Comment by bcambel | Hacker News Reader

Comment by bcambel | Hacker News Reader

> Open to the possibility of interesting side projects if you have any ideas Rather than saying a generic sentence, you might also say "Work on your side projects 4h per week" or whatever your hour constraint will be.

No future plans to use a NoSQL db ?

What do you mean by separate JS app ? Node.JS app or ASP.NET C# app with a single page ?

You mentioned your website. Which one ? The app or the front end ?

"Highly proficient with ASP.net c# development" Are you using ASP.NET 1.1 or cutting edge ASP.NET MVC ?

Request a GitHub account on the listing or CodePlex..

"are willing to pay a competitive salary to reflect this."

You're looking for your first employee, you don't offer stock options, you don't look for a great all hands developer which you'll not pay over the "competitive" salary. I believe You are calling for B/C programmers ( where A+ won't apply )

For the employee this is a risky job, if I were looking for a job, I would't apply.

I hope my tone was positive and constructive..

Thanks for the feedback!

> No future plans to use a NoSQL db?

No, but I'm curious as to why you would mention this?

> What do you mean by separate JS app ?

A new software project (I'll clarify this)

> Are you using ASP.NET 1.1 or cutting edge ASP.NET MVC ?

.NET 4.0 webforms

> You're looking for your first employee, you don't offer stock options, you don't look for a great all hands developer which you'll not pay over the "competitive" salary. I believe You are calling for B/C programmers ( where A+ won't apply )

We have a lot of cash in the bank at the moment, and are willing to pay a competitive salary if we find the ideal candidate. We feel like we are in a comfortable position (good revenue history, and an angel who would be willing to invest more into us and very little out-going expenses), and we're not going to expect the candidate to work like a dog and after hours, the atmosphere is relaxed and there isn't a lot of pressure like earlier stage startups. Therefore don't need to offer equity. Is this a reasonable position?

Thanks for all your feedback, very helpful and constructive - exactly what we are after :) I'll make some edits and talk to my brother about some things you raised.

> No, but I'm curious as to why you would mention this? stay on the top of the tech. Your employee's next job might require experience on MongoDb, Cassandra, Redis, etc.. And there is a lot difference using in production vs playing at home. Would you like to have a dev who only had experience with JS, ASP.NET or MSSQL on his projects ? No. And believe me as developers we learn best when we are working on things for a long time on production systems ( you're probably a dev as well, so you know these things )

> We have a lot of cash in the bank at the moment.. Great, explain this in adv. as well. You mentioned an angel investor might invest more, which means he already invested in. Make this clear, mention this, all of it. Be very open.

> don't need to offer equity Why not ? If you are making money, share some more with conditions. Offer some kind of compensation of somebody's hard work. Would you like somebody to work for you 6m vs 2y ? Offering equity of course is more complicated. You can "vest" his equity. Talk to your lawyer/advisor about this if you don't know what vesting is.

Let me clear what I mean, you need to look for more long term employees with offering more salary, giving more responsibility, placing some nice options, and this new "tech" stuff makes you imho more attractive. Much better developers, less dev time, more happy employees, successful business, more money in your pocket. This is a very crucial cycle.

Good luck Tom, if you have any more questions, don't hesitate. Cheers

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