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97 pointskungfooey45 comments

You should randomize the list when you display it, to make it more fair for people who sign up late.

It also badly needs proximity based search. People don't find me unless they enter Berkeley in the location field, so I'm stuck between listing San Francisco for more hits or Berkeley for more accuracy.

Its a text based search and I'm working on some simple query expansion to resolve SF / Bay Area / San Francisco type queries as the same. There are still a few open questions for implementing proximity search ...

A simple approach is to just geocode all the locations to a lat/lon and do a proximity search using WGS84. If someone has a location entry in their profile that fails geocoding, put up a warning the next time they login telling them that their location was not resolved and they should update it.

Don't worry about queries like "SF" or "Bay area"... if it's not good enough for the geocoder to resolve the location, just return an error message.

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/

If you do implement this, you should release the source code.

A handful of projects need a tool that allows GIS over text locations.

At the moment "more complete" profiles are ranked higher. But I agree, there should be some randomization introduced.

Is there a way to claim my listing on the site and edit it?

Edit: Nevermind I found a way. Go to login, and click "forgot password". Enter the email address you entered as contact info on the spreadsheet. A password reset link will be emailed to you and you can then use that to login and claim and edit your profile.

Right, thats the best way for now. If you still have trouble, feel free to email me (email is on my profile).

I did receive a few error messages when editing my profile. They just said that the owner of the site had received a notification and to check product.log It happened when I was attempting to edit my rate.

After a few tries it worked. I think it might have been related to entering too much text in the rate field, because when I shortened my explanation it worked just fine.

Correct, the rate is a string field so has a 255 char limit. It was mostly intended for short values such as "$100 / hr"

Note: I'm not the author. Just noticed some traffic coming via this to my personal site (http://dailytechnology.net) and originally intended to post it to see any comments associated.

The original spreadsheet is here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs3clVJ...

Original HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1262467

Curious to know, has anyone here got any gigs via the spreadsheet ?

Has anyone got spam via the site?

I haven't received any spam, only job offers.

Had a few opportunities I didn't pursue from it.

Someone contacted me about being a technical co-founder, but I declined. I'm more interested in picking up part time work.

doing development for a startup that contacted me via the spreadsheet right now. didn't really look for work, but the project was interesting enough.

I didn't enter any data on that spreadsheet on what my skills are etc (I was/am not really looking for work,just entered my user id for the heck of it) but still got a few emails looking for technical founders. Nothing very interesting/significant though.

EDIT: It looks like my entry isn't there any longer. :)

I don't think I've removed any profiles. I can look into this if you like.

"I don't think I've removed any profiles. "

Oh I didn't mean to say you did. Maybe I removed it myself (from the original spreadsheet) I don't remember.

"I can look into this if you like."

Thanks for the offer but please don't bother. Not important at all.

It's surprisingly effective passive advertising.

Yeah, I did.

Contracting enquiry that I am currently to busy to fulfill.

I created the original sheet (and have hired and attempted to hire from it). As I said then, I don't love the bifurcation of data - I don't think that this author is updating the data back, or even when it was updated - but I'm not sure if I can do anything about that.

"Links" section needs a GitHub field.

and bitbucket, sourceforge, googlecode, stackoverflow etc.,

i second the github field. perhaps gravatar support too?

Generic "links" section should suffice.

Good idea. I'll add a GitHub field.

This is a very awesome app. The basic info/links section in the edit project page should be expanded by default. Not to be negative but I don't see how I'll get any benefit from this. Very few startups are located in my area and on a cursory glance, my skill-set is pretty common. I guess that also means I need to expand my skills.

Nice UI.

Seems like this is similar to the Google spreadsheet I posted some time ago - except it was oriented towards co-founder matchmaking http://cofoundergoogledocs.com

Original post: "Do you need a co-founder? (Google Docs list)" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052950

I think Profile View counter would be nice, aswell as some more space in the "Bio" text box.

I also second the randomized list/front page

I'm curious as to why you're not using Gravatar for the profile photos. Given that a lot of people signing up already have a Gravatar account it would probably make sense.

Also, on the 'Edit profile' page it would probably make more sense to have the forms displayed by default rather than hidden.

Other than that I like it! Signed up!

While it usually annoys me when people reuse data like that when posted on the web, I have to say Kung Fooey, you did it exceptionally well and you made it extremely easy and painless to "claim" my data. Thanks for the good work.

As I posted in the comments, I'm not the author. This guy is:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rbitar

Well good job rbitar

It seems people can't update the information in the site?

I found a way to claim my profile and update it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1410822

I'm getting an error message while attempting to register, too.

Ditto.

I was using SendGrid for email delivery and needed to upgrade the plan since I reached my limit. It should work now.

Author's email is in whois, for those who have questions.

I'm the author. Feel free to email me anything at rbitar [at] gmail.

www.hndir.com

OHMIGOD I'M GOING TO FINALLY BE ABLE TO HIRE COMPETENT FREELANCERS PRAISE BE TO JESUS

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