Show HN: Rabbits – Send an email to get any grunt-work programming job completed

I have actually worked with people before that turn in projects incomplete just to have it in by the business due date, then later say sorry it has this or that bug. They do the pretend it is working dance.

Services like this tend to be the done rather than complete type of programmers unless it is an easily verifiable task.

Any programmer knows, there are many stages of done and only one complete. Is your developer you get a done type of doer or someone who completes something?

I see where you're coming from, but I don't think this service is really trying to solve the (impossible) problem that you lay out. This is more about hiring human labour in an efficient way than it is about making software. From the homepage, I think this is the most interesting example:

   Ok, so I can 
  (1) scrape all the pages; 
  (2) grab the name, address, 
  and phone number of every listing; and 
  (3) put all the listings into a CSV 
  spreadsheet. 
  This will be <price redacted> 
  and take three hours. Is that ok?*

This type of exchange is a kind of economic fundamental. Economies are a long, long way from efficiencies and one of the biggest elements limiting them is what economists term "transaction costs." These are sometimes literal, like paying an attorney to write a contract. More often, it's a general communications difficulty.

Solving those communication problems produces. Programming-oriented-tasks is not necessarily a bad place to explore.

  >For example, we're still copy and pasting your email into our admin dashboard to get your signup link.

Two days of effort would get you to a basic presentation polish (privacy policy, terms, about, and more elaboration on the financial / payment side of things), along with a PO Box.

I could help if you're still looking to have this done. My email is in my profile.

You'll have better luck on Elance

"Get in touch (we're hiring!)"

Which is a mailto link for hello@ilikerabbits.com.

Regardless, if you can run the game on a Mac or Linux box, just open a shell and run this 'sudo tcpdump'. You'll see a bunch of background traffic and then you should see the connections to your hosts.

Hmm.

My experiences with them have been great on all these metrics. I've worked with them as a dev and referred a few happy friends. Email's in my profile if you'd like to hear more.

This website is one team making what the client asks for, there's no competition.

Unless that's what's happening behind the scenes.

By working class, I mean "not the capitalist class." There is still a big difference between programming and say, boilermaking. But in 2015, tech companies are the factories of last century. (We even call them software shops!)

There is a spectrum of quality of course, and a lot of people take a lot of pride in their craft, especially when they do it well, noting the beauty of good code, etc. but at the end of the day, most people who make chairs, for example, are not the highly-paid turtlenecked Danish guy whose work is basically art that you can sit on...most people who make chairs work in factories and churn them out on an assembly line. So it is with programming.

To your point, it certainly is in the interest of those who hire programmers to pay them as little as possible, given the nature of the economic system we find ourselves in. Consider also the trend of startups paying sub-market salaries and compensating with equity. The startup route certainly looks like a way to do programming while freeing yourself from the will of The Man (I'm being tongue-in-cheek here, but you understand the vibe, I hope), but when you get right down to it, it's more of the same. Instead of corporate execs, you have investors. Instead of middle management, you have founders. The programmer is still just the programmer.