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Show HN: New type of job board for teams and projects gt $50,000

9 points by andrewfromx 10y ago

webmaven 10y ago
Interesting idea, and I definitely see a need for this sort of focused site. But. You seem to assume that teams have exactly 5 members. The site seems to effectively be static HTML, the sidebar links all go to the homepage, the same teams are displayed on every page view, and search is a no-op. Is this actually a working web app, or just a static HTML MVP to gauge interest?
- andrewfromx 10y ago
  I think 5 is the perfect number. Maybe I'll allow teams of 4 with a silhouette pic for the last member? But definitely no more than 5. It's 1/2 way in between working web app and static HTML MVP to gauge interest. The three example teams "xray coders", "Always On", "Get It Done" are made up from pics from uifaces.com. The 0x7a69 team is my real team.
  - webmaven 10y ago
    Sure, no larger than 5 is a good limit. But how about 3 (backend dev, frontend dev, designer)? Or 2 (dev and designer)?
    - andrewfromx 10y ago
      yeah I see it like a band. The best bands in the world usually have 5. But Green Day had 3. Interesting note: after Green Day was super successful they added 2 more "sub" members.
zachlatta 10y ago
Does everyone on the page know that you've put them on there? Some of the photos are of friends and I'd be surprised if they were willingly listed.
- andrewfromx 10y ago
  They agreed to uifaces.com terms and conditions no?
- bbcbasic 10y ago
  The fish?
andrewfromx 10y ago
What if the new model for software development is you join a "band" with a lead singer, a drummer, etc. Five guys in the band. The band answers to no one. They are never employees of any of the companies they work for. Some bands can headline and charge $1,000,000 for a project that will only take them two weeks cuz they are that fucking good. And that same million often goes to mediocre programmers and takes TWO years vs two weeks. And the final product something isn't even as good as the rock star programmer band. I.e. Let's hollywoodize the programming industry with crews that work gigs. There are major gigs that pay big league dollars and agents and managers negotiate these deals.
- NetStrikeForce 10y ago
  I was under the impression this is what vendors and contractors did; or even outsourcing companies.
  - andrewfromx 10y ago
    well they often have more than 5 and their teams are often terrible.
    - andrewfromx 10y ago
      i'm talking about paying a premium for a team that works well together and has been doing so for years. That's worth gold.
- bbcbasic 10y ago
  2 weeks instead of 2 years? Probably only possible if team B really sucks or than B is ok but team A aggressively descoped or used off the shelf solutions i.e. procurement over coding. Which I guess is valuable in a way.
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9 points by andrewfromx 10y ago

Interesting idea, and I definitely see a need for this sort of focused site. But. You seem to assume that teams have exactly 5 members. The site seems to effectively be static HTML, the sidebar links all go to the homepage, the same teams are displayed on every page view, and search is a no-op. Is this actually a working web app, or just a static HTML MVP to gauge interest?

andrewfromx 10y ago
I think 5 is the perfect number. Maybe I'll allow teams of 4 with a silhouette pic for the last member? But definitely no more than 5. It's 1/2 way in between working web app and static HTML MVP to gauge interest. The three example teams "xray coders", "Always On", "Get It Done" are made up from pics from uifaces.com. The 0x7a69 team is my real team.
- webmaven 10y ago
  Sure, no larger than 5 is a good limit. But how about 3 (backend dev, frontend dev, designer)? Or 2 (dev and designer)?
  - andrewfromx 10y ago
    yeah I see it like a band. The best bands in the world usually have 5. But Green Day had 3. Interesting note: after Green Day was super successful they added 2 more "sub" members.

zachlatta 10y ago

Does everyone on the page know that you've put them on there? Some of the photos are of friends and I'd be surprised if they were willingly listed.

andrewfromx 10y ago
They agreed to uifaces.com terms and conditions no?
bbcbasic 10y ago
The fish?

andrewfromx 10y ago

What if the new model for software development is you join a "band" with a lead singer, a drummer, etc. Five guys in the band. The band answers to no one. They are never employees of any of the companies they work for. Some bands can headline and charge $1,000,000 for a project that will only take them two weeks cuz they are that fucking good. And that same million often goes to mediocre programmers and takes TWO years vs two weeks. And the final product something isn't even as good as the rock star programmer band. I.e. Let's hollywoodize the programming industry with crews that work gigs. There are major gigs that pay big league dollars and agents and managers negotiate these deals.

NetStrikeForce 10y ago
I was under the impression this is what vendors and contractors did; or even outsourcing companies.
- andrewfromx 10y ago
  well they often have more than 5 and their teams are often terrible.
  - andrewfromx 10y ago
    i'm talking about paying a premium for a team that works well together and has been doing so for years. That's worth gold.
bbcbasic 10y ago
2 weeks instead of 2 years? Probably only possible if team B really sucks or than B is ok but team A aggressively descoped or used off the shelf solutions i.e. procurement over coding. Which I guess is valuable in a way.

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