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Find Developers and Designers for Side Projects
- NoahBuscher 12y agoThanks for the interest! I'll be here all day for your questions and suggestions.
- codezero 12y agoMinor wording error at the bottom: There will be an initial small batch test of 50 users, then all our early sign ups will can apply ...
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- NoahBuscher 12y agoThanks! Didn't see that "will can". Sorry about that.
- cstuder 12y agoHow often did you have to spell out the domain name so far? .co domains always look slightly off to me.
- NoahBuscher 12y agoHaha! Most of the views we have been getting so far have come from other websites, not word of mouth, so it's presently not an issue. I totally agree with the .CO opinion, but we don't have a few thousand dollars to throw down on a domain, so we're sticking with the current one until we can potentially get access to the .COM.
- twnsnd 12y agoIn person, pretty often. I was describing it to some friends and it was a bit tricky! "Meeet with three E's."
- bdcravens 12y agoI think semantic beats short if you have to resort to misspellings and alt TLDs. Here's a freebie: sidetogether.com is available :-)
- bfwi 12y agoThis is an awesome idea. I signed up a week ago, but haven't heard back. What's the deal?
- NoahBuscher 12y agoThanks! We're really trying to go as fast as we can on the project. A short email was sent out today at GMT-6 with details, though the short of it is that we will let in a test group of about fifty people to make sure it works all good, then allow everyone to signup in the next week or week and a half. We REALLY want to get everybody in as soon as possible, and we are super excited to launch (incase you haven't figured that out yet). ;) For more updates, feel free to follow @meeetco.
- jdmichal 12y agoBrowsing it on Firefox 30.0 at 1280x1024 and all the pictures look to be badly resized: http://i.imgur.com/C7QptVL.png http://i.imgur.com/C7QptVL.png This does not happen in Chrome 35.0 or, funnily enough, IE11. EDIT: Playing around in Inspector, it's directly related to this CSS attribute on the images: image-rendering: -moz-crisp-edges; EDIT2: I'm also getting weird word wrapping, which you can also see in the above image. It's breaking on "you've" and "idea". Directly related to: word-break: break-all;
- NoahBuscher 12y agoThanks for letting us know! Cole is working on a fix right now. fistbump
- NoahBuscher 12y agoYou should be good to go!
- jdmichal 12y agoMuch better, thank you. Also, please note EDIT2 in my original post.
- NoahBuscher 12y agoThanks for pointing that out! We're having a little trouble replicating the issue, though I'm sure it'll come up. You've been awesome. Do you have a Twitter account? We'll follow you, you can DM us your address, and we'll send you a few stickers. We won't stalk you... We promise!
- jdmichal 12y agoI do. I have followed you but am waiting for the reciprocal so that I can DM you. My handle is, unsurprisingly, @jdmichal.
- NoahBuscher 12y agoFixed the wrap issue!
- TomH_NL 12y agoThe "word-break: break-all;" CSS for every <p> element makes reading your text very unattractive. With break-all CSS: http://imgur.com/UmLnCg2 http://imgur.com/UmLnCg2 Without break-all CSS: http://imgur.com/Inp58BN http://imgur.com/Inp58BN
- NoahBuscher 12y agoThe problem has been fixed! Thanks for letting me know.
- jpetersonmn 12y agoLooks great, can't wait to be able to check it out.
- NoahBuscher 12y agoThanks! If I could put a cat_fistbump.gif in the comment here, I totally would, but HN seems to lack that feature, so I'll link to one instead. http://24.media.tumblr.com/cb890dd3d291908ed9c5475e2bba0907/tumblr_micuui7loT1qh0oduo1_500.gif http://24.media.tumblr.com/cb890dd3d291908ed9c5475e2bba0907/...
- syc 12y agoLooks interesting. Should give it a try. For all my WP related tasks I've been using Codeable (https://codeable.io/ https://codeable.io/) and couldn't recommend them enough.
- NoahBuscher 12y agoThank you! I think you should give it a try as well.
- auston 12y agoThis reminds me of Drew Wilsons project http://builditwith.me/ http://builditwith.me/
- NoahBuscher 12y agoHi, Auston! We are fully aware of Drew's project and think it's awesome. We are a different service in that we match based on skills, have a invite-based system, provide built-in chat, and help promote the project on our website once you're finished. We're also solely meant for side-projects that may or may not go on to become fully-functional startups. Because he's busy working on other projects, the site's content has grown a bit stale: There are many ideas coming in, but not many people are working to execute them.
- followben 12y agoMy experience with http://builditwith.me http://builditwith.me has been very poor: a handful of contacts in 3+ years, almost all "ideas" people seeking designers/ developers to build their app for free or paltry sweat equity. There's also no way to remove your account or update it to reflect you're no longer available or interested in collaborating. I've emailed Drew numerous times asking to de-activate or de-register my profile but I've yet to receive a response.
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- mafuyu 12y agoI'm browsing using Firefox 30.0 and the front page is lagging when scrolling. Using my scroll wheel lags and my fan even spins up when I grab the scroll bar. No issues in Chrome, however.
- NoahBuscher 12y agoI've also noticed the issue and can't figure it out for the life of me. Thanks for pointing that out, though! If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to comment. We have stickers! #bribery
- mafuyu 12y agoIt happens whenever you scroll into a new section of the page and the JS animations trigger while you're scrolling.
- FajitaNachos 12y agoIt looks like the transforms might be part of the problem. You have an image transform on hover that moves the image up. If your mouse is in the middle of the page and you scroll down, it triggers and seems laggy.
- sferoze 12y agoGreat I have a project I would like to find someone to collaborate with. I will use your service to do this once I have access.
- NoahBuscher 12y agoAwesome to hear you're digging Meeet. We are working 'round the clock to get the ball rolling. We will offer a basic service at first, then allow people to vote on which features get added next, with ~ 1 feature per week.
- joekrill 12y agoI tried to "Apply for Early Access" for this yesterday and all I seem to get is a "We dropped the ball. Try again?" message. Looks like it's resulting from a javascript error, which I'm guessing has to do with Modernizr not loading? Looks like the URl is invalid (http://meeet.co/js/modernizr-1.6.min.js http://meeet.co/js/modernizr-1.6.min.js)
- NoahBuscher 12y agoHey! Thanks for letting us know. I'm fairly certain that the JS is okay, as this is the first time the issue has been brought up, but we will throw that error in the event that someone has already signed up for Meeet's mailing list. Could have you put in your email prior to that?
- joekrill 12y agoAh, you know I am seeing a request being made that returns the response that I'm already subscribed. But that message never makes it to the UI -- I only see "We dropped the ball. Try again?". There's a JavaScript error generated every time I click the buttno. It looks like coming from the smoothscroll-ck.js script: "Cannot read property 'replace' of undefined" in t.smoothScroll.filterPath. Not sure if that's what's preventing the real error message from showing? This is Chrome 34, btw.
- NoahBuscher 12y agoYo! That's awesome you figured it out. Yeah - I'm fairly certain that's exactly what the issue is. The reason you're not seeing the real error is that we get the errors via not-so-readable JSON from the Mailchimp servers, and the JS email library we are using displays that error message for ANY error returned by the server to keep things simple and prevent confusion, though it seems to have caused a bit of confusion here. There's a chance we may change that in the near future. Again, if you want a sticker, feel free to drop us a line on Twitter, we'll follow you, and you can DM us your address. We have plenty! :D
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- manuelflara 12y agoWhat would be great (and I've been meaning to do for a while) is exactly this, but to put in touch tech founders with business founders. Basically, technical founders would showcase products they've built and people with the skills to market and grow them would get in touch with them. I can't be the only tech guy with lots of MVPs finished but who doesn't have the time or skill to market them.
- NoahBuscher 12y agoNeat idea! That's not a bad concept, and Meeet can easily be adapted for such a service. Sadly, that is not the exact kind of product we're hoping to launch with, so that really leaves us with a few options: 1) After you join Meeet (if you choose to), create a feature request and have others vote on it! 2) Use Meeet to make a service like that with another developer/designer Whatever you choose, it's a cool idea, and would be neat to have existing. :D
- Paul_Dessert 12y agoI second that. I visited the site and that's what I was looking for. I have a couple of projects at the moment that would benefit greatly from a service such as this. They are projects that I've deemed too small for me to focus on. Someone else might just have the right audience, skill set etc. to benefit from it. However, nice work! The site looks great and the service looks helpful from a tech perspective.
- zghst 12y agoSeems like a great, organic alternative to Cofounders Lab. CL seems overrun with managerial types
- NoahBuscher 12y agoAbsolutely. I TOTALLY believe in the "garage startup" mentality with two awesome people working together on a project they believe in.
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- pyfish 12y agoVery cool. A website to find the missing ingredient. I can see using this for two of the three irons I have in the fire. The third one I was fortunate to find my complementary opposites at a Christmas party. Great idea and thanks
- NoahBuscher 12y agoHaha! Thanks, man. We can't wait to get everyone on board, and good luck at this year's Christmas party!
- niix 12y agoAwesome! I've been looking for a place to work on people's side projects. Can't wait.
- NoahBuscher 12y agoGreat to hear! We're super pumped on all the hype. Again, as in the below comments, tweet us for a sticker. We have enough to go around. :)
- joeyspn 12y agoPretty cool, a similar concept like StartupHub [0]... (also in the making) [0] http://www.startuphub.io http://www.startuphub.io
- NoahBuscher 12y agoNeat! We're planning to launch this week, so we may have them beat there (wink), but we're focusing on side projects, not startups. We know everyone can't be fully dedicated to a new company, and many people have families and bills to pay and they can't take the risk of the business failing.
- Procrastes 12y agoIt might just be my ancient setup, but I see that after signing up, the green box prompt is clipped. It reads "Almost finished...check your" Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 On CentOS 6.5 x86_64 (yeah, I know, embedded development workstation)
- NoahBuscher 12y agoHaha! Yeah... I think that's probably a compatibility issue with the older setup. I ran it on my Ubuntu 14.04 Chromium and Firefox (latest version) with no issues. Sorry!
- NoahBuscher 12y agoSorry about the post drop... We were flagged as a voting ring as I made a post on Twitter linking to the discussion. We're back up and running, now!