Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (May 2019)

SEEKING FREELANCER | RemoteLeads | Part-Time Contract Email Writer | 100% Remote

Are you looking for a 100% remote writing position where you can set your own hours, work in any timezone, and no micromanagement?

I'm Derick, the founder of RemoteLeads, and I'm looking for a freelance writer to join my team on a part-time, contract basis.

About you: We're looking for someone with an advanced command of written English who can do the following:

  · Respond to email support requests in a timely manner that come in for all products (see below).

  · Write enticing summaries of job posts intended for consumption via email that make readers want to know more.

  · Write a weekly status email with updates on what you accomplished during the week.

About the company: RemoteLeads, LLC is a bootstrapped, independent company that serves freelancers who want to work remotely and have a location-independent lifestyle working remotely. We run three products (RemoteLeads, RemoteFreelancers, and Gigbox).

You'll be helping us write emails for all three products.

If you've read this far and you want to help freelancers go remote and live life on their own terms, apply with the instructions below.

Application Instructions:

  1. Send an email to writer@remoteleads.io with "email writer" somewhere in the email subject line.

  2. Attach your resume. Also, include a short cover letter.

  3. In cover letter include previous experience you have doing freelance writing (blog posts, emails, etc.)

If everything looks good, you'll hear back from us soon.

I'm looking forward to hearing from you, Derick from RemoteLeads

SEEKING WORK | Cambridge/London UK or Remote

I'm a software engineer with 16 years of programming experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going.

If you have web projects, then there's a good chance I've worked on something similar before and will be able to hit the ground running. If you need more general programming, I can do it. If you're doing something a bit esoteric, that would definitely suit me – I've done FPGAs, network protocols, speech recognition, more ETL than you can shake a stick at, and devising novel algorithms.

I consider myself a polyglot programmer and haven't found a language I can't be productive in yet. In the last 5 years I've written (at least) C#, Java, Python, Javascript (browser and Node.js), and Ruby professionally.

I'm friendly and easy-going, enjoy mentoring and working with other developers. I just delighted a client by delivering everything they wanted for a highly speculative project in 80% of the planned time, despite the project having completely failed twice previously before I was involved.

I'm happiest on fixed-term projects that I can complete on a schedule that suits both of us, and my clients have been very happy with this process too.

My consulting website is https://www.lambdacambridge.com

Email: robin [at] the website above

SEEKING WORK | Boston, MA or Remote

I am a full stack ruby on rails developer with 7 years of experience. Worked at 4 startups and built a total of 15 web applications.

- frontend (React, Vue, JS, Jquery)

- ruby on rails

- databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)

- work on mac osx

- 100/hour

- Portfolio: http://iqgiantllc.com/projects/

Contact: developer.judy.ngai@gmail.com

SEEKING WORK - Auckland, NZ or REMOTE Laravel Expert:

I have 6 years experience as a Laravel developer and 4 more before that as a PHP/Web developer. Previously I was CTO of a startup (Designer Wardrobe) - I took that website from a 5 page MVP to a massive codebase that served around 3 million hits/month. More recently I helped another company speed up an important API they were having trouble with, I took the loading time from > 5 seconds to ~300ms without any breaking changes.

I currently run my own startup and I am seeking part time consulting work to help me bootstrap.

More details of all of my work is here: https://jarrad.dev

Contact me on hello@jarrad.dev

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: I take MVPs that you’ve outgrown and upgrade them to support the next stage of your growth.

There could be any number of reasons why your current system is holding you back. Wherever you’re starting to feel the pinch, the price of ownership is that you don’t have the luxury of saying “that part’s not my problem” or “I don’t get involved at that level.”

You won’t hear it from me, either.

20 years handling a wide variety of IT roles and projects mean that I can help through the whole process from high-level strategy right down to code, all based on a deep technical foundation.

In the past I've been a network engineer, run large-scale Debian installations doing devops before it had a name, and been responsible for servers in Antarctica. I have experience with a wide range of different Unix tools and technologies, at various levels of the stack. This gives me the ability—and the perspective—to pick the best combination of tools for any particular project, rather than simply treating everything as a nail because all I have is a hammer.

Buzzwords: Debian, Ubuntu, AWS, PostgreSQL, Clojure, Elixir, Perl (5 & 6), Common Lisp, Rust, Ruby, Go, Arduino / AVR, FreeBSD

Got something you think is a good fit? Drop me a line at mike -at- lambdafunctions -dot- com