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Easy access to well-funded companies looking to hire highly skilled full-stack developers for contract work. Word of mouth works great, but it'd be good to have
by csallen 12y ago
Easy access to well-funded companies looking to hire highly skilled full-stack developers for contract work. Word of mouth works great, but it'd be good to have something reliable to fall back on if my network falls through. I imagine I'd be willing some small % of my hourly/project fee (less than recruiters would take), or a somewhat high yearly rate for access if it was good.
Wouldn't pay "a lot" for it, maybe $10-20/month, but I'd like some sort of "learning framework" software. I imagine it would be a clever combination of Anki/Mnemosyne (but modern and web-based), note-taking software like Evernote, bookmarking similar to Pocket, and maybe some basic reminders/tasks that I can schedule. Disclaimer: I've put no more than ~5 minutes of thought into this total.
Someone said [legal] "tax evasion" as a service. I'd pay for that. As a contractor I've set up an LLC for myself, and I'm sure I'm missing out on lots of elementary tricks that could save me money. I actually have a meeting set up with a tax guy later this week, but my intuition is that if a company figured out how to scale this, it could be cheaper and more effective. I'd be willing to pay a % of the money saved if it's substantially more than what I've been able to do on my own.
Office hours with experts. I'd pay upwards of $200/hr to be able to schedule time to speak with certain experts. I doubt I'd use it more than a few times a year, but that's still a lot of money.
Some sort of automated personal assistant that coaxes me to do the things I need to do without a lot of manual input on my part. It's been tried many times and it's tough to do, but if someone gets it right, I'd pay a lot.
- joncalhoun 12y agoOffice hours with experts sounds like Helpouts[1], AirPair[2], and I think there are 2-3 others out there that I am forgetting. Some are targeting specific markets (eg programmers) but the end goal would seem similar for them all. [1] https://helpouts.google.com/ https://helpouts.google.com/ [2] https://www.airpair.com/ https://www.airpair.com/