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Ask HN: Any devs interested in exchanging help/labor?

12 points by devchris10 ↗ HN
Examples: x hours of frontend work for backend work

Setting up AWS infrastructure for single page application

Database migration for ansible scripts, etc

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JamesBarney
Yeah I've always wanted from find something like this. Help people in my areas of expertise and get help from other people in theres.

Seems like it's be especially helpful in the design/architecture phase of a project.

cpach
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Roybot
That's a neat idea - maybe we can start with this small group?
d0gbread
I'd be interested. I can offer help setting up robust Google Analytics / Google Tag Manager configurations and (useful) dashboards that can help you run your businesses, start up, and side projects.

I'm currently looking for some vue.js help on a Laravel-based side project I work on very very rarely but would love to take a bit further.

manx
There is a platform, that offers exactly that: https://wolv.io
devchris10
Thanks for the link. I was thinking more of a direct exchange of hours rather than a "lending." Seems to align more incentives that way.
[dead] rjindal
Hey! Wolv founder here. Indeed, I thought similarly when we were conceptualising but found it harder in practice because: - people carry different level of expertise - it’s hard to find compatibility in things that need equal number of hours (e.g. setting up infrastructure may take shorter/longer than the frontend, the other party is forced to match)

That said, we’ve kept the barter feature but it works like it would in the real economy.

Approaching it from just the developers angle still seems cool and I would be interested to see how it pans out. Would be happy to exchange thoughts and learnings we’ve had (RJ at wolv.io)

el_dev_hell
I've had this idea floating into my brain for a few years. I get excited about it for a weekend, realize how much work would be involved to facilitate the exchange in a "fair" way, and give up.

I really hope someone pulls the trigger and builds this out!