Ask HN: Review my job posting for a developer

2 points by DanielOcean 14 years ago | 0 comments

I'm planning to hire a developer, it's a difficult task for a non-technical person thus would like to ask the Hacker News community to review my job posting below.

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Hiring a Ruby on Rails Developer to Complete Version 1.0 of a Website

We are hiring a Ruby on Rails developer to create only the beginning of a web application. If this milestone is completed well, there will be more work immediately. The requirements are as follows:

- This version will be limited to three essential features; user should be able to (1) create an account, (2) post a listing and (3) purchase a service. Additional details will be provided privately.

- I will have a detailed design of all the pages provided via photoshop. I won't expect it to be pretty at this stage, but I will expect it to be functional.

- Write beginner friendly, clean, modular, robust code to implement the desired requirements with little or no supervision. I ask for "beginner friendly" because I am attempting to learn RoR without any previous programming experience (good luck, I know). Comments should be used to give background information or annotate difficult code.

The Ideal Candidate: - Required Programming Languages: Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

- Do you have any open source projects? Please provide links.

- Do you contribute to the Rails community? Personal blog? Participate in Q&A? Please provide links.

- References - What other startups have you worked with?

VERY IMPORTANT: To separate you from the spammers, please write I AM REAL as the first line of your bid. We will delete all bids that do not start with this phrase, since most bidders never read the requirements. Thank you for being one who does.

macarthy12 14 years ago |

Not too bad. A good starting point. Are you posting on oDesk or somewhere like that?

Regarding purchase a service, you might mention what Payment Gateway you are using. You don't mention any thing about deploying the code, hosting or source control. You don't mention anything about communication, time zone, language skill (if you care about any of those)

Also you don't mention if it per hour or a fixed price job.

It might be harder to evaluate the answers than to write the advert, as a non-technical person. You might consider hiring someone for an hour to parse the result and screen the applicants.

I've managed workers and been hired via oDesk (5stars ish), some thought about it

The expectations of clients for the money/time can be very unrealistic. The quality of some of the coders is awful .

You can ping me at (hacker @ rubystars.biz) if you have some questions.