Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (October 2011)

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Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.

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SEEKING WORK: Python/Flask web dev, NYC, remote work is preferred.
Do you have a resume/portfolio?
Sure check out my GitHub, it's in my profile. Also can provide a list of previous work via email. (Also in my profile)
SEEKING WORK: (remote)

Web application developer with 10+ years experience. Past projects include several custom CMSs, a 911 dispatching system, and financial apps for state government. Latest project was a mobile app using sencha touch and phone gap.

Primarily work with ASP.NET MVC C# but looking to get involved with projects using python or ruby.

SEEKING WORK

Nomadic, but I plan to spend the majority of this year in London.

I've worked professionally with python, ocaml and erlang. I've worked in search ( http://bit.ly/ji-texsearch-opt , https://github.com/jamii/texsearch ), testing ( http://bit.ly/ji-fuzzer , https://github.com/jamii/ocamlcheck ), distributed systems ( http://bit.ly/ji-mealy ) and p2p networks ( https://github.com/jamii/dissertation , http://bit.ly/ji-telehash , https://github.com/jamii/erl-telehash ). I have a strong background in math (real analysis, probability, discrete maths) and computer science (randomized algorithms, AI / epistemic logic, machine learning).

I'm willing to work on anything but my main interests are distributed systems and p2p networks. My current project is described at http://bit.ly/ji-mist

Blog - http://bit.ly/ji-blog

Github - https://github.com/jamii

References - http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=65525388#recommendat...

Resume (a bit out of date) - http://bit.ly/ji-about

SEEKING WORK

Frontend / PHP developer. Lots of lots of front end stuff, several very large CMS/e-commerce projects completed. Also mobile. I'm from the UK. Prefer remote but willing to do on-site if it's interesting enough :)

Email in profile. Happy to supply past work on request.

SEEKING WORK / HERMAN MILLER MIRRA CHAIR

No, seriously — my current chair is awful but I can't stomach spending so much on a new fully loaded Mirra chair that I've been lusting for.

Stuff I can do in exchange for said chair:

* Native iOS development

* Native Android development

* Take your mobile site/app and make it native(ish) using PhoneGap

Take a look at my porfolio if you're interested: http://endlesswhileloop.com/portfolio/

Also, a native iOS app I just released: http://endlesswhileloop.com/apps/dial/

This offer would be good for small, one-off projects (think 10-15 hours).

Remote work only.

(Is this even legal to offer?)

This is barter, and while it's legal, technically you have to pay income tax on the value of the chair if you receive it in exchange for work.

That's if you're in the US, at least -- the IRS is very clear about this.

SEEKING FREELANCER(S)

Drupal developer & Drupal themer for a number of e-commerce projects this year for high-profile clients. If you have any experience with Drupal Commerce, get in touch: marcus AT wcforever.com

SEKING WORK (remote or local in Jacksonville, FL)

I mostly do backend web stuff lately, but I'm versatile. I can (and would like to) do machine learning stuff. I wrote a classifier that's 99.96% accurate on comment spam, and 99.99% if configured to present a captcha when it's close.

Tools I'm good with include Clojure, Rails, Ruby, PostgreSQL, Javascript, Lua and Common Lisp. I've also written non-trivial things in Haskell, Python, Java, Scheme, C and C++. I know PHP fairly well if need be, but I'd rather not do projects that are mainly PHP unless the pay is really good. I'm interested in working with stuff not on this list as well, but can't promise expert-level performance on the first day.

edit: zak.wilson@gmail.com

You should consider working for lesseverything.com
Are you part of lesseverything.com? It looks like it's two contractors who know each other working together, not the sort of outfit that wants to hire random strangers from the internet.
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I think he just mentioned it because they are located in Jacksonville.
I dont know how to reach you - but no, I'm not & lesseverything is 2 dudes who know each other working together... on awesome things!

like: lessconf.lesseverything.com lessmoney.lesseverything.com lessaccounting.com lesstimespent.com

I'd be glad to put you in touch!

Curious: is this performance

I wrote a classifier that's 99.96% accurate on comment spam, and 99.99% if configured to present a captcha when it's close.

on a test dataset? Or new, out-of-sample data? I see those percentages and immediately think "overfitting."

Anyway, best of luck! I'm from Florida, so I'll keep you in mind if I hear from anyone needing ML work.

It's live data from a guestbook[0], which was receiving an average of 8200 spam hits a day. There has been a slight decline in spam over the course of the past week or so - from 300/hour to about 250. In addition, there seem to be more coming in that link to unregistered nonsense domains. I've stopped those for the moment by displaying a captcha on all very short posts.

    com.classifyr.scratch> (current-accuracy (log-since (hours 48)))
    0.99969655
[0] http://thecruxshadows.com/guestbook/
Wow! Excellent performance.
SEEKING FREELANCER

Anywhere, Remote is OK

Talkdesk is hiring: http://talkdeskapp.com

Back-end developer and front-end developer.

We are not picky but we work mostly with Node.js, Rails, Backbone.js and MongoDB.

How do we contact you? Your email isn't visible in your profile.
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SEEKING WORK - REMOTE PREFERRED OR LOCAL OAKLAND & SF

CoffeeScript / Server side JS / Node / Django

Towards the end of my MS CS and I have more time on my hands than I anticipated this semester. Would love to do work on more node / coffee projects, otherwise I have lots of experience building web apps with Python.

I can't find your email
SEEKING WORK remote or freelance

An young geek and fucking awesome passionate application developer who cares about perfect code and simplicity.

I know Ruby and Rails well, Django/Python at relatively good level. Use git for source control. Love Macs.

Wanna work on interesting projects with amazing idea.

Site/blog — http://goshakkk.name/

CV — http://goshakkk.name/assets/CV.pdf

Wow, dude. Be a little more arrogant. You're exuding douche from every pore.

I've been doing this stuff for fifteen years and even I don't have the self-delusion to call myself "fucking awesome".

But you're still in high school, so maybe you'll grow up a bit and get out of the Ruby ghetto.

Even if you have a point buried in your vitriol somewhere, making a throwaway account and delivering it in this kind of way is a new low, _especially_ since you know the guy is still in highschool.
Somebody who wants to call themselves a "fucking awesome" developer will be treated like an adult when responding to their bragging. In this case, it's a developer whose "CV" (which reads as more of an Apple fanboy...thing...than a CV) clearly reveals himself to not be "fucking awesome". And that sort of baseless bragging is going to get a "rofl, you serious?" at best.

If he'd approached it as "I'm looking for an internship where I can learn something," I wouldn't have replied as I did. Instead, he tried to puff himself up as something he plainly isn't. And, hey--I like popping bubbles.

In retrospect, the throwaway account probably wasn't necessary, as the original post was upvoted. I s'pose other people don't really dig that sort of thing either.

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Build an open source project, and then we'll be dazzled by your awesomeness :)

Friendly advice: webapps development is generally just moving data around back and forth between DB and client. That's not much and pretty much anyone can do it. When you will be working at real projects, you'll see that the bulk of tasks that need doing come in 4 flavors: annoying tasks, yak shaving tasks, tasks you don't have enough knowledge to get done, and flow tasks. The data ping-pong is not the issue. So in the mean time do yourself a favor and learn as much as you can out of science, rather than faddy techs: backtracking, dynamic programming, A*, hungarian algorithm, support vector machines, red-black trees, markov chains, monte carlo methods, drinking philosophers, decaying windows, bloom filters ...

How many of these can you solve? http://www.interviewstreet.com/recruit/challenges

While we're providing critique: clean up the writing on your resume and change the "skills" section to something relevant. Rating half your skills at 4 and half at 3 tells me zero.

Finally, lose the Apple love. It's very unbecoming.

SEEKING FREELANCER - Senior Linux System Administrator

We are looking for skills that include: Puppet, AWS, Nagios, advanced scripting/python, etc.

This position could be remote, or onsite in Monroe MI.

We are looking for someone with availability of 3+ months, 30-40 hours per week.

Please respond to hr@mnxsolutions.com and send us some detail about yourself, your rate, and your availability.

We are also hiring full time permanent if interested http://www.mnxsolutions.com/jobs.

Hey Nick, I used to work for a company that employed MNX, and we conversed on a few tickets. Small world :)
Shameless plug, but if you're looking for freelancers for short-term projects, perhaps give Tinyproj a shot? Averaging 70+ intros per project.

Mention HN for 25% off.

If you are a freelance developer/designer/hybrid, we send emails full of interesting, paid projects every Saturday (you still have time for today's, too).

https://tinyproj.com

It's Saturday today, but I haven't gotten any emails.

I'm not intending on following up on tinyproj emails today, but I like reading them. What time do they usually go out?

Sorry about that. Just went out. Had some urgent fixes I needed to get done before the send.
I signed up weeks ago, rec'd a few emails, but nothing during the past 8 days. Is the service kaput?
SEEKING WORK - FREELANCER UX/IX Designer - REMOTE WORK

UX/IX Designer (Not a Graphic designer). I'm a C.Sc engineer by education, but an UX person by passion. I do mobile/web UX/IX. I care about crafting experiences that mesmerize the user. Remote work.

Languages known: C/C++/Java (Rusty with all of these) I stutter in HTML(5), CSS, JS.

I also do pro-bono work. Remote work preferred (I'm based in Asia)

P.S. I'm Entrepreneurial, and advise startups (pro-bono, ofcourse)

If interested, lets chat @amxn (twitter)

SEEKING FREELANCER

Ruby on Rails or PHP developer to build small web-app. More money if you know how to develop browser plugins.

NYC or Remote

See profile info for contact, looking to fill ASAP!

SEEKING WORK

Who - 2 people team http://www.thoughtnirvana.com/

What - Python(Flask, Django), Ruby(Rails, Sinatra), Javascript(jQuery, Backbone.js), Clojure

Competency - All sorts of development, have done web backends, machine learning, UI development, desktop apps. I work on a Linux machine, so if it can't be done on a linux box, I can't do it.

Model - hourly billing

Github:

https://github.com/organizations/thoughtnirvana https://github.com/rahulkmr

Contact - rahul@thoughtnirvana.com

Seeking Freelancer: Need a iOS developer to create a 2D "Talking Tom" clone with some basic gaming elements. Designers provided!
SEEKING FREELANCER - Looking for Ruby/Rails developer(s) with basic knowledge of TDD/BDD. I'm a freelancer myself, looking to expand my ability to take on new work. Ideally I'd like to have a couple developer contacts with hourly rates - in some cases I may also just have work to refer. I don't mind working with people who are willing to learn - knowledge of (or interest in learning) the following is a must: HAML, SASS, CoffeeScript, JQuery, RSpec, FactoryGirl, and general best practices in everything :). Remote only, but it wouldn't hurt to be in the Portland area.

Contact: josh at hintmedia dot com.

SEEKING FREELANCER

San Francisco Bay Area.

Looking for local developers: interns, contractors, and part-timers are welcome.

Miranda Bros. (www.mirandabros.com) is a game studio with a focus on mobile games. We are currently making games for Android, check out our first title at http://mirandabros.com/games/.

We are currently looking for the following...

- Flex/actionsript developers (big plus if you have experience with Flex Mobile projects and Flex 4.5)

- Lua programmers, specially if you have experience with the Corona SDK

- PR/Marketing, we are looking for someone to manage our twitter, facebook, website and make copy.

If interested please email us at jobs@mirandabros.com. Mention this thread, and also provide us with a resume and your work experiences.

SEEKING WORK - Remote

Interface designer: I work with companies around the world on application design, usability, and branding.

Experienced working with developers, version control, MVC frameworks, template languages, information architecture, conversion rates, etc++ across multiple time zones.

Tech -> HTML5 / CSS3 (Sass, Stylus) / Photoshop / JS (some)

Portfolio site -> http://nylira.com

I'm looking for interesting work.

I led business development for a UX, marketing and PR firm in San Francisco. We helped launch dozens of startups and saw several through to very high exits. We also ran marketing/PR for a major demo confernece. The firm dissolved due to the founders joining a venture-backed startup so I'm on the hunt.

Think of me as a B2B sales/BD guy who can impact product experience and marketing, and who can also handle all the relationship building that goes into PR.

SEEKING FREELANCER (NYC or remote) tech'atz'cleanplates.com or use contact link

Web UX / UI for redesign of restaurant finder + blog http://www.cleanplates.com > Immediate work: scope definition / UX / wireframes, then design work through the end of the year (web, emails, marketing, etc).

API development for mobile sync (iOS) & foundation for site > Immediate: system design work, then feature additions through the end of the year and beyond. Search experience a must (SOLR / elasticsearch, mongodb / postgres), iOS client library dev preferred.

Web coder / developer to make design into working website. > Language-neutral for the web/front end (python, ror, java), tentatively java for the API part, tentatively wordpress for the blog part