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sanedigital
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About sanedigital
The demand for designers & developers has never been higher. FAANGs are throwing insane offers at top talent. And all that’s left for many startups is scraps: boot camp grads & budget agencies.
That scarcity is not a new phenomenon. When I left Google in 2015 to start freelancing, I charged $300 an hour for design & development work.
Was I just that good?
The truth is, people paid $300, not because I produced value at that rate, but because I was paying $3K in Brooklyn rent. Not because I was worth $250K+ a year, but because Google was paying me that without blinking an eye.
If you're going to compete, you need to find another way to scale your team than so-called 10X freelancers.
I'm James Knight, cofounder and Chief Nerd at No Nerds No Problem.
In 2021, we created Nerds-as-a-Service to help startups like yours scale with top-notch talent from across the globe. Since then, we’ve built a team of 20+ world-class Product, Design, and Development Nerds, blending onshore leadership with nearshore execution. A team that’s waiting to help you delight your customers with new features, blow through your growth targets, and impress your investors along the way.
Let's chat: calendly.com/nonerds
Email me: james@nonerds.com
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Sure, just get the people that take the risk to agree to it. Should be easy.
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Comment #35557070
By "certain populations" do you mean a small selection of the worst members of almost all populations? Jumping to conclusions and pushing narratives isn't the exclusive purview of …
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Comment #35517580
Truly sharing the fruits of success means truly sharing the risk taken.
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Comment #34615757
SEEKING WORK Are you looking for designers and developers that build exactly what you ask for? Keep looking. That’s not us. Otherwise, keep reading. In 2023, tech is a commodity. A…
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Comment #34533587
Great article, but I think its odd to call James I of Aragon's conquest of Mallorca a "Catalan conquest". Poor Aragon, always getting its history rewritten by Catalan separatists a…
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Comment #34513700
With a few exceptions, everyone here on HN is wildly privileged. The .0001% of world-history.
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Comment #34469541
You have been blessed to work on self-organizing and self-managing teams. When we come into client orgs, they typically have no process in place and cannot understand why they're n…
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Comment #34449017
That doesn’t mean the “they” here isn’t unclear. I wasn’t sure whose Mastodon handle Paul Graham shared. I certainly didn’t think OP meant he shared his own handle.
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Comment #34086006
I dunno, I think Messiah works as an ending to the trilogy. There's quite a bit of intrigue and action. Nothing gets too weird—Duncan's Ghola is the only new sci-fi addition. Child…
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Comment #34052547
Potentially risking downvotes, since religion makes people uncomfortable, but since you mentioned mental health services are lacking, have you tried joining a local church? Priests…
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Comment #34019477
Not sure I need to spoiler alert a book that came out over 50 years ago, but Momoa should be back in Part 3.
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Comment #33995010
Because it was Sunday morning in Old Town Scottsdale and there weren't any pedestrians around.
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Comment #33994901
Because—other than FSD—the car is fantastic. I can't imagine driving anything else.
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Comment #33994880
Only on HN could someone be arrogant enough to think their non-experience is more accurate than another's actual experience. At no point was anyone—myself, my child, or another par…
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Comment #33994842
We'd used Autopilot (non-FSD) for a a year at that point. I was used to mistakes and knew how to disengage quickly before they could be problems. I was expecting FSD to be bad, but…
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Comment #33994817
The car is great. FSD is not.
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Comment #33994807
Not sure where you got "she" from, but regardless, I bought another Tesla because the car is fantastic. The FSD is not.
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Comment #33985609
When our Model 3 got access to FSD, my 6 year-old desperately wanted to try it out. I figured a low-traffic Sunday morning was the perfect time to test it out, so we headed out to …
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Comment #33734586
I know, they could use the market to determine the rate at which that wealth transfer occurs. And then they could distribute it biweekly via direct deposit. They might even call it…
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Comment #33734567
Sure, but if we're talking about co-opting the anger around wealth inequality, that particular fight ended with Occupy Wall Street becoming Black Lives Matter.
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Comment #33708001
Don't people use @NonNull everywhere now? It's been a few years since I've programmed in Java but even then I feel like that was common practice.
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Comment #33561898
Sure, up to a certain grade. But regen braking isn't working down hills like the ones in SF.
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Comment #33561890
The cold & flu were bad examples since they do share some similarities. A better example would be food poisoning and the flu: eating spoiled food doesn't make you less likely to ca…
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Comment #33561874
Cold & flu weren't the best examples. Here's a more obvious one: getting food poisoning doesn't make you less likely to catch the flu. Some people treat "the immune system" like a …