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Hacker News Hackers (Google group for HN contractors + consultants)

44 points by bravura 16y ago

Kilimanjaro 16y ago
There should be a welcome topic so we can post our short bio.
jbail 16y ago
A group looking for "cash only" gigs should not refer to themselves as Hackers. It's not a bad idea, just a poor name choice that doesn't fit your mission.
- jey 16y ago
  I think you're confusing "hacker" with "founder". We all need to pay our bills somehow in the short-term, even if we're working on a startup.
  - jbail 16y ago
    I'm not confusing anything. The definition of Hacker is strongly about FREE software and being at least somewhat anti-establishment. That kinda goes in the face of the Hacker Group saying you can only post about CASH gigs.
    - xenophanes 16y ago
      So no one working at a for-profit YC startup (all of them?) is a hacker? PS Full time long term jobs is the establishment...
      - jbail 16y ago
        i just got off a plane so i realize i'm not making my point very eloquently. there's nothing wrong with getting paid. i have a job. i would consider myself a hacker. i just think a hacker group should include non-cash projects as well. not only open source, but maybe for startups/other research ideas/non-"monitized" ideas too. closing it off to cash only seems to exclude some potentially cool ideas. i'm interested in both cash and non-cash gigs. i bet tons of people on here are too.
        jasonkester 16y ago
        Sounds like you're missing the point of the group then (or that you're asking us to change the name to HackerNewsContractors). The whole idea is to have a place to find quick contract work for bootstrapping, without all the noise from full-time gigs, hobby projects and people looking for "technical co-founders" as a way to convince you to work for free. I'm sure you could start a HackerNewsHobbyists group alongside this one and it would do quite well too.
YuriNiyazov 16y ago
It seems this has been around for a few months now - can anyone attest to getting work through this list? Considering there's hundreds of entries in the list, it seems overpopulated in the sense that no one really gets any exposure except maybe the few people on the top.
- bravura 16y ago
  Actually, I just created the google group today. I emailed the contractors on the HN Contractors doc list (https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?key=tk7rUIb-2aPdk_5gFJEodCA&hl=en#gid=0 https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?key=tk7rUIb-2aPdk_5gFJE...), and a lot of people expressed interest in this mailing list. It fills a different niche than http://hnhackers.com http://hnhackers.com, which is geared more towards public facing profiles.
- jey 16y ago
  Yes, I've been contacted a few times through hnhackers.com and this spreadsheet.
- percept 16y ago
  A few people said they had in the last post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1410512 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1410512 The spreadsheet seems location-oriented, so I wonder how people outside SV have fared (based on the assumption that the majority of work--especially startup-type work, coming from HN--originates there).
blantonl 16y ago
Looks to me like a fantastic startup opportunity - outside of a google groups format. I'd love to bootstrap something like this, but I'm too busy at the moment.

44 points by bravura 16y ago

There should be a welcome topic so we can post our short bio.

jbail 16y ago

A group looking for "cash only" gigs should not refer to themselves as Hackers. It's not a bad idea, just a poor name choice that doesn't fit your mission.

jey 16y ago
I think you're confusing "hacker" with "founder". We all need to pay our bills somehow in the short-term, even if we're working on a startup.
- jbail 16y ago
  I'm not confusing anything. The definition of Hacker is strongly about FREE software and being at least somewhat anti-establishment. That kinda goes in the face of the Hacker Group saying you can only post about CASH gigs.
  - xenophanes 16y ago
    So no one working at a for-profit YC startup (all of them?) is a hacker? PS Full time long term jobs is the establishment...
    - jbail 16y ago
      i just got off a plane so i realize i'm not making my point very eloquently. there's nothing wrong with getting paid. i have a job. i would consider myself a hacker. i just think a hacker group should include non-cash projects as well. not only open source, but maybe for startups/other research ideas/non-"monitized" ideas too. closing it off to cash only seems to exclude some potentially cool ideas. i'm interested in both cash and non-cash gigs. i bet tons of people on here are too.
      - jasonkester 16y ago
        Sounds like you're missing the point of the group then (or that you're asking us to change the name to HackerNewsContractors). The whole idea is to have a place to find quick contract work for bootstrapping, without all the noise from full-time gigs, hobby projects and people looking for "technical co-founders" as a way to convince you to work for free. I'm sure you could start a HackerNewsHobbyists group alongside this one and it would do quite well too.

YuriNiyazov 16y ago

It seems this has been around for a few months now - can anyone attest to getting work through this list? Considering there's hundreds of entries in the list, it seems overpopulated in the sense that no one really gets any exposure except maybe the few people on the top.

bravura 16y ago
Actually, I just created the google group today. I emailed the contractors on the HN Contractors doc list (https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?key=tk7rUIb-2aPdk_5gFJEodCA&hl=en#gid=0 https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?key=tk7rUIb-2aPdk_5gFJE...), and a lot of people expressed interest in this mailing list. It fills a different niche than http://hnhackers.com http://hnhackers.com, which is geared more towards public facing profiles.
jey 16y ago
Yes, I've been contacted a few times through hnhackers.com and this spreadsheet.
percept 16y ago
A few people said they had in the last post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1410512 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1410512 The spreadsheet seems location-oriented, so I wonder how people outside SV have fared (based on the assumption that the majority of work--especially startup-type work, coming from HN--originates there).

blantonl 16y ago

Looks to me like a fantastic startup opportunity - outside of a google groups format. I'd love to bootstrap something like this, but I'm too busy at the moment.