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Post by nhoss2 » Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 12:46 PM UTC

HN statistics
labs.im

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Post by adam-_- » Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 1:20 PM UTC

You should put the hire me call to action further up the page!

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Post by alpb » Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 1:22 PM UTC

I'm wondering if you could ever discover daily commenting user count or even maybe monthly active user count somehow and share with us. That would be awesome.

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Post by vhf » Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 1:23 PM UTC

adam-_- wrote: post #2

You should put the hire me call to action further up the page!

Yep. You deserve it !

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Post by cvursache » Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 1:24 PM UTC

A guy with nice skills like you shouldn't have '' in his source code. Although it is funny.

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Post by rickhutcheson » Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 1:27 PM UTC

adam-_- wrote: post #2

You should put the hire me call to action further up the page!

seconded

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Post by dkroy » Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 1:28 PM UTC

I hope you get the money you need to continue your education, you are very talented.

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Post by dkroy » Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 1:31 PM UTC

If you want your d3 graphs to work in IE8 you might want to use https://github.com/shawnbot/aight

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Post by andreasklinger » Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 1:44 PM UTC

@nhoss2 Slightly offtopic:

Love the honesty on your http://labs.im/ page. But you might be underselling yourself. You are saying you are willing to work cheaply because you are young and a risk.

You are capable of using node.js, you use phantomJS, you seem to have good product and ux thinking and you are able to use github. Just the last one alone puts you on the upper 50% of the worldwide freelance market. Not to speak of the first three things i mentioned.

As somebody living in UK i appreciate your modesty and i wish you all the best for your jobhunt. Projects like this are genius thing to do, continue until you find something :)

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Post by csomar » Tue, Aug 07, 2012, 1:54 PM UTC

Your labs.im pitch is probably going to send you the worst freelance jobs you'll ever have. Nobody gives a shit about your situation, and your University tuition fees. Actually, this signals a red flag for serious clients: You might drop their project as soon as you get some financing.

Promote yourself as a young, intelligent and enthusiast developer with coding and design skills. Price your hourly rate at $80-100/hour; and get your tuition paid in the next couple weeks.

Edit: Quite a discussion here. I'd like to add that an important part of doing business is trust. Clients are going to throw lots of money that's going to evaporate on HTML and JavaScript code. They want to be sure that you are the guy who is going to give them the right result.

Tip: Make a decent lab page. Look at design agencies in sortfolio and copy them (not their design, their strategy). Build a couple more projects, and open source them on Github. Send emails to design agencies, and try to build a network.

Finally, decide if you want to do this for a living or concentrate on EE. The overhead to get a single project is the same to get a constant stream of projects.