Hello HN,<p>Happy New Year to you all.<p>I wish I was writing to you under more successful circumstances or had some awesome side project to show off. I do have one cool project that will have to wait for the time being.<p>Instead I am financially hard up and looking for some side work to help reduce debt and help pay for a new baby due in Feb. My wife is an entrepreneur an recently fell on hard-times with her biz. I need to jump in and help save our family at this point. My current fulltime position isn't enough $$ and I need to freelance.
Enough sob story.<p>About me:
Experienced Rubyist and general web dev with 6 years exp. I helped build one well-known ecommerce startup from the ground up and recently left after 2 years. I also worked on four different startup side projects in the last 2 years for different entrepreneurs. Email me for the details. I also built web apps for some major Fortune 500 companies.<p>What I am looking for:
One or more moonlighting gigs coding Ruby, Rails, Javascript, PHP or CSS. I can do frontend work well if your just looking for that. I live in the Midwest so my hourly rate is pretty affordable. I need $$ so equity is not really interesting to me at all.<p>Please check out my profile for links to my portfolio.<p>Thanks HN!<p>EDIT: Added PHP to the list
This is sort of unrelated, but I would love for you to swing back around to this thread and give some feedback on how this whole thing worked out for you. It'd be interesting to see how HN as a community was able to swing meaningful $$ your way. =)
Have you seen these hiring threads?<p>Remote gigs: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057799" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057799</a><p>This has some remote: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057704" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057704</a>
Kind of in the same boat right now, sans wife/kids, due to a non-paying client. If I had cash to pay you right now I totally would, since I have a small backlog of other client work. I see that you've worked on some pretty cool sites though (alice.com, etc), so I will pass your info along :)
<i>> About me: Experienced Rubyist</i><p>Time to show off that side project, buddy! Seriously, contributing to well-known open source projects or releasing your own projects/research that shows off your knowledge is a great way to demonstrate your skill and get a great job. How can we hire you without seeing your portfolio?
Here's a Ruby job I just saw on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/clintnelsen/status/22043010749435905" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/clintnelsen/status/22043010749435905</a>. It's for a 10 hour job working on a voting page for startupweekend.org.<p>Hope something works out for you!
I was just about to post on 37 Signals job board; we're looking for both freelance and full time rails developers. Our company makes CMS tools for entertainment markets. We've been around for 7 years, are stable and profitable. If you're still in the market, email me!