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How relevant is this when AI has the ability to both write and debug massive code bases? I imagine a future world where 100% of coding and debugging is done by prompt not by editin…

Cool! Still worth thinking through the application, it's a great way to think critically about your business. When we first applied with Howdy.com, we didn't get in, but the proces…

Sincere question, why do you think HN tends to down weight discussion on Visas or immigration?

In the last 4 years of operations in Latam we saw it a handful of times, all during the last 1.5 years of the Covid hiring mania. Mostly by big companies. What’s telling is that we…

- US companies are less likely to offer 15K/month, whereas before it wasn't uncommon - Local Latam companies are having an easier time retaining talent - Devs in Latam have lowered…

I co-founded Howdy.com (YC W21) about 3 years ago. It's a platform for building your own dev teams in Latin America; automate vetting, payroll, offices, equipment, etc. We're profi…

Thank you Shorel! I think many people that object to the model haven't experienced these pain points themselves, either in the US or in Latam. But we recognize the model is not for…

I had worked with a team in Colombia before and I speak Spanish, so we initially gravitated towards hiring people both in the Austin, TX and Colombia. We found really great teammat…

Oops, updated!

Happy to jump on a chat on work through this together, I hope i can be helpful! Checkout my profile to see my email address and send me a DM! we'll get in touch.

Thanks for letting us know stg. Sorry about that, we'll look into it immediately. In the mean time, I'm happy to setup you up on my end. Would you mind emailing me? You can find my…

Yeah, we get the concern that Astro is just a middle man. Let me give a concrete example for why we think we provide more value than that. We work with a few companies, whose names…

Yeah, good point, of course direct freelancing is always on option. We believe that we provide enough info so that everyone can make a rational economic decision. For example, the …

Interesting experience! Would love to know more, if that's okay. How many freelancers did you manage? and how big was your team? I think that a few freelancers are manageable (not …

I understand the frustration and I'll try to explain a bit more. Candidate salaries tend to vary based on country, experience, skillset, etc. People on the platform set their perso…

More ideas, do you have former colleagues you can reach to? Can your colleagues introduce you to new people? Getting a personal warm introduction has been the best route for us.

We kept encountering the same issues you mention. Our teammates weren't satisfied with the outsourcing company and didn't like being interleaved between projects (formally or infor…

Send me an email and I'll get you setup. See my email in my profile!

Really good question. Honestly, it was word of mouth and referrals. I had a successful career as a software developer and product manager for various startups and large companies i…

Thank you! You're obviously a smart person! :)

You know, if I could do it over, we would have also considered Wichita, Kansas or El Paso, TX (my home town) but unfortunately we didn't do it for no other reason than it just didn…

Astro is by Austin Software! It's a productized version of what we do. People kept thinking that Austin Software was a product outsourcing firm, i.e. they kept asking us for quotes…

It's up the companies to make compelling offers to candidates if they want to find good people. What I can tell you is that this is more common now then when we first started, whic…