rush-tea

anyone?

SEEKING FREELANCER - remote or CA

I am currently bootstrapping my project, and I am in need of a front end developer / web designer. Preferably someone who is eager to get his/her feet wet in the industry or a current grad who is looking to build his/her portfolio. We can discuss more based on where you are.

Please email me at rush.tea AT gmail DOT com for further discussion.

Thank you.

I was in the same shoe as you. As other says, you have to state clearly what you want, for example, if there is a similar website already exist and you want to build something that is 90% the same, then say, I want to build a marketplace like ebay. Then people have ideas on your project.

Also, if possible, never ask for estimate on your first inquiries. Why? Because the freelancers do not have the complete details from you and can not provide estimate on something that is unclear.

You should try to gauge their interests first.

For example: I saw your profile at github and I have a project that I think it may interest you. It seems like you have interests in AI, and I have just a thought of building something...

How you are going to fish if you don't have the right bait?

by the way, there is nothing wrong in hiring freelancers on elance or desk. In fact, if you have limited budget, you can try build a prototype from hiring at elance/odesk. True, once you post at elance, you will get many garbage. Be sure to weed down the garbage, and ask them questions to truly gauge their interests. "why are you interested in this project?" show me some projects that you have done in the past that are similar to my idea. Interview them.

This move would be similar to Sanjay Jha moving from Qualcomm COO to Motorola Mobility CEO. Look at what happened now. Sanjay Jha not only got a nice compensation package from Motorola Mobility but also a great deal from leaving the CEO at MM after Google acquisition and another reputation to boot as being the one who revive Motorola from zero to hero (being acquired)

Like what everyone is saying, Yelp review system is very easy to game. Just create a one off profile, and hype the business. Yelp algorithm only allows good reviews getting posted while the bad ones are buried. Why? Because good reviews generate traffic to Yelp which in turn help Yelp getting money from advertiser.

Five stars review system is flawed.

Thank you. I was thinking of copy and paste from some sites that I have seen so far. But Mz post said otherwise. This is exactly my concern. Mz post states that his disclaimer is used by legal permission. Now to me, this seems to contradict what tstegart and me believe. If legal terms can not be copyrighted, then why would Mz require someone consent, the author in this case, to use the disclaimer? I want to avoid this situation if lets say I use facebook or google term of use word by word and then they sue me?

so now i m confused...

i understand that my project is nothing, and the chance of getting sued is almost 0 because i have no traction, but if it's legally not right, then i want to avoid the risk.

thank you for the advise.

Thank you for your opinion. No, I don't have legal issue, yet, with my startup, but I am within weeks to go beta launch and curious about term of use, privacy statement. I notice each startup has these on their products (whether it's website, mobile app, custom program, etc), but I wonder how do they get it. Do they have someone draft for them? Or is it a generic statement they can just use temporarily? I am bootstrapping now.

Of course, if my startup gains traction and grows, yes, I will definitely consult lawyer, but since it's still in its infancy, I wonder if it's really necessary to get lawyers just for term of service, privacy, NDA statement.

Thank you.

i love 1and1 as well

SEEKING FREELANCER - California or Remote

I am looking for a backend engineer with extensive php/mysql experience to fine tune and improve features on my site.

If you are interested, please email me at rush.tea AT gmail DOT com

Thank you for your advise. I would like to add few comments. If I post the link of my prototype, wouldn't that beat the purpose of going stealth? I am not ready to reveal it to the whole wide world as it's still not a clean prototype. Unless the project has a team that is committed to it, at this point, it's best to go stealth.

It's a matter of chicken and egg, I guess. I am looking for someone who is interested, but on the other hand, how do I make you interested...

However I am open to let people know more about the business. It's a rewards idea where customers is getting rewarded for being a loyal customer. I have created a whole new concept around it and as of today, i have not yet seen a startup that has similar approach. I have seen some that are similar, but not the same.

I could, if I would, launch it all on my own, but at the end, to be able to establish a better start for this project, I would need a technical co founder for funding, incubator program, brain storming, and ad hoc improvement.

- Sunny Southern California

- Business Co Founder / Product Development / Product Manager (I am looking for Technical Co Founder to help me develop a project I have in mind). I have a MSc in engineering, so I am technical as well, but not coding.

- Skills: Business development, product features, product requirement, road map, etc. I am good in analyzing product idea, suggest/make improvements on existing ideas, and business development to monetize. Product design as well, I can do wireframe, etc. (basically everything except graphic design, never excel in anything artistic, and coding!).

- I have an idea that I am thinking to develop right now, so looking for technical co founder who wants to partner with me. However if you are a technical guy, you have your own idea, and you are looking for someone to analyze your project and how to move forward, I am open to work as a partner as well to help getting your idea off the ground.

- I have ideas about reviews (so the competitors would be Yelp, Amazon, reviews site) with different kind of business model to monetize it.

- I prefer someone local as I believe working together and brainstorming would be the most effective way to bring out the best of both of us. However if not possible, I m open to other possibilities as well.

SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote or Southern California

I am looking for someone who is good in developing mobile app (iPhone, Android, and Blackberry). Also, prefer if you are also good in building web backend as well (MySQL).

You can take small projects first, and if we click, maybe you can be the technical co founder.

Thanks.

Mine too. I was simply asking an opinion for a friend of mine, and it never even made it to the 'ask' section...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3287202

maybe there is some SEO algorithm that the poster needs to embedded on his post so to be able to get bumped up? lol

I would like to ask more details, but when I click your profile, I can't see your email.

If you can email me, that would be great.

Thanks.

He won't just do slides and expect to get funding or accepted in the incubator program. He WILL have his MVP up and running like I mentioned earlier.

And, NO, his name is not Steve Jobs. I wish... :)

My suggestion would be that since you are a single founder, the best would be to finish the very minimum viable product that can attract your potential investors. if you think a graphic design is required, then do it. You can outsource logo design cheaply to Asia. Logo design would be something that is more on creative side, imagination doesn't require education, so everyone is a genius if they can pour their imagination into black on white, vs if you are thinking of outsourcing technology development.

as for large server, have you look into AWS? Amazon Web Services is an excellent server solution, Yelp is using AWS. I read somewhere that one of the things that Facebook regrets is that they invest on their own data center vs doing a cloud like in AWS.

trademark is not an issue, a good analogy would be like a game app (angry birds). Angry birds is available at AppStore and Android Market, but since it's not available in AppWorld for some reason (I think it can be because Angry Birds maker don't want to develop for Blackberry platform? I don't know...), a company copied Angry Birds and create Angry Farms. that's what I am afraid...

Thank you for your comment. I understand that idea is worthless, and execution is what matters. While aiming to become a company is indeed a dream for me, but I am taking baby steps. What I want to create is a mobile app, nothing fancy, and see if I can sell the mobile app. Because it's such a simple idea, that's where my fear comes from. I build the idea, outsource to developers to create the mobile app, and at the end, instead of owning my mobile app, the developer is selling my idea of mobile app at AppStore, AppWorld and Android Market. I suffer a potential loss of income. That's what I am afraid of. How vulnerable am I even after the developer signed the NDA and non compete agreement and the developer is not USA based? Of course, I could have tell Apple, Blackberry, and Google to stop the app listing, but that's a long process and during the process, money are going to the developer ways.

Thank you for your comment. Well, looking at the cost involved, I could possibly going to source it to India, Russia or some eastern european as it's less costly vs if it's USA based.

I thought about the project splitting, and the concern I have is exactly the same as your concern in term of code quality. When it's time to merge them together, it would be a pain if one code section is superior than the other and I would end up clean up the inferior one. And my other concern is that who would merge them together as I am not a developer. I could possibly hire a USA based developer to merge them together after splitting them, that's one possibility. But if that developer ends up cleaning up the inferior one, it would cost more at the end.

so it takes 2-3 years from idea to launch to profitable? my question if that's not correct is how long does it take you to go from idea to today? at what point of the timeline when it becomes profitable?

thanks.

thank you for this doc. I am in the same situation as the poster, and will use this information. :)

No, you don't fail at life, what it means is that your idea is just getting validated by other people that it has prospect. You should be happy. Now what you need to do is to see that startup's idea and figure out why his/her idea is better than yours, what makes it better than you, so now you need to focus on the competitive analysis and make yours better since technically your idea is still in stealth mode, no one knows. That means you have the advantage to play around your ideas and make it better. :)

where are you located? if you are in bay area, lets talk, email me at rush.tea@gmail.com

OK. I understand it now... But now I am counting on my points via 'threads' section on the top bar, but it doesn't add up. As of now I have 8 'karma', but when I count, the points should be greater than 8...

So how do I know which post gets point? and which not?

Sorry, newbie questions. I read the FAQ on the HN in regards of the points system, but there are not one clear answer...

Thank you.

Nice website. Original idea. Hope it works out.

can you elaborate on your question? is it something like where and how to recruit? what equity and money you want to give? It's not very clear on what you ask.

If you have not patent your business models, there is nothing you can do. For every Groupon, there is Living Social, and others... might as well keep innovating, and stay ahead of competition.

I am not sure about your website because I don't see the link, but if it's something you can patent, then you should do it, then you can sue. :)

I applied, but have not got response yet. When should I get response?

Thanks.

so does a CTO need to have coding skills? Or just directing based on his/her technology vision? In my understanding, a CTO needs to know at least some coding and can verify their subordinate code and fix bugs, so forth

SEEKING FREELANCER (Bay Area San Francisco, California, USA)

Looking for freelancers who are expert in PHP/MySQL AJAX, etc. I need someone to help me enhance and implement ideas on a social networking I am building on.

Must be local to Bay Area San Francisco, no exception. Please email to

rush.tea@gmail.com

Thanks.

I have my own belief about the idea, actually I have a vision on how it's going to be, the goal that I am seeing, I am passionate about it too. I can talk forever about it, and how I envision it. However the doubts I am having is whether people see it as well, whether people will buy my idea when I shop around.

My background is in Product Management. I am good at defining product, building products, and then marketing ideas. I do however have a engineering background, MSc in EE. My idea though is about internet, social networking. I have doubts that when I first open my mouth and talk about social networking, people will just said, forget it, Facebook rules, without even listening to what I have to say. When your buyers already have a stereotype on that, it makes it very hard to pitch and now it creates doubts in me...