15:[[42610236,{"by":"croqueton","descendants":4,"id":42610236,"kids":[42610494,42610854,42610417,42651657,42611768],"score":9,"text":"I am sure I am not alone in this when I say that I have too many ideas for projects and not enough time. The pile of unfinished side projects continues to fester in my Documents folder as if to shame me, daily.

Has anyone considered paying a cheap-ish freelancer to just knock out some of the prototypes you have in mind and then picking it up from there?

I know that with side projects half the fun is doing it yourself, but it's also nice to actually realize your ideas and see them come to life. A small prototype can quickly validate your idea. Sometimes the hardest part about starting is setting up all the dependencies.

Has anyone done this? What did you learn?","time":1736168836,"title":"Ask HN: Have you considered outsourcing your side projects?","type":"story"}],[42587981,{"by":"ondemandfix","descendants":1,"id":42587981,"kids":[42651573,42588008],"score":2,"text":"I am looking to hire a developer to build me a niche "on demand" handyman service in a niche sector. Think TaskRabbit but faster looking at supply side location GPS coordinates, job availability, and "job accept" for the vendor. Is Bubble.io the right tool for this or would you suggest something else?","time":1735927661,"title":"Ask HN: Is Bubble.io Right for Me?","type":"story"}],[41921123,{"by":"wnc3141","descendants":4,"id":41921123,"kids":[41921252,41937604],"score":1,"text":"I had a conversation with someone toying with a platform idea. They were wondering which parts of the technical development could be outsourced - made me wonder the same thing. They were interested in a cost effective path to an MVP (little technical background).

How might experienced founders or professionals approach outsourcing for a startup?","time":1729650131,"title":"Ask HN: What elements of a startup should founders consider outsourcing","type":"story"}],[41905353,{"by":"buzzthro","descendants":9,"id":41905353,"kids":[41907548,41905805,41906346,41909726,41905939],"score":1,"text":"$16","time":1729525324,"title":"Ask HN: Working with a Co-Founder with ADHD","type":"story"}],[41843750,{"by":"dandreas","descendants":3,"id":41843750,"kids":[41844195],"score":3,"text":"I'm registered with Startup School Co-Founder Match. I've seen countless profiles, and no one has the background and interest for working with the increasing elderly population. Any other sites to find potential AgeTech co-founders?","time":1728952662,"title":"Ask HN: AgeTech Cofounders","type":"story"}],[41837607,{"by":"californium","descendants":87,"id":41837607,"kids":[41839886,41839422,41839379,41839734,41839389,41839607,41840055,41837676,41839966,41839367,41840466,41840233,41839988,41839550,41840127,41946726,41839745,41839431,41839725,41839833,41840286,41840052,41840211,41839600,41840313,41840740,41841392,41840239,41839530,41844464,41838613,41839777,41842198,41949684,41837814,41857422,41855728,41848550,41839345,41839312,41839495,41841198,41845204,41839214,41839806,41843725,41844170,41839267,41946845,41839324,41844906,41840790,41959947],"score":125,"text":"Was the idea completely outside your domain or did you already have some knowledge in the field?

I'm desperately trying to find an idea I can work on, taking advantage of the current ease of developing MVPs.

I'm REALLY tired of working for an idea that doesn't belong to me (aka companies), but everything I create or try to do seems like there are already dozens of other solutions doing the same thing (specially in the fields of wrapping AI).

Thoughts?","time":1728914366,"title":"Ask HN: Solopreneurs, how did you come up with your idea?","type":"story"}],[41591498,{"by":"quotz","descendants":3,"id":41591498,"kids":[41725999,41591590,41592135,41634868],"score":2,"text":"$17","time":1726751365,"title":"Ask HN: Hire Freelancers or a Dev Shop?","type":"story"}],[41600504,{"by":"zkirill","descendants":1,"id":41600504,"kids":[41606220],"score":2,"text":"I opened a KiCad project for the first time and realized that I'm going to need help with PCB design. My objective is to design and order a small number of boards from Eurocircuits/PCBWay/JLCPCB.

Are there any places beside the usual Upwork and Freelancer? How does one vet an electrical engineer? What is the ballpark price per hour or per project? What is a typical working relationship, expectations, and deliverables?

It would be great to hear any advice, personal experiences, and stories from the community.","time":1726828022,"title":"Ask HN: How to hire a freelance electrical engineer?","type":"story"}],[41499086,{"by":"Kushal6070","descendants":11,"id":41499086,"kids":[41500841,41564355,41507540,41499351,41499320,41499314,41502116,41500126,41499157,41499151,41499233],"score":2,"text":"I am trying to hire engineers for my startup. I am a semi-technical solo founder who understands technical capabilities and limitations but just doesn't want to code.

I have hired 2 engineers recently but now I feel like they are mediocre. Although I took help of a senior engineer to screen and interview the candidates.

Is there a guide, or playbook to hire 10x engineers for startup founders? How would I find them? What criteria to look for? Is it incentive problem?

Especially with AI IDEs like Cursor and Replit getting popular for influx in productivity, I'm confident we should be able to prototype and launch at speed.

But I don't feel confident with my current hires. Also, is there any service that takes interviews and screens candidates for their technical abilities?","time":1725961836,"title":"How do you find 10x Engineers?","type":"story"}],[41498860,{"by":"afsal_edprep","descendants":1,"id":41498860,"kids":[41564315],"score":2,"text":"$18","time":1725959877,"title":"Glovera (AI College Counselor)","type":"story"}],[41518100,{"by":"ablx000","descendants":7,"id":41518100,"kids":[41588300,41518314,41518259,41518307,41518393,41564264],"score":1,"text":"I want to keep contact with former coworkers.\nHowever, I am really bad with this and need some tools. Tried to keep contact details and when i last contacted people in my notes, but this did not work. Came across https://www.monicahq.com/ which looks okay, but I do not like it that much.

Other than that, i could only find professional CRMs with too much features.

Any suggestions here?","time":1726122096,"title":"Ask HN: Personal CRM","type":"story"}],[41441099,{"by":"tekgrunt","descendants":1,"id":41441099,"kids":[41497345],"score":1,"text":"I am looking for recommendations. My startup's website is currently built with Contentful on the backend and Next.js on the frontend. I can see the potential for this stack for a large Enterprise but find it cumbersome for a small startup. In our earliest days I was using Squarespace which was fine at the time but problematic for lots of reasons as we have grown.I am wondering if there is something that is closer to Squrespace but offers the ability for deep customization.

Some examples of the type of website I am looking to put together are:

https://retool.com/

https://www.polymersearch.com/","time":1725414527,"title":"Re-Platforming Website","type":"story"}],[41300797,{"by":"sarimkx","descendants":3,"id":41300797,"kids":[41301005,41368145,41301509],"score":1,"time":1724166696,"title":"Ask HN: Problems with NoCode App Development?","type":"story"}],[40993629,{"by":"volkandkaya","descendants":3,"id":40993629,"kids":[41063015,40994208,40997234],"score":3,"text":"Hey everyone,

I run a website builder platform called Versoly. It is bootstrapped & profitable. The biggest limiting factor is free/paid templates.

I have tried to hire freelancers to create templates but it hasn’t worked out due complexities in creating templates. Designers create great looking Figma files but are very difficult to create templates out of that work well with component libraries.

Also tried dming existing template creators but most of them are risk-averse and stick to “proven” and oversaturated marketplaces.

I’m about to take some risk and do a $10,000 giveaway to build some hype around the template marketplace.

If anyone has ideas/experience with seeding marketplaces would be very helpful. Happy to do things that don’t scale as well.","time":1721291567,"title":"Ask HN: How would you seed a website template marketplace?","type":"story"}],[41057524,{"by":"Anthology","descendants":35,"id":41057524,"kids":[41059940,41092547,41097738,41074987,41087220,41065938,41060973,41057746,41076964,41081928,41058745,41065921,41063126,41072860,41071022,41062988,41061611,41100889,41088311,41069832],"score":13,"text":"$19","time":1721831638,"title":"Attention HN: What's the Best Way to Find a Good Dev for Your Startup?","type":"story"}]]

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