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victorin

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Spanish hacker interested in

* startups * data science * machine learning * algorithmic trading * hedge funds

and all sorts of financial engineering.

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victorin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)
Fundcraft | DevOps Engineer | Girona (Spain) | Full-time | ONSITE

fundcraft is a fintech startup founded in late 2020 in Luxembourg, aiming to disrupt the Venture Capital fund administration market using technology.

We are looking for experienced DevOps Engineers with a passion for automating deployments and scaling and optimizing the CI/CD environments.

What You'll Do:

  - Implement DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration, and automated deployment that leverage AWS services
  - Build, manage, and deploy architectures using technologies such as Terraform and Ansible
  - Automate tasks across the full CI/CD lifecycle to create an efficient developer experience and reduce manual toil
  - Promote and implement best practices in observability (monitoring, tracing, alerting, logging) and high availability within the software engineering group
Submit resumes to victor (at) fundcraft.lu
victorin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)
Fundcraft | Python/Django Backend | Girona (Spain) | Full-time | ONSITE

fundcraft is a fintech startup founded in late 2020 in Luxembourg, aiming to disrupt the Venture Capital fund administration market using technology.

We want to grow our development team, currently located in Girona, and we are looking for a senior python/django engineer.

What you'll do:

  * Participate in SCRUM sprints
  * Take part in discussions about AWS production infrastructure, and the CI/CD process
  * Implementing celery tasks for background processes
  * Integrate third-party APIs
  * Write unit tests using pytest
  * Help the datascience team implement the pipeline
  * Review the pull requests of your teammates
  * Learn and grow in a fast-paced environment
Submit resumes to victor (at) fundcraft.lu
victorin··on Shifting Gears
Agree. The same happened with Eclipse IDE
victorin··on Ethereum programming for web developers
The link should point to the (I guess) original source:

https://happyfuncorp.com/whitepapers/webthereum

Way more readable, links to github etc.,

victorin··on Algorithmic Trading: The Play-at-Home Version
It already exists: https://tradingmotion.com

There you'll find a marketplace of 3d party trading strategies ready to use (once you pay the monthly fee that goes straight to the developer)

The API if you want to roll your own strategy is: https://sdk.tradingmotion.com

victorin··on MetricsGraphics.js – D3-based library optimized for visualizing time-series data
+1
victorin··on Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?
http://spacedelta.com - Your own website, hassle free

* Highly engaged handful of clients * Fully automatic (demo accounts, paypal recurring payments, domain/mail purchase and association, etc.,) * Expenses ~50$ (hosting and providers) * Profits ~250$ / month (paying clients)

Website builder focused in easy of use, aiming to solve online presence for freelances and small businesses (website, email and domain).

Established since 2011, we have still some customers from the very beginning.

It's not exactly a side project, it has been an established business for the last 3 years, but we've struggled to grow it with no success.

Looking for someone that could take it to the next level.

victorin··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool? (February 2014)
http://sdk.tradingmotion.com a high-level API for developing automatic trading systems, with open source examples.

It is cool because it aims to democratize algorithmic trading development using a geek approach. Algos are integrated with our marketplace http://isystems.com where clients all around the world use them on real accounts for a monthly fee.

victorin··on Show HN: DotNetFiddle – JsFiddle for .Net
This is really awesome, good job!

I've found a minor glitch. Seems that the Intellisense (auto-complete) does not work when I try to call a custom class method inline, like:

Console.WriteLine("Hello World, " + new MyClass().PrintTestSentence());

(Public methods of class "MyClass" does not show up there)

See here: http://www.dotnetfiddle.net/5oF8oR

victorin··on Ask HN: How do you land the first online clients?
Thx, freelanceswitch.com looks awesome, it has plenty of jobs she could apply for. We'll start there for sure
victorin··on Ask HN: How do you land the first online clients?
Another problem is that we have no portfolio yet because we're starting.

We could solve that participating on some logo contest on 99designs

victorin··on Ask HN: How do you land the first online clients?
I don't see why it's better to create a general portfolio app. Then what's the strategy to get new clients? I mean, the purpose of the categories is to have landing pages that rank on google and have good score for adwords
victorin··on Ask HN: How do you land the first online clients?
ok guys, got it

First of all we need to improve the website and corporate image, cause that's what we sell.

victorin··on Ask HN: How do you land the first online clients?
Clickable link: http://mylidias.com/custom-business-card-design/
victorin··on Ask HN: I built a site that IMO can be huge. How can I promote it?
Yes, I am using amazon affiliates, which pays me a 4% on all the purchases we refer.

Thx for the info on other shopping affiliate platforms (I didn't know them), but right now my focus is on trying to get traction and traffic to the site. After that we'll see the best way to monetize it

victorin··on CSS Hat translates Photoshop layer styles to CSS3
That is exactly what I though :)
victorin··on Ask HN: I built a site that IMO can be huge. How can I promote it?
Totally agree with your virility point.

Perhaps the title of my Ask HN is too much ambitious. I't be better something like "how to make it start getting traction" (more convenient than getting viral)

victorin··on Ask HN: I built a site that IMO can be huge. How can I promote it?
I think that you get the whole thing wrong. GuysHelpMeDecide is a tool where you enter a question for example:

* What iphone should I buy?

And lets you enter 2 or 3 choices:

* iPhone 4S 16GB white * iPhone 4S 16GB black

The key here is that the search for this products is light fast and easy. It grabs from amazon.com the title of the product, image, description and even the price, but let's you modify it (if you don't want the price to be public or you want to customize the description with your opinion on that product).

Once created the poll it appears on your facebook friends wall, if they click on the story they'll see the page with the question, the choices and they'll be able to vote and to comment.

See a quick iPhone color example here:

http://guyshelpmedecide.com/uA7L

None of your friends needs necessarily to own an iPhone for providing a valid opinion.

I have endless conversation with my geek friends about the new LCD HD whatever 3D tv and none of us have ever tried it.

Hope it gets clearer now

victorin··on Ask HN: I built a site that IMO can be huge. How can I promote it?
It's not targeted. Users can add any product as long as amazon sells it
victorin··on Ask HN: I built a site that IMO can be huge. How can I promote it?
I'm glad you like it! Now I have to find a way to attract users and see if they like it too :)
victorin··on Ask HN: I built a site that IMO can be huge. How can I promote it?
Totally agree, right now the site doesn't look like it's being used. In fact it isn't cause it's brand new.

However I don't want to make all this monotone work. Do you know any place where I could outsource that?

victorin··on Ask HN: I built a site that IMO can be huge. How can I promote it?
I probably prefer expert opinions while buying tech products (for example a new HD TV), but I'll give much more credit to a friends' first hand experience on that same TV than the expert advise. That's the base idea of guyshelpmedecide.com

And as for the success opinion I fully agree with you. I don't pretend to create an overnight million dollar business from that, it was just an experiment that looks nice for me

victorin··on Ask HN: I built a site that IMO can be huge. How can I promote it?
No, I just built something I wanted to use but I'm not sure at all if the market is worth the try
victorin··on Ask HN: I built a site that IMO can be huge. How can I promote it?
Thx for commenting.

I'm using affiliate links to monetize it too, but it definitely it is not a company or something that needs to break even in x months. Actually I had a great time coding it and I learnt a lot about the technologies it uses (facebook open graph, amazon apis, twitter bootstrap...) so in terms of ROI it's already covered by far.

Being said that, of course I want it to be huge. Not as the next pinterest because it'd require lots of resources and energy but more like a bootstraped project that grows organically and we'll see.

In other words, I built something that I want to use (no other ambitions), and right now I am wondering if it could be something mainstream or not

victorin··on Shown HN: my weekend project GuysHelpMeDecide.com
link: http://guyshelpmedecide.com

The idea is pretty simple: A tool that helps you get feedback from your friends on shopping decisions.

Don't know what book to read? With this tool you can set up a poll with some choices and your facebook friends will be able to comment and vote the best option.

This is my attempt to make something cool, simple and viral.

For those interested: -Uses Twitter Bootstrap as CSS Framework. -PHP for server side technology (with codeigniter MVC framework). -jQuery used heavily on frontend. -Amazon API. -Facebook Open Graph API.

I didn't build that for the money, but all the amazon links are affiliate links, so I'll get a 4% :D (Let's see if this covers the hosting at least).

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated