Ask HN: Who is looking for help on their side project? (May 2018)
Share your information if you are looking for help on your side project. Please use this format: Location: Remote: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
An open Ask HN community consultation from 2018 where @felipellrocha convened hundreds of developers and bootstrappers to share real experiences, hard numbers, and tactics.
Core Principles for Independent Builders:
Participants share raw revenue figures, churn rates, and stack decisions that corporate PR never publishes.
Recurring answers reveal that distribution, not coding skill, is almost universally the rate-limiting step in developer businesses.
Practical recommendations on bookkeeping, payment gateways (Stripe vs Paddle), and freelance-to-product transitions.
Community Debate Themes:
Hundreds of active indie hackers contributed case studies, pricing heuristics, and pitfalls to avoid when moonlighting on side projects.
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HISTORICAL ERA Cloud & Mobile Era (2014–2019)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 31 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 16 comments
My project: [PropertyWebBuilder](https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder)
Location: Remote
Tech: Ruby on Rails, JS (vue.js)
Email: ed at propertywebbuilder.com
It's basically an open source real estate website builder and I need with adding new features, languages and themes. Also open to collaboration on monetizing and marketing (will launch a whitelabel service based off it soon)
iNeoSyte - Construction Site, Field reports app
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ineosyte-construction-reports/id1072145917?mt=8
Location: Remote (we are based in London and Warsaw)
Looking for distributors who are handy with technology, and would help to integrate this software to construction companies.
Pay: commission
Email: wojtek at ineosyte dot com
I am starting market research on Zillow/Redfin Estimate Accuracy tracker. It is an interesting topic to help people understand how their zillow estimate varies over time and with similar sales nearby. I assume the product would be useful to agents and home owners. Since, zillow is getting into flipping houses, this number will be even more interesting. If you are interested, we can team up. Email in profile.
My project: Online budgeting software.
Written in the wonderful language Elm. Will make this open source on GitHub. Large and small contributions welcome. The basics are there: Login, add accounts, add transactions etc.
Data hosted in Parse. SPA javascript app compiled from Elm.
``` Location: Remote Tech: Elm, Parse SDK Resume: n/a Email: hn@elmbudget.com ```
My side project: Productivity Tool Location: Remote Technologies: React, Python Email: See in profile
I own a very simple web app that I would love to have help taking to the next level. Site currently gets a significant number of visitors and has been growing YoY. Would like to take it to a full SaaS model have plans to develop it into something more than a side project.