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Yes. Web developer here looking for someone with a B2B idea they are confident they can sell to a niche market. Prefer no social media related or physical produ

by beeboop 10y ago

Yes. Web developer here looking for someone with a B2B idea they are confident they can sell to a niche market. Prefer no social media related or physical products. Can PM me on reddit if you want to get in touch: https://reddit.com/u/beeboopp https://reddit.com/u/beeboopp

CarolineW 10y ago
> Can PM me on reddit if > you want to get in touch: Unless, of course, I'm not registered on Reddit, and have no interest in being so. Edit: OK, I really don't know why I'm being down-voted, and I guess I don't care. Let me just add, if ever you're interested in connecting with people and getting work, making it easy to contact you is probably a good idea. Only giving someone the option of being or getting registered on Reddit and insisting that you are contacted via that is unnecessarily limiting your options. On the other hand, if you deliberately and specifically want to filter out people who aren't registered on some service, then fine. In this case, though, this is a web developer looking for someone with an idea. It seems unlikely to me that applying a technical filter is a good idea. I would have thought that was all obvious, but I guess it isn't. Maybe that's why I'm getting down-voted. Regardless, good luck.
- beeboop 10y ago
  At least once before, posting my email on HN lead to a lot of spam. Since there's no way to edit or delete comments after a few hours, it seemed like a bad idea to do it again. Making a reddit account takes literally 5 seconds so I didn't consider it much of a hurdle, especially since most people probably have one.
  - CarolineW 10y ago
    That's fair enough, although if you're looking for a non-technical partner it places a barrier in their way. Having a partially obscured contact address in your HN profile would be significantly simpler for a non-technical person trying to get in touch, and would seem reasonably spam resistant. But that's your choice, and all I was doing was trying to point out something you might not of thought of. I, for one, don't have a Reddit account, and have absolutely no interest in acquiring one.
    - beeboop 10y ago
      I appreciate the thought. As a note, I didn't downvote you (and couldn't, it doesn't allow it on children of one's parent comment)
      - CarolineW 10y ago
        Not a problem - but thanks for saying. I've given up caring about the down-votes. I often give a terse reply, thinking the implications are obvious, and then get down-votes until I explain my comment in extreme detail, at which point they are often reversed. I need to learn that people sometimes need things spelled out in full. It's happening again here. That all sounds a bit harsh, but I'll let it stand. It's probably just a consequence of people being busy.
    - tixocloud 10y ago
      Agree with this point. It's one thing I learned about trying to approach non-tech folks.
- atmosx 10y ago
  Do be honest, for someone who is interesting in pursuing an idea with a given individual, creating a reddit account shouldn't represent a barrier. If it does, no problem, it wouldn't have been a good match anyway.
  - CarolineW 10y ago
    Except the person here is a technical person looking for a potentially non-technical person. You might over-estimate the willingness of non-technical people to go to yet another site to create yet another account.
    - a_small_island 10y ago
      Creating a reddit account takes less than 10 seconds, I just tested it.
      - CarolineW 10y ago
        It's not the creating of the account. It's then having the account. Some people - me included - have account fatigue, and my heart sinks every time I need to create Yet. Another. Bloody. Account. Seriously. Having an account is like owning stuff. Buying it is trivial, then you have to store it, and you end up asking yourself - will I ever use this again? There is an on-going mental costs to having things, and accounts on services come into this category. Not everyone will agree with me. Fine. But please take a moment to try to appreciate an alternate point of view.
        a_small_island 10y ago
        Use it once to contact the guy and forget about it. You don't have to become a reddit power user...

by beeboop 10y ago

CarolineW 10y ago

> Can PM me on reddit if > you want to get in touch: Unless, of course, I'm not registered on Reddit, and have no interest in being so. Edit: OK, I really don't know why I'm being down-voted, and I guess I don't care. Let me just add, if ever you're interested in connecting with people and getting work, making it easy to contact you is probably a good idea. Only giving someone the option of being or getting registered on Reddit and insisting that you are contacted via that is unnecessarily limiting your options. On the other hand, if you deliberately and specifically want to filter out people who aren't registered on some service, then fine. In this case, though, this is a web developer looking for someone with an idea. It seems unlikely to me that applying a technical filter is a good idea. I would have thought that was all obvious, but I guess it isn't. Maybe that's why I'm getting down-voted. Regardless, good luck.

beeboop 10y ago
At least once before, posting my email on HN lead to a lot of spam. Since there's no way to edit or delete comments after a few hours, it seemed like a bad idea to do it again. Making a reddit account takes literally 5 seconds so I didn't consider it much of a hurdle, especially since most people probably have one.
- CarolineW 10y ago
  That's fair enough, although if you're looking for a non-technical partner it places a barrier in their way. Having a partially obscured contact address in your HN profile would be significantly simpler for a non-technical person trying to get in touch, and would seem reasonably spam resistant. But that's your choice, and all I was doing was trying to point out something you might not of thought of. I, for one, don't have a Reddit account, and have absolutely no interest in acquiring one.
  - beeboop 10y ago
    I appreciate the thought. As a note, I didn't downvote you (and couldn't, it doesn't allow it on children of one's parent comment)
    - CarolineW 10y ago
      Not a problem - but thanks for saying. I've given up caring about the down-votes. I often give a terse reply, thinking the implications are obvious, and then get down-votes until I explain my comment in extreme detail, at which point they are often reversed. I need to learn that people sometimes need things spelled out in full. It's happening again here. That all sounds a bit harsh, but I'll let it stand. It's probably just a consequence of people being busy.
  - tixocloud 10y ago
    Agree with this point. It's one thing I learned about trying to approach non-tech folks.
atmosx 10y ago
Do be honest, for someone who is interesting in pursuing an idea with a given individual, creating a reddit account shouldn't represent a barrier. If it does, no problem, it wouldn't have been a good match anyway.
- CarolineW 10y ago
  Except the person here is a technical person looking for a potentially non-technical person. You might over-estimate the willingness of non-technical people to go to yet another site to create yet another account.
  - a_small_island 10y ago
    Creating a reddit account takes less than 10 seconds, I just tested it.
    - CarolineW 10y ago
      It's not the creating of the account. It's then having the account. Some people - me included - have account fatigue, and my heart sinks every time I need to create Yet. Another. Bloody. Account. Seriously. Having an account is like owning stuff. Buying it is trivial, then you have to store it, and you end up asking yourself - will I ever use this again? There is an on-going mental costs to having things, and accounts on services come into this category. Not everyone will agree with me. Fine. But please take a moment to try to appreciate an alternate point of view.
      - a_small_island 10y ago
        Use it once to contact the guy and forget about it. You don't have to become a reddit power user...