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SEEKING FREELANCER - remote

Gustin is a crowdsourced menswear brand looking for a rails engineer to work with us part-time

https://www.weargustin.com

Qualifications + Experience in building and scaling a variety of front-end and back-end technologies

+ Platform utilizes Ruby on Rails, Bootstrap, javascript, pgsql, stripe, etc.,

+ Excellent project management skills and appreciation for deadlines

+ E-commerce and conversion rate optimization experience would be great

+ Design and UX skills also very much appreciated

+ 5 - 10 hours per week

+ Long term relationship preferred (last two freelancers each worked for 2 years)

+ We’ll hook you up with awesome, American-made clothing

Please email experience and rate to [email protected]

It's kind of interesting how long it takes status.heroku.com to update - based on our experience and response on twitter, it was about 10 minutes.

SEEKING FREELANCERS - (SF or Remote)

We're Gustin, a premium crowdsourced menswear brand. Looking to bring on another full stack rails engineer for a consistent 10 hours/week of feature development on our platform.

Design / UX / analytics experience a plus. We'd prefer to pay more for an experienced engineer who will do things right the first time.

Email us at [email protected] to chat.

http://www.weargustin.com

I've been in the beta trial of this, and it works pretty well.

A few thoughts: 1) It would be really great if I could schedule when the pagesnaps were taken 2) It'd be nice to be able to take snaps of only one div 3) Would be very cool if there was a URL that always had the most recent snap

Funny thing - FADC (one of Dustin's groups seen in the screenshot) is getting a ton of requests today.

I launched a company once on April 1. Realized the date after we'd announced to everyone. We were worried about it impacting launch (is this a joke?), but all was good.

I don't think many people are worried about the 5% Kickstarter cut. Jon and Marshal were probably more interested in having users signed up with their service (which kickstarter wouldn't guarantee)

Continuously! We make men's clothing (jeans, shirts, etc.,) - the team always wears our own clothing to test and just do life in general. http://www.weargustin.com

We're excited to work with you Josh!

Thanks! It's been a wild ride this year

You can put a cap on it by limiting the # of backers for any given reward level (this is what we did), but most of the big campaigns screw themselves by letting it overrun

Gustin - San Francisco - Fulltime - http://www.weargustin.com

Gustin is the first fully crowdsourced fashion company. We’re rapidly changing the fashion industry and we’re looking for a talented technologist to help us. We're also bootstrapped and profitable.

The Role Our e-commerce platform is the primary medium through which we generate revenue. We’re looking for someone to own and improve our technology stack.

Qualifications (the following are required) Experience developing applications using Ruby on Rails. Experience with JavaScript, HTML5, XHTML, CSS. Familiarity with CoffeeScript, HAML, and SASS even better. Experience with SQL databases. Familiarity with Postgres even better.

Desired (these aren’t required, but are nice to have) Experience with Heroku. Data-informed product development experience, e.g., analytics, A/B testing. Value pair programming. Active user of social media. Understanding of static file optimization (offloading static assets to a third party, JS minification, etc). Avid follower of the technology industry and current technology/web-related trends. Prior experience working for a consumer Internet company. Interest in fashion and American manufacturing.

I disagree.

Certainly having a social following / media connections pre-launch (either for the idea or personally) can help greatly, I believe that it can be completely overcome by hard work and a really good product.

Calling it a popularity contest trivializes the effort that many people put into their campaigns.

Source: I launched a Kickstarter campaign that did ~$500k on a $20k goal this year. No media connections, no social following pre-launch.

Do they actually do fulfillment of real rewards, or only of schwag like tshirts?

How's this techcrunch worthy?

This was a very interesting article, given that I just experienced something similar.

Flight from SFO -> IAD last week. As soon as we took off, they asked for a doctor. He spent 2 hours treating the patient before they started drink service, and continued until we landed. We were all quite worried about the person, but found out at the end of the flight that they had overdosed on NyQuil. That made the whole ordeal fairly frustrating.

Just installed this for the first time. How have I lived without an adblocker before?

Here's that article:

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201206/jason-fried/huge-accounts...

I looked at it, and was completely confused at first. After reading the comments here, I realized it will save me a bunch of time. I'm working on launching a new product, and have compiled a list of 50 relevant blogs, and wasn't looking forward to going through them one-by-one to get twitter names.

Thanks!

Guess who punched whom in the face.

I agree completely. As the employee in the scenario, how do you influence your boss to buy into this new mindset of judging productivity and utility?