Sigh, these poll options seem to confirm to me just how myopic many HN and startup people are about the software world. Believe it or not, there is a LOT of software that gets written that either is not "web", or related to a startup. Additionally, the people that write it do find the content at HN relevant and interesting.<p>I found myself at a party in SF on New Years at an apartment that housed a startup as well as its founders. While meeting someone there, the conversation went like this:<p>"Oh hey, are you part of the company here too?"<p>"No, I'm in a different startup"<p>"Oh cool, YC?"<p>"Yeah, what YC class are you?"<p>"Actually, I'm not in a startup, I work for..."<p>The guy turned his head and walked away. Sorry boys and girls, but you're not all Mark Zuckerberg just because you're doing the startup thing, and the rest of us that write code aren't relics of another era. Happy hacking.
Startup founder (and sole employee) here.<p>Interesting poll, but at first I thought you meant "where" as in what location. That's a very interesting question that I'd like to hear answered. Especially if you're freelance, on your own, remote, or otherwise don't have an office to go to.<p>What I've noticed is that I can't seem to work in the same physical spot for more than 2 months in a row or so. After that all my creativity seems to drain out and I can't get anything done. As soon as I move to another spot, I'm back in business.<p>So I find myself hopping every 2-3 months between different coffee shops, tea shops, restaurants and coworking spaces in my area. I always wondered if anybody else has the same thing.<p>Sorry, this is kinda off-topic. Maybe I should make a work-location poll.
May want to add "Other" as an option.<p>Consider a smaller company that develops a couple of established products. Or one-person consulting shops. Or contract developers, etc. In short - just add "Other" :)
Consulting by night to bootstrap a couple of products while working a day job as the "Infrastructure Administrator" (read: netadmin managing linux boxen) for a small municipality to feed the wife and son.<p>Not sure when the day job will end, but it's soul sucking work.
Other in my case means walking around in bad neighborhoods, hoping to get shot so I don't have to go to my crap job.<p>Every cloud has a silver lining.
Long term contractor for a vc backed company, I think? I guess I'm not sure if that would count as working like an employee, or just being a normal contractor? Didn't vote, don't think any fit me :-(
Wow, I didn't expect so many (max right now) votes for Non-web company. It'd be nice to hear more about these companies for a change. Who are you guys and what companies are you running?
I work for a pharma to medical professional agency - this includes web development, desktop applications, mobile development (both web and app) as well as convention related applications (kiosks, booth entertainment, etc).<p>While the subject matter might not be overall interesting, I get to use interesting technologies; for example I am currently playing with the Kinect and RFID technologies to do R&D for convention use.
At a company that was once a startup, is now highly profitable, but venture backed.<p>And my side businesses, all of which are profitable because they're bootstrapped.
I work for a non-web IT services company in the midwest. I hack a couple of side projects, and would like to get back into software development. Is there anyone else here that's in the midwest, or is it all coastal?
I'm working at <a href="http://jupiterit.com" rel="nofollow">http://jupiterit.com</a> , company behind the <a href="http://javascriptmvc.com" rel="nofollow">http://javascriptmvc.com</a>
Large insurance company with a niche member base, multi-billion dollar revenue.<p>Web/Voice is the only client portal we have, though, so you could almost call us a web company.