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We want a developer to come to YC with us

11 points by madmotive 19y ago

ecuzzillo 19y ago
I still don't understand how startups without hackers work.
- vegashacker 19y ago
  The author writes, "I am a long-time developer."
- davidw 19y ago
  The guy says he's a developer, so maybe they just need another one?
- Leonidas 19y ago
  Digg and Elance seemed to turned out okay despite being founded by non-hackers
  - Alex3917 19y ago
    Digg and Elance were both founded by very technical people though, even if they weren't technically coders. Same thing with Squidoo (Seth Godin was actually a CS major in college IIRC).
petenixey 19y ago
Hi Guys, I am the author and also a developer. Doesn't mean there isn't enough love for more though ;) Peter Nixey
- codeLove 19y ago
  Flex should be your choice only when your inhouse team is not good enough at churning out sweet OOP Actionscript. This is because, using Flex makes your app depend too much on Adobe's components. This is not required in most cases. Writing custom components from scratch is the best option[making Flash IDE your primary choice].Flex should be a secondary option. [Flex was created to make Flash Platform more accessible to Java developers who are not familiar with the timeline concept]
edgeztv 19y ago
edgeztv 19y ago
How much stock are you offering? $50K is a very small salary for a developer in Boston. EDIT: What I was really trying to ask is whether they are looking for a true co-founder or just a paid developer. My original question came out malformed, in retrospect.
- edgeztv 19y ago
  Sorry about the 5 duplicate comments - technical error, apparently.
- edgeztv 19y ago
- sharpshoot 19y ago
  edgeztv - here is a chance to join a YC funded startup building a kickass product and be pretty much employee no: 1 ie a cofounder and you are cautious about salary. Grab this kind of opportunity with both hands - pete and his team are a smart bunch with an awesome idea. Salary considerations ahouldn't be in your head when you are assessing the opportunity. Isn't $50k nough to live off?
  - edgeztv 19y ago
    I don't care about the salary - I care about the stock, which, if you read carefully, is the focus of my question :) I would be happy on 50k if I had say 10-20% of the company. I would not be happy with 50k, however if it was 5% or less. (Of course this all also largely depends on the idea, which I don't know about yet)
    - edgeztv 19y ago
      What I really meant to ask in my previous post is whether they are looking for a co-founder or just a paid developer. In retrospect, phrasing it in terms of salary and stock was the wrong way to frame that question.
    - fmu 19y ago
edgeztv 19y ago
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rms 19y ago
"we've raised just over $180,000 of investment from Paul Graham" I wonder if pg will be getting into more traditional angel type funding rounds. They've gotta be doing something pretty good to get a funding round like that from the man himself.
- ralph 19y ago
  I wonder if they need that much financing, i.e. they have something in mind to spend it on.

11 points by madmotive 19y ago

ecuzzillo 19y ago

I still don't understand how startups without hackers work.

vegashacker 19y ago
The author writes, "I am a long-time developer."
davidw 19y ago
The guy says he's a developer, so maybe they just need another one?
Leonidas 19y ago
Digg and Elance seemed to turned out okay despite being founded by non-hackers
- Alex3917 19y ago
  Digg and Elance were both founded by very technical people though, even if they weren't technically coders. Same thing with Squidoo (Seth Godin was actually a CS major in college IIRC).

petenixey 19y ago

Hi Guys, I am the author and also a developer. Doesn't mean there isn't enough love for more though ;) Peter Nixey

codeLove 19y ago
Flex should be your choice only when your inhouse team is not good enough at churning out sweet OOP Actionscript. This is because, using Flex makes your app depend too much on Adobe's components. This is not required in most cases. Writing custom components from scratch is the best option[making Flash IDE your primary choice].Flex should be a secondary option. [Flex was created to make Flash Platform more accessible to Java developers who are not familiar with the timeline concept]

edgeztv 19y ago

How much stock are you offering? $50K is a very small salary for a developer in Boston. EDIT: What I was really trying to ask is whether they are looking for a true co-founder or just a paid developer. My original question came out malformed, in retrospect.

edgeztv 19y ago
Sorry about the 5 duplicate comments - technical error, apparently.
edgeztv 19y ago
sharpshoot 19y ago
edgeztv - here is a chance to join a YC funded startup building a kickass product and be pretty much employee no: 1 ie a cofounder and you are cautious about salary. Grab this kind of opportunity with both hands - pete and his team are a smart bunch with an awesome idea. Salary considerations ahouldn't be in your head when you are assessing the opportunity. Isn't $50k nough to live off?
- edgeztv 19y ago
  I don't care about the salary - I care about the stock, which, if you read carefully, is the focus of my question :) I would be happy on 50k if I had say 10-20% of the company. I would not be happy with 50k, however if it was 5% or less. (Of course this all also largely depends on the idea, which I don't know about yet)
  - edgeztv 19y ago
    What I really meant to ask in my previous post is whether they are looking for a co-founder or just a paid developer. In retrospect, phrasing it in terms of salary and stock was the wrong way to frame that question.
  - fmu 19y ago

edgeztv 19y ago

rms 19y ago

"we've raised just over $180,000 of investment from Paul Graham" I wonder if pg will be getting into more traditional angel type funding rounds. They've gotta be doing something pretty good to get a funding round like that from the man himself.

ralph 19y ago
I wonder if they need that much financing, i.e. they have something in mind to spend it on.