Viewing profile — ftravis

Good catch, I haven't coded perl since 1999. This might be more appropriate for the kind of background we want: "YC startup looking for rockstar designer".gsub("rockstar","talented…

I think you're confounding "nobody is doing what we're doing" with "nobody is competing with us". You're right to say that no competitors sometimes means no market. On the other ha…

Can he play drums? I'm ok at guitar and my partner can sing, but we're really looking to balance out the team.

To me, rockstar meant "talented far beyond the norm". There are lots of articles about what differentiates extremely talented coders from the rest, and taking the intersection of t…

Based on the comments here, it looks like we committed a faux pas by using the word rockstar. Sorry about that. We didn't anticipate getting a negative reaction to the word. I had …

I think I would nearly die of surprise if someone was doing what we are doing now. Then, I'd take them out for a beer.

the same YC startup is also looking for rockstar python / rails coders :) ftravis1@gmail.com