Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page

Re:Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page by tbx on Monday March 17, 2008 @10:29PM (#139476)

if it is about money, it can become easily into a (yet another) "rent-a-coder" startup...

but the idea is good, if you can keep the hacker's quality up

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Re:Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page by paulgb on Monday March 17, 2008 @11:12PM (#139505)

That's the thing - there are a tonne of rent-a-coder clones, but I have a feeling the quality of coders on YC News is much higher than that of rent-a-coder. The problem is, if you start listing jobs here, people will come for the jobs, possibly bringing the quality down.

Perhaps limiting it to LISP, Haskell and Python jobs would work. Most of these sites target Java or PHP or Rails developers, so it's hard to find work in other languages.

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Re:Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page by PStamatiou on Monday March 17, 2008 @11:28PM (#139518)

Maybe if postings were limited to users with > 50 karma or something so it couldn't be gamed.

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Re:Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page by noodle on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @12:16AM (#139546)

even better, limit the ability for the job postings to even be viewed to only people with X karma. that would keep both the gig postings and respondents to people within the community. (i've seen it done elsewhere with reasonable success)

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Re:Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page by danw on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @02:40PM (#140045)

I dont think karma is related to coding ability. There are plenty of smart developers who simply dont waste time posting or commenting, whilst those with higher karma might have high karma because they are unproductive

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Re:Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page by noodle on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @04:04PM (#140138)

this is true, karma doesn't necessarily relate to coding ability. but that isn't the point. the point is to grow and develop a community.

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Re:Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page by mechanical_fish on Monday March 17, 2008 @11:30PM (#139520)

if you start listing jobs here, people will come for the jobs, possibly bringing the quality down.

Even worse, recruiters will spam us with thousands of lousy jobs, bringing the quality down even faster.

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Re:Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page by PStamatiou on Monday March 17, 2008 @10:32PM (#139480)

in that case, if it's solely for karma, it wouldn't deteriorate the community imo.

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Re:Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page by tonyvt2005 on Monday March 17, 2008 @10:55PM (#139497)

I agree, but personally I wouldn't mind it going both ways (karma or $).

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Re:Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page by deltapoint on Monday March 17, 2008 @11:04PM (#139502)

That brings up how much is a karma point worth in monetary terms?

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Re:Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page by aneesh on Monday March 17, 2008 @11:35PM (#139523)

exactly zero dollars. if you tried to fix an exchange rate, you'd run into problems, because the supply of karma is infinite.

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Re:Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page by PStamatiou on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @02:00AM (#139624)

if karma is stored as an integer..

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