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HN Hackers: Add Yourself

61 points by rbitar ↗ HN
I created a new website at: http://hnhackers.com

that was inspired by this post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1262467

to search for all HN contractors for hire. I thought it would be useful to be able to filter for contractors by skills / bio / location vs using the google spreadsheet, but would love to get your thoughts on this.

Note that I've populated the database with the first 260sh rows from the spreadsheet, so I'll add the new folks in the morning if you're missing.

Let me know what you think!

PS. Here is the spreadsheet: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs3clVJYi0yYVBka181Z0ZKRW9kQ0E&hl=en

53 comments

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mmelin
So how can I claim my profile on this site?
markmywords
You can reclaim your account by clicking the "Lost password?" link, I guess.
Zak
When using the password reset to claim my account:

    There were problems with the following fields:

    Login is too short (minimum is 4 characters)
Dear app designers everywhere: there's no good reason for this. Please stop.
qeorge
I got past this requirement, but got a generic error:

"We're sorry, but something went wrong."

I really thought we had it there. I've emailed the developer, rbitar@gmail.com, awaiting response.

mmelin
Yup, that worked. Lost password, enter the email you entered in the spreadsheet, boom.
kilian
Very nice, I've updated my profile and will be sure to use this to seek other people!
duck
Great idea. Do you think it would be useful to make the skills section more like tags to keep it consistent?

Semi-related... I wonder how many active HN users there are?

Zak
Bug report: there's a minimum login length of 4 chars, but many HN usernames are shorter than that. It seems to make sense to let people use their HN usernames here.

I also find it curious that you seem to have decided we'll all work for $100/hour. I will, but I suspect there are some people on that list who won't.

unwind
It actually says "$100/hr+", which I guess can be taken to mean "from $100/h and up". That's not how I would interpret it, but then again I lean quite heavily towards literalism with things like these.
tjr
It could also mean $100 for an hour or more of work.
rbitar
Ok, I fixed the minimum login length to 2 chars. Good catch. Also, I removed the $100/hr sub title :)
Zak
Additional issues:

My HN username was imported lowercased. Both Zak and zak exist as HN accounts - the former is mine and the latter is not.

When I try to update the username under the links section of my profile, I get a complaint about my password being too short. This form does not contain a field to change the password.

jpcx01
Simple, great looking site. Well done!
moomerman
Please don't send my password in plain text via email
rbitar
I'll get rid of that asap. I hate that too -- I think its default in rails acts_as_authenticated plugin and I missed it.
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ErrantX
Im not sure why email addresses are hidden behind a "show email" link. That seems counter intuitive (and certainly wouldn't stop a bot etc. :P)
_ivan
Please always send me my password in plain text for the first time after registration.
peterbraden
Just to clarify - I'm assuming this is sarcasm. Don't want to risk someone taking this as a good thing.
rbitar
Sorry about that, it was default in a plugin I'm using but I've removed it from future emails that are sent.
Mc_Big_G
The link to our HN profile doesn't work because you are automatically lower-casing usernames.

Skills are out of order for some reason. I think listing "core skills" in order is pretty important.

The auto-links in the skills isn't implemented very well. For example, one if the links is:

http://hnhackers.com/search/tags/Ruby%20on%20Rails%20(Prefer...

Obviously just using Ruby on Rails would be much more effective.

rbitar
Good catch with the lowercasing names. I'll fix that. Yes, I need a better implementation of searching by tag, or at least do some serious data cleanup.
subbu
Why does it reverse my skills? If I enter "ruby, rails, linux, html, css, javascript, jquery" it becomes "js, css, html, linux, jquery, rails, ruby"!
motter
My rate isn't $100+/hr -- I don't even charge in dollars.
maxwin
The order of the skills is messed up. I think it is important to display it the way it was entered.
rbitar
Right, this has to do with the way I was storing tags to make them searchable. I've fixed this for new users, and working on restoring this for previous entries.
klaut
this is nicely done. great app :)
chiquita
sorry, i find the "$100/hr+" problematic.
rbitar
I agree. I took it off the logo. I was simply thinking of an easy way to restrict the site to quality coders, but this just sounds tacky.
drtse4
I guess you are the guy who told me yesterday in the spreadsheet chat that that list should become a rentacoder on steroids, fast execution!
drtse4
Don't like the email in cleartext in the html, considering that all these pages are public, could you fix that?
rbitar
Yes, I'm working on that now
rubyrescue
if i search for a query such as 'erlang', can you explain how you do the search - is it by order entered in the database, by rate, etc?

also, nice app!

nihaar
Great idea! The company I work at right now is constantly looking for outside developers/freelancers for some small projects and I have often found my self asking how can I get in touch with people on HN for these gigs.

Brilliant idea and I hope to be reaching out to some hackers in the NYC area soon.

wlievens
Please add a link to this thread on the site.

I entered the full HN user url in the field and it didn't complain.

garply
I'm already getting spammed by someone clearly targeting this demographic (not going to name them because I don't want to give them more eyeballs). I don't feel comfortable with you having scraped this data... I didn't mind entering data when it was a hard to find spreadsheet, but now my email is easily discoverable on this website and I'm annoyed.
shpxnvz
Yeah, that's seriously uncool. At minimum they should be obfuscated or otherwise hidden from scrapers.
Mc_Big_G
Just got my first piece of spam from a site called newappidea.com. If any of you have anything to do with that site, please stop it.
msb
Agreed. Got spam from the same site today.
CGamesPlay
I agree that the show email link should be nixed, and you should use mailto links for the emails if you are going to show emails. I personally would prefer it if you offered a contact form that emailed me via the site (behind a captcha of course).

Why did you have me pick a user name if it's never shown publicly on the site and I log in using my email address?

rbitar
Ok, I've replaced the emails with a contact form instead (still working on the captcha).

Also, the login is your url: HNHackers.com/username

Spikefu
Password reset still isn't working. It says an email has been sent, but emails aren't arriving.

Also, from another comment, HN usernames are case sensitive, so making them all lowercase will most likely cause problems sooner or later.

Spikefu
Correction, password reset does appear to be working, it's just taking about half an hour for the emails to arrive.

Maybe a mail queue setting?

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doc
Besides the email being show plain, is it me or the is no way to change the email address? I tried and couldn't find it, and that's really inconvenient.
maukdaddy
Using $100+ and up as a subtitle is tacky. Much like "The Ladders" job (Scam) site that claims only 100k+ jobs.