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Offer HN: Free Front-End Development Work for Startups

After several years off of freelancing and being stuck in the corporate world, I really want to work with some new blood, meet new folks, and work on some personal projects.What I’m willing to do: I’ll happily help build splash and landing pages to get your startup off the ground. I’ll take a design, slice it, and return excellent, semantic, valid markup. I’ll complete the work in a reasonable...

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Has this been addressed directly with the employee? It hardly seems worth firing someone over.

Ask HN: Whatever happened to Offer HN?

I remember every once in a while a few years back, a group of folks would offer their services, gratis, to startups, for a couple hours a week or the like, in exchange for exposure, potential for future paying work, or simply experience.I've got a good friend who is just getting into development (and hell, even I) who could benefit from this sort of thing again.

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Re:Show HN: Cobalt2 theme and colour scheme for Sublime Text on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @11:41AM (#8557451)
Hmm. The left navigation stuff doesn't seem to update.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014) on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @09:16PM (#7344822)
Agreed. I'd still like a response from my initial email.
Wow. This is astounding. I happened to meet him and Dave Thomas a year or so ago, and had lunch with them at a Ruby conference. Incredibly nice and funny guy, who was really smart.

Offer HN: Free Front-End Development Work

I’ve been hard at work at both my day job and have recently ended a year-long run with a side client. I’ve decided to take a couple months off of “real” work, and want to work with some new blood, meet new folks, and work on some personal projects. What I’m willing to do: I’ll happily help build splash and landing pages to get your startup off the ground. I’ll take a design, slice it, and...

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Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2013) on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @10:38AM (#6476446)
I emailed out the last time this was posted, and haven't heard anything back other than "we'll reach out to you soon".
Re:After CodeAcademy, Do This on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @12:19PM (#6090987)
I think, in theory, this is really neat. One of the things I struggle with when learning something new (especially something more involved), is finding a way to put it into practice.

With that said, I think there could be a bit more description, or perhaps some examples of what I'd actually be signing up for, and how it works.

As a bit of trivium, on Chrome on OSX, auto-fill for the email doesn't work properly, and while small, it might help get a tiny bit higher conversion if that was addressed.

I'm interested.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2013) on Friday March 01, 2013 @07:07PM (#5307769)
Email sent.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2013) on Friday March 01, 2013 @10:21AM (#5304634)
SEEKING WORK – Remote / Washington, DC Metropolitan Area

- I’m a full stack web developer who can take care of your web presence end-to-end, including hosting and system administration, as well as building out your designs.

What I can do for you:

- VPS Setup & Configuration, whether for a web server or otherwise.

- General SysAdmin work.

- PHP / MySQL back-end development (have been using Rails at my day job for 6 months or so, but I’m sure your money would be better used with another Rails developer).

- HTML5 Front-End, with excellent knowledge of best practices, and how to best deal with browser inconsistencies.

- Javascript: Been developing with jQuery since version 1.3, and greatly enjoy using Backbone.js as well. Of course, I can do the same tasks with “raw” Javascript, it’ll just take longer.

- Responsive Design: I’m excellent at converting existing templates into a responsive design to allow for mobile compatibility.

- CSS: Whether it be debugging some wonky IE6 issue, or creating a solid Compass pipeline for you, I’m here to help.

- CMS: I’ve developed several in-house content management systems, as well as doing a large amount of work in Wordpress and (ugh) Joomla.

My major projects: http://wireless.walmart.com, http://wirefly.com, http://www.rcn.com

Feel free to reach out to me at [email protected]

Re:Codular - Tutorials for New Web Developers on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @10:10PM (#4995116)
Love it!

Writer, if you want some contribution, I've got some ideas and drafts down as I was writing some of this for my own blog.

Re:How did you first learn HTML, CSS, and/or JS? on Sunday December 30, 2012 @08:12PM (#4987828)
Wow, I'm horrid at typing on my phone sometimes.

What I meant was Codecademy: http://www.codecademy.com/ And the Pragmatic Programmer's Book on HTML5 and CSS3: http://pragprog.com/book/bhh5/html5-and-css3

Official Specs: http://www.w3.org/

Re:How did you first learn HTML, CSS, and/or JS? on Sunday December 30, 2012 @05:25PM (#4987370)
Netscape Composer. Serious PTSD kicking in.

I'd do the Codecademt exercises, then pick up the Pragzprog book on HtML5/CSS3 if you were looking to start. Also, go through the official specs.

Re:Ask HN: Best podcasts in 2012? on Saturday December 29, 2012 @06:41PM (#4983920)
The Industry, by Adam Stacoviak, Jared Erondu, and Drew Wilson.

Great group of folks talking about design-focused startups and a lot of cool front-end tech.

Re:Whats your Startup / App Ideas for 2013? on Thursday December 20, 2012 @12:15PM (#4948723)
Disrupting the restaurant experience. From discovery, to ordering, to service, to receipts. Pretty much everything to do with it is broken and inefficient, so lots of work to be done.
Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $20000 USD for your startup? on Thursday December 13, 2012 @02:20PM (#4917539)
Highest CTR was with Perl developers? Are you sure you advertised on Facebook and not Usenet? ;).
Re:Gmail graduates 3 Labs features on Thursday December 06, 2012 @03:53PM (#4883728)
"Default reply to all"

This isn't a feature. It's a bug.

Re:Free startup launch party in DC on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @05:25PM (#4878959)
Thanks a bunch for the invite, I'm booked up on Friday but would love to meet with you all sometime! It's great to see activity in the DC Startup community.
Re:You can now create files on GitHub on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @03:59PM (#4878551)
Facebook to front page in 2004: "16 points for being able to see who my friends are?"

Twitter to front page in 2005: "16 points for being able to write short messages?"

eBay to front page in 1998: "16 points for being able to sell things?"

It isn't about how involved or difficult a task is. Twitter wasn't "hard" to build (early on). It's about the utility of something, and this provides a great deal of utility. I don't mean my post to come off as a flame, as that's not at all what it's intended, but I, for one, find this very useful.

Re:You can now create files on GitHub on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @03:56PM (#4878534)
This is really wonderful. Great for those of us who work from tablets frequently.
Re:Startups, your landing page sucks on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @10:37AM (#4876685)
Right now, it's suffering from a 502 Bad Gateway ;).
Re:What do you find most annoying in your house? on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @11:16AM (#4871579)
Unusable floor space, higher than necessary vertical space. Seems largely inefficient to me. I don't need ten feet I'd be very happy with 8. This could theoretically fit 1/6 more people into the same amount of "square land" without any drawbacks other than cosmetics.

Inventions I'd like to see: Solar / radiant heat rechargeable thermostat. Annoying to have to replace mine with a watch battery once every six months.

Dual-filament bulbs that only fire one at a time. First one burns out, second one still provides light (perhaps at reduced output?), but indicates it is in need of replacement somehow. Not necessarily needed for standard bulbs, but the recessed lighting in my current place needs this badly. Bulbs are expensive and I don't keep them on hand if I'm not going to need them. But when I do need them, I'd like to have a bit of notice to get them before I lose light in a certain area of my home.

Flux (brightness / color adjustment for OSX) for all lighting in the home. Adjust amount of lighting based on time of day.

Re:Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @10:02AM (#4871165)
I've found this exact problem before with Bootstrap. I solved it, but it was perhaps 6mo ago and don't remember, otherwise I'd take care of it for you.

Congrats again on shipping a kick-ass product.

Re:Site44 turns Dropbox folders into websites on Monday December 03, 2012 @07:55PM (#4868926)
Cool idea. Homepage needs tweaked for iPad. Content pushed to absolute edges with 0 margin.
Re:Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant) on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @10:17PM (#4846068)
As an avid supporter of the project, shoot an email if you want a Web dev to build it out for you :).

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