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niicoon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)

Hey! I'm a Senior product designer — Ex-Facebook, WhatsAp and venture-backed founder.

Looking for a founding/senior product design role (IC)

• Email: nico (at) betasf.com

• Portfolio: https://betasf.com & https://dribbble.com/nico

• Location: Latam

• Remote: Yes

• Willing to relocate: Not full time

• Technologies: Figma

• Résumé/CV: Senior product designer — Facebook, WhatsApp & venture-backed founder.

niicoon Starlink Maritime

I wonder if i can expense this as my WFH setup

niicoon Ask HN: I'm a Product Designer looking to work on Bitcoin-related projects

Thanks man. Not looking for a full time role, rather collaborating on exciting projects on my spare time.

niicoon Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?

"If I was you" this is what I would do:

Build awesome products or have a killer portfolio/github and work anonymously for crypto-related projects. Build a reputation around your username not your real name. Try getting paid in BTC, etc.

niicoon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2021)

FREELANCE SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER | Seeking work | Remote

I'm a senior product designer, specialized in UI/UX design for mobile and web apps.

For portfolio and case studies: https://nico.im/

niicoon Show HN: Let's build this app together

I'm looking for a technical co-founder to build this app with me. The idea is to create a free platform to help people make new friends and play sports at the same time.

niicoon Google outage – resolved

Also down in Paraguay

niicoon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2020)

SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER

Location: South America Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Figma, Adobe, etc.

Portfolio: https://www.nico.im

Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/hyped

Email: nicogarcia@gmail.com

About: I'm a Senior Product Designer. I currently* lead a design agency called Hyped, where I do hands-on work and lead teams working for startups from around the world in projects that span from pure upstream concept work to ready to ship products.

*I'm in the process of selling 100% of my shares to my partner and now will be looking to join a fast-moving & growing startup

niicoon HN Experiment: We'll design and build your MVP, you set the price

During this quarantine, at our design studio we came up with this goal/experiment:

We want to launch 5 new startups by June and we will take care of the whole process: from branding to UI design to building a web-based MVP.

Though we normally charge ~$12-20k for a job like this, for this experiment we want YOU to set the price.

Pitch us your idea on this Google form and let's do it!

niicoon Who is hiring remote workers?

If anybody is looking for a freelance or full-time remote UI Designer. I will be happy to help you! Portfolio: http://ngb.agency/

niicoon Ask HN: Best website to get a custom logo?

Happy to do it. You can pay me what you want.

niicoon Show HN: I will (re)design your app for $1k

Actually, when I first posted I was like "eh, nobody will write. This is dumb" and I deleted it, but shortly after I got 2 people interested. So I guess its not a bad idea after all :)

niicoon Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

Deer god.

niicoon Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

Someone should make a round up of HN apps. My personal favorite: Boreal

niicoon Tell HN: Clickable domains and other new features for story quality

@Dang, I once posted a link and then someone reposted the same link but added /# to it. HN treated that as a new URL and that link, because karma -I think- got to the FP. Any solution to that?

niicoon Frontback Shutting Down

You're correct

niicoon Show HN: TOP.ST – Get the news before it starts trending

Very interesting! My only (design) suggestion: The H1 title looks like a logo. I'd add a logo there and move the H1 to somewhere more visible (At least for the first few months of the site)

Funny, a couple weeks ago we launched our Chrome extension that sends you a notification every time there is a top story on HN also called TOP. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9612653) :D

niicoon Get notified whenever there’s a new top post on Hacker News

Actually the #1 spot (the one you get a notification from) has very little movement. I was surprised by that

niicoon Get notified whenever there’s a new top post on Hacker News

Totally agree. We're just testing a concept here. If people like the product, we'll keep adding more and more filters and features like that

niicoon Mailpile

Fire your designer

niicoon Show HN: Pangoly – Build your shiny new PC

Very well built. Kudos to the founders. Also should add other options like home media centers and other stuff.

niicoon The Tech Beach – Revamp your app design in 31 days

As a designer, sounds not only like a great deal to me but a hell of a fun month. (Im not related to the company)

niicoon Nod - Touchless Interaction

The product looks amazing, I wonder how long it will take the porn industry to come up with it first Nod-based app.

niicoon Amazon Launch Event

They will be launching their smartphone. Source: http://bgr.com/2014/04/15/amazon-smartphone-photos-specs-kin...

niicoon Show HN: Vhoto – Find photos in your videos

Why not pause the video and take a screenshot of it?

niicoon Argentina's Currency Black Market

I've been living in Buenos Aires for over 4 years now. The secret for infinite money basically is selling Bitcoins to USD and then selling the USD to Ar$ Pesos.

Right now 1 USD = 10.10 Ar Pesos.

Here are some references:

1 Bus ticket from 1.50 to 3 Pesos.

1 Bic Mac about 45 pesos.

1 Coca Cola 8 or 9 pesos.

1 Dinner in a medium to fancy restaurant 150 pesos (200+ if you drink wine).

If any hacker is in town, let me know.

niicoon Show HN: Unibox, the people-centric email client released on the Mac App Store

Indeed, looks pretty nice and sharp.

niicoon Union Square Ventures' new website

Wow. I just hope their EIR didn't come up with this. Otherwise I would feel very disappointed. What surprise me is the lack of identity. Why? Why would they even want to do this? They are USfuckingV. One of the most aspirational and important funds and yet they do this. Meh. Instead of us posting stuff on their WhateverTheyCallNewsSite we should be reading them and learning how to do stuff.

niicoon Ask HN: Is it legit to sell HN account with high karma points?

I bet if you dig in Silk Road you can find someone selling it.

niicoon [dead]

I'm open to new stuff.