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Re: on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @08:21AM (#44169187)
Preview and feedback: https://tally.so/r/3qMlPd

Essentially, a lab admin and a researcher affected by the Federal funding cuts teamed up with an entrepreneur neighbor and we created BioShift as a way to help laid off lab workers keep earning money, keep skills fresh, and prevent brain drain. For labs facing funding cuts, it helps reduce on-boarding costs and keeps science happening.

MVP is built out, we're going to try to get a few more pilot labs, get scientists signed up, and launch a public pre-alpha/alpha later on in the summer.

So, yeah, give us your feedback and let's keep our labs running! Thanks!

Re:Ask HN: Is it time to give up, or is it time to push on? on Monday November 24, 2014 @05:41PM (#8655138)
Sush, you. I ain't giving up that easily :)

Though, perhaps we should merge.

Re:Ask HN: Is it time to give up, or is it time to push on? on Monday November 24, 2014 @02:25PM (#8654180)
Thanks, Thomas. Certainly need to get paid one way or another, and the holidays aren't conducive to being productive.

I started pinging folks who may have job leads.

Re:Ask HN: Is it time to give up, or is it time to push on? on Monday November 24, 2014 @02:23PM (#8654157)
Thank you for the offer.

HN doesn't really have a PM system, as far as I know. Feel free to shoot me an e-mail, [email protected], and we can chat a bit more.

Re:Ask HN: Is it time to give up, or is it time to push on? on Monday November 24, 2014 @02:16PM (#8654101)
Thanks for the offer. I'm in Boston, however.

Regroup seems to be the way to go; much appreciated.

Re:Ask HN: Is it time to give up, or is it time to push on? on Monday November 24, 2014 @10:32AM (#8652791)
To be fair, the two current devs have been on board full time for just over a month and a half.

But, your point stands.

Re:Ask HN: Is it time to give up, or is it time to push on? on Monday November 24, 2014 @10:30AM (#8652777)
It is a fair question. The former CTO set the stack and was helping those two along. They're Ruby converts.

After the CTO left, I asked if we should switch and they said switching to Ruby was more work than it was worth. The backend is pretty far along in Node right now. And we've got an Angular dashboard that we need to connect.

Re:Ask HN: Eli5 why Angular 2.0 is getting negative attention on Monday November 24, 2014 @10:14AM (#8652702)
Angular 2.0 won't be out until Q4 2015 the earliest.

There is going to be a migration path from 1.3(x) to 2.0, but it may not be a simple one.

Support for 1.3(x) is not going to drop suddenly.

From the folks I've talked to, there's no reason to panic.

You're not going to be re-learning everything for 2.0, you'll just have to modify you're thinking a bit.

Frameworks come and go, but React and Angular are both great for current and future products.

Don't buy into the negativity and cynicism. If everyone did, we'd still be writing shit in BASIC and PASCAL.

Ask HN: Is it time to give up, or is it time to push on?

Boring details: I started a company in July aimed at creating a new fantasy sports platform, focused on stat-heavy leagues, dynasty leagues, niche sports, eSports, and tabletop games.Our CTO was hired away last month, our two other developers are learning Node and Angular, but not much progress has been made on the product. Lead developer doubts we'll get a product out before baseball...

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Just finishing up the marketing portion of the website, obviously some rough edges and more "meat" needs to be available regarding the product soon.

I kind of feel like we're being too vague with the description, but I also don't want to bog down the site with text.

But, I'd love to hear any experiences in the fantasy industry or potential advice/pitfalls.

Thank you!

Re:Ask HN: how do mobile developers find clients? on Saturday February 09, 2013 @01:04AM (#5191878)
Shoot me a PM, I'd like to see your portfolio. I'm actually looking at mobile app shops right now.

It seems like every other nutter in NYC is looking for a tech co-founder; perhaps market yourself as a CTO-in-a-box?