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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) on Sunday June 14, 2026 @07:11PM (#48534014)
Yes 100% lets talk waseem at inbox2 dot com
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) on Sunday June 14, 2026 @03:09PM (#48531383)
I am rebuilding an open source email client i started hacking on 15 years ago. The rise of AI coding agents suddenly made this feasible again...
Thank you, this made my day :)
We just did a round, very simple: both of the founders sit down with each and every employee individually and ask a couple of questions:

- what was the thing you did last year you have been most proud of - what is the thing you did last year you have been the least proud off - what did we do as a company that you think was great - what did we do as a company that you think was bad

We got great feedback and engagement on these sessions.

Now obviously this wont work if you have a decently sized head count but in our case it worked just fine over the course of a week or so.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2016) on Monday October 03, 2016 @11:30AM (#12628177)
SEEKING WORK / based in the Netherlands / remote (maybe on-site for a bit)

3x startup founder (1x failure, 1x exit, 1x profitable) looking to do help some companies achieve terminal velocity. I have experience working in/with/founded bay-area companies, so I know the startup drill.

I can build anything in pretty much any language, but my talents are mostly valuable in a lean architecture/team-lead type of role (or setting up the basic architecture).

Have hands-on experience with:

- Been writing code last 16 years

- Have been building companies for the last 8

- RoR / JS/CoffeeScript / React / MySQL / Postgres

- High performance .NET / SQL Server

- iOS development

This posting is more of an experiment to see if I can run into interesting startups tackling interesting problems.

Any takers? :-) [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014) on Saturday November 01, 2014 @10:36AM (#8543167)
Fast growing startup looking for Ruby-on-Rails engineer (for our Rotterdam/Netherlands office) ------

Fileboard is a fast-moving technology startup based in Silicon Valley and the Netherlands. We are innovating and disrupting the sales domain. Backed by some of the best known investors in the USA, the company is on a hyper growth path. Founded in 2011, Fileboard launched its platform over a year ago and since then has acquired some high profile customers (both small and big).

For our Rotterdam office we are looking for a RoR engineer to help build and take our product to the next level. You'll be part of a small but highly effective product team that likes to roll up their sleeves and get stuff done.

Who are you: ---

* Entrepreneurial mindset

* Team player with a winners mentality

* Always learning, trying out new technologies

* Proven experience building and scaling web apps

* Customer focused and genuinely want to help people You get things done

* (tired of all those boring enterprise software projects)

What do we offer: ---

* A great adventure in startup land and a peek into Silicon Valley lifestyle

* Awesome working environment to grow and learn

* Entrepreneurial team with previous exits (and failures) under their belt

* Much room to steer the direction of the product and architecture

* Unlimited vacation days

* Oh yeah... a competitive salary and stock options

Bonus points: ---

* Did your own startup and failed

* Experience with Node.JS / MongoDB / Redis

* Frontend experience with Ember.JS

* Can do or want to learn iOS/Android development

Interested? ---

Shoot us an email hello at fileboard.com with your resume and github account.

Recruiter? ---

Please don't waste our time... thank you.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014) on Saturday March 01, 2014 @10:11AM (#7324434)
SEEKING all-round freelancer (remote):

Must have: - RoR (at least be able to get it running) - CoffeeScript / frontend stuff

Nice to have: - Ember.JS - NodeJS / Socket.IO - Cocoa (MacOSX) / .NET (only in combination with one of the above)

Email me [email protected] with your resume/projects and details.

Only respond if you are able to ramp up on our project before March 5th please.

Well thats why we are a 'start'-up, we have the start part down just need to get at he up part :-0