Best way to connect with developers?
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You meet someone, chat, learn about preferences and passions, and maybe you get along. You begin talking about your project and maybe they love it - if not, don't bother trying to convince them, quietly move on. Of course, you can always pay someone a fair market rate to provide the same service - sadly, its much harder finding a partner than a working programmer. It's a lot like any other relationship... without demonstrating your talents and abilities, many programmers will chuckle as they click along.
Tell us about your business or at least your skills, something. This sort of post comes by about every day, in some way or another...
Tell us about your business or at least your skills, something. This sort of post comes by about every day, in some way or another...
I do consulting work for startups, mostly using rails 3, jquery, backbone.js, and mongoDB. My contact info is in my profile if you want to chat.
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Connecting with a developer? My best advice would be to check my profile for my email address.
Wow what good advice.
Wow what good advice.
the sad part is, nobody can see your email address. try logging out of HN and looking at your own profile.
if you want others to be able to contact you, you have to put that information in your 'about' field.
if you want others to be able to contact you, you have to put that information in your 'about' field.
Learn to program.
Wow. I'm surprised this got downvoted. There is no better way to network with developers than to learn to program. First you will eventually find your way into the natural habitats of us developers (HN, StackOverflow, IRC). From there you'll end up learning about developer events like hacker dojos and superhappydevhouse
The problem is that if you show up in these hacker habitats as a business person with no programming knowledge, you are just going to derail the conversations instead of participating. You will also connect better with hackers if you speak their lingo.
Which would work better:
"I'm a business person with an idea that I want you to build"
or
"I'm learning to program because I'm a business person with an idea that I'm learning to prototype and I'm looking for someone to build it with me."
I'm a business person myself learning to program and I pretty much dismiss all other almost all other business people that come to me with ideas. Part of being a good business person is about being able to sell your idea and speak in the language of the customer. Until you found a technical co-founder, your only customer is a developer. You need to sell them your idea before you sell it to anyone else. If you want to sell you idea to a developer, then learn to program.
The problem is that if you show up in these hacker habitats as a business person with no programming knowledge, you are just going to derail the conversations instead of participating. You will also connect better with hackers if you speak their lingo.
Which would work better:
"I'm a business person with an idea that I want you to build"
or
"I'm learning to program because I'm a business person with an idea that I'm learning to prototype and I'm looking for someone to build it with me."
I'm a business person myself learning to program and I pretty much dismiss all other almost all other business people that come to me with ideas. Part of being a good business person is about being able to sell your idea and speak in the language of the customer. Until you found a technical co-founder, your only customer is a developer. You need to sell them your idea before you sell it to anyone else. If you want to sell you idea to a developer, then learn to program.
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