Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2011)

79 points by whoishiring ↗ HN
Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.

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SEEKiNG WORK UK Remote preferred but not required.

PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery. A lot of experience with Facebook apps, CMS's and API's.

contact@ [myusername] .com

SEEKING WORK

PHP/JavaScript/HTML/CSS developer. I'm based in the UK, and happy with local or remote work.

I've over 5 years experience in PHP, and have used many frameworks, including CodeIgniter, CakePHP and Zend.

I've also got a lot of experience with CMSs including Wordpress and Expression Engine.

My email address is on my profile.

http://mattbearman.co.uk

http://bugmuncher.com

SEEKING WORK: UK, Derby. Remote, travel or local OK.

Microsoft stack developer - .Net, (C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, Winforms), MSSQL (v7-2008R2), VB6, ASP3. HTML, CSS and JavaScript too, SAS as well if that's your thing. Back end, front end, large or small, 11 years in industry now.

(Less Hacker related but I'm as at home with a camera if you're after a photographer.)

One day I'll set up a portfolio site - until then, contactable at gp dot webb at ntlworld dot com.

$$ hope no one has a problem with me mentioning my site

www.jobstractor.com

There's some contracting/freelancing jobs on there. I got an email today from soneone who has already found work through the site. It's still a work in progress, but improving all the time. Happy job hunting :)

What the ... what kind of site is that, actually? One of the "job postings" is a Biblical quote. (http://www.tweetdeck.com/twitter/SHoffman9213/~fRy55)

Seriously, that's just irritating.

Sorry for the irritation, as I say it's a work in progress including filtering some things which shouldn't be in there.
Sure, but my question stands - I honestly don't know what it is I'm looking at. Are you just filtering Twitter feeds for people who might want work done and putting some geographical search information onto the posts? Aside from the fact that I honestly don't know what that Biblical quote is doing there (I looked for likely keywords), it's by no means obvious that this is what you're doing. If you're serious enough about it to post it here to gain some eyeballs, then you should probably also indicate what it is you've done.

If I were to tweet something vaguely job-related, and if somebody then got in touch with me because they thought I'd posted a job on your site, I think I'd be somewhat ... taken aback, I guess.

I'm a big fan of jobstractor. We actually had a success from the other end, somebody found our job posting through the tractor.

Keep up the great work!

SEEKING FREELANCER OR INTERN: Mexico City

We have a position open in our small software/web services company. Combo work from home/come in to office (Roma Norte/Condesa area). We're expanding our web services and want someone keen to learn: we're flexible with what tools you choose to use but you should have a decent grounding in Javascript/CSS/PHP(or similar)/MySQL. Good english is important. We really love our industry and are the current leading service provider in our field, working with top clients internationally. Email us at hire.me.mex@gmail.com for info.

SEEKING WORK - Remote (UK based)

Front end/PHP developer. HTML5, CSS/SASS, JS etc etc. I've worked on some pretty large sites. making many $$$ - even some in Perl. Also, iOS/Android development using Titanium (i.e. NOT ObjC - though I do dabble).

Happy with git (though I'm a hg user myself) and fluent with Photoshop.

URL's etc can be supplied on request.

Will relocate for the right project, but do prefer remote.

SEEKING WORK. - Remote

Front end designer and developer - photoshop, html(5) and css(3), love javascript and responsive fast ajax applications.

Backend developer, fluent with node.js, mongodb, plus still familiar with LAMP from days long past. Also have done some work with AWS.

http://templaedhel.com for some work. If you're curious about seeing more, or hearing references, they exist. templaedhel at gmail dot com. I also hang out on #startups on freenode if you want to chat. Or gchat.

Seeking Work - Remote or in Taiwan

Technical writer, copy-writer, editor, content developer, academic writing, etc... available for jobs big and small. Have written content for the following websites: editing.tw, www.novaismed.com. Portfolio, samples, and references available upon request. blckswn49@gmail.com

SEEKING WORK We're a offering consulting/contract work around Nokia's Qt framework. We're also interested in doing more general work in the world of open source, desktop, mobile.

If you're interested contact us via http://woboq.com/ We're based in Berlin but look for remote work everywhere.

Also seems relevant to mention my site to help people track job applications, Job-Buddy.com. All feedback is welcome.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

I'm a bit of unicorn: a designer and a developer[0].

I practice responsive front-end design and implementation and enjoy using Sass, Coffeescript, and Mustache. I have a graduate design degree in architecture.

I have over four years Ruby on Rails experience; I enjoy Sinatra and have developed my own miniature Ruby web application library[1]. I have an undergraduate degree in physics.

[0]: http://kimble.co/web [1]: https://github.com/tedkimble/bruter

Email in profile

SEEKING WORK - Remote/Full Time

Preferred work : LAMP Stack / AJAX Apps.

Can lead a team, work on both frontend & backend development. I don't do designs.

You can find contact info in my profile.

SEEKING WORK - Remote (Cleveland, USA based)

Experienced Webapp dev: Java, Wicket, Lucene/SOLR, Hibernate, Google App Engine, etc.

I built http://appgravity.com, a search engine for Android Apps that currently gets ~65K pageviews/day.

Other work samples & contact info available at http://armhold.com/portfolio.

SEEKING WORK - REMOTE

I'm a UI/UX designer looking to work with startups and smaller companies. My expertise lies in: Photoshop (visual design), HTML(5), CSS(3), and jQuery. I also have a fair bit of experience with Wordpress. I've recently gone full-time so I'm looking to book up my schedule for the next couple of months (reasonable rates always and flexible with smaller teams/projects).

Check out my work and get in touch: http://www.ryanglover.net

SEEKING FREELANCER

I'm a designer, but I can't code. I'm looking for someone who can code a template for a popular CMS. I'll do the design, and you can code. I'll provide more guidance if you contact me, with your skillset and experience. If you don't have much experience, don't worry! Just tell me what you're good at.

Estimated time required: a few weeks Estimated cost: a few hundred dollars

Contact: jimduggan -- yahoo.com

Correlating the estimated time required and estimated cost, you are basically paying $100/week. I assume 5 days / week and 5 hours / day. That's $4/hour. Serious?
I wonder how much he charges for design work? Cause if it's $4/hour I've got some stuff he can do.
I don't live in the West, and I don't make as much money as you do. Is that wrong? There are plenty of people using HN that are not reflections of yourself.

I'm also not assuming that this will be worked on full-time. If it was, I wouldn't expect it to take more than about a week.

I don't think where you live matters. I live in country with a Per Capita 15 times lower than the USA but charge something per hour which is related only to my experience and knowledge.
I'll admit I was trying to be funny with that, but honestly if you are any good at what you do I (and probably others) would be interested in your work, and probably wouldn't care where you live.

In that respect even if you don't live in the west, I'm sure anyone you would want to work with you on a project charges more than $4/hr part time or not, regardless of where they live.

SEEKING WORK -- Freelance/Remote/Travel/Local

PhD in Information Retrieval graduate (9/2011, UK), 3yrs industry experience (IBM lab, and HP Consulting division)

Programming Languages: Java, C#, Python, Ruby, R, Perl, C

Research IR: Search Engines(MG4J, Lemur, Terrier), Evaluation procedures (TREC-style)

Research NLP: Semantic Vector Space models (LSA, HAL, COALS, PMI)

General Proficiency: Large scale text and document processing techniques (stop-wording, stemming, indexing, nosql (tokyo, kyoto cabinet))

Happy to answer any questions for more specific details and provide my CV and references on request.

get.erik{at}gmail.com

SEEKING WORK — Remote

Mostly Python, Javascript. I’m looking for small to medium-sized projects. Just starting out, but I’ve already put up some code online: https://launchpad.net/pylandro-collections-range https://launchpad.net/awkwardduet

I’ve used Python and JS professionally to solve various real-world problems and I can manage substantial complexity. I’m working on improving my online portfolio, but in the meantime I’m interested in really any kind of paid work.

For any offers or inquiries contact me at: hn@deno.pl .

SEEKING WORK - Remote

Looking for a $250-$400 gig. HTML/CSS/JavaScript (jQuery/Backbone) and PHP (WordPress/Fat Free). Email in my profile.

SEEKING WORK - Japan, Kobe. Remote, travel or local ok.

I'm a doing some freelancing while bootstrapping ShiningPanda (https://www.shiningpanda.com). My expertise lies in: Python (Django, RabbitMQ/Celery, etc.) and Continuous Integration with Jenkins. I've also done my fair share of HTML / CSS / JQuery and GWT.

Email in profile

SEEKING WORK. Belgium. Remote, but have no problem travelling for certain things.

Mobile development; native iOS (Objective-C) and Android (Java) development. Past experience also includes C/C++ and desktop development (Windows & Mac).

Specialities: Low level programming in C/C++, multi platform software (desktop, mobile), porting of libraries, 2D/3D renderers, back end systems.

Portfolio work is up at http://pandaris.com. I'm also working on two other personal iOS projects (one is finished and ready for release), so get in touch if you want to hear more. :)

Market rate contract work only; email and skype are on my profile.

Seeking work - remote or in person: Los Angeles, CA

Senior technologist, MBA, with specializations in automated business systems, Drupal sites with eCommerce & RESTful APIs, 3D animation production systems (8 high profile video games, 6 VFX heavy major release feature films, plus 24 other entertainment software products.) I mostly code in PHP, C/C++, & JavaScript; but I know and have professionally worked in Perl, MS Office VBA, assembly, BASH, and LISP. I create automated businesses, and automated existing business operations, with an emphasis on media production. I am also somewhat good at AI, having written AIs for several video games, and automated systems. I create and lead highly efficient teams, I mentor well, teach classes, as well as create entire operations solo. I was an Operating System developer for the original PlayStation. Whatever you're doing, I can make it better, and your work environment better too. I can be reached at www.BlakeSenftner.com.

SEEKING FREELANCER

Vita Coco - NYC

Looking for a generalist developer to run some projects internally, would need to be based in the NYC area. Half on site work, half remote.

Think PHP/MYSQL backend work, HTML/CSS/JS frontend work, social APIs (Facebook, Twilio, Mailchimp), Phonegap iPad apps, etc.

Email me: bolney@vitacoco.com

I'd recommend sending me a message before someone considers taking this on.
That good, huh?
No.

I'm surprised my post got downvoted when I'm trying to prevent HN Freelancers from investing a significant portion of their time to be left out to dry, as I've done with this client.

Yes. But what if the problem was actually with you. Why email you in the first place? Just tell us your story in few short lines, and everyone will judge from his perspective. The other party can have the ability to reply, too.
I've done a fair bit of development work for vitacoco, and they've not only been great to work with, they've also paid me for the work.

I can honestly recommend working with them.