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Show HN: CodeGophers, Send an email to get any coding task done in 48 hours

16 points by marcell 10y ago

theaustinseven 10y ago
This could be something that could work pretty well, but it makes me think of this xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1425/ http://xkcd.com/1425/
- elbigbad 10y ago
  Why? Surely experienced programmers, who are being asked to do the work before giving a cost estimate, know the difference between a project that will take 48 hours and one that will take five years. Plus they charge, if I read correctly, a maximum of $500 so one would think they wouldn't take anything that's even remotely out of that $scope.
kwikiel 10y ago
I am very happy to see startups like this. Convenience factor from Uber - when ordering taxi i am not sure if it will be in my place in 20 minutes. In Uber i am very sure. Same apply here - task will be made in 48h or not. I imagine future startups all like these - when user will be starting a chat with AI that will route him for humans or another AI to finish the task. Back to the history when people were calling services from yellow pages. http://www.cluetrain.com/ http://www.cluetrain.com/ - "De-cloaking, getting personal: We are those markets. We want to talk to you."
smitherfield 10y ago
"Credentials: We're ex-Googlers and trained computer scientists. We invert binary trees [links to https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768 https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768 ] for fun." Wow, way to ensure I am never, ever going to recommend this service to anyone. I am not impressed they can invert a binary tree. What is impressive is how they can manage to come across as pretentious, try-hard bullies in their own effing marketing material.
- marcell 10y ago
  Thanks for the feedback. It was meant to be tongue in cheek, but clearly it came off the wrong way. We're going to revise this shortly.
riprowan 10y ago
This entire concept sinks or swims on its ability to accurately estimate and control scope.
- kwikiel 10y ago
  Scope is already estimated and contolled by upper bound.
bulte-rs 10y ago
Emails to you are bouncing.
- marcell 10y ago
  It looks like the apply@codegophers.com email is not set up correctly. We'll fix that shortly, but you can email start@codegophers.com until then.
elbigbad 10y ago
Cool! But these are indeed small tasks. From the site: 18,469 lines of code written, approved, and delivered 137 projects lovingly completed So that would be 134 lines of code per project?

16 points by marcell 10y ago

This could be something that could work pretty well, but it makes me think of this xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1425/ http://xkcd.com/1425/

elbigbad 10y ago
Why? Surely experienced programmers, who are being asked to do the work before giving a cost estimate, know the difference between a project that will take 48 hours and one that will take five years. Plus they charge, if I read correctly, a maximum of $500 so one would think they wouldn't take anything that's even remotely out of that $scope.

kwikiel 10y ago

I am very happy to see startups like this. Convenience factor from Uber - when ordering taxi i am not sure if it will be in my place in 20 minutes. In Uber i am very sure. Same apply here - task will be made in 48h or not. I imagine future startups all like these - when user will be starting a chat with AI that will route him for humans or another AI to finish the task. Back to the history when people were calling services from yellow pages. http://www.cluetrain.com/ http://www.cluetrain.com/ - "De-cloaking, getting personal: We are those markets. We want to talk to you."

smitherfield 10y ago

"Credentials: We're ex-Googlers and trained computer scientists. We invert binary trees [links to https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768 https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768 ] for fun." Wow, way to ensure I am never, ever going to recommend this service to anyone. I am not impressed they can invert a binary tree. What is impressive is how they can manage to come across as pretentious, try-hard bullies in their own effing marketing material.

marcell 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback. It was meant to be tongue in cheek, but clearly it came off the wrong way. We're going to revise this shortly.

riprowan 10y ago

This entire concept sinks or swims on its ability to accurately estimate and control scope.

kwikiel 10y ago
Scope is already estimated and contolled by upper bound.

bulte-rs 10y ago

Emails to you are bouncing.

marcell 10y ago
It looks like the apply@codegophers.com email is not set up correctly. We'll fix that shortly, but you can email start@codegophers.com until then.

elbigbad 10y ago

Cool! But these are indeed small tasks. From the site: 18,469 lines of code written, approved, and delivered 137 projects lovingly completed So that would be 134 lines of code per project?