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zvanness

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I'm a full stack developer and designer. I try to make useful things.

I fancy Ruby, JavaScript, Swift, good/functional design, and awesome people.

I'm currently working on Breue - a quality design and development shop.

zach [at] breue [dot] com

http://breue.com/

http://www.zachvanness.com/

https://twitter.com/zachvanness

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/zachvanness; my proof: https://keybase.io/zachvanness/sigs/WlZs6r2BEIDjgK8LAF8OVnw3Z_cmeE0BwCaycYd9Khs ]

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howmuch.net 8y ago

The Average Household Wealth in Countries Around the World, Visualized

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priceonomics.com 8y ago

How Much Money Do You Save by Cooking at Home?

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breue.com 8y ago

192 Startup Ideas

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breue.com 8y ago

Good Startup Ideas

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breue.com 8y ago

A List of Good Startup Advice

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buttercal.com 8y ago

Buttercal – The fastest way to schedule 1-1 meetings

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buttercal.com 8y ago

Show HN: Buttercal – Sunrise Calendar Meet, Back from the Dead

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breue.com 9y ago

Programming Books

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breue.com 9y ago

A Curated List of Startup Tools

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reads.breue.com 9y ago

Places to Post Your Startup or Product

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reads.breue.com 9y ago

How to Find Almost Any Email Address

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reads.breue.com 9y ago

Why It’s Important to Set an Episodic Schedule for Your Side-Project

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reads.breue.com 9y ago

Why America Is Already Great

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reads.breue.com 9y ago

7 Reasons Why Your Company Needs a Facebook Chatbot

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reads.breue.com 9y ago

Why You Need to Stop Looking for a Technical Cofounder

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reads.breue.com 9y ago

Why You Need Your First Customer Before Building a Product

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

Futuristic Concrete Heals Its Own Cracks

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www.huffingtonpost.com 11y ago

Report: Google Plans to Offer a Cell Phone Service

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gigaom.com 11y ago

EU response to free speech killings? More Internet censorship

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venturebeat.com 11y ago

The tiny Ozobot robot can teach young kids programming

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medium.com 11y ago

The Broken Clock

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www.trypap.com 11y ago

PaP – The Passive Aggressive Password Machine

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pando.com 11y ago

Startups Anonymous: Founders suck at relationships

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www.youtube.com 11y ago

The Pale Blue Dot – Carl Sagan

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www.vox.com 11y ago

Maps That Never Happened

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aws.amazon.com 11y ago

AWS Data Transfer Price Reduction

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billmoyers.com 11y ago

The Rent Is Too Damn High – And It Doesn’t Have to Be

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www.dropbox.com 11y ago

Ferguson – Grand Jury Evidence on Dropbox

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kernelmag.dailydot.com 11y ago

The Tech Industry's Other Bubble

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www.theatlantic.com 11y ago

The Origin of String Cheese

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This would need to be a much longer answer. But for the most part, it's through defining a clear product roadmap at the start, providing a live work in progress, as the MVP is being built, doing weekly checkin calls with Slack in between, and delicately balancing any potential scope creep.

For your second question. I don't actually do any clickable demos. Only a handful of folks ever ask for one, I tell them to use proto.io or Invision.

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SEEKING WORK - Remote, San Francisco, Washington D.C

I'm a full stack developer and designer.

I'll build you a minimal lovable product for a fixed $9K and in 4 weeks.

For iOS apps, I use Swift. For web apps, I use Ruby/Rails, JavaScript.

To see some of my recent work:

https://breue.com/

https://dribbble.com/zachvanness

SEEKING WORK - Remote, San Francisco, Washington D.C

I'm a full stack developer and designer.

I'll build you a minimal lovable product for a fixed $9K and in 4 weeks.

For iOS apps, I use Swift. For web apps, I use Ruby/Rails, JavaScript.

I generally specialize in NLP, text classification, parsing, relevancy algorithms, recommendations engines, etc. I enjoy working more on hard problems than the usual CRUD apps :)

To see some of my recent work:

https://breue.com/

https://dribbble.com/zachvanness

My email: zach@breue.com

SEEKING WORK - Remote, San Francisco, Washington D.C

I'm a full stack developer and designer.

I'll build you a minimal lovable product for a fixed $9K and in 4 or 4+ weeks.

So far, 2 of the MVPs/apps i've worked on have been acquired :) :

http://crumbsapp.io/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20160730154641/http://scoper.vid...

For iOS apps, I use Swift. For web apps, I use Ruby/Rails, JavaScript.

To see some of my recent work:

https://breue.com/

My email: zach@breue.com