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PHP developer wanted for hot startup with impressive growth

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Some technical details: we use the php Yii framework. It’s not hard to learn, so any good developer can get up to speed quickly, but if you have experience with it, even better. Other useful skills include the LinkedIn and Twitter APIs, but again, you can learn them in a day. You, ideally, are very much available and live in Silicon Valley. And can afford to forgo salary for a (short) amount of time. Because you are a risk taker and you like to build fun stuff that actually makes people’s lives better.

Us? We launched a week ago. We got picked up on Techcrunch, Mashable, UrbanDaddy and more coming. A thousand visitors is a slow day, and it's only been a week! :-)

Wait, you're serious ? I thought this post was submitted to join the trend of "looking for codemonkey" posts that we ridicule. Because the "you can forgo salary" part kinda makes it sound like one of those.

1) I have been running the co-founders meetup here in Silicon Valley for almost two years, so I can tell you that there are valid offers for jobs without salary (or way below market rate, shall we say).

2) If you think we are just a bunch of clueless "business guys" with no respect for coders, I used to design processors for a living and can still disassemble 6502 assembly code from hex :-)

[ouch - downvoting hurts. And flagged into oblivion. Seriously? ]

No downvoting here, I have known both co-founders of LetsLunch for quite sometime. Its a very capable team, with a solid track record, and tons of industry support behind them. Anyone joining such a team should consider themselves lucky to be part of the ride.

If you want my unsolicited, half-assed feedback, here it is:

1. The way you worded the submission title makes it sound like a parody. I think "LetsLunch, a [business description], is hiring" would be less off-putting. As it is, I think you are scaring away the geeks.

2. Using the default wordpress theme makes you look amateurish, at least switch it to a minimalist, but not immediately recognizable, free theme ("Scherzo" is a good one). I know you've only been going for a week and you're probably busy getting the word out, but this makes a bad first impression.

3. It might help to have a more prominent link to your website from the blog. My first impression was that the blog was all you had (typing in the url isn't a lot of work, but asking first time visitors to do work is asking for bounces).

Good feedback, thanks.

It is nice to see PHP still getting a little love in the startup world.

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