hongquan

All in good time my friend. :) We've only just begun.

Tom,

Thanks for the awesome feedback, we agree it seems like a dating app, and we'll have to work hard to overcome any awkwardness and craft the best experience possible. Our focus is on finding Coders in Silicon Valley, but our big idea is much much bigger. Hope we can solve all the problems you've brought up.

We'll have something for you. #startupvisas

Awesome!

We'll have to grab coffee with some great Android Devs then. ;)

Thanks Alan!

No Recruiters! You would only meet with Founders and bad startups will get flagged by Coder's rating them.

We hope to have the app out soon!

Thanks! We will add more roles. Sysadmins are in high demand here too.

We have a native app built. Just needs approval. :)

Sorry, we've just got the iPhone app. Android is in our future plans.

We're working with the startups directly. If you want to be featured, send us a note at startups@coderscoffee.com

We've been saying it's Highlight for Hackers. :)

GeekGrindr sounds painful. ;)

Sorry about that, we're using another startup's product for the sign-ups. Will take a look.

The key is finding the best fit, not only the "best" Coders. People try to use numbers to evaluate candidates, but at the end of the day, we're all human.

That looks cool, thanks for letting us know!

Agreed. We're working on a ranking and reputation algorithm that will only show the best Coders for the Startups. We don't want to waste anyone's time, on both sides.

Thanks! Those are known issues but we'll work on it! We will build an Android version for sure, but it's just one guy right now. :)

There are plenty of portfolio sites online, Forrst and the two mentioned below. This is a good article from my friend Wells:

http://www.wellsriley.com/blog/2012/startup-looking-for-a-de...

The important thing is to know exactly what you're looking for, make the deliverables perfectly clear and keep your budget in mind.

Cheers, Hong

Don't really watch this show, but it was an entertaining episode and fun to see how they edited it for the masses.

There is a solution here, but not everyone will like it.

Shitty recruiters do this shit because at the end of the day, it still works. Or works well enough for them to make a decent salary. Really shitty recruiters quit after a year or two because their base salary is very low (or even zero) and they don't get their commissions if they don't get placements. Ignore them and they will literally die off.

All the Engineers, Designers, Developers who complain about this practice should just put these recruiters on blast. I freaking LOVE what DHH is doing with those stupid recruiter emails. Why don't all of you do that? Those shitty recruiters will be on notice, their Agencies will be embarrassed by the bad PR or Google Search results and no startup will use their services.

At the end of the day, a good recruiter (full disclosure: that's my day job) will still be in demand because they do more than push resumes.

Cheers, Hong

Thanks for this post Bubs. People always ask how can I/they do startups and be a good Dad/Mom/Parent. The flexible nature of our work is key. I can still put in more time than these young Founders and not miss (too often) my most important meetings with my two little angel investors - my kids.

I'll probably get flamed/negative karma for this, but here goes. I actually know the folks involved so I won't comment on any of the details. Anthony and Andrew are both doing their jobs. How well they are doing it is up to you to decide.

I will say that taking one startup's stumble, or even their eventual demise, as a data-point to slam a whole program is pretty harsh. I'm a Mentor for 20 Under 20 and I certainly don't think the mission is to get kids to drop out of college, but it's easy for the media to push this little sound bite. If you've meet any of the Fellows you would know they're out to change the world and would likely do so with or without Peter's money. Failure is the expected outcome for the vast majority of startups. All you Founders here know that, or will learn it first hand. Most of these kids have never failed at anything in their lives, and will unfortunately face these hard lessons in the public eye. It's really easy to criticize and grab pitchforks online.

You can think whatever you want about the situation at Airy Labs and you are entitled to your opinion of Andrew Hsu as well. But to try and lump all the other Fellows into this is unfair to them and quite disappointing.

Was advising a startup yesterday and all I did was cut the fat and distill their product vision. They felt it was helpful but they had already done all the work. Just a matter of adding focus. Great post (as usual) from Andrew Chen.

But my startup is groupon-for-mint! We're saving the universe. ;)

I didn't know Adam Nash worked at LinkedIn. :) Very cool HackDay Project man. This should be rolled out to ROW where it would be helpful. Or is it just the Valley where everyone has a computer in their pocket?

Great follow up to the diatom bloom analogy. Investors are partially to blame when they suggest we entrepreneurs "look at what XXX startup and YYY startup is doing." If your idea or market segment is too new / under-served they get scared. Sheep mentality runs rampant on both sides of the table.

I think this could be a revolutionary way to think about how 'work' is done in a startup. Short sprints of 2 days with time in between to recharge could work well for some. The time constraint forces you to focus and changes your mindset about what is possible. Maybe not 15 weekends, but a month could be composed of 10-12 solid 'weekend' sessions. To me it would be more about energy-management than time-management.