Wow. This is astounding. I happened to meet him and Dave Thomas a year or so ago, and had lunch with them at a Ruby conference. Incredibly nice and funny guy, who was really smart.
I think, in theory, this is really neat. One of the things I struggle with when learning something new (especially something more involved), is finding a way to put it into practice.
With that said, I think there could be a bit more description, or perhaps some examples of what I'd actually be signing up for, and how it works.
As a bit of trivium, on Chrome on OSX, auto-fill for the email doesn't work properly, and while small, it might help get a tiny bit higher conversion if that was addressed.
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- PHP / MySQL back-end development (have been using Rails at my day job for 6 months or so, but I’m sure your money would be better used with another Rails developer).
- HTML5 Front-End, with excellent knowledge of best practices, and how to best deal with browser inconsistencies.
- Javascript: Been developing with jQuery since version 1.3, and greatly enjoy using Backbone.js as well. Of course, I can do the same tasks with “raw” Javascript, it’ll just take longer.
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Disrupting the restaurant experience. From discovery, to ordering, to service, to receipts. Pretty much everything to do with it is broken and inefficient, so lots of work to be done.
Thanks a bunch for the invite, I'm booked up on Friday but would love to meet with you all sometime! It's great to see activity in the DC Startup community.
Facebook to front page in 2004: "16 points for being able to see who my friends are?"
Twitter to front page in 2005: "16 points for being able to write short messages?"
eBay to front page in 1998: "16 points for being able to sell things?"
It isn't about how involved or difficult a task is. Twitter wasn't "hard" to build (early on). It's about the utility of something, and this provides a great deal of utility. I don't mean my post to come off as a flame, as that's not at all what it's intended, but I, for one, find this very useful.