I used it once and tracked responses. The best and worst* candidates came from HN.
Worst, as in scattergun "here's my CV" emails.
Best, as in the "I love what you're doing because X. Here's the kinds of things I could do for you... and here are the things I've done before. I notice you're using X, Y and Z... perhaps we could try using this instead? Because..."
I'd definitely post here in future, but only after posting somewhere else.
I also posted for a remote job which I think helped. I had 0 responses from California.
This looks so open to abuse and manipulation. An anonymous form where anyone can drop any link?
Is this Google
- Showing face, trying to make people feel involved in their algorithm
- Pattern matching submissions against their own computed ideas of what is and isn't spam
- Genuinely looking for data, and this is the best thing they could come up with?
We're Hacker News for Inbound Marketers and we're looking for a PHP developer who can work from anywhere and create kick-ass products for 100ks of people.
The Problem
Inbound.org started as a Wordpress hack, but this was replaced in October 2012 with a purpose-built backend. The team that put it together and have maintained it since then are moving on to focus on their own startup. Meanwhile, we've got an ever growing list of improvements and demand for rolling out many sister sites.
We recognise we need a freelance lead developer to take ownership of the technical side of the site, and work with the rest of the team to produce an great product for the community.
About Inbound.org
Inbound.org is "Hacker News for Inbound Marketers".
The community launched in February 2012. We have an active community around 11,000 users, 60,000 visits per month and 24,000 unique visits per month. Current revenues from our jobs board vary between $1,200-$1,800/month, with further products in the pipeline.
Users can submit, upvote and comment on articles, discussion threads (including “Ask Me Anything” community interviews of industry experts) and tools. These are organized by hot (trending submissions - posted to @Inboundorg), incoming (new submissions) and all time.
We also have a jobs board where companies can list their jobs for $50. This is our only revenue stream at the moment.
The backend is built with the CodeIgniter Framework for PHP on a MySQL database. The front-end is customized Twitter Bootstrap with some jQuery.
The community is founded and funded by Rand Fishkin and Dharmesh Shah, and managed day-to-day by Ed Fry. There is a team of 14 volunteer evangelist-moderators who fight spam and promote the site.
You can see more on The Future of Inbound.org right here.
About You
You’re a fan of Inbound Marketing. You believe in what Inbound.org and the team behind it stands for. You understand why we get up in the morning to do this.
You have a strong working knowledge of PHP, MySQL and jQuery which you can show us on your GitHub profile or an equivalent. (Bonus if you’re familiar already with CodeIgniter).
You have an excellent grasp and strong opinions of what makes a great product. Maybe you’ve made a few personal projects, or written about them on a personal blog?
You’re smart, can get shit done and can have fun whilst doing it.
You have excellent written communication skills.
The Role and Rewards
You’ll be taking ownership for all the technical side of Inbound.org.
You’ll be leading the technical roll out of up-and-coming sister sites from the main codebase.
You’ll be at the heart of designing and planning for the future products for Inbound.org
You can work anywhere, anytime.
Let us know your salary requirements. This is a freelance role, perfect for someone who wants experience with building a popular product for 100ks of people. We anticipate paying ~$75/hour - let us know what you'd be happy to work for in your application.
Apply For This Job!
If you firmly believe you can fill this role and make a real difference to our community, please send us an email right away to ed.fryed+jobs [at] gmail.com.
Tell us briefly what do you want to do and how you plan to do it in the first 3 months as Lead Developer for Inbound.org, tell us how much you'd like be paid, share links to your GitHub, Inbound.org, LinkedIn profiles and share anything else you believe is hyper-relevant for considering your application.
I love this kind of open media, open interviewing. Sometimes "regular interviews" bring up your burnings questions, or something else you find really interesting, but the chance to talk to real experts about questions specific to your interests is pretty damn cool.
I think there's nothing better when your young (or old for that matter!) to muck in with a startup. Although it isn't Silicon Valley, I interned with two businesses this summer a loved it.
With one, we were brainstorming ideas for the product and mapping out the development schedule. You guys know what it's like - your sitting in a noisy cafe with a pen, a piece of paper, all grinning at each other as you see ideas coming together. It's even more awesome now as the products get developed (we've got one developer. He's a real trooper!). You learn how to work with other people. You learn to expand on other people's ideas. You learn to ship.
The other business I worked with is a bit more established, (an SEO consultancy) where I was working on my own within the team to produce a one-off guide to creating linkbait. It took two weeks of research, interviewing the team on video, editing video, working with the design team and writing it all up... then about a weeks editing which included learning bits of CSS mighty-fast to fix formatting errors! Hehe...
We launched this afternoon - Seth Godin picked it up! WOW! That and a few hundred other tweets and some really quite humbling comments from the rest of the SEO community.
Why in the world that we live in would you not try and connect with people and do awesome, challenging, fun stuff like this. And why would you work in a corporation?!? You'd never get anything like that kind of flexibility you get with SME's and startups.
I'd love to do what this guy did in the valley someday. Better still, I hope to get more people interning in the valley and across the world with startups. Maybe there's some money in that?
I used it once and tracked responses. The best and worst* candidates came from HN.
Worst, as in scattergun "here's my CV" emails.
Best, as in the "I love what you're doing because X. Here's the kinds of things I could do for you... and here are the things I've done before. I notice you're using X, Y and Z... perhaps we could try using this instead? Because..."
I'd definitely post here in future, but only after posting somewhere else.
I also posted for a remote job which I think helped. I had 0 responses from California.