Dude, your loss. I was frankly wondering - it's already a trend on HN. We've had lots of "who's hiring?" threads and "I'm looking to be hired" threads. Heck, we

Dude, your loss. I was frankly wondering - it's already a trend on HN. We've had lots of "who's hiring?" threads and "I'm looking to be hired" threads. Heck, we have a link on the top bar to facilitate it for YC companies: http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs If I were in a startup and I had a mission-critical problem and I was near the end of my rope, I think I could do a lot worse than looking to the HN community. As paulbaumgart said, he's clearly a contributing member of the community. This isn't some newbie freshman who can't figure out linked lists, wandering in looking for an easy grade - this is a bootstrapping entrepreneur at his wits end asking for a favor from friends... a favor he's willing to pay for.