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Awesome hackers in Jaipur or Ajmer in India

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Post by udais »

If you can code and write (content), I have a dream project for you. You have to be at either of the 2 locations above, or will to re-locate there (room, board, everything can be taken care off) Contact me at udai00 gmail.com.

About me: Spent 23 yrs in the US -- Stanford undergrad, built a software start-up from zero, through dot com bust, raised over 25M dollars, acquired F500 customers, built revenue and profits and sold it 9 years later to a public company ; moved to India about 12 months back to build businesses here.

Re: Awesome hackers in Jaipur or Ajmer in India

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Post by udais »

mython wrote: post #2

what language skills you are looking for?

doesn't matter. goal is to take an appropriate open source platform (any one of the CMS that will do) to create a travel website which makes it super easy to find: the best hotels to stay -- 1000-3000, 3000-5000, 5000-8000 a day the best things to do what to buy from where at what price

Initially do this for the top 6 cites in rajasthan

designed for a foreign audience travelling to india

use what ever platform is available so we can launch fast, get user feedback and then iterate

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#4

Post by pinksoda »

udais wrote: post #3
mython wrote: post #2

what language skills you are looking for?

doesn't matter. goal is to take an appropriate open source platform (any one of the CMS that will do) to create a travel website which makes it super easy to find: the best hotels to stay -- 1000-3000, 3000-5000, 5000-8000 a day the best things to do what to buy from where at what price Initially do this for the top 6 cites in rajasthan designed for a foreign audience travelling to india use what ever platform is ava…

Doesn't matter?

Okay let's do this in assembly, you down?

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Post by udais »

pinksoda wrote: post #4
udais wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

doesn't matter. goal is to take an appropriate open source platform (any one of the CMS that will do) to create a travel website which makes it super easy to find: the best hotels to stay -- 1000-3000, 3000-5000, 5000-8000 a day the best things to do what to buy from where at what price Initially do this for the top 6 cites in rajasthan designed for a foreign audience travelling to india use what ever platform is ava…

Doesn't matter? Okay let's do this in assembly, you down?

point taken. didn't mean it that way. any of the top 5 CMSes should do. Right technical person for the job - passion for the idea, tenacity - most probably decides what we use. sort of decision by default situation :-)

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Post by abcd1234567 »

udais wrote: post #3
mython wrote: post #2

what language skills you are looking for?

doesn't matter. goal is to take an appropriate open source platform (any one of the CMS that will do) to create a travel website which makes it super easy to find: the best hotels to stay -- 1000-3000, 3000-5000, 5000-8000 a day the best things to do what to buy from where at what price Initially do this for the top 6 cites in rajasthan designed for a foreign audience travelling to india use what ever platform is ava…

You need 'hackers' or a plain developer? I hope you leant the difference in ur stint working for the F500 clients..

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Post by udais »

abcd1234567 wrote: post #6
udais wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

doesn't matter. goal is to take an appropriate open source platform (any one of the CMS that will do) to create a travel website which makes it super easy to find: the best hotels to stay -- 1000-3000, 3000-5000, 5000-8000 a day the best things to do what to buy from where at what price Initially do this for the top 6 cites in rajasthan designed for a foreign audience travelling to india use what ever platform is ava…

You need 'hackers' or a plain developer? I hope you leant the difference in ur stint working for the F500 clients..

we didn't work for F500 clients (way to boring); we sold them innovative software - a small start-up selling million dollar + software to F500 is the definition of entrepreneurship.

we want hackers in ycombinator mold -- young, passionate, tenacious - with the right mix of hard core technical, UI and design, and plain entrepreneurial business skills to drive both new user and return visits. bi also enjoy working with this sort of individual. (got to be fun since i do not need to do it for the money) these are the sort who can take on an existing industry and re-invent it. happy to hire 2,3,4 however many good ones i can find. from the little i've seen in india, most young hackers would not get an opportunity like this: 100% US style working style - full freedom, big mission, zero bureaucracy, etc - for experienced serial entrepreneur. basically the best way to figure out how to do is to do it once for someone else who knows how to do it and has all the funding and infrastructure in place

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#10

Post by aditya »

iamelgringo wrote: post #7

Job postings on HN are discouraged.

unless they're from YC startups? ;-)

Personally, I think we should allow (and even encourage) them as long as they're from someone already in the community (say karma > 300?) just like polls.

(PS. It was awesome meeting you at HFNYC!)

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