Hi HN readers,<p>After spending 7 months building a startup with my friend that I subsequently chose to end development of, I'm looking for some work to make some extra money and keep my mind working.<p>Since moving on from my startup I've found myself under-inspired, under-challenged, and feeling lazy with no commitments or projects to work on.<p>I'm mostly a front-end dev, but taught myself Rails and built out the backend of the startup I was working on. I hosted it on Heroku with a PostgreSQL database. It wasn't really necessary, but for our blog I chose to use a Rails CMS, and hosted it on Digital Ocean with Nginx and Unicorn managing requests.<p>Below are some examples of my work.<p>My personal blog, which is responsive -- it takes inspiration from other blogging platforms but I wrote all the code from scratch.
http://blog.tommaxwell.me<p>My personal site, which is also responsive and written from scratch:
http://tommaxwell.me<p>I also have some projects on my Github profile that I worked on. Chakra is the Rails app that I wrote all myself.
http://github.com/tommaxwell<p>I have a solid understanding of OO JavaScript, CSS3, responsive design, Rails, and more. Preferably the projects I'm looking for are front-end oriented.<p>You can also find me around the web:
http://twitter.com/tommaxwelll
http://medium.com/@tommaxwelll<p>If anyone has any small projects -- maybe even some small work here and there that you need done -- I'd love to talk to you.<p>tommaxwell95@gmail.com
Suggestions:<p>> 18-year old web dev looking for work<p>1. Don't tell people your age.<p>> Since severing ties with my cofounder I've found myself under-inspired, under-challenged, and feeling lazy with no commitments or projects to work on. On top of that I'm lonely, since I don't live near my friends.<p>2. Don't put out a lot of personal stuff. Just describe what you're good at and let people draw their own conclusions. I say this because people who might hire you will want to see evidence of your personal drive and focus on work and technology, not how lonely you are.<p>I wish you the best of luck.