Sure, if you wish to work and will work 4 months for free remotely, ping me.
What kind of tasks do you offer?
I would like to work for a startup but only for a couple of months
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Re: I would like to work for a startup but only for a couple of months
#12It depends on your seniority and speciality. It takes quite a while to warm new team members into real productivity on mainline technical labor. Often, the first month or two of a new hire has a negative impact on total team efficiency. It's a similar principle to why you can't just staff up at the last minute before a deadline. The exception is if you're an expert in some specialty that's relevant and underserved on…
MVP's and rapid prototyping are my specialities. Where do you think one can find people looking to develop rapid prototypes? Projects that are meant to be a proof of concept and then discarded
Re: I would like to work for a startup but only for a couple of months
#13Re: I would like to work for a startup but only for a couple of months
#14I'm interested in similar but in BigCo's, aka internships or mini-sabbaticals for experienced/mid-career devs.
There should be a way for mid-career devs to do job trades -- like I do your job and you mine (with help from the other person to ramp up kind of like a buddy) for a month or two. It would give companies access to senior talent they could evaluate like internships, and all they would have to do is keep paying the original employee. Even doing this within a big co as an inter-team thing (getting a team rotation or a new team assignment past your first few years) is pretty difficult since your original team is presumably relying on your acquired knowledge.
Re: I would like to work for a startup but only for a couple of months
#15It depends on your seniority and speciality. It takes quite a while to warm new team members into real productivity on mainline technical labor. Often, the first month or two of a new hire has a negative impact on total team efficiency. It's a similar principle to why you can't just staff up at the last minute before a deadline. The exception is if you're an expert in some specialty that's relevant and underserved on…
MVP's and rapid prototyping are my specialities. Where do you think one can find people looking to develop rapid prototypes? Projects that are meant to be a proof of concept and then discarded
Outside of just mining your existing network, the first places I'd look would be AngelList and local tech networking events. Upwork could yield fruit too, but it can be a noisy place.
You'll generally be looking for people who are new to the industry and are just putting a toe in. More experienced entrepreneurs often have people in their network that can already help them through this phase.
Pursue smaller contracts than your ideal and expect them to grow into the relationships/opportunities you have in mind.
Re: I would like to work for a startup but only for a couple of months
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
MVP's and rapid prototyping are my specialities. Where do you think one can find people looking to develop rapid prototypes? Projects that are meant to be a proof of concept and then discarded
Outside of just mining your existing network, the first places I'd look would be AngelList and local tech networking events. Upwork could yield fruit too, but it can be a noisy place. You'll generally be looking for people who are new to the industry and are just putting a toe in. More experienced entrepreneurs often have people in their network that can already help them through this phase. Pursue smaller contracts…
That's a very wise advice swatcoder. Thank you very much
Re: I would like to work for a startup but only for a couple of months
#17Re: I would like to work for a startup but only for a couple of months
#18What do you want to gain from this? How important is compensation?
If you want a full-time job to see how life at a startup compares to a more traditional work environment, four months are not enough. You'd need to stay at least a year or two because only then will you have acquired sufficient responsibility to be in a position where everyone else on your team depends on you and your output and what it means to deal with the pressure of deadlines and so on.
If compensation is not that important or your objective is to work with lots of new technology or build stuff from scratch, offer non-technical entrepreneurs to build their MVP. Depending on your experience level and feature scope you may be able to implement a prototype in four months.
Re: I would like to work for a startup but only for a couple of months
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Backend golang & Frontend development angular
I don't have experience in either. More like aws (lambdas, sqs, dynamodb, ecs, emr, kinesis, etc...) and reactjs or vuejs
wow that is exactly the help that i need
i created this thread
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17860708
i need help to scale my product
would be great to work together