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Railyo - job board for Rails freelancers

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Having started a job board before (orangeslyce.com), one recommendation I have is to pre-seed the board with jobs to help get over the chicken/egg problem. You can hustle analog and get some posts or even copy quality postings off other sites. Sure they won't be paying customers, but it's kindling for the fire and gives the appearance of social proof.

But it's a private job board - so developers can't see any job offers until they are signed up :) Anyway - it's really a problem - until know - there is only one job offer - from the launch (around two weeks).

37signals lets people browse jobs, but not see contact information, until they sign up/pay. A similar workflow might be a possibility here.

Seems good, Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check into that!

I tried to register 4+ times with a password that included special characters, but each time it said my password didn't match. Once I changed it to an insecure password, it went through. I could have been bad typing on my part 4 times, but... you may want to test this.

Also - It doesn't appear that the profile visibility dropdown gets repopulated after form submission failure with the previously selected option.

I'll check out the password thing, and the profile visibility dropdown error - I got it. I'll fix it. Thank You :)

Forget the special characters and get more entropy from the sheer length of the password. Now if they restrict that, you have a problem.

(Also use a decent password manager that can remember randomly-generated 30-40 character strings for you.)

If you are a Django developer, there is a similar approach:

http://djangogigs.com/

I got your cold email the other day. About the 3rd cold email I've gotten from an HN user. I was happy. Anyhow, your email copy is not very good. Work on it. I also replied to the email and you never answered? If you contact me then reply. You lost your chance, because I know a lot of Rails developers.

Thank You for the suggestion! but I checked my email box and I never received any application/email from your email address (as listed on your HN profile) ? kinda weird though, I never miss any email.

Oh! I got it. :(

few things i could have done differently:

> importing developer data from linked-in/github instead of form filling.

> Showing some jobs as it will make me sign up to the site. How do i know how many jobs are there??

yeah, signing up with github could be more faster and easy! but jobs preview requires some job submissions! (one is not enough :))

Crashed, when I clicked on the hompepage URL of this developer: http://railyo.com/developers/53

And btw your app runs in development environment!

I added the `http://` to the developer's url and it's fine!

About Development Environment - yeah, it's displaying error messages instead of error page.

I'm using Capistrano for deployment! May be I had previously enabled error reporting during testing and forgot to turn it off in production environment. I'm checking into that.

it's running in production mode only - verified the log file using "tail -f log/production.log", but I'm not sure what is causing this behavior. (error messages)

No search? Browsing through page upon page is going to get tired soon.

Number of Developers were low, so I left that out. I'll soon add search feature, possibly integrated with Google Map. Thank You :)

Is Railyo open source?

not until now, but if it will be useful for other people (may be in setting up a job board quickly on anything) then I would love to open source it.

I am working on a project and Railyo's functionality is perfect for what I am looking for. Do you mind open sourcing it?

There are lots of bugs and incomplete features, I'll tackle most of them - in next few days. So after a week, I'll open source it :) my github username: rkjha

Awesome, thank you!

Is that I'm the only one think the site itself proves Rails isn't the silver bullet to solve all web application requirement out there? You guys could have done a way better job.

Oh! anyway, I thought it's just an MVP to test the idea that whether a private job board for rails can work or not?

(the developer/designer of Railyo)

It's a job board. Who ever said Rails was a magical silver bullet? Spread your anger and animosity elsewhere.

Rails isn't a silver bullet, but this doesn't show that it is any worse than anything else

rails -g scaffold developer name:string desc:text

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:) why things has to be complicated. If `rails -g scaffold * ` solves a problem then what's wrong with it ?

Yes! I agree! This is a great attitude. Good luck with your project! :)

Thanks a lot :)

This dismissal of technical problems by fellow hackers always confuses me. As a 20-something I'm all too tempted to routinely adopt the "oh, psh, that's easy" bravado, but as I always tell my junior devs, "if you think it's easy, you don't understand the problem yet"

You have a good point, but some problems really are easy.

That doesn't mean they aren't worth doing. Actually, things which are easy to do mean less time and cost to develop, which is a big upside if you are trying to get something done. Which hopefully most of us are doing, most of the time?

any_feedback?

I'd suggest taking a few minutes (tops) to tweak the confirmation email. Either the sender, the subject, or the body (or all) should specify it's coming from Railyo.

In gmail, the sender is showing as "bots"--I came close to deleting it.

Oh!! probably that's the reason why most of my manual invitation - received no replies / signups. Thank you :) I'll fix that soon.

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