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Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by streptomycin »

charlemagne wrote: post #81

HMO: Know anyone interested in analyzing consumer EEG data? The product I'm working on is developing a solid dataset: http://www.threepound.com How I can help: I'm a former startup data analyst and strategy consultant. I can give a few hours to help with making sense of the data you're collecting or think about how to start capturing 3rd party data.

I can give you a good EEG story, told to me by an engineering professor who was studying EEG data back in the 70s:

Some researchers set up an EEG hooked up to a computer that could display some analysis to the user (basically magnitudes of various waves). The idea was to see if biofeedback (people trying to control their EEG output in realtime) could lead to any benefits. All they got was positive feedback (no pun intended): people would tell them how it helped them focus, relax, think clearly, etc. Then at some point, one of the researchers realized a cable was unplugged and the values shown to people were just random noise...

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by pauljohncleary »

I built a small web service/couple of chrome extensions:

- http://tab.bz

It has around 15k chrome installs and about 650 registered users (you don't need to register to use the site, just to keep editing your links)

I need help with:

  - Design (it's terrible)

  - Logo (it hasn't got one)

  - Marketing (I've never done any)

  - Making more money (it makes just enough to cover hosting)
What should I do to take it to the next level? Should I even bother? It's designed to help people share similar content through one link, hassle free.

Email is in my profile

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

rob3139 wrote: post #73

I'm working on codeschool.org.uk - currently a coding summer school for 16-19 year olds. We'd love to pivot into something more like flatironschool.com or makersacademy.com - longer courses for adults, getting them to junior dev level - but don't know how to start recruiting candidates. Anyone have experience in this area? rob at codeschool.org.uk Thanks!

Can't really help but noticed a couple of typos "recommendations, [sponsorship,] bursaries and sponsorship" (our two main weapons!) and "available until 15th May 2014, after which the sum[mer] will increase" (delete parenthesised text).

How you're fitting in all you mention on your personal /about page is beyond me. I've been considering running a code club at my eldest's school : will be interested to see your review (http://www.robpercival.co.uk/tag/code-club/).

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by asselinpaul »

dynofuz wrote: post #100

I'd like a partner for my startup hedge fund that uses machine learning and nlp. If you have experience with those check out dynofuz.com or @dynofuz. You can also email me with ricky at that domain.

Nice project, I remember seeing this before.

Small UX issue, on the input field for email addresses, the text isn't a placeholder (doesn't disappear when you start typing).

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by codezero »

Help Me Out: I left academia to come to Silicon Valley into a non-technical role, but I want to get back into technical work.

The help I need is mainly in how I should market myself to prospective employers.

I have a technical background, mainly in support and quality assurance, but I'd like to get my hands more dirty with a full software engineering role.

I need some guidance with deciding what to focus on when preparing for interviews, what kinds of projects to work on in my free time, and what kinds of positions I should be looking for that will be willing to interview/hire someone who hasn't had a software engineering role despite being a bit older.

My older resume: http://jclo.co/john-resume.pdf Github and LinkedIn, as well as contact email are in profile.

Help You Out: I am pretty good at finding bugs, testing software, and writing. I can proof read documentation, resumes, cover letters, or any other text written in English, or close to English. I'm not judgmental about the idiosyncrasies non-native writers/speakers have, and I am happy to point out that they speak/write English better than I speak/write any other language, but I'm also happy to identify and correct those idiosyncrasies if you want.

From working at Quora, I have some good insights about how startups scale their infrastructure (I also helped to write a long polling back-end in Go for an "off road" project), and I can offer some minor insights.

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by sixpenrose16 »

HMO: Need help with Marketing for app that will be launching within two weeks.

Project: http://NewsCast.io

Project: News App that summarizes articles across the web. Status: The app is done. Website done. I really need help with putting it out there so people are aware of it and build a presence. I know we can grow this.

I can help with new ventures or partnership.

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by jtreminio »

HMO: I've got a FOSS[0] that presents a simple, easy to use GUI for developers to help them create Vagrant/Puppet manifests for local development, and for deploying to hosts like DigitalOcean, Rackspace, AWS.

It's mostly me doing the development, and it seems to be fairly popular. However, I need help with several things!

I need a proper release process. Right now I'm just developing locally, pushing to git then pulling on prod. I want to implement Puppet tests to make sure everything jives.

I need a process to create random VMs using different configuration combinations, to make sure all my options are ok.

I also want to add support for more languages, as I currently have for PHP. Python, Ruby, Node are on my to-do but not really sure how to properly set those languages up!

Contact me on

Skype - jtreminio twitter - @juantreminio email - jtreminio@gmail.com

[0] https://puphpet.com

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