sbraford

Hi, tldr; got in early at a startup. exercised stock for ~$6k. got valued at ~$90k+, received a 1099 for that. company subsequently declined in value, now the stock might never be worth anything, but I owe $30k in…

Hello HN. I’ve been out of the solo indie hacking game for over ten years. I always wanted to branch out from building CRUD APIs and web apps into game development. But I always found the learning curve difficult. I saw…

I've been looking for a new contract/client for the past three months, to no avail. The market seems to have really dried up compared to the last several years. I'd love to co-found a startup, but have had trouble in…

Hello, I'm looking for a web designer or two who isn't afraid to get their hands dirty in rails-land. Familiarity with git is also a plus. Does anyone know the best place to find someone like this? Upwork? If you have…

In case you have no idea what you're doing when it comes to security, and would like to learn a few basics, using Stripe's Capture the Flag game as a fun playground.

Coming back to ruby development after several years off. I'd be open to other frameworks, but don't feel like learning a new language at the moment.

It would be a Firefox/Chrome/etc plugin. On any webpage on the internet, it would allow you to click a button in the browser and "mark up" the page a la "Skitch." e.g. recently I was on a page with un-hotlinked images…

I know this is not the typical direction for YC startups. You'd normally want to build an app or service that could eventually generate tens of millions of dollars. But what if you could be satisfied with just one…

Educational, entrepreneur-oriented, hacking / geekery?

I had no idea iLike was written in Rails. I'm actually surprised they were able to scale so well.