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Re:Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job? by device_id on Monday December 04, 2023 @03:17AM (#38514892)
Created a financial markets tech project, put it on sourceforge. Didn’t even get to the second commit. A hiring manager from a nyse group co emails me: “can you implement this for us to completion we will give you money”. I go “sorry I am busy building a startup [in some unrelated area]”. Startup grew and then failed, and I became poor, temporarily.
Re:Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job? by carabiner on Monday December 04, 2023 @03:44AM (#38515043)
sourceforge? must be ancient. what did the project do?
Re:Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job? by device_id on Monday December 04, 2023 @11:53AM (#38519651)
Yes 2007! Without going into details, a piece of infrastructure related to one of the then new Fix protocol specifications.