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Ask HN: Who wants to trade brain cycles?

19 pointsby macguyverabout 11 years ago
In the spirit of Who wants to be hired and who&#x27;s hiring, I&#x27;m starting a thread for those who are looking for responsive, quality help that doesn&#x27;t involve the exchange of money. I&#x27;m proposing short-term trades, hour for hour, like solve a specific intellectual problem and the objective is to help another person get up to speed on a blocker in a way that&#x27;s more customized (with more qualitative wiggle room) than stackoverflow. It is likely that the giver and receiver is not the same person, so it might be a pay-it-forward arrangement on this thread.<p>Format: Open-ended - Briefly explain the purpose, what you&#x27;re looking for, and what you can offer in return.<p>I&#x27;ll start: This is for my MVP. I have a CS&#x2F;development background but backend isn&#x27;t my main strength. I&#x27;m looking for an hour or two of compressed MVC knowledge download, specifically to integrate backbone.js into my existing ROR app. I can help you with prioritization, product features, design or algorithms.

4 comments

coolsunglassesabout 11 years ago
I like this idea a lot.<p>What about an SO-esque network that encouraged maintaining a relatively even &quot;trade balance&quot;?<p>Anyway, for me:<p>1. Offering programming, FP, Haskell, Elasticsearch (possibly other, ask if you&#x27;re interested) expertise<p>2. Requesting input&#x2F;patches for my recently released Elasticsearch client for Haskell: <a href="https://github.com/bitemyapp/bloodhound/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bitemyapp&#x2F;bloodhound&#x2F;</a>
hahlaabout 11 years ago
I am a semi-retired website broker, I specialized in selling sites in the 6-7 figure range. I&#x27;m not a programmer, and I&#x27;m not looking for anything in return. If you need your side project, hobby site, or full fledged business valued or need advice regarding ways to increase value, website selling process, etc shoot me an email (in my profile) I would love to help in anyway I can!
bjourneabout 11 years ago
Great idea! I&#x27;m an amateur chess player (1200 rating) looking to improve my blitz game. So I&#x27;m looking for 1 hour of chess coaching, in return I offer 1 hour of code review of almost any language.
ericingramabout 11 years ago
I can offer advice and code in relation to building custom ecommerce platforms with mongodb and nodejs.<p>I am looking for design feedback and ideas for a pre public beta SaaS product.<p>Contact me at eric at getfwd.com
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