Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

Location: Canal Winchester, OH Remote: Yes. Strongly preferred. Willing to relocate: For the right thing? Absolutely. Technologies: TypeScript, React, React Native, Next.js, Node.js, Python, Flask, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Supabase, Three.js, TailwindCSS Résumé/CV: richard-simmons-portfolio.vercel.app Email: fowl_137@hotmail.com

You want to know what I think separates a good engineer from a great one? It ain't the stack. Everybody's got a stack. It's taste. Four years at Toyota. APIs handling a million requests a day. Ten enterprise apps across manufacturing and dealership platforms. I also led a UX audit that cut task completion time by 20% for 2,000+ users. Not because someone told me to. Because it was broken and I could see it. Then I went and built my own thing. Zoan Collective. Two production apps, FocusFi and Lucid, shipped to iOS and Google Play. Real users. Real payments. Real AI pipelines processing 1,000+ interactions a day. I cut infrastructure costs 80% by going serverless. I also cut audio generation time from 360 seconds to 120 seconds because waiting three minutes for music is not a product, it's a punishment. I care about software the way Dieter Rams cared about a transistor radio. Every button, every flow, every API response. If something feels clunky, I notice. And then I fix it. I'm not looking to be a cog. I want to own something. Ship it. Watch people use it. If you're building a product that actually matters, let's talk.