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I would love a way to join the "supply side" of this company aka pickup some quick scraping/scripting tasks for cash.

by corbinpage 12y ago

thethinker1032 12y ago
Agreed. This sounds like a fun thing to do when you have some spare time or are bored.
mbrutsch 12y ago
I suspect they'd get more applications for suppliers than requests for work.
- otoburb 12y ago
  Once corporate business analysts, business intelligence or banking teams realize that the definition of "simple, grunt-like programming task" could probably include Excel munging (e.g. VBA macros), I'm sure request volume will hockey-stick. Might need another example on their website, since the current ones are very developer-centric, which may not reflect their true positioning intent for the service.
  - jordanb 12y ago
    I'm friends with a business analyst at a bank. They use their Bangalore office to do data or excel munging tasks all the time. But it's an offshore office staffed by company employees. There's no way he'd be able to send his data tasks to an outside party. And even if he could, he wouldn't be able to get the bank to pay for it.
    - peteretep 12y ago
      > And even if he could, he wouldn't be able to get the > bank to pay for it. You're thinking about this wrong. Bangalore office is busy today with "strategic projects". No-one bats an eyelid when you expense $150 of programming help on your corporate card. Big companies have people use unofficial resource channels to get stuff done all the time.
      - raghava 12y ago
        > Bangalore office is busy today with "strategic projects". Interesting. I would really like to know more about those 'strategic projects'.
        peteretep 12y ago
        They're any projects scheduled by someone more senior than you.
        webbrahmin 12y ago
        Good one :)
      - kej 12y ago
        That still leaves the problem of sending internal data to outside parties. The accountants may be fine with the programming help, IT certainly shouldn't be.
  - huhtenberg 12y ago
    "Corporate business analysts, business intelligence or banking teams" will quickly lose their jobs if they start handing out their precious in-house data to some random people on the Internets.
Sir_Cmpwn 12y ago
At the bottom of the website: "Get in touch (we're hiring!)" Which is a mailto link for hello@ilikerabbits.com.

I would love a way to join the "supply side" of this company aka pickup some quick scraping/scripting tasks for cash.

thethinker1032 12y ago

Agreed. This sounds like a fun thing to do when you have some spare time or are bored.

mbrutsch 12y ago

I suspect they'd get more applications for suppliers than requests for work.

otoburb 12y ago
Once corporate business analysts, business intelligence or banking teams realize that the definition of "simple, grunt-like programming task" could probably include Excel munging (e.g. VBA macros), I'm sure request volume will hockey-stick. Might need another example on their website, since the current ones are very developer-centric, which may not reflect their true positioning intent for the service.
- jordanb 12y ago
  I'm friends with a business analyst at a bank. They use their Bangalore office to do data or excel munging tasks all the time. But it's an offshore office staffed by company employees. There's no way he'd be able to send his data tasks to an outside party. And even if he could, he wouldn't be able to get the bank to pay for it.
  - peteretep 12y ago
    > And even if he could, he wouldn't be able to get the > bank to pay for it. You're thinking about this wrong. Bangalore office is busy today with "strategic projects". No-one bats an eyelid when you expense $150 of programming help on your corporate card. Big companies have people use unofficial resource channels to get stuff done all the time.
    - raghava 12y ago
      > Bangalore office is busy today with "strategic projects". Interesting. I would really like to know more about those 'strategic projects'.
      - peteretep 12y ago
        They're any projects scheduled by someone more senior than you.
        webbrahmin 12y ago
        Good one :)
    - kej 12y ago
      That still leaves the problem of sending internal data to outside parties. The accountants may be fine with the programming help, IT certainly shouldn't be.
- huhtenberg 12y ago
  "Corporate business analysts, business intelligence or banking teams" will quickly lose their jobs if they start handing out their precious in-house data to some random people on the Internets.

Sir_Cmpwn 12y ago

At the bottom of the website: "Get in touch (we're hiring!)" Which is a mailto link for hello@ilikerabbits.com.