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Also try this experiment: on one occasion, actively pursue an opportunity "overheard with friends" - when that activity is complete, recount the entire experience and decide if there was truly something you could have lived without. On another occasion, actively turn down such an opportunity and pursue something in the meantime. If you can do this once, do it again, and you'll start to learn to balance the pursuit of such opportunities and likewise a restraint. As motivation: If you don't turn down an opportunity then you are missing out on this experiment!

Which itself _is_ open source: https://github.com/SpiderOak/Encryptr

Location: Dallas/Fort Worth

Remote: Yes

Willing To Relocate: No, but depending on the length/scope of the project I am absolutely open to traveling anywhere in the U.S. to meet with you periodically throughout our engagement.

Looking For: Web application development/redevelopment, growth hacking, custom development targeting specific business problems

After working for a small consultancy for some time now, and providing significant contributions to large projects for highly recognizable national brands, I'm seeking more flexibility and am launching out on my own. I'm good at what I do - developing web applications from the ground up and redesigning existing applications to increase revenue - but as I'm making this new move I'm looking for a client who can go out on a limb and trust in my experience even though I don't yet have client work under my own name to showcase.

Obviously, I would absolutely be interested in working for you at a significant discount if you'd be willing to allow me to use our collaboration as a public case-study that I'd be able to reference with my future clients.

I am not interested in building an application for the sake of building an application or coding in XYZ technologies for the sake of coding in XYZ technologies.

I am interested in having a conversation about you, your customers, and what particular business problems you are trying to solve.

Contact: quentin@qdonnellan.com

I wouldn't say that this project of mine is "big" in the canonical sense, and it is only meagerly "profitable" by a loose interpretation of the word; but this has been a huge side project from my personal point of view. Essentially, I started this when I was teaching high school full-time and needed a better website for my calculus class. The "big" impact of this project is that it opened a door to a new career for me: I'm now a full-time software engineer and thus measure its profits on the order of my current salary, which is hugely significant to me.

(https://github.com/qdonnellan/lessonwell)

the current task: refactoring my code to incorporate new things I've learned, namely: TDD and knockoutjs + json API. After 2 years of self learning python, I'm looking to transition from teaching into development and am hoping to use this project to showcase what I've learned!

My first big web application has absolutely no unit tests. None. Why? Well, when I first learned to code I was taking the Udacity cs253 course, in which there was no instruction on unittesting in Python, so several of my projects shortly thereafter contained no unittesting. I was actually quite proud of these projects until my brother asked if I had any tests ... "what is a test?" ... his face was priceless.

Also "Rule of thumb, you are never ready. Just go for it" is basically the best advice I've heard for essentially any new task; it's nice to have that reinforced.