Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2022)
Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
Bonsai (YC W16) (https://www.hellobonsai.com) offers freelance contracts, proposals, invoices, etc.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 225 ms ] threadTools I currently use: Figma, HTML/CSS, JS/TS, Next.js, Prisma
Portfolio: https://monkin.co/work
Email: p@monkin.co
Over the past two decades, I designed, built, and led product teams — helping create memorable projects across different industries. From advertising, startups, and browser-based games to complex analytics solutions for leading companies.
Seeking a long-term contract opportunity for early-stage startups or online products that either has a working product and want to improve UI/UX for it or start from scratch.
Send me an e-mail if interested.
I'm redirecting my career path from industrial maintenance management to software development.
I've done, among other things, over 10 years of code maintenance and functions extensions in a live industrial production environments.
My current preferred tool set: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. Now I prefer boring tools which allow me to concentrate on the problem at hand.
I'm open to other tools as needed.
My most recent project is Polish law change monitoring service available at https://unkot.pl. Access to the source code hosted on gitlab.com available on request.
In the past I've used go (golang), cython, neural networks with feedback loops running on CPUs, genetic programming.
stakent<usual sign here>walat.eu
Background
● Machine learning engineer (with a Computer Science PhD) with 8+ years of experience building machine learning products.
● I work with startups to integrate AI, from mapping out use cases all the way through to development and deployment.
● I also help companies already using AI to use it more effectively (through strategy, audit, research and training).
Recent Work
● Predicting win/place/quinella probabilities of starters in horse races for a Hong Kong betting syndicate.
● Increasing license plate recognition accuracy by merging alternate data sources in real-time for an Australian startup.
● Designing an AI system for a Japanese recruitment startup.
● Building an online handwriting recognition system for mathematical equations for a Hong Kong startup.
● Simulating package delivery times in urban areas for an Australian startup.
Contact
● Email: timothy.leung@neuralswarm.com
● LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tlyl/
● Website: https://neuralswarm.com
Front end development with React or Vue. Typescript preferred, but Javascript is fine too. I have availability for the next couple of months. Looking to portfolio build, so this is quite a simple proposition!
Able to deliver quick turnarounds with costs starting at $200/project.
I can show existing work if you are interested.
Get in touch frontendmagic<at>outlook.com
Portfolio: https://www.seanw.org/
Location: Edinburgh, UK and remote (I’m used to time zone differences and async work)
Email: sw@seanw.org
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I help startups with the UX/UI and web design of their products. This includes websites, landing pages, web apps, screenshots and copywriting, and I can assist with frontend development where needed. My background as a startup founder and full stack developer helps me create practical design solutions that balance usability, aesthetics, development effort and performance. I work to fixed price quotes when projects are self-contained.
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The best live example of my work is Checkbot (https://www.checkbot.io/), a browser extension that tests websites for SEO, speed and performance problems. The entire project is my own work including coding the extension itself, UX/UI design, website design (the homepage is optimised to load in 0.7 seconds, 0.3MB data transferred), website copy, and website articles on web best practices.
[ Rated 4.9/5, 50K+ active users, 100s of paying subscribers ]
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I have 10+ years of experience, including a PhD in software verification and 5+ years working for myself helping over 20 companies including Just Eat, Triumph Motorcycles and Fogbender (YC W22). See my website for testimonials, portfolio and more:
https://www.seanw.org
Skills: Figma, Sketch, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Hugo, Jekyll, WordPress, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, OCaml, Java, Python, C, analytics, website SEO and speed optimisation.
Note: For larger projects, I usually have my partner assist alongside me in the background and I’m working towards starting a design studio with her in the future.
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Email sw@seanw.org with a short description of 1) your project 2) how you think I can help 3) the business outcome you’re looking for and 4) any deadlines. I can get back to you within one working day to arrange a call to discuss a quote and how we can work together.
Hi, my name is Till.
I always like to help people, so if you need help with anything, let me know! :)
I'm mostly offering short-term consulting. Usually, I work remotely, but I'm open to traveling within Europe to visit you short term. I can help get things running, especially when you're a young startup or launching a new project.
For example, maybe you have written a web app and need it deployed to the cloud. Or maybe you want to scale your product to meet the demand. Or maybe you want to launch your app in a new market, requiring a translation system and a new cloud deployment strategy. I can help make these things possible!
I most often write cloud deployments or back-end services.
Buzzwords: C#, F#, .Net, JavaScript/Typescript, Rust, Elm, C/C++, AWS (Cloudformation, CDK, S3, CloudFront, ECS, Lambda, RDS...), CI/CD, Rust, and Terraform
I've also worked with hiring and product planning. You can also reach out if you just want feedback on your app or code.
CV: https://docs.zohopublic.eu/file/6ptn130f37fb9bb38457b94cd56c...
Email: till at specificadvice.com
Website: https://specificadvice.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/till-schroeder/
I'd love to hear from you!
I am a web focused software developer. Since 2014 I've worked in Berlin in several companies as a full time employee, most recently in FinTech companies. Since 2021 I am doing freelance work, both small short projects and few lengthier ones. Past employer contact numbers for references available on inquiry.
Website: https://msaracevic.github.ioAre you a business looking for web or print design services? I'm a multidisciplinary graphic designer with an eco-friendly focus, specialising in lightweight website designs and low-ink usage print design. My design process takes into account the sustainability of the final design project from conception to end of life.
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Services
· Web design: responsive mobile/desktop designs that are lightweight and fast - I can arrange web development also
· Branding: logo design, branded social media banners, posters, booklets
· Print design: posters, booklets & business cards
· Custom illustrations: digital artwork, print illustrations
To get started on your design project journey get in touch with me today via https://angeliqueboudeau.org
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Portfolio: https://angeliqueboudeau.org/#portfolio
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angeliqueboudeauorg/
Contact: hi@angeliqueboudeau.org
Hi. I'm looking for full-time remote roles in a well-funded stable company (I will work in the company's core office hours. 0 issues with timezones. Been working remotely before covid)
Building websites since 2016, working with React since 2018 and have 2 years of production next.js experience
Super comfortable with Next.js, React, Redux (with sagas), tailwind, material ui, styled-components, SEO schemas, AMP, MERN, scalable deployment on GCP/AWS/Vercel, incremental migration and parallel deployment (WordPress blogs, new next.js code and old code working on the same domain)
I value web performance (web vitals) and accessibility and could create high conversion dynamic pages
Email: contact+hn@abhineet.me
Résumé/CV: https://abhineet.me
I help early-stage startups set a tech strategy, build an MVP, and even grow a team. I can handle end-to-end web app development from scratch, including product definition, backend + frontend development, and basic design. I also offer CTO-as-a-service for existing teams that need help growing or scaling.
I'm a serial founder who's built and sold multiple companies (like https://moonlightwork.com), and I've held leadership roles in engineering + product at major companies like Webflow and Trusted Health. But, my passion is building things - and I use my background in software and product to help early-stage startups either launch a product or convert a low-code product to a coded application.
When I pick a tech stack it's typically Rails + Hotwire + Tailwind, but I've worked in a variety of web stacks ranging including Vue, Go, Laravel, and Kubernetes. I'm an advanced user of Stripe, including their Connect product for marketplaces.
Here's a couple of projects I've built solo this year:
- https://postcard.page
- https://booklet.community
I can do hourly or weekly billing.
Email: philip@contraption.co
Location: San Francisco, CA
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Ruby, Python, Go, Javascript, React, Vue, Haskell, Scala
Resume/CV: available upon request.
Email: hnwwthread@gmail.com
I'm a principal-level individual contributor with 14 years of full-stack experience in a wide variety of technologies, languages, and problem spaces.
I've led and developed teams of up to twelve engineers, have years of experience in a technical product ownership role, written copy and company slogans, provided strategic business and product advice, and have been fully responsible for the architecture, initial implementation, and ongoing production management and maintenance for systems currently used by millions in the health care, fintech, and educational software spaces.
These include no-code web builders for forms and whole applications that have saved thousands of developer-hours and millions of dollars, HIPAA-compliant, versioned and fully-auditable data stores, a configurable streaming data infrastructure system, and a workflow engine that is responsible for the coordination of a live production application that serves millions.
I view myself as a strong individual contributor who acts as both a force-multiplier for the team and a critical communications hub by being able to understand and translate the needs of a variety of stake-holders due to my truly full-stack business experience.
Location: european, running a development services company in china.
Technologies: Linux, frontend and backend webdevelopment, prototyping.
20 years experience with web development, offering web development services, developer training, mentoring and part-time CTO support for developers or junior CTOs. (fluent in english and german, learning dutch, french and chinese)
Email: see profile
I am also able to build up a development team for you in china to help you enter the chinese market or take advantage of resources in china.
10+ of experience including a couple FAANG and startups (including founder with 11 employees, and main developer for newly founded startup).
Languages: Lots of experience: Python, Java, C. Since last year: Typescript (started app from scratch with react/redux/material ui/webpack, etc.). Some experience: C++11.
Email: getintouch <at_sign_here> gistware <dot_here> run
Profiles: PhD in Computer Science. Lots of experience: backend engineer. Since the last couple years: ML Ops, ML. Since last year: frontend (can do some if needed, wouldn't lead a frontend team first day)
Tools: docker, ansible, terraform, airflow, nginx, gunicorn, packer, github workflows, postgresql.
I've been freelancing already, I aim to deliver a PoC in the first day as to assess feasibility/value of the proposed projects, as to then submit code to the trunk codebase after figuring out dev environment, code structure, conventions, etc. Happy to answer any questions, to provide CV and pointers to testimonials.
All messages welcome at: getintouch <at_sign_here> gistware <dot_here> run
Thank you for reading!
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Robbert, front end developer with 6+ years experience. Focus on interactive interfaces in React.
If you need someone to build a dashboard, interactive widget, or beautiful animations with great UX, look no further.
I’ve got experience building complex interfaces with React, using a variety of tech stacks: NextJS, Gatsby, Redux, Material UI, Tailwind, RadixUI, Framer Motion, React Spring, and more.
Non-tech qualities: Clear and open communicator, reliable, and able to not just implement but also design interfaces with business needs in mind.
Looking for: Clearly defined projects (<6 months) and also open to part time or smaller short term assignment.
Portfolio: https://www.studiokoro.com Email: robbert@studiokoro.com
I’m a full stack developer with 14 years of experience, have been working for mostly German company recently, offering software development service for hourly rate at $70-100. Previously I’ve built things like:
- A web app integrated with a blockchain network, with Svelte and SvelteKit in TypeScript, deployed on Vercel.
- A Slack bot for productivity app with Next and React.
- An electron app to assist operating a Twitter-based instant-win ad campaigns.
- A learning management system for a coding bootcamp, with in-site video chat capability with WebRTC, hosted on Firebase.
- A business intelligent system for a retail brand, which processes tens of thousands order/day powered by Elasticsearch, hosted on Kubernetes.
...for clients including startups and enterprises.
Tech: React, Svelte, Ruby/Rails, Elasticsearch, AWS, GCP, Vercel, Firebase, Kubernetes
GitHub: https://github.com/tnzk
Other things: https://tnzk.org
Email: tnzk+hn at tnzk.org
Hi HN, I'm Andrew. I have 10 years experience with Python web development. Some projects I've worked on recently include
• Turning machine learning notebooks into production http apis
• Building out SaaS websites with authentication, billing, subscription management
• Bringing old hard-to-maintain services up to modern standards with new stable technologies
• Performance optimization of django and flask apps to get below 100ms response time.
In addition to client work I also run some web apps including https://gpxz.io and https://redditreads.com, and I work as a Python code reviewer for PullRequest.
Past clients include Pepsi, Mercedes-Benz, NZ Metservice, and Lob.com.
Technologies I work with include Python, django, flask, fastapi, docker, nginx, sql, Postgres, html, css, d3.js, tensorflow, scikit-learn, numpy, pandas, gdal, postgis, R, MLops.
Please get in touch via andrew@ajnisbet.com or https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajnisbet with some information about your project, from there we can set up a call to talk in more detail.
Remote 4-person team of senior software engineers and designers here. We all have 10+ years of experience working for Fortune 500 companies and several acquired startups. Comprehensive knowledge of:
• JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Redux, React Native, CSS, Node.js
• Clojure, Elixir
• PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma
What we can do for you:
• Design & Build an SPA/PWA/Mobile MVP on a solid foundation so it's smooth sailing once your userbase starts to grow.
• Scale up a team that has an overflow of work or wants to add certain tech to their stack.
• Revitalize an existing app. Solve design, scalability, stability and performance issues.
• Consult on domain specific topics like banking, real-time trading, payment processing and PCI DSS.
Sectors: FinTech, MedTech, EduTech, Social
Website: https://go-stellar.com
Email: hello@go-stellar.com
We're a team of (currently five) backend engineers having built and maintained highly available systems for several companies over the last five years, in addition to over 70 combined years of software development experience. Further scale is easily obtainable if your project is larger.
From infrastructure-as-code to site reliability to greenfield to renovation, we span the entire space of backend problem solving. We will take on your difficult problem and crush it. Your goals are our priorities.
Concrete examples:
* Realtime stats processing in a redpanda+golang stream architecture for one of the top 3 major US sports leagues - raw data through ML models to the screen!
* AWS Lambda architecture replatforming core portfolio management for a startup (>$1BN AUM) hedge fund
* Realtime stream processing of crypto exchange trade data through Kafka/data lake for an analytics platform. Met 5000ms SLA, blue/green deployment, arbitrarily many symbols/exchanges. Proof of SLA in extensive Cloudwatch metrics.
* built a framework to collapse dozens of singleton ETL programs into one config-driven, simple C# application performing the same functionality at ~80% reduction in maintenance cost year over year.
* built and managed a team of 8 engineers operating against multiple streams of work to meet business needs, with ~12 active projects at a time.
Contact: jon.north@adiuvat-consulting.com More: www.adiuvat-consulting.com
Keywords: Python, C++, SQL, NoSQL, Go, Golang, Docker, Git, SVN, Subversion, Linux, Bash, Windows, Kafka, Redpanda, Terraform, AWS, Azure, Redis, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, LDAP, Active Directory, OAuth2
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: React, React Native & Node.JS development with JavaScript and TypeScript. Python, Pytorch for Machine Learning.
Résumé/CV: I have a masters in computer science, with a thesis in deep learning.
I also have a blog at https://www.mikealche.com where I've written several blog posts that made it to the front page in Hacker News: General problem solving: https://www.mikealche.com/software-development/how-to-implem...
Databases schema design: https://www.mikealche.com/software-development/a-humble-guid...
React animations tutorial: https://www.mikealche.com/software-development/learn-react-a...
Email: mikealche at gmail
I am a web developer and designer with a strong background in software development. Before freelancing, I've worked for a larger OSS-based German software company for five years. As a freelancer I mainly develop websites based on Kirby CMS, but I also do generative art, design and motion design. My projects range from simply implementing a given web design to projects including concept, design and implementation.
What I do: web development, software development, design, generative art, motion design
Technologies: Kirby CMS, PHP, JavaScript, Vue.js, SCSS
E-Mail timm@timmalbers.de Website: https://timmalbers.de/en
I have over 20 years’ experience building software, specialising in:
• Technical applications (mathematical, scientific, engineering)
• Software for hardware (embedded, IoT, lab equipment)
• Interesting presentation (custom UIs, mocap animations, data viz)
My target market is start-ups/scale-ups/SMEs needing immediate help with either hands-on development work or strategic advice, technical design, etc.
For small to medium applications — such as an MVP for a startup, a UI for a hardware product, or implementing mathematical models and visualisations for researchers — I can offer a fully outsourced development service if required.
I can also join an existing team temporarily to give a short-term boost, perhaps helping with a challenging project or co-ordinating a larger initiative across teams. This can include a training/mentoring element if you need to upskill quickly.
Every project is different and will be treated as such, but recently I’ve been favouring TypeScript or Python for web development (with React for UI work) and Python, C++ or Haskell for more mathematical elements. I have experience with a wide range of target platforms from AWS to embedded ARM.
If you have a project that I may be able to help you with, you’re welcome to get in touch. My contact details are in my profile.
Available part-time, for up to 20 hours/week. 10+ years experience in python, both scientific (numpy, pandas, matplotlib, statsmodels, jupyter) and web (django, flask, sqlalchemy). Also experienced in R (experiment design, linear and nonlinear analysis, graphic presentation of data). Previous experience in experimental design and analysis when I was a manufacturing engineer in semiconductors. Able to work W2 or 1099, remote or in-person (as long as it's in Austin).
https://www.rosshartshorn.net/RossHartshornResume.pdf