frameworks, but I've worked with these previously:

\- Objective-C and Swift for iOS and OS X

\- Ruby (with Rails and Sinatra), PHP, and Node.js on the server side

\- Javascript, jQuery, Sass, CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, and Browserify on the front end

[http://scottbader.org](http://scottbader.org)

[http://github.com/sbader](http://github.com/sbader)

firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER71> SEEKING FREELANCER - Seoul, South Korea or REMOTE

We're looking for a JavaScript UI engineer who has great design sense and deep experience in React, JSX, ES6, HTML5, CSS3, etc. to build a cross-platform desktop app (Mac, Windows) using the Electron framework. You'll be responsible for implementing the (stateless) UI, which will be driven by a JSON-RPC backend.

Bonus points for experience with Electron or other cross-platform app toolkits using web technologies. This project is roughly 75% development and 25% design.

Please email inquiries AT pilvy DOT com with your portfolio and put "HN" somewhere in the subject line. Thanks!

</comment><comment><USER72> SEEKING WORK - <USER12>

 _Product Manager for Hire_

Need help managing and improving your product? Stress no more, I'm here to help you.

I'll work with you and your team doing things like polishing the product, defining and prioritizing new features, analyzing usage and getting user feedback.

More details here: [http://constantbetasoftware.com/2015/12/02/hire- me.html](http://constantbetasoftware.com/2015/12/02/hire-me.html)

Visit my Product Management blog: [http://constantbetasoftware.com/](http://constantbetasoftware.com/)

Email me at: firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER73> SEEKING WORK - Chicago, IL or Remote

I'm a Computer Engineer with a love of front-end web and app design/development. I've designed and developed front-end and back-end web applications, along with both Android and iOS apps. I prefer design over development, but am happy to discuss any project my skillset fits!

I have experience with:

* HTML5/CSS3/Canvas

* JavaScript/jQuery/Node.JS/AngularJS/Socket.IO

* PhoneGap/Cordova/Ionic (iOS Development)

* Sketch/Photoshop/Illustrator

* Ruby on Rails

* PHP

* Python

Portfolio: [http://matthewhoelter.com/portfolio](http://matthewhoelter.com/portfolio)

Email: hello [at] matthewhoelter.com

I'm always happy to talk, so feel free to drop me a line anytime.

</comment><comment><USER74> SEEKING WORK - Chicago or Remote

I'm a front-end UI web developer based in Chicago.

Note: Due to my current bandwidth, I can only provide up to 10 hours a week.

Skills: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS, Node.js, JSON, Adobe CS, Ruby on Rails, Twitter Bootstrap, SASS, LESS, Stylus and AJAX, UI Prototyping, Grunt

Experience: I have 5+ years of experience with Fortune 500 companies, digital agencies and tech startups. Feel free to drop me an email if you'd like to chat about your project (there is no pressure whatsoever to work with me!)

Also I'm cool with starting off with a trial period to see how things go initially.

Contact: sanjs255/at/gmail (Mention HN please)

</comment><comment><USER75> SEEKING WORK

Location: Los Angeles, CA Remote OK

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</comment><comment><USER79> SEEKING WORK (Freelance) - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. 15 years in software industry.

Indie iOS/OS X developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion.

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We are a tech agency doing MVPs and data science projects.

Strengths are:

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We're available for a chat at team AT wearewizards.io if you want to know more!

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</comment><comment><USER84> Almost 30 years experience with Clipper language and now its open-source implementations. Available to port legacy software (dBase III+/Clipper/FoxPro) to text-mode or GUI mode (using Qt libraries) using Harbour language.

Give new life to your legacy code.

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</comment><comment><USER96> More people submitted a post here than upvoted. That kills the thread.</comment>


BitTorrent Releases Torque Web Api - <AUTHOR> http://torque.bittorrent.com

<comment><USER2> Is it just me, or does PaddleOver, one of their two demo apps, doesn't actually work?

<comment><AUTHOR> have you tried to share with someone else? if you send someone a link, and they click on it, you'll be able to see each other and share freely

<comment><AUTHOR> try [http://paddleover.com?name=Patrick&cu=OK65EnZh0FpNPNnn&#...</a></comment></comment></comment>


Do You Hate To Ask For Money You Are Owed? - <AUTHOR> http://lensklar.com/do-you-hate-to-ask-for-your-money

<comment><AUTHOR> Sometimes the direct approach is best, core of his advice:

"First, confirm that you are talking with the right person--the one who can carry out the commitment that gets made. Then, just be friendly and direct, like this: Hi, this is Jim Grable from Impact Paper and Ink, and I'm calling about the $500 balance on your account. Would you please write a check for that amount and send it in today? Thank you."</comment>


An idea: feedbackshare.com - <AUTHOR>

Here's the idea:
feedbackshare.com -- give feedback, get feedback.  A fair feedback sharing site for webmasters.
The idea is simple.
1) You create a feedback request which consists of a link, and some guidance as to the feedback you want (there should be guidelines: eg - it shouldn't take more than 10 minutes to provide this feedback).  (Note: After the site has a decent sized pool of feedback requests, it's probably a good idea to require that a user has given at least 1 feedback before being allowed to create a feedback request, otherwise people will just "create and wait")
2) You provide feedback to other posts.  Your feedback is anonymous (though of course you can provide your identity within, if you want).  Feedback is measured by number of words, sentences, or some other intelligent metric.  All feedback is hidden.
3) You are notified when someone answers your feedback request. You only get what you give.  You must have provided similar feedback (as per the aforementioned metric) to another website in order to view feedback for yours.  For example, if you've submitted 3 high quality feedbacks, you can view up to 3 high qualify feedbacks on your post.  A "credit" system would work.
I believe a lot of "Show HN" posts go unnoticed because there's really no incentive to answer them.  This should eliminate the problem.  The process is  easy, painless, and instant... go around giving feedback, and in return you can view feedback people have given you.  It's win-win.
I've already registered the domain name.  But if you make it, I'll happily point the domain to your DNS server, so long as the site is operational, free, and gives me props for the idea.  Or, you can find your own domain name and launch it there. I just want to see and use the service :)
Thanks. <comment><USER2> The problem with this approach is that it is more of a one-on-one feedback system, which to me is the opposite of what you find here on HN. I love the "Show HN" posts b/c I learn something from them even if it isn't my app. If I put the effort into giving feedback I would hate to know that there is a good chance it won't be seen b/c the poster doesn't have enough "credit".

Also, I think most of the quality "Show HN" posts don't go unnoticed and the incentive to comment on them is the same as any other post on HN.

<comment><AUTHOR> I love the Show HN posts too. I recently had a rather successful one here: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1564183> A lot of very, very interesting discussions arise from them, and there's a lot to be learned from them.

But for the purpose of receiving simple feedback like: "Was it clear what this site does?", "Which feature was most useful?", "Your thoughts on the usability of the site?" Show HN will often fall short. While often times there is incentive to add feedback on HN, there is often times not incentive to just ramble on about your user experience -- though this might be very helpful to the op.

Finally, I'm pretty confident that people will want to view the feedback they've gotten, and will happily give feedback to other people in order to view it. I don't think there's a "good chance" that the user won't give someone else feedback to get credit to view yours. I think there's an exceptionally high chance all feedbacks will be viewed within a very short amount of time. Only the _very latest_ feedbacks would not be viewable, and with a high enough churn, they wouldn't be unviewable for long.</comment></comment>


Easily spin up Kubernetes on vSphere - <AUTHOR> https://medium.com/@samnco/vmware-vsphere-kubernetes-and-gpus-of-course-a7a06c87c51d <comment><USER2> The GPU story gets better and better</comment>


Ask HN: DRM for Enterprise SaaS - <AUTHOR>

When doing enterprise deploys of SaaS products, how do you handle DRM?<p>Specifically: I'm developing a Python webapp that will have a managed tier and an enterprise edition. How can I secure the enterprise version when the customer has ownership of the machine and network it's running on? <comment><USER2> Through the licensing agreement.</comment>


Consumer startups that said no to investor money - <AUTHOR> https://www.recode.net/2018/8/29/17774878/consumer-startups-business-model-native-mvmt-tuft-needle <comment><USER3> I'm not surprised. The default for starting a startup seems to be that you need VC funding because you need to monopolize as fast as possible and having extra cash will allow you to get there sooner than if you were to bootstrap.

What we're seeing is that growth is able to happen in spite of the frothy VC environment, not because of it. So if it is possible, then why would you _have to_ seek funding? If you think getting VC money is good because you should get VC funding (or because getting some will get you press in TechCrunch) then you're thinking about it all wrong.

You should seek VC money if you need the money (with a very serious definition of "need"). If you don't, why would you:

* Have a boss (outside of your customers)

* Give up a board seat

* Give up control of your company (and possibly eventually a majority of that control)

If you need enough money that doing the above 3 things is less painful than basically your business dying, then yes, you should seek funding. Actually I want to emphasize the "less painful" part. Don't read this as "if your business will die otherwise, seek funding."

Sometimes you _should_ let a business die. If family is important to you and raising VC money and working even harder to keep someone else happy will possibly end your marriage, and ending your marriage is more painful than keeping this startup alive, you should probably let the startup die.

And that's okay!

What matters is you seek VC money for a very specific reason, and it is vital for you and your business for the right reasons.

<comment><USER4> Do you believe it's worth taking on investors to bring in people that have both connections and input that will be helpful for growing your product?

<comment><USER5> Get a business coach and extensively network - or just focus on product market fit and the connections will come. I guarantee you that will be far cheaper than the millions of dollars worth of equity you would be giving up.

I agree with the parent, raise VC money only if you absolutely need money.

<comment><USER6> Notable there is a tendency for VC's to start staffing up your company with their overpaid and under performing associates. Since you no longer have full ownership you can't fire them either. Often those guys real job is to serve as place holders for when the VC's push out you and your senior managers. So when the company is acquired they are the ones that get the retention bonuses not you.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> One of the things I really like about this article is the story of Tuft & Needle. One of the biggest reasons (imo) why there are relatively few minority founders is because of the lack of access to inter-generational wealth. If you are poor or come from a poor background it's hard to build the requisite capital necessary from a friends and family round because often times they just don't have it. Now as a founder you find a way, but still it's nice seeing a success story of a company that started with only $6k. That's money that most engineers could save up relatively easily.

</comment><comment><USER8> I think it's stupid to overuse the term "startup" where it doesn't make sense. At what point is something just a new small business? Is there an arbitrary set of lines that differentiate between "startups" and every other new enterprise? The vast majority of new businesses are funded solely by personal savings, friends & family, and SBA loans.

Conflating something like a deodorant company with a pure play tech startup just doesn't make any sense to me, especially when the intent is to analyze and compare funding models, performance and exits. And even if you consider new SaaS companies, there are thousands more Bingo Card Creators out there than [insert unicorn here].

<comment><USER9> We could also flip that around. Startups are nothing more than small businesses. Most will fail. A few will go on to become somewhat bigger. One out of a million becomes a Ralph Lauren empire. What's the difference really between a small business and a startup?

<comment><USER10> [http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html](http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html)

<comment><USER9> That's a good definition, and a very useful one for VCs . It's also not how most people are using the word. It's not how dictionaries or wikipedia define the word either. So I think we need to be a little careful and make sure everyone agrees on whose definition we are using at the start of a conversation.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> I think this is a great thing. The VC influence has caused product quality to slip a lot, the customer needs to be ignored, and has focused on preferring engineering to rush things. That's a long-term focus on undermining the economy. (Being quick to build something, and only being quick isn't a feature)

</comment><comment><USER12> I took VC for my last company. I'm choosing not to do it this time around. What I'm working on has at least a planned ten year horizon at the outset, hopefully it extends beyond that (the cost is so low to do it, I can stay in it perpetually without concern, and have decided the end goal is worth it). It requires long-term planning and thinking, there will be no exit pursued. Venture capital is a mediocre option in that environment, they almost always need an exit (there are some prominent angels that will stay in long-term, be sure to filter for that upfront). Most venture capitalists will burn your corporate house down or drive you into a wall at 120mph in the pursuit of _their_ homerun, whereas I'm willing to eat my time in the pursuit of getting where I want to go with it. If it takes years to get it right, that's ok. The other reason: I won't allow liquidity preferences, VC gets to ride in the same boat as every other share owner (or not at all). The last VC I took on met those terms, it's very difficult to find however.

If there's one thing all start-ups should conspire to abolish, it's liquidity preferences. Somewhere along the line, they all decided that putting their capital at risk in exchange for a potentially large return, wasn't a good enough arrangement. At that point they stopped being real investors and became financial engineers looking to play the angles to remove risk from their position and shift their risk to everyone else. You don't need venture capital that bad, such that shooting yourself in the face is the only way to go. Just say no.

<comment><USER13> "At that point they stopped being real investors and became financial engineers looking to play the angles to remove risk from their position and shift their risk to everyone else."

Sadly this seems to be the game being played by literally every person and their grandma these days. We need a mentality shift as a society in order to find real innovations and growth again, or else, well we're just digging our own graves really.

</comment></comment><comment> aero- This headline is misleading.

Native raised venture capital, it wasn't disclosed but there's plenty of PR surrounding it.

Tuft and Needle was started by engineers that had a good bit of personal cash saved in the bank, then later borrowed $500,000.

MVNT raised Money.

It's not like these companies didn't raise a bunch of money, they just didn't use VC $$ supposedly.

The common denominator here is the direct to consumer model with the use of growth hacking via social media campaigns and the rise of such social media platforms.

I.E. Make product that people want to buy and market it efficiently on social channels.

<comment><USER14> Hey there, JT, Co-founder of Tuft & Needle. To clarify, Daehee and I started with $6k in 2012 and have raised no investments to date. We took a loan in 2016 of $500k for our SF retail store (that year our revenues were around $40mm) but did not use it and paid it right back. To be honest, we were wanting to learn how to leverage debt for growth but immediately decided that it wasn't needed and didn't make sense for us at that time. We've been fully unfunded and profitable every year.

<comment> aero- Hey JT,

That seems incredible. I guess I just don't understand how you could custom brand and design a physical product, find manufacturers and fulfill their MOQ's, store all of your product and market it for $6,000. Either way, I understand you approached this sector with a technology first mindset, and it's been a really impressive business model.

I've approached similar D2C products in different markets using your method but the initial costs just to get a product to market before advertising is usually close to about 10 times higher.

<comment><USER14> Thx! We were definitely a special circumstance. We found a tiny mom & pop manufacturer who had the equipment and had capacity. We negotiated 30 net terms (this was hard to get) allowing us to fund with negative working capital... customers buy the product, we paid mfgt 30 days later.

My co-founder and I also have engineering/design/product backgrounds so we didn't need to hire anyone to build our initial dotcom or product. We ran it all for the first 1.5yrs before we could afford to hire our first customer service team member in 2014.

Marketing expense was also kept to almost zero, branded search primarily, until around 2014.. we had to rely on word of mouth/organic. This forced us to build in such a way to keep costs low while ratcheting up the value prop which has translated into an efficient process we still have now. Our spend of advertising as a % of net rev is estimated at less than half of our next heavily funded competitor.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> I met the native guy recently at a conference. He's seriously one of the most impressive stories I've ever heard - 2 years, 1 product, only sold on their site, 100M exit, vast majority going to him. He talked about testing a ton of variations (over 100 overall) of their product by selling batches of a couple thousand and tracking return rate, reviews, and reorder rate. Get the best product after extensive customer testing, get the best ads after extensive a/b ad testing, scale up profitable ad spend.

</comment><comment><USER16> My most recent company has been built w/o outside fundimg. 10/10

Rasing money takes a lot of energy.

</comment><comment><USER17> I was sad to see Tuft and Needle get acquired by Serta. I bought 3 TN mattresses from their post here, and I love them. I vociferously recommended them to anyone I know. I really doubt their quality will continue to be maintained now that they are in the grips of Serta, but I guess next time I am in the need for a mattress in about 10 years, I'll check.

<comment><USER14> Hey this is JT, Tuft & Needle co-founder. Firstly, thanks for all your support and please send any feedback or thoughts any time. I'm at firstname.lastname@example.com.

Since we started Tuft & needle in 2012, we've been bootstrapped and have been growing very fast while being profitable. We didn't view this merger as something that we needed to do. But it was something that we knew if done right and everything aligned with our goal of completely disrupting (converting it to being customer focused) the mattress industry from beginning to end, we would do it.

This wasn't a typical acquisition. Tuft & Needle combining with Serta Simmons was a merger operationally, legally, and financially. My co-founder Daehee and I structured the deal with Serta Simmons in such a way that we would have maximum impact towards accelerating the transformation of the industry. Daehee and I will be joining the executive team of the combined company, leading with the goal of both internal and external transformation. Our team in Phoenix will be not only be focused on growing Tuft & Needle, but also for dusting off Serta Simmons' other brands and implementing everything that we've learned and built to the other brands.

Regarding quality, what's really exciting for us is that through this merger we will be able to accelerate our product, feature and service roadmaps for Tuft & Needle. What we could do in 5 years we can now do it almost immediately. Specifically regarding quality and pricing, this is actually best case scenario for our customers, because we'll have access to more efficiencies to make our value and innovations even better.

Again, thanks for your support. This is going to take a lot of time and a lot of work. What we expected and hoped from our customers is cautious optimism that we can then validate and prove over the coming years that this merger was definitely the greatest step we could have taken for our customers and the market as a whole.

</comment></comment><comment><USER18> We're following a very similar philosophy of bootstrapping a set of businesses we're working on [1].

reasons are :

1\. we want to stay flexible and put out a variety of businesses that might not be similar except in that we're leveraging our skills to build them. From my experience in venture funded startups - once you take funding for that business - radically changing direction or adding unrelated businesses seems impractical.

2\. we want to keep full control and ownership - so that if an opportunity arises to sell the business we can do it with minimal hassle.

4\. we're skeptical of our own ability to raise vc; and worried about all that that exercise entails - especially the potential distractions.

[1] "Yukon Data Solutions" is our first; we have a few other analytics related businesses in the pipeline; but also, interestingly some direct to consumer products that sort of fall into the "fashion" category.

</comment><comment><USER19> refreshing article, i have what i consider to be a potential small business, it's not as attractive i'd assume to investors as most things these days that have something to do with blockchain, machine-learning, self-driving cars, or billion dollar valuations, but i think there's potential for a very nice business that could potentially evolve into a lifestyle business and it doesn't need hordes of employees, i've been doing everything from development of backend services, platform, and front end mobile app, to marketing, testing, product management all on my own. obviously having a couple more people to help with sales and development would speed things up, but i don't need a 50 person team at the moment.

having read this article and buffer.com's recent buyout of investors, it shows that there are potential alternate routes to success. i can understand the nature owner not feeling good in the beginning when everyone around him's talking about billion dollar valuations and series a, b, c funding, but it seems he sold for several hundred million which seems like sweet vindication. obviously most small businesses fail and eventually need some sort of funding whether from a small business loan or bootstrapping, etc, but it's manageable.

[https://madsportslab.com](https://madsportslab.com)

</comment><comment><USER20> I've been reading about VC and all it entails for years now, and it always leaves me with a sketchy feeling. Pouring so much time and effort into chasing capital, and then giving up so much ownership and being on the hook for big returns once it's finally attained... seems like a sure way to suck the soul out of any business.

Not saying VC doesn't have a place in the world, but I get the sense that a lot of founders pursue VC just because that's what startups are "supposed" to do.

<comment><USER13> The nature of VC is to build portfolios. The success and failures of individual companies within that portfolio matter very little- what matters a lot more is whether the lessons learned and knowledge/IP generated can spill over to other portfolio companies to eventually produce winner(s) somewhere.

The success of the portfolio is what matters to the firm, and the returns are what matter to the LPs.

It is what it is, so entrepreneurs should use it for what it is. The hype over the past decade has been ridiculous.

</comment></comment><comment><USER18> Related to this - there is a podcast ep on "How I built this" with the Wayfair people. I find it very interesting that they built several businesses - <USER2> _then_ got investment to build the Wayfair brand and bring those businesses under that brand.

[https://www.npr.org/2018/06/07/601985854/wayfair-niraj- shah-...](https://www.npr.org/2018/06/07/601985854/wayfair-niraj-shah-steve- conine)

</comment><comment><USER21> I imagine the investors were happy too if they went from 500k to 20m.

</comment><comment><USER22> If you're a consumer brand you can turn to factoring and vendor financing to run your business. There's more options open to you.</comment>


YC Add-on Collection for Firefox - <AUTHOR> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/ycombinator

<comment><USER2> OT: youlicit is a _terrible_ brand name. It evokes you-lick-it, then illicit, and eventually, elicit.

<comment><USER3> Agreed. When I first saw the name I thought it had to do will illicit youtube videos.

</comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> Blog post introducing add-on collections: [http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/06/10/introducing-add- on...](http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/06/10/introducing-add-on- collections/)

</comment><comment><USER4> Are any of these companies profitable?

</comment><comment><USER5> They're all socially-minded. They all seem like they're going to fail.</comment>


Show HN: Remotely Awesome Jobs - <AUTHOR> Hey all,
I made this site in my free/weekend time over the month of October, made tweaks during November, and now I finally feel OK enough about i to share w/ HackerNews. Please be gentle! :)
http://www.remotelyawesomejobs.com
This site is an aggregator of remote job posts. There are several of these type of sites out there already, but most of the existing aggregators only read three or four sites. Mine is currently up to nine and I have a few more I hope to add in coming days/weeks. I hope to differentiate this site from the others by crawling more sites and thus having more posts.
I'd also perhaps like to add some original editorial content eventually about remote work if I can generate some traffic from it.
This is really more of a hobby than an attempt to get rich... I wanted to prove to myself that I could actually finish as side project for once rather than overthink it and abandon it. if I end up monetizing it I may try selling job post space or (ewww) affiliate ads if I have to, but it'd only be to cover the server bills and whatnot.
Feedback welcome, honestly kinda nervous about this. ^_^ <comment><USER2> I like it but one minor nit. Searching for "C" brings up anything with a "C" in it. Adding an explicit "C" tag doesn't seem to work right.

<comment><AUTHOR> oooh - good find. The tagging has been a bit of a bear to get right. :)

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> I noticed some formatting issues on some of the content on a job post.

Specifically, the benefits on the bottom: [https://www.remotelyawesomejobs.com/jobs/citrusbyte-ui-ux- de...](https://www.remotelyawesomejobs.com/jobs/citrusbyte-ui-ux- designer-2338eb79-9b06-420d-a127-293405b43096)</comment>


How My $10,000 Gift Was Stolen from a Preschool's Coinbase Account - <AUTHOR> https://medium.com/@mjm88833/how-my-10-000-gift-was-stolen-from-a-preschools-coinbase-account-fe6f49e1cf1a <comment><USER2> So instead of just giving the preschool money, they were forced to deal with something totally foreign to them. They had to go through painful bureaucracy. The giver also got scammed and in the end both lost $10k.

Why not just give real money again?</comment>