ana_hilinsky

I'd love to get HN's thoughts on our post about fixed-priced projects. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Buildrx (www.buildrx.com) is looking for freelance developers (possibly contract to hire)! Anywhere in the world, we are based out of Oakland, CA and Toronto.

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We're looking for experienced PHP freelance developers to add to the team. Our clients include brands such as: Scion, Universal Music, True Religion Brand Jeans, Juicy Couture, the SF 49ers and many other big brands.

Please pass this along to anyone who might be interested and available!

LOOKING FOR:

Experience with HTML/CSS/Javascript: -Experience making cross browser pixel -perfect websites (including older browsers such as IE7 when required) -Experience with jQuery -Some HTML5/CSS3 understanding is good, not necessary

Experience with PHP/MySQL: -Deep understanding of OOP, including at least one major framework (Cake, CI, etc) -Experience working with Magento is a huge plus -Experience with ORM (ideal but not required) -Experience working with APIs (building them is a plus) -Experience working with Facebook (ideal but not required) -Deep understanding of MySQL

Experience with Rails: -Also ideal, but not required

You will telecommute most of the time but would be great to find someone either in the SF bay area or around Toronto for occasional in-person meetings.

Email me!- ana@buildrx.com

Can you send me a quick email so we can take this off the board? I'd be happy to either help or point you in the right direction. ana@buildrx.com

We do work for retailers such as True Religion Brand Jeans, Joie Clothing, Tart Collections.. (all Magento based).

Yes, do you have any specific questions? We do a lot of Magento builds for medium sized retailers.

Thank you for writing this. It's too often that I feel alone in the world of dev consultancy! I've been running my company for 3 1/2 years, I started it straight out of college in 2008 when I realized job opportunities were slim to none and I'd have to figure out how to pay my rent regardless.

The most important lesson I learned all these years: find a reputable client, do good by them and watch word of mouth spread. Our biggest asset is the great referrals we get from our clients.

It's all too often that we end up taking over a project that was done by some previous consultant/freelancer where they obviously didn't care about the client relationship and let the work get sloppy. It's a shame! (Also, I'm not talking about tiny projects for no name brands, I'm talking about major retailers, musicians and sometimes fortune 500's).

The "I dont care about comments" came from the original comment posted in this thread that was deleted.

I was clarifying that I understand that we're going to get obnoxious comments on us being girls and I'm okay with it, it comes with the territory.

Feedback on the show is welcome in general. That is why I'm posting. : )

Thanks for the feedback. And yes, TED is amazing!

We should interview you about Digg. Yeah? :)

Really though - just saw your blurb in your hn profile. We have some free interview slots in February.

in response to your response: I personally don't understand why people make a big deal out of it either way/don't really care about the comments and I agree with what you're saying. We're trying to bring some spice back into tech interviews--something that, at times, can be presented in a boring way.

We think tech is a hot topic and we don't have any issues with making our show playful, interesting and casual.

If you want to watch serious Q&A type stuff, go for it- you're not our demographic. There's plenty of awesome content like that across the internet.

true there are tons of hot successful women talking about technology, but most of them are LA based. We were talking about Silicon Valley.

I'm one of the interviewers for GU. We're fairly new to this and started the show just a few weeks ago to have conversational-style chats with other entrepreneurs in the valley. Any and all feedback is appreciated! Thanks. : )

Ana