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HN Hackers (via google spreadsheet of consultants)
- stingraycharles 16y agoYou should randomize the list when you display it, to make it more fair for people who sign up late.
- jey 16y agoIt also badly needs proximity based search. People don't find me unless they enter Berkeley in the location field, so I'm stuck between listing San Francisco for more hits or Berkeley for more accuracy.
- rbitar 16y agoIts a text based search and I'm working on some simple query expansion to resolve SF / Bay Area / San Francisco type queries as the same. There are still a few open questions for implementing proximity search ...
- jey 16y agoA simple approach is to just geocode all the locations to a lat/lon and do a proximity search using WGS84. If someone has a location entry in their profile that fails geocoding, put up a warning the next time they login telling them that their location was not resolved and they should update it. Don't worry about queries like "SF" or "Bay area"... if it's not good enough for the geocoder to resolve the location, just return an error message. http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/ http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/
- bravura 16y agoIf you do implement this, you should release the source code. A handful of projects need a tool that allows GIS over text locations.
- deleted 16y ago[deleted]
- rbitar 16y agoAt the moment "more complete" profiles are ranked higher. But I agree, there should be some randomization introduced.
- kungfooey 16y agoNote: I'm not the author. Just noticed some traffic coming via this to my personal site (http://dailytechnology.net http://dailytechnology.net) and originally intended to post it to see any comments associated. The original spreadsheet is here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs3clVJYi0yYVBka181Z0ZKRW9kQ0E http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs3clVJ... Original HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1262467 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1262467
- toisanji 16y agoIt seems people can't update the information in the site?
- Murkin 16y agoCurious to know, has anyone here got any gigs via the spreadsheet ?
- eagleal 16y agoHas anyone got spam via the site?
- NathanKP 16y agoI haven't received any spam, only job offers.
- nopassrecover 16y agoHad a few opportunities I didn't pursue from it.
- leftnode 16y agoSomeone contacted me about being a technical co-founder, but I declined. I'm more interested in picking up part time work.
- enki 16y agodoing development for a startup that contacted me via the spreadsheet right now. didn't really look for work, but the project was interesting enough.
- plinkplonk 16y agoI didn't enter any data on that spreadsheet on what my skills are etc (I was/am not really looking for work,just entered my user id for the heck of it) but still got a few emails looking for technical founders. Nothing very interesting/significant though. EDIT: It looks like my entry isn't there any longer. :)
- rbitar 16y agoI don't think I've removed any profiles. I can look into this if you like.
- twism 16y ago"Links" section needs a GitHub field.
- NathanKP 16y agoIs there a way to claim my listing on the site and edit it? Edit: Nevermind I found a way. Go to login, and click "forgot password". Enter the email address you entered as contact info on the spreadsheet. A password reset link will be emailed to you and you can then use that to login and claim and edit your profile.
- rbitar 16y agoRight, thats the best way for now. If you still have trouble, feel free to email me (email is on my profile).
- NathanKP 16y agoI did receive a few error messages when editing my profile. They just said that the owner of the site had received a notification and to check product.log It happened when I was attempting to edit my rate. After a few tries it worked. I think it might have been related to entering too much text in the rate field, because when I shortened my explanation it worked just fine.
- rbitar 16y agoCorrect, the rate is a string field so has a 255 char limit. It was mostly intended for short values such as "$100 / hr"
- deleted 16y ago[deleted]
- chime 16y agoThis is a very awesome app. The basic info/links section in the edit project page should be expanded by default. Not to be negative but I don't see how I'll get any benefit from this. Very few startups are located in my area and on a cursory glance, my skill-set is pretty common. I guess that also means I need to expand my skills.
- scottru 16y agoI created the original sheet (and have hired and attempted to hire from it). As I said then, I don't love the bifurcation of data - I don't think that this author is updating the data back, or even when it was updated - but I'm not sure if I can do anything about that.
- sachinag 16y agoOHMIGOD I'M GOING TO FINALLY BE ABLE TO HIRE COMPETENT FREELANCERS PRAISE BE TO JESUS
- lanstein 16y agoAuthor's email is in whois, for those who have questions.
- rbitar 16y agoI'm the author. Feel free to email me anything at rbitar [at] gmail.
- jayliew 16y agoNice UI. Seems like this is similar to the Google spreadsheet I posted some time ago - except it was oriented towards co-founder matchmaking http://cofoundergoogledocs.com http://cofoundergoogledocs.com Original post: "Do you need a co-founder? (Google Docs list)" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052950 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052950
- madmaze 16y agoI think Profile View counter would be nice, aswell as some more space in the "Bio" text box. I also second the randomized list/front page
- gte910h 16y agoWhile it usually annoys me when people reuse data like that when posted on the web, I have to say Kung Fooey, you did it exceptionally well and you made it extremely easy and painless to "claim" my data. Thanks for the good work.
- endlessvoid94 16y agowww.hndir.com
- aarongough 16y agoI'm curious as to why you're not using Gravatar for the profile photos. Given that a lot of people signing up already have a Gravatar account it would probably make sense. Also, on the 'Edit profile' page it would probably make more sense to have the forms displayed by default rather than hidden. Other than that I like it! Signed up!