HN: Hire me? (Free btw)
I'm willing to do a few small (10-20 hours) iOS development jobs for a few HNers at no cost whatsoever. Bonus points if it's for your startup or you have work leading on in to the future.
WHAT I CAN DO
I love anything web-based. I'm primarily an iOS guy, but I love Ruby (Sinatra in particular and Rails is cool too). I've done some PHP too. I also do frontend work.
If you need something that I can't do yet, note that I love learning new things — how do you think I got myself into all this?
If you need more information on past projects, hook me up and I'll be able to show you.
WHY I'M DOING THIS
I've been teaching myself this stuff over the last few years, but I don't have too much to show for it. I want to freelance, so I'm trying to build up my portfolio, and doing some free work occurred to me as a great way to do so while making new contacts at the same time. I tried this approach with success a couple of weeks back and I'm trying it again at a larger scale now.
CAVEATS
I just ask that requests be very limited in scope (say, something that would take a decent developer a few days), and I should be able to show the work in my portfolio. Also, I'm only free the first time. Finally, if I get many requests somehow, I may have to turn some down. But I doubt that will happen.
YOU SHOULD CONTACT ME
Even if you're not sure, or don't need it until later. What do you have to lose? Not money. What might you gain? A competent coder, or at least some work done by one. Please contact me now!
Email: ross@boun.cr