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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.
by 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 agoI 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 agoI'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 agoSo 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 agoi 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 agoSounds 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.