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Re: Ask HN: How to make very small amounts of money ($500ish) working remotely?

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Post by canbrianExp »

patio11 wrote: post #9
canbrianExp wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tell me where to apply for a job that will hire a competent programmer for 80k and I'll split my income with you if I get a job in a month.

Approximately every company in the Valley which has 10+ engineers is currently hiring more engineers. Do you need an introduction? Email me with anything that demonstrates programming ability. I'll recommend a few folks to talk to.

They may be hiring, but they're not getting back to me. I've applied to yahoo, google, twitter, mozilla, facebook as well as 30 smaller companies. Some aren't hiring people unless they have many years behind a specific skill set (Twitter), others haven't gotten back to me or rejected my application for different reasons (Didn't go to prestigious enough school, haven't worked anywhere with 1 million users, they wanted to hire a friend instead, etc etc.)

I think there's this veneer of can do optimism that pervades the valley. I honestly wouldn't be here if I didn't buy into it. But I kind of want to buy out of it at this point.

Re: Ask HN: How to make very small amounts of money ($500ish) working remotely?

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Post by travisby »

canbrianExp wrote: post #11
patio11 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Approximately every company in the Valley which has 10+ engineers is currently hiring more engineers. Do you need an introduction? Email me with anything that demonstrates programming ability. I'll recommend a few folks to talk to.

They may be hiring, but they're not getting back to me. I've applied to yahoo, google, twitter, mozilla, facebook as well as 30 smaller companies. Some aren't hiring people unless they have many years behind a specific skill set (Twitter), others haven't gotten back to me or rejected my application for different reasons (Didn't go to prestigious enough school, haven't worked anywhere with 1 million users, they wanted…

I second the idea to add your email to your profile. I have an email I'd like to send you.

Re: Ask HN: How to make very small amounts of money ($500ish) working remotely?

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Post by stevekemp »

I'm a system administrator, and I've generally found that local people seem to remember me fondly and offer me work - whether it is tuning nginx, setting up a small cluster, or similar.

Actually finding remote people to hire me for longer jobs is hard though, so unless I receive contact out of the blue I've more or less given up looking for it.

(I do keep pondering the value of being a "Remote Sysadmin", but I receive conflicting feedback: http://blog.steve.org.uk/it_is_unfortunate_that_many_compani... )

Re: Ask HN: How to make very small amounts of money ($500ish) working remotely?

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Post by NameNickHN »

1. Step: Create a software and sell it (or give it away for free).

2. Step: Offer to create add-ons for that software.

It has been working fine for me for a couple of years now. The software is B2B and the customers are mostly small businesses. I get a couple of feature requests per week from those existing customers. And not only convert those requests quite often to new projects, I also get to offer the add-ons to other customers. That's always part of the agreement.

The costs of the add-ons have been in the range from $250 to $2000.

Re: Ask HN: How to make very small amounts of money ($500ish) working remotely?

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Post by innertracks »

patio11 wrote: post #9
canbrianExp wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tell me where to apply for a job that will hire a competent programmer for 80k and I'll split my income with you if I get a job in a month.

Approximately every company in the Valley which has 10+ engineers is currently hiring more engineers. Do you need an introduction? Email me with anything that demonstrates programming ability. I'll recommend a few folks to talk to.

Patio11, thank you for continuing to inspire and help others understand their value. The biggest hurdles are often in the mindset and belief system of the individual. I know that's been the case for me.

Re: Ask HN: How to make very small amounts of money ($500ish) working remotely?

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Post by wattengard »

patio11 wrote: post #7

If you can program your way out of a paper bag, you're good enough to land an 80k job in SF at the moment. People whose entire programming careers are measured in weeks are hireable in the current environment, for at least some engineering roles, at at least some companies.

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Re: Ask HN: How to make very small amounts of money ($500ish) working remotely?

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Post by davidw »

canbrianExp wrote: post #11
patio11 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Approximately every company in the Valley which has 10+ engineers is currently hiring more engineers. Do you need an introduction? Email me with anything that demonstrates programming ability. I'll recommend a few folks to talk to.

They may be hiring, but they're not getting back to me. I've applied to yahoo, google, twitter, mozilla, facebook as well as 30 smaller companies. Some aren't hiring people unless they have many years behind a specific skill set (Twitter), others haven't gotten back to me or rejected my application for different reasons (Didn't go to prestigious enough school, haven't worked anywhere with 1 million users, they wanted…

You want to go with smaller companies that are flexible enough to evaluate you and maybe take a risk. They'll also let you do more stuff if you prove you can.

Re: Ask HN: How to make very small amounts of money ($500ish) working remotely?

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Post by js7 »

NameNickHN wrote: post #15

1. Step: Create a software and sell it (or give it away for free). 2. Step: Offer to create add-ons for that software. It has been working fine for me for a couple of years now. The software is B2B and the customers are mostly small businesses. I get a couple of feature requests per week from those existing customers. And not only convert those requests quite often to new projects, I also get to offer the add-ons to…

What type of software can I sell to a company? Seriously, I just don't know what to build.
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