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Who's Hiring? | captaincrunch: Facebook is always hiring, check them out @ http://www.facebook.com/careers/?ref=pf |
Who's Hiring? | rglullis: Ok, it's the third time in less than two weeks that I'm going to pitch it, but I think it's for good reason: I think that a good solution to all of these "who's hiring" threads is on the website that I'm working on.Please take a look at http://job4dev.com. We want to make it more than a simple job board. Our goal with this site is to make it a tool where people can do research about the job market on their own. A "wikipedia of the tech market", if you will.Things that are relevant to recruiters: posting jobs is free, provided there is enough information about the company and the nature of the project.Things that relevant for job seekers: you can get custom RSS feeds, based on location (you can filter by country or state), type of job (part-time, contract...) or by tags. So if you are a Python programmer in Boston, you might be interested in this: http://job4dev.com/jobs/feed?province=MA&country=USA&...Just for now, you don't need even to create an account to use the website.I added myself some companies: I got listings from Mixpanel (http://job4dev.com/company/mixpanel) and AdMob (http://job4dev.com/company/admob).Please, take a look and help me help you to find a job. :) |
Who's Hiring? | amjith: IMFT is hiring.http://www.imftech.comhttps://imflash.taleo.net/careersection/10000/jobsearch.ftl?...Electrical/Computer Engineers with strong programming (C/C++) skills are welcome to apply for the Probe Test Engineer position. |
Who's Hiring? | stephenjudkins: AboutUs is hiring: http://www.aboutus.org/AboutUs.org/JobsWe have a lot of interesting challenges--if you want to deal with tons of data and pretty high traffic this is a pretty great place to be.We're primarily Ruby/Rails. A new project features HAML, SASS, and well-factored javascript. We use Scala for some heavy lifting. We use MySQL, Memcached, Tokyo Cabinet, and are evaluating Cassandra for our backend. It's a challenging place to work. |
Who's Hiring? | ciscoriordan: Panjiva, a NYC/Boston startup I worked for last summer, is hiring (http://panjiva.com/jobs). Their web app uses Rails and they're looking for a web app engineer and an information retrieval engineer. |
Do you need angel funding? | peteforde: "If we capture only 1% of this market... we'll be rich!" |
Review my startup: Parking Ticket Reminder/Payer | epe: On http://www.sticket.net/request/ if I type "denver, co" in the first field and hit tab, the field gets blanked out. Safari 4 on OSX 10.5. |
Who's Hiring? | LukeG: Eventbrite is hiring a frontend dev, a serious python backend engineer, and a UX expert.If that's you, email me at luke at eventbrite. Awesome, profitable, growing, Sequoia-backed company. |
Who's Hiring? | rantfoil: Posterous is hiring frontend engineers, designers, and Rails hackers!http://posterous.theresumator.com |
Who's Hiring? | natemartin: Is anyone hiring for non-technical positions?I'm posting this on behalf of my wife, but I'm sure there's some other people on this site that would be interested working for a startup, but aren't necessarily programmers or designers.So, anyone hiring in non-tech positions? Ad inventory management, sales, project management, content administration... any of those jobs needed to actually run a site.(Submitted this a few days ago, but it fits under this topic better than by itself.) |
Suggest an attorney? (Google is after us) | JangoSteve: This is almost exactly like Google's trademark claim against Groovle.com a couple months ago, which was unanimously dismissed (read: not even close) in Canada. However, that was only the second time out of 65 that Google has lost a domain name dispute.http://www.gawkwire.com/domains/google_loses_domain_name_tra...In the end, unless you have a ton of money to throw down on a big-time lawyer and a lot of press coverage, I don't think your choice of attorneys is going to make or break your defense. Might be better to just go ahead and decide if your domain name is worth the money it'll take to defend it. |
Review my startup: Parking Ticket Reminder/Payer | ashishbharthi: The application looks good. The overall idea is also good. But I got "An error occurred Application error" when I tried 2nd time. |
Review my startup: Parking Ticket Reminder/Payer | teej: Design: I like your simple design for one reason - your call to action is up front and straightforward. That is ruined by the bright yellow box right next to it. I can't stop looking at it! Take it out or tone it down a lot. The design needs some obvious work beyond that, but the fundamentals of your site are better than most.Marketing: You aren't selling a "Parking Ticket Reminder/Payer", you are selling a system that ensures your customers will _never pay a parking ticket late again_. Benefits, not features. Focusing your marketing message not only helps increase conversion, it also forces you to outline who your customers are. In this case it's obvious - people who get lots of parking tickets. Write your copy to those people!Idea: definitely interesting. I know a handful of people who would uses this -today-. Also, thank you for thinking about revenue up front! Not enough people do this. |
Who's Hiring? | ablerman: Presence TeleCare is hiring. (http://www.presencetelecare.com)We're looking for a good Flex engineer. We're an early startup and it would be our second technical hire. |
Do you need angel funding? | suzyperplexus: I know StartupList is on here, but Venture Hacks just started an AngelList http://venturehacks.com/angellist . It's a good way to see what types of startups specific Angels are interested in. |
Who's Hiring? | earl: QuantcastWe're a rapidly growing, venture funded company.We have a bunch of interesting problems -- from pixel servers that see a pretty decent percentage of the internet's net web traffic, to scaling our large hadoop cluster, to real time bidding on ad exchanges, to predictive models for demographics.If any of the above sounds like your thing, feel free to drop me an email. |
improving your design skills? | alexro: Much was said about the different aspects of design, but what I want to point you to is the ultimate goal of design. It's not for you to "like it", it's for your visitors to get the most out of your website, and seen from that perspective, design is all about added value.To do it right, imagine how adding each bit of "cosmetics" improves the ability of your visitors to reach the state of mind you want them (to get into the buying mode, decide to subscribe to your blog, whatever)Only after that you'll start understanding what kind of design you need, not just putting on some random fancy-pansy stuff. |
Who's Hiring? | al_: Any European startup hiring ? |
Review my startup: Parking Ticket Reminder/Payer | PebblesRox: Is clicking the back button the only way to get from the FAQ page to the home page?I like the word sticket, but I don't like the ellipses afterward. It sounds weird in my head with that pause. The other thing is that maybe the "to the man" part should match the S (because you add both of those parts onto the word "Ticket"). |
Who's Hiring? | brianr: Lolapps is hiring! We're looking for smart engineers to work on social games. Check out: http://www.lolapps.com/aboutus.php?s=jobs |
Who's Hiring? | CUViper: Red Hat is hiring: https://redhat.ats.hrsmart.com/cgi-bin/a/alljobs.cgi?qty=25&...(Don't worry much about the location as you search -- most positions allow working from home too...) |
Who's Hiring? | omakase: BackType is hiring software engineers. Our tech blog has a small glimpse at some of the tools we're working with:
http://tech.backtype.comWe're also contributing to some cool projects:
http://github.com/nathanmarz/crane |
improving your design skills? | tel: A common misconception is that "simple" is easy to do. Instead, it's often as hard if not more difficult. Solid design is a battle won in the detail and with simple designs you have fewer details that each must be perfect.For example: The left part of DedaSys
- The fonts are sized as to have an ambiguous hierarchy
- The shadows are not consistent and thus break the illusion of layered paper
- (especially important is that the shadow on the yellow bar at the top
doesn't match the shadow in the menu block)
- The current location box is larger than the others once
again breaking the illusion of layered paper
- The grey line surrounding the whole thing crosses layersOn your personal site
- The text grids are not equal or obviously intentionally unequal
- The navigation headers are almost randomly arranged
- The picture doesn't fit well into the gridlines formed by your text
- Your text doesn't have a visual flowEach of these criticisms is a tiny fix in and of itself, but they build an emotional reaction in a viewer. It's an unfortunate circumstance that your designs are judged by all viewers on the same level as those done by professionals. No matter how hard you try, nothing looks "good" unless it's close enough to perfect that people can't tell it isn't. ---
So, what are you going to do?Simple designs are a good place to start: you can iterate them much more quickly, and, just like all design, you definitely are going to be iterating.Graphic design can be thought of as the unification of a message with a design metaphor. Simple designs should have simple messages and simple metaphors. Interestingly, your sites provide a great comparison. DedaSys has a simple message (a shallow hierarchy) but a complex metaphor (stacked, multicolored paper in hard lighting). Your personal site has a simple metaphor (text blocks in white void) but a complex message (highly nested hierarchy with many levels of equal importance makes it difficult to skim).So pick a simple metaphor and craft a simple message and then keep iterating. - single sheet of brilliant plain paper with two columns
- a sheet of nice, lined paper lain on textured wall paint
- Two sheets of paper, laid atop one another, with shadows between them
(these all involve paper because it's easy to visualize, but it's possible
to get more exotic while still being simple)
- a pane of glass with big bold letters stuck to it, held over interesting scenes
which are wildly out of focus in the background
Visualizations of your message and metaphor drive the "simple" details which build your design, but you should always be moving in a positive direction. There are three focuses I like to use: 1. intent: make it clear that even your accidents were thought out
2. consistency: if you've made an intentional decision, defer to
it throughout the design
3. illusion: let a realistic design metaphor guide your decisions
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So with that theory in mind, there are also a few pretty common design tricks that help you to be effective. All sorts of comments have already covered these, but I'll reiterate 1. Pick a grid, both horizontal *and vertical* and stick to it
2. Study other designs, especially classic and powerful ones like
Coca-cola's logo or a newspaper, and understand what makes them
attractive. Steal it.
3. Study the shape and appearance of real things. If you can physically
build what you want your website to look like, you have a wonderful
guide for how to design it.
4. Study a little typography. It's a very old art which has strong traditions.
Some of them are important and necessary, some of them are simply important
because of consistency. We're all expert consumers of type design, whether
we know it or not.
and finally
5. Break any and all of these rules when you think you should, but know when
you're doing it and DO IT INTENTIONALLY. Breaking a rule shyly looks
terrible. Breaking one with panaché makes something striking and phenomenal.
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Graphic design is a fun thing, but it takes just as much effort and skill as programming. With that in mind, good luck on your journey. |
Is anybody solving really cool problems anymore? | mschaecher: http://www.betterplace.com/https://squareup.com/http://www.onlive.com/http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/http://www.firstsolar.com/en/index.phpThat is a quick list off the top of my head of companies that are doing new and innovative things that have the potential to seriously disrupt some existing industries. |
Should TechCrunch Reveal Who Paid For Posts? | gojomo: Whatever transpired could have been far more subtle than, "gimme macbook, get story". For example:"So glad to meet you. So happy to be your friend. Is there any way we can help each other out as friends? I love to help people out. I can give slots at my conferences, and I know a lot of bright kids looking for unpaid internships, and oh by the way I do some writing for TechCrunch too. Do I need any help? Well, I always want to hear about good story ideas and meet other interesting people. As my boss Michael Arrington has said, send us scoops and we'll think fondly of you and be more likely to report on you later! Also my side projects are hurting for equipment. You know, Company X gave us a projector when our old one broke. Why, yes, that was the company I wrote about on TC last month."That is, the behavior could have been on the same continuum of "we know everybody, we trade favors, the old rules of fastidious disclosure of every slight-conflict-of-interest can't possibly work in this new world" that Arrington himself has used to defend his own practices. The companies that did 'pay' may have thought of it as just cementing an important friendship, not an explicit quid-pro-quo. Brusilovsky may have gone too far, but in the ways 17-year olds often do, because they understand only some of the patterns of their role models, without all the subtleties and limits.That would explain both Brusilovsky's vague 'mistakes were made' and 'a line were crossed' phrasing and TC's reluctance to be more specific in allegations or shaming the favor-traders. |
improving your design skills? | koenbok: In my experience becoming a good designer takes as much learning as becoming a good coder. Every designer at Sofa has an unhealthy interest in composition, color and typography and studied years before getting good at it.That said, a few things that I've seen working with coders starting here that at least their recognition/understanding of great design got better by:- Hanging out with designers and discussing their work. You will find out you will sometimes understand them as hard as they do you when taking code.- Learning about typography; it's a part of design that has more universal true rules then any other aspect of it, and therefore is easier to study.- Looking at pretty stuff on a daily base. Fffound is a great place to start. But great application UI's/marketing stuff works too, if you want to keep it close to computers.- Start learning photography, and study how compositions of objects in a frame can make an image interesting. |
Who is hiring Product Managers? | tomkarlo: It's hard to make a lateral career move in a weak jobs environment. It seems to me he might be better off finding a job that needs his technical background, but also has a PM component where he can develop those skills and maybe grow into doing it full-time. Being a developer does not necessarily prepare you for being PM any more than the reverse is true; they are separate and unique roles. |
Who's Hiring? | kgosser: HarQen is hiring. Venture backed. Working on a web telephony platform. We hope to be to voice what Oracle was to databases.We're looking for a Java Ninja.More info here: http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddrmdxkz_107d7szcqfwPlus test out our flagship product here, incidentally an interviewing tool: http://interview.harqen.com/interviewnow/2113/2965Bonuses points:
- Member of an above-average band
- Like Indiana Jones 1-3
- Invisibility |
Should we reduce the restrictions on who can angel invest? | grellas: Actually, the securities laws do permit investments by non-accredited investors within limits. For example, California has a so-called limited offering exemption by which a corporation can issue stock to up to 35 non-accredited investors in any given round who have a pre-existing relationship with the company or its founders and who warrant that they are acquiring the stock as an investment and not for resale (federal law also supports investment by non-accredited investors, as for example under Rule 504 of Regulation D). This exemption would generally allow, for example, for a company sale of stock to the employee who saves up $10K and wants to buy in an angel round.Though the law allows limited avenues for such non-accredited investments, the securities law rules nonetheless operate in practical terms to bar most such opportunities. VCs, for example, are very hesitant to invest in a company along with a lot of non-accredited investors. This means that startups will hesitate to open up such opportunities.Thus, the essential point of this piece is a good one. Why arbitrarily restrict the ability of individuals to invest in promising opportunities? The theory of the securities laws is that investor protection warrants the restrictions and this impulse, far from being on the decline today, remains strong (there are, for example, current attempts in Congress to increase the requirements for what it takes to qualify as an accredited investor). So the question becomes, in re-evaluating these requirements, should the law take a more, or a less, paternalistic direction. Protection is fine but it does have its costs in limiting choice.While I have not given much thought to how the restrictions might be eased, I would definitely say that the efforts currently afoot to tighten them would be a horrible mistake for the startup world, for founders and investors alike. |
improving your design skills? | dasil003: First, learn to recognize good design. Some people claim that you can't learn good taste, but I disagree. You just need to pay close attention to everything you see on a daily basis and store it in an accessible part of your brain. Most people don't store design information, they just store whatever was communicated.Formal training can be of tremendous value here, but in this day and age it's also viable to be completely self taught, especially with some good books.Once you have an eye for design you can apply the basic principles as described in other comments here. Without the eye then the principles are meaningless. You also won't learn much by looking at your own work. You're too close to it, so objectivity is all but impossible. You need to leave it alone for a month, absorb as much design training as you can, then come back to it with a fresh eye and quickly critique it before miring yourself in the details again. |
Should we reduce the restrictions on who can angel invest? | dschobel: How angel investing is fundamentally more pernicious to personal wealth than casinos, credit cards or time-shares I'll never understand.Although you have to admire the tenacity with which our congress tries to legislate common sense.... |
Should we reduce the restrictions on who can angel invest? | gojomo: You're allowed to put your money in public stocks that essentially go to zero (GM, Lehman, Fannie Mae), and you're allowed to gamble all your money away (and then some via borrowing) on negative-expectation government lotteries or licensed casinos.So it's silly and unfair to then prevent regular people from putting a small portion of their savings in risky -- but possibly positive-expectation -- private investments. |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | ryanwaggoner: I'm still looking through the site, but right off the bat, I'd say I'm not sure about the name. What does it mean? It's pronounced "Pro", but it reminds me of "faux", which is probably not what you want. Just wondering where the name came from and if I'm missing something clever. |
Should we reduce the restrictions on who can angel invest? | coffeemug: It seems to me that creating an open market for angel investment will cause all the problems the public market went through in the past few hundred years (bubbles of extraordinary proportions, fraud, etc.) That means the government would have to establish more and more regulation to prevent abuse, which would severely limit the ability of startups to operate. Having the market be restricted to a pool of accredited investors instead makes more sense to me. |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | anigbrowl: Like the animated presentation, except for the speech bubbles. Link to 'about' page should be more prominent, I want that info before signing up. Also, more screenshots or a demo. I don't like registering first - let me play with it, then register when I have something I want to save (eg >250 words input).The idea is very neat: I like your non-ownership approach. I think you need to show more to potential employers in terms of tools to help navigate all these very individualized resumes.Sorry, I share Ryan's misgivings about the name. Try again. |
Who is hiring Product Managers? | bjelkeman-again: I wish I had the budget to hire a product manager right now. I need one. :) |
Who's Hiring? | theflow: Qype, Europe’s largest local review site is hiring, if you're looking for a job in Europe/Germany:http://en.blog.qype.com/qype-is-hiring/we are a small team with big challenges ahead. Location based services is an exciting area, we're experimenting with "20 percent time" and looking for great Rails developers and a sys admin/operations engineer. |
improving your design skills? | imp: I'm not there yet at all, pretty much in the same boat as you, so take this with a grain of salt. I have heard that in addition to all of the great technical tips about color/fonts, etc, the goal of an amazing design is to make it look difficult for the user to reproduce. If your design is something that someone would say "I could put that together in Microsoft Word," then it's just too simple. I think I read it in Simplebits or somewhere like that. Very soft gradients and rounded corners can each be incredibly subtle, but combined can give the effect that it's a professional design instead of something someone put together quickly. That's why you shouldn't ever use Times New Roman, because it's the default font for most browsers, and it shows the least amount of effort. |
Who's Hiring? | pjharrin: If you are posting job opportunities for a large company (Google, Facebook, Yahoo etc.), can you please provide personal contact info. Many people likely already applied at such firms but were nicked because of their more unique backgrounds. |
Should we reduce the restrictions on who can angel invest? | mrshoe: I'm not sure this would fix the problem.According to the pg quote in the article "There probably aren't more than a couple hundred serious angels in the whole Valley." There are tons of people in the Valley who make >$200k/year. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of them. If only a couple hundred of those people take the risk of angel investing, what would lead us to believe that a lot of the lower-salaried people would choose to participate?I agree that the law seems a bit silly, and probably unnecessary, but I'm not sure that removing it would have much of an effect.Which leaves me thinking about other ways we could encourage more angel investing activity.... |
Should we reduce the restrictions on who can angel invest? | aditya: How do friends and family rounds get around this angel investment rule? |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | yannis: Your application left me with a number of questions:(01) Are you aiming for people to upload CV's or for Companies to use the application to find candidates.(02) As a candidate I would like to see how these CV's should look. (You should provide some pages with samples - before registration).(03) Are you going to charge me?Any application should have a prominent CALL FOR ACTION button. What must I do to upload my CV? Can I do this without registering please? After all I am bound to give you my email on the CV and you can ask me for a password at that point and do I really need to go through a captcha?Please don't take the above as negative, disrupt the market by all means if you can, but I feel the interface needs a bit of work, it also needs to be a more serious which I believe the flash block on the front page does project a very light image. Would a financial manager applicant feel comfortable to give that link to a Bank CEO?In my view is that you need at least two more iterations. The first one should include a more careful look at the market segment you are targeting and the second one to amend the UI to 'funnel' your visitors to immediate action.Bonus would be to be able to alley privacy concerns and to offer a degree verification program.What does P.C. stand for? |
Should we reduce the restrictions on who can angel invest? | andrewljohnson: In theory, angel investors are limited. In practice, that is not the case.There are many ways for your Uncle Jimmy to give you $10K without needing to be accredited. And if it's not your Uncle Jimmy investing, or they want to give you $100k, they are probably accredited.The rules around angel investing are a non-issue. |
Should we reduce the restrictions on who can angel invest? | timcash: Your point seems to pass the test for me. Is there a place for people to group up and make these types of investments? Say 10 people each want to make a $2000 investment. Seems like a good idea to me... |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | Tawheed: Don't waste time with slideshows, just put up a video and explain what it is your product does and why I care! |
Who's Hiring? | jmintz: Bump Technologies:
We are looking for smart people that fit our culture. Mac/Obj-C/iPhone/Cocoa/Android experience a plus, but not required if you are interested in learning iPhone or Android.The Bump App is one of the most popular iPhone applications with >9M downloads. Our Bump SDK lets anyone add bumping to their app in ~9 lines of code. We have a big vision and are having a lot of fun! :) Half of our dev team came from HN. YC/Sequoia/Conway backed.Email jobs@bu.mp and mention HN. |
Review my startup: Parking Ticket Reminder/Payer | clistctrl: Whoa how relevant to my interests, not 15 minutes ago I went to my car to find an orange red envelope waiting for me (however I didn't get as excited as I do when it comes from a Redditor) Unfortunately I live in Somerville MA, so your app doesn't help me (yet?) |
Who's Hiring? | jbyers: Wikispaces is hiring in engineering and sales:
http://www.wikispaces.com/jobs. We'll cross 4M registered users today (see our front page). We're an 8-person company in SOMA. |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | obsaysditto: When I go to your site, my first reaction is "so whats the next step?". Maybe give a flow chart showing the transformation of a resume/cv. |
Review our startup: Unbig.me | scumola: Nice. I like it. |
Should we reduce the restrictions on who can angel invest? | petercooper: Here in the UK there are no restrictions at all (that I'm aware of) over investing into private companies. There's also a 30% tax break on doing so through the venture capital trust scheme (with the restrictions that implies) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_Capital_Trust - and there's no capital gains or income tax to be paid on VCT gains! (Note: I am not your financial advisor!)Despite this, the UK isn't known as a hotbed of angel investment (at least, not in tech) and it hasn't "hurt" us.. so why not? |
Review our startup: Unbig.me | scumola: The link: http://unbig.me |
Review my startup - SyncFu.com | yannis: Very nice clean interface that leads to direct action. Use a more realistic product such as a textbook or a vacation trip - where you can entice technically savy students for example to act.It got a great potential and I think it can fly! Well done. |
Who's Hiring? | davidu: OpenDNS is hiring really fantastic computer scientists who want to run very large systems.A focus on global networks, security, and performance.Lots of C, Linux and FreeBSD, BGP speaking processes and some python are all in use here. The website front-end is PHP. New tools are welcome.Your code will touch our 10s of millions of end-users every second of every day. |
improving your design skills? | chasingsparks: I recommend picking up CSS Mastery: http://www.cssmastery.com/In my case, I never took the 10-12 hours required to learn how to employ CSS properly. It seemed like a very boring low-return investment of my time.My designs were lack-luster -- and I claimed I preferred an austere approach -- because I didn't know a headache-free way of implementing certain looks. This book helped. My designs are much better now, even though I have not changed my aesthetics. |
Are you looking to fund startups? | megamark16: I'll definitely be bookmarking this one, as I am not quite ready to put myself out there for the whole world, but I'd love to contact people directly if they were looking for something like what I'm doing (or who and where I am). |
improving your design skills? | ednapiranha: A couple of things:- Commit to some rules on your site layout/design/font/colour. It's easier to associate links with a certain pattern rather than inconsistent presentation (e.g. you have a link on the bottom that is bold but the rest aren't. Should be clear why that is bold or all should be bold or none at all.)- Information and typography are very important elements. Graphics are only there if you really need it but personally, I don't think they are necessary if you are only placing them in there to just have a graphic.- The graphics you currently use for your project listing should be the same width (height may differ). Some are longer, some are shorter and it makes it difficult to scan the content.- Think about spacing on your layout. The top navigation should be straight across in this current structure, not alternating upper and lower. You are only wasting space without purpose. Shrink the font size, remove the bold or remove the uppercase and keep it all on one line.- You need more padding between sections (e.g. your intro statement, current and past projects). It looks really crammed together right now. If you are worried about scroll, there reduce the general font size.Hope that helps. |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | mikeyg: Thank you very much for all of your feedback so far! Very thoughtful and appreciated! |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | robotron: Interesting service and I agree with most of what's been said here. I have to reiterate the naming choice - it really does make me think of "faux", which would in turn cause me to hesitate passing out the URL to show my resume. |
improving your design skills? | edna_piranha: A couple of things:- Commit to some rules on your site layout/design/font/colour. It's easier to associate links with a certain pattern rather than inconsistent presentation (e.g. you have a link on the bottom that is bold but the rest aren't. Should be clear why that is bold or all should be bold or none at all.)- Information and typography are very important elements. Graphics are only there if you really need it but personally, I don't think they are necessary if you are only placing them in there to just have a graphic.- The graphics you currently use for your project listing should be the same width (height may differ). Some are longer, some are shorter and it makes it difficult to scan the content.- Run the text for each project across the entire page and avoid cramming text from two or more sections on a single horizontal section. It makes the readability of the text difficult since in some cases you only have 3 words across before it continues below.- Think about spacing on your layout. The top navigation should be straight across in this current structure, not alternating upper and lower. You are only wasting space without purpose. Shrink the font size, remove the bold or remove the uppercase and keep it all on one line.- You need more padding between sections (e.g. your intro statement, current and past projects). It looks really crammed together right now. If you are worried about scroll, there reduce the general font size.Hope that helps. |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | aw3c2: Your site is almost blank if the visitor has Javascript disabled. There is a huge blank space even if it is enabled, I guess a Flash thing? Just add some noscript elements and alt/text stuff. That would be good for crawler bots too I guess. |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | drewdrewdrew: +1 on the name...I say lose the stats and have either screenshots or an intuitive demo. |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | savrajsingh: check out hitbio.com |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | nysauhem: I'm playing around with the resume editing, which is pretty clean so far. I am wondering what the difference is between "project descriptions", "course or training information", and "job and project experience". It seems like you could combine the three and make the interface simpler. |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | tyrelb: privacy issue - i wouldn't want anyone knowing all my personal details. especially to the public.maybe a hide / block feature. but then this would just become another .docx/.pdf resume site.i like the idea of being able to share/critique. sometimes people are lost for words in their own resume and need help. eg: using action words when describing their role.good work! keep it up! |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | semanticist: Does it spit out a Word document at the end? If not, it's not useful for people who expect to hand data to recruitment companies.I work for a company that provides CV/Resume parsing services to recruitment companies, and they all want Word documents they can reformat to their house style (and usually anonymise so the employer can't contact the candidate directly) using automated software (either ours or their CRM provider's).Are you taking structured data from people to generate the resume? Have you considered generating HR-XML which can be passed straight to various CRMs and HR tools?Do you provide an API to allow multi-board search tools (which we also produce) to search the resumes on your service? Recruitment companies don't want to search your site individually - they want to search everywhere at once.You're just getting started, but trac's really not a good choice for managing your end-user help! Save it for your developer documentation and get something nicer in there, quickly! |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | tptacek: Are the "top resumes" intended to help sell the site? Because they don't. 3 of them still have boilerplate in them, one of them is like 7 pages of ill-formated random technical qualifications, and none of them contain anything that shows off the value of the service. Axe that from the front page.I don't know about the job market for people from Joann's Fabric, but the little cartoon guy is the wrong tone for my market.I feel like LinkedIn solves the problem that this site is trying to solve. |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | petervandijck: - you're competing with LinkedIn, you know that?- The images (the little guy) and some of the wording is too dorky. Not saying you shouldn't show personality, but this is the wrong personality.- "Theme your resume using CSS" - if you're aiming at regular people, forget this geeky stuff.- I'm not clear on why I would put my resume there? I have LinkedIn set up, just seems better ("better" in this case means I'll get more professional benefit/job offers). |
Who is hiring Product Managers? | rwhitman: This brings up an interesting parallel to my situation - I'm kind of in the same boat, but I've also founded two different products myself (with lots of press attention) and have years worth of experience managing remote teams of designers, developers, writers etc for various projects.Problem is I've been self-employed my entire ten years in the biz so don't have a "Product Manager" title on my resume that isn't self-applied.I've been applying for PM jobs with lukewarm response. Its very frustrating since I'm at a point where I feel like its the thing I'd be best qualified to handle considering how much experience I have with pretty much every aspect of the role except for the titled position itself.Curious if anyone has any incite into this - going from botched Founder to fulltime PM... |
Does HN webserver follow HTTP 1.1 standard? | wmf: This is not surprising; I don't think pg cares about details like HTTP, Unicode, or CSS. |
Review our startup: Unbig.me | eam: As a consumer I will hate this, as site owner I will love it. Nonetheless, nice idea. Good luck! |
Who's Hiring? | loumf: Atalasoft is looking for support engineers. We make .NET imaging SDK's and all of our customers are developers, so all of our support questions are programming questions. See http://atalasoft.com/company/careers to learn more or apply. We're in Easthampton, MA in the western part of the Massachusetts (2 hours west of Boston, 45 minutes north of Hartford, CT). |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | mattwdelong: A few suggestions, and an idea.Unlike many people here, I do like the name. I understood it immediately, and contrary to what people are saying about "buzzwords", when writing a resume you are in fact promoting yourself. If I did have a suggestion, maybe add Resume to the name? PrauxResume.com ?You lack a call to action. I really don't know what the next step on the website is. You need to explain precisely what I need to do next. Most of your users will be fairly stupid, they need to be told!Someone mentioned the comment bubbles in your slideshow. I also agree that they need to go, they distract me from the useful content I am supposed to be reading. The comments are cute and clever and all, but get rid of them.Finally, I think this would be fairly useful for people looking to hire people. Perhaps you could add some useful tools for people to search for resumes based on experience and geographical location - be sure to include protection so that peoples content can't be harvested for malicious purposes. Perhaps even an opt-out of the search, which is probably an essential addition.I like it and have added it to my bookmarks, I may use it down the road. Best of luck and hope you get all the feedback you can handle. |
Who's Hiring? | obiefernandez: My firm Hashrocket is hiring senior web designers, front-end specialists, and Rails programmers for our offices in Chicago, Jacksonville Beach and Santiago, Chile. Might have a position for a geeky business analyst too.Current headcount at 35 and growing fast by doing kick-ass work for our clients while sticking to strong Agile values like fulltime pair-programming, strict BDD and quick iterations. We're known for our deep expertise in Rails, but quickly growing a reputation for our work with MongoDB also.Email jobs@hashrocket.com for more information. |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | jonas_b: Hello guys. As someone who's supposed to graduate this summer I can really see the value of this thing. I think you have done a terrific job.There are some points for improvement though. As is already mentioned, I think the faster you let people experience the ease of creating the resumes the better. |
Who's Hiring? | lovitt: SB Nation is hiring engineers and designers: http://www.sbnation.com/jobsWe're a network of community-driven, fan-centric sports news sites, with a passionate audience of around 9 million. It's an interesting and challenging space to be working in, especially given the current transitional period for news media.Engineers mostly code in Ruby/Rails. Other stuff in the stack: Linux, Apache, Mongrel, HAProxy, Memcached, Solr, MySQL. We have nice offices in a great neighborhood. People are smart and friendly. We're well-funded, pay well, and have solid benefits. It's a good place to work.We're based in Washington DC but are open to remote workers. Apply at our jobs page or email me directly if you have any questions. |
How can I get my hourly rate from $65 to $125 in the next 90 days? | pseingatl: As a consumer of programming, it's all too easy to compare different proposals merely based on price. Why hire a programmer for $125 if there is one who (apparently) can do the work for $65? Many people buying these services are not in a position to judge the difference. So, don't negotiate on price, negotiate on scope of work. I would also second the comment about working for a project price, rather than an hourly rate. |
Review my startup - SyncFu.com | dejan: http://www.syncfu.comThere is also the https version on https://syncfu.heroku.comWell, of course it's on Heroku! :D |
Do you need angel funding? | matt1: Reading these gives you somewhat of an idea of what it must be like for pg and team to read through YC applications. it's amazing how similar many of them are, which I imagine is part of the reason why YC started doing Requests for Startups.The number of ways to describe innovation is also a bit amusing:knocking down the barriersfreaking hugeetcI wonder if investors are numb to this? |
Review our startup: Unbig.me | og1: Interesting idea. How did you arrive at the numbers for pricing/payouts? When I look at the price I feel like there is some disconnect from the usual CPC vs CPM. The person displaying the link is getting a click, which is usually paid per action while the advertiser is getting an impression. |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | qjz: Since you're already creating subdomains for users, you might want to consider adding wildcard DNS beneath those domains so you can take advantage of the DNS prefetching that is all the rage in browsers and email clients these days. For example, say I obtain qjz.praux.com on your site. If I send a link to my resume to someone at IBM using ibm.qjz.praux.com, DNS prefetching might trigger a lookup. If you monitor this and make the reports available to me for my subdomain, I'll know that someone has at least read my email. If they click on the link and you make the web stats available to me for my subdomain, I'll know that someone visited my resume online (you'll need to do some virtual host wildcarding on your web server). The wildcard DNS allows me to create ad hoc subdomains for all my tracking needs. |
Who's Hiring? | ews: Craigslist , developers in San Francisco. If you are coming from HM send me an email to pablo @ craigslist.org |
Are you looking to fund startups? | e1ven: This seems very similar to the Venture hacks Angel List, which has recently relaunched.http://venturehacks.com/angellistSeveral angels have tweeted about the list, as it's a good way to report what they're interested in, who they want you to go through (Or if they prefer direct contact), what types of communities they support, etc. |
Who's Hiring? | agotterer: CollegeHumor is hiring a PHP developers. We are in New York City. Come work for us!http://www.collegehumor.com/jobs#job_18 |
Who's Hiring? | bhiggins: ExtraHop Networks in Seattle, especially if you're into systems-level programming or networking. Email me: ben@ |
Do you need angel funding? | jayair: Applied with http://thecadmus.com. Thanks for setting it up! |
Review our startup: Unbig.me | rlpb: What's to stop:1) People avoiding unbig.me links because they don't like advertising2) People taking one unbig.me link and then retweeting another to steal the advertising money?You might not consider either of these a problem, of course :-) |
Who's Hiring? | cadr: If you want to work for an awesome financial services startup in London, look no further than youDevise!http://www.youdevise.com/about/careers.php(I use to work there before I needed to move back to the states - I miss it a lot!) |
Should we reduce the restrictions on who can angel invest? | tptacek: I'm not sure this law is in place because of the risks of startup investing. It seems rather more likely that it's there to protect the public from outright fraud, "Cash4Gold"-and-"Gold4Cash"-style. |
Who's Hiring? | ntoshev: We're hiring in Sofia, Bulgaria:http://blue-edge.bg/jobs |
Review my startup - Praux.com, The Last Resume You'll Ever Write | nfnaaron: (I'm not educated in UI, UX or UXB, these are just my impressions, written with friendly intent)Title:The title bar says "Praux - Welcome To Praux.com"You're missing an opportunity to tell readers and google what you do.Maybe instead "Praux - Your resume, your way" or something like that.Front page:There is no stable description of what the site does, above the fold. When I first looked at the front page (on an 800px high laptop screen), I saw: - P.C
- login and signup widgets
- a cute phrase
- the top two thirds of a flash block
The only thing above the fold that tells me what you do is the flash block. But I only got through two or three words of the first cartoon I saw before it transitioned to the next one. "Wait, what?" It felt a little like getting hit in the forehead with a spitball; disorienting. And I still couldn't figure out what you do until I scrolled down a bit to see the whole flash block.I would put a stable blurb of text, near the top (you could shove that login/signup stuff up and to the right to free up some room) that says what you do in a nutshell.The word "resume" does not appear anywhere on the front page until below the flash block, except within the flash block itself (see below).The Flash Block:Lots of your target users probably block flash. Do you want to rely on flash to present your first impression to these kinds of people?The word "resume" or even the idea of a resume does not appear until the third slide. - 1st slide: "your content" I have a lot of that. Which?
- 2nd slide: "community" To do what? Critique my content.
- 3rd slide: We have resume! But the dudes pop up and cover them.
- 4th slide: not bad
- 5th slide: almost not bad
I think the dudes in the cartoon are unnecessary.The flash block slides go too fast for me to think about one slide before the next one comes up. Yes, I can read them, and by now I know the site has something to do with resumes, but now I want to digest what you can do for me. I feel like I'm being rushed through a presentation, like you don't care whether I get it or not, you just want to get through the presentation. (I realize you do care, this is about how I'm reacting.)Below the fold:I like the graphs, they lend credibility and interest to the site.Footer:"I thought about this page for: 0.04645 seconds"That gave me a chuckle, but if you must have this data, I'd change it to be more sober. But really: who cares? Only you, and other random web developers."3.11.31"What's that?Master List and Search Resumes are on the bottom line with the rest of the administrivia, but these are Features. They both need to be more prominent, and Search Resumes should be top right of the page where everyone else puts their search widget.Help should also be more prominent, probably right up there with Search at the top, or maybe in its present location but with a bigger font size.The Help youtube video:The music adds nothing to the presentation, and at six minutes of trying to follow a tiny cursor around a tiny screen of tiny text fields, I'm not going to make it distracted by the music.Maybe it's just me, but I really, really tire of faux dramatic music played over something that is not at all dramatic. E.g. when the music first crescendos, someone is typing "Objective ..." in a text field. Ooh! Ahh!You could improve this video immensely by making it silent.(Actually, it's cool music, just not here.)And why is there a Russian (I guess) word at the end of the video?The video is way too small for me to follow, even when I broke it out of the page. Maybe I don't have the right youtube skills.About Page:Top paragraph is not bad, but the very first thing you should say is "Praux does this and this and that for you." Probably in its own one-sentence paragraph, right at the top."... we want everyone to know that YOU are the owner of your identity, not us. Not Facespace, Swamptroll, or MixedIn. YOU. Sure, you can link to YOUR content hosted here from any of those sites and many others, and we encourage these sites to integrate with us ..."If you're calling your potential collaborators "Swamptroll" I don't think they're going to be all that interested in collaborating. In general this is a mildly belligerent paragraph, which I also think would discourage collaboration.Possible re-write:"... we want everyone to know that YOU are the owner of your identity, not us. You can link to your content hosted here from any other social site, and we encourage those sites to integrate with us ...""Let's face it.. it's tough out there right now. We need to remember, we're all in this together."The two dots should be three dots, with one space on both ends, which makes them an ellipsis (although I'm not sure if this is the correct way to use an ellipsis; maybe an M-dash?). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EllipsisHowever, a little wordy, you could probably cut these two sentences.Search Resumes:Does Search work? I searched for variations of Alison Kroulek and got no results, but she's the first one in the Master List. |
Are you looking to fund startups? | mattwdelong: Money isn't everything. It would be nice to have a section that lists the angels experiences.One can easily bootstrap, having little money but its much more difficult to bootstrap having no experience. I would give up a portion of my venture just for the right experience capital. Money is just a plus. |
What monitoring/management tools do you use? | ashishbharthi: For our java infrastructure we use Introscope. I dont know if they have version for LAMP architecture. http://www.ca.com/us/application-management.aspx |
Who's Hiring? | ohlol: Ning is hiring. We have some Apache guys, some PHP guys, etc. We need more people in Ops!http://about.ning.com/careers/index.php |
Who's Hiring? | eli: I'm hiring a Jr. PHP/Drupal developer. Great gig for someone fresh outta school. http://www.fiercemarkets.com/about_us/join_our_team?job=3 |
Who's Hiring? | lg: ITA software is hiring an implementation engineer in Cambridge, MA:http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/jlisting.html?uid=718870ITA's the place to be if you're into the air travel industry. The job is to be a technical go-to guy for airline/travel IT folks while they get up and running using an ITA product, like our search engine QPX. There's a lot of freedom, management gets out of your way and you just do whatever needs to get done. You can use any language for personal projects, web app demos, etc. Knowledge of lisp is a plus. Also we get catered Friday lunch, free snacks, great benefits, and a surprisingly good tea selection. You can ask me questions or shoot me your resume (email in profile) but along with your resume, do one of those programming puzzles we have up on the site. |
Who's Hiring? | nevernormal1: Inventables is looking for a few awesome ruby/rails engineers in Chicago: http://www.inventablescorporate.com/careers/positions-availa... |
I want to host a HN Meetup... | csomar: "I live in a good area for HN meetups"You want to host a meetup, so why are you shy of telling us the exact location? |
Review our startup: Unbig.me | run4yourlives: This is nice, but eam's right: consumers will hate it!Assuming it takes off, this could become <the> way to share links, basically making reddit/digg submissions profitable.Any thought to how to handle any major backlash, like a site banning an unbig.me link altogether? |
improving your design skills? | Dylanfm: Just some random pieces of info:* Sketch.* Begin your designs in greyscale. Introduce colour at a later stage once you've worked out your design whilst only being aware of tone.* Like many have said, good typography is essential. "The Elements of Typographic Style" by Robert Bringhurst is pretty much the bible here. Some find it too dry, some find it fascinating -- either way, it's definitely worth a read.* "Don't Make Me Think" is a brilliant book. Each page is almost worth the price of the book itself.* With usability in mind, definitely read "Web Form Design" by Luke Wroblewski.* When you notice a piece of design that you really appreciate, take note of it and think about why that is so. |
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