Front End Engineers - We need you to make Grubwithus (YC W11) beautiful

https://www.grubwithus.com/make-us-beautiful

by nikhilpandit • 14 years ago

89 35 14 years ago

grubwithus.com

notjustanymike• 14 years ago

It's already beautiful. My God. It's glorious.

njs12345• 14 years ago

The dancing baby is an especially nice touch..

lowglow• 14 years ago

I've been waiting for the day that dancing baby came back in vogue.

molecule• 14 years ago

http://kyrobeshay.com/

xutopia• 14 years ago

This job offer is hilarious. I haven't seen a more appropriate use of marquee and animated gifs in ages!

nikhilpandit• 14 years ago

We also have blink tags in there! (Chrome won't display blink tags, but Firefox will)

fruchtose• 14 years ago

I can tell the site really need the UI help, because the marquees only go in one direction. With my years of Geocities development experience, I can help you create marquees that go right-to-left and left-to-right.

Natsu• 14 years ago

Wow, it's been ages since I've seen the old "under construction" GIFs. And nobody uses that cruddy grey background any more.

Now if only we could undo the Eternal September.

adestefan2• 14 years ago

Do I get the job? WARNING: MUSIC

http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=1...

czzarr• 14 years ago

this is perfect. reminds me of my first website

primigenus• 14 years ago

Front-end engineers make things beautiful? I thought that's what designers do.

guynamedloren2• 14 years ago

Frontend engineers execute beautiful designs. It's a team effort.

Edit: Also, Grubwithus is looking for frontend engineers w/ strong design sense. We're a small team and wear many hats.

jzhou• 14 years ago

This… is BEAUTIFUL! How did you guys do it?

adahm• 14 years ago

Brilliant. Just brilliant. Felt like I just found a webpage I searched for in Magellan.

juliano_q• 14 years ago

I actually hope that you don't find an engineer/designer. This website is awesome, brought back many memories :)

vijayr• 14 years ago

This is awesome. I literally laughed out loud at my desk, turning heads. I really really hope you get a awesome designer/front end engineer, who also has a good sense of humor :)

marcamillion• 14 years ago

This made me chuckle.

Brilliant!

jmadden85• 14 years ago

Front end engineers are not exactly designers. Speaking as a front end engineer, I do not do design.

tptacek• 14 years ago

I can't articulate how much I love that they set it in centered Comic Sans.

shazow• 14 years ago

I ran it through geocitiesizer; I think it looks a little better.

http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2...

maebert2• 14 years ago

How? I can't make out any difference...

maebert2• 14 years ago

Earlier today I found a website that said "Recommended Browser: Netscape Navigator 4.04 or newer", now this... Afraid to view the source, feels like I'm disturbing an archeological excavation site.

"It belongs in a museum!"

robwgibbons• 14 years ago

I don't think that means what you think it means. You want a designer.

guynamedloren2• 14 years ago

Mentioned this in another comment:

Frontend engineers execute beautiful designs. It's a team effort.

Also, Grubwithus is looking for frontend engineers w/ strong design sense. We're a small team and wear many hats.

cemregr• 14 years ago

You need a designer. One that can code, but that's still called a designer. I'm not sure if you can find that designer by advertising for a "frontend engineer with strong design sense".

Also, any good designer will balk at your request to "make it pretty". Design is not lipstick you can put on after the fact.

My suggestion: tell people that you're looking for a designer, and instead of "make it pretty", tell them you want to improve the user experience. Have them be involved early on. Making things pretty might be part of this job, but is not the only thing.

geebee• 14 years ago

I'm not surprised to hear this reaction. Telling a designer to "make this pretty" is much like telling a programmer to "code this up". It's not really how good software is written.

Funny, this came up during a discussion of "UX" design a while back, where a lot of programmers (myself included) expressed concern about an emerging field that sees itself as the "user representative", standing between the domain and the programmers.

But I appreciate the concern on the other side... "pretty this up" doesn't involve a designer at the stage they can make the biggest difference.

I thought the 37Signals approach in "getting real" was a good one - use the "Three Musketeers". You want one good programmer, one good designer, and one good go-between who can do both - though cross training where all team members are at least somewhat capable of contributing to each role.

In the messy world of startups, though, I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of "pretty this up" work. Programmers working with essentially no funding will start coding, and eventually they'll get to the point where they know their creation looks ugly. At this point, they'll come to you needing it to look better.

Try to see this as a challenge. Plenty of programmers have joined organizations as they guy who will "code this up" and managed to bring the team over to a better understanding of what they can do. This may be a crucial skill for designers as well.

designNERD• 14 years ago

As a designer I must say that I would NEVER apply for this position. Your ad doesn't illicit the sentiments of a company that truly cares for or understands design.

bherms• 14 years ago

Elaborate.

Sounds to me like you're just being pretentious. Not that designers ever do that.

dodoflying• 14 years ago

Let me recall some Professor's personal website in College.

vannevar• 14 years ago

Will the lucky hiree still have to design around the name 'GrubWithUs'?

jmitcheson• 14 years ago

I for one eagerly await the release of "Grubwithus bootstrap" - which will help front end developers relive the dazzling veneer of the 1990s geocities era.

awayand• 14 years ago

what is wrong with the page it looks fine as it is to me

puxedo• 14 years ago

Brilliant! Takes me back to the good ole days.

danso• 14 years ago

There are not nearly enough social buttons on this page

Front End Engineers - We need you to make Grubwithus (YC W11) beautiful

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