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Fancy Hands | https://www.fancyhands.com | New York City - Full Time (onsite) Fancy Hands is a personal assistant service. We've had a lot of good press, we're growing and we need …

Yeah. I like MTurk, but it's pretty impenetrable.

It's back: https://twitter.com/recurlystatus/status/368411341947547648

I sure hope this isn't the same type of hardware failure as the last one: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/09/05/recurly-suffers-hardwa... We've actually started using redundant bil…

Found out from one of our users via twitter. We switched to EasyDNS after (one of the) the godaddy fiascos. Hopefully they get it sorted soon.

It doesn't have a great way to upload from the desktop to G+, does it? I've been trying to figure this out for pics that don't originate on an android/iOS device. I guess picasa ca…

It's one of the first times the whole service has been down, but parts of the service go down at least once a week. memcache, task queues are "elevated" with regularity and urlfetc…

It's fine, because they're at 100% availability. Just totally down: http://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/64201bd8-5392-49fc-a47c-...

We plan a lot of people's dentists appointments (mine included). Even though I need to go to the dentist, I've got some mental block to actually schedule it myself. (PS: Sounds lik…

(Sorry, we were at lunch). Nope, at this point, we don't take any percentage or fee. We even pass along any discounts we receive (we get up to 15% off flower some purchases for exa…

Nope, at this point, we don't take any percentage or fee. We even pass along any discounts we receive (we get up to 15% off flower some purchases for example and we pass that along…

Nope, at this point, we don't take any percentage or fee. We even pass along any discounts we receive (we get up to 15% off flower some purchases for example and we pass that along…

Pretty close. We charge you right away (you would have received an email asking to approve the charge) and then use our own card.

Hi! This is Ted Roden, Founder of Fancy Hands. So this can be confusing. We can definitely purchase things for you. Want us to order flowers? Have someone come install your air con…

I keep hearing this... that people send in other peoples code. I smell a startup idea: is-this-code-stolen.com

I totally agree. Some people don't have time to code outside of work. I have two kids, a full time job, I haven't had time outside of work to write code in ages... and I've only be…

Very interesting. Would you really be more interested in leaving your job for a one week trial than writing a code sample? I have no problem with trials. Also, you mention my "loss…

To be clear, I'm not suggesting they need to have an online presence at all. I'm just talking sample code. They can email a zip file even. Seems like good practice to specify UI/no…

Interesting idea with the tutorial walk-through... hadn't thought of that.