I'm a Rails developer (2+ years experience), and I'm trying to do something fun.
This could be your minimum viable product. This could be what you link to in incubator applications (DreamIt's deadline is July 8!). Don't expect anything too fancy--just a web application that closely matches your basic vision.
Examples of things I can build:
-Integrations with 3rd party APIs (eg Twitter, Facebook etc.)
-Real-time web apps (eg, if a certain person tweets, send a push notification to users)
-An application that sends custom emails
-A/B tests
-A basic search engine, content management system, blog, or social network
-A back-end for a mobile app (not the mobile application itself)
-A Simple Bayes classification system
Be creative!
What I want from you:
-A phone call explaining your vision
-Mockups, sketches and descriptions of your idea
-Any graphics and copy text you want me to include
-Seven days of patience
-$500 (US)
What you get from me:
-A Ruby on Rails web application with a MySQL or Sqlite database
-Very basic design. If you want something pretty, buy a design from themeforest or 99designs and I'll be glad integrate it (No PSDs, just HTML and CSS)
-Hosting on Heroku (free tier only)
-Full ownership of the code (upon completion and full payment)
Leave questions or ideas in the comments below, or feel free to email me: [my HN username]@gmail.com. I hope to get started in the next 1-2 days.
"Keep your fiends close but your enemies closer." That should be the tagline, and it should be black.... dark colors. Red or white fonts, maybe a little animation of flames, like in hell. (Because who doesn't want their enemies to burn in hell.. amiright?)
But the key thing, ok this is mint... is that people will have to pay to sign up. So money will be rolling in as it grows. And you would get paid as the money comes in, rather than getting screwed with just $500 up front. I would cut you in, is what I'm saying, and you'd cash out l8er.
Let's talk.