Have had the parts for one of these sat in a box for a good few years now, but unfortunately have never managed to make room to build a frame.
Discovered the Lowrider 3d printed CNC a couple of months back which better fit the bill for me to be able to store (printing gantry on a shelf, bed suspended from the ceiling!) so hoping soon that'll enable some of the projects I had in mind for the Maslow.
I feel you there. For the best part of the last five years I've been commuting 3-4 hours on top of a typical 8 hour working day.
I guess it depends on your situation. I was fortunate enough to spend most of that on the train and typically able to get a seat so usually able to code, and always at the very least read, so I managed to make use of this time.
Other than that, I've put plenty of weekends into my projects too.
As Steve said, if you're passionate enough about it you'll find a way.
Artistic license. I took a few minutes out in between the ceremony and reception to push a few changes to staging and have a quick chat with Steve because they were playing on my mind.
I think the solutions we have in development will address the issues at hand here and are along the lines of what you suggest, better categorisation of postings essentially. The main thing that's making this a laborious process is trying to get the UX right (the posting process, discoverability for candidates).
The site is largely still in an MVP sort of state and we're trying to start off giving the message of 'being different' by way of our own presence and interactions with people. We release early and often (though it's been a busy couple of weeks since launch so we've not been able to do as much as we'd like) but not all the things on our roadmap are suitable for that. Some things, like this, we see as deserving more time to get right before rolling out.
Depends on your perspective really. The company is legit and the ad is for a technical co-founder. If you apply and are successful then you have a job to do.
I understand what you're saying but it's very easy for your site to become filled with these sort of posts that most people aren't going to care for. There are sites out there for finding a co-founder already, it seems silly to let your site become another one of those sites and dilute the value. For me at least when looking for a job I want something that pays, if a noticeable amount of results on your site are posts saying "we can't pay yet but if we make money we will" then it'll change the audience that care for your site.
If you're set on allowing them at the very least can you provide an option to filter these out? You allow for filtering of all other types so it seems sensible people (like me, or maybe just me...) can get rid of the university student with an idea type postings.
There is no barrier to entry on having an idea, anyone can have an idea, a non-technical co-founder can spend half an hour thinking of a name and pitch and then make a post on your site, that is (to me) not the sort of thing I expect from a job site.
I understand where you're coming from however this is a brand spanking new resource for job seekers and if we start using the ban hammer a bit too much it will impact our growth and we'll never reach critical mass.
Once we have a healthy flow of traffic we intend to lay down a few ground rules to help increase the overall standard of jobs that appear on the site.
In terms of filtering out those jobs, we're working on that already. We've been waiting for the database to grow as it was overly restrictive when there were only a few pages of jobs on the site.
Trust me when I say that curating the content of your site right from the start is one of the most important things you can do.
It's might seem counterintuitive now, but letting a lower standard in now will set the tone for the site - and that not only affects the standard of job-posters you attract in the future but also the standard of potential hires you can attract.
What will impact your growth is offers no one is interested in. Better to post a few jobs that everyone is talking about than have 100's of jobs no one is talking about.
As a job seeker I prefer you to tend towards overly selective than the reverse. I have no trouble finding quantity of jobs to apply for. It's in the "curated" job listing where I see value in your site.
That's just it, the site is heavily curated as it stands. For the record, we do have plans to launch more targeted sites down the line that focus on specific areas of tech so that may potentially solve your problem entirely!
Yes it is and I should have said I really like it so far as it solves a real pain for me. Especially as my background isn't standard, HR friendly fare. When my current project comes to a close at the end of the year I'll probably be looking at you guys first.
I was really commenting on "We've been waiting for the database to grow as it was overly restrictive when there were only a few pages of jobs on the site". If you have high standards for jobs being posted, I'd suggest you apply them with full rigor now rather than waiting till later. As my impression of the site now affects whether I'll remember you guys in 6 months time.
I'm of the opinion that co-founder searches aren't really valid, but if they are seperated into a targeted site then thats just as good for me.
To follow up on this and what Steve's mentioned elsehwere, the locaation stuff is a prime example of the kind of thing we have in mind for future developments where we feel other sites lack.
Right now though this is just a minimal feature set. At midnight last night when I looked at 'add filtering to the search options' on my todo list I decided that with only a handful of jobs on launch day, this can wait. I guarantee though there will be better search filtering by the time the number of jobs has grown enough to warrant that.
Day 1 and there's jobs listed in Newcastle upon Tyne, Huddersfield and Birmingham. I'm absolutely gobsmacked. More of this please. It looks like you're already aware, but just to re-inforce the point: once the number of jobs is too large to comfortably browser, then for people outside of London, sites like this will live or die based on their location specific search. (Around here, Jobserve is a big deal for precisely that reason - they eventually even managed to distinguish between Newcastle upon Tyne and Newcastle-under-Lyme.)
That's great! I understand this was not top priority before having hundreds of job offers displayed.
Just, as I am searching for a new job, it is really painful for me to have to check the offer, check the company name, go on it's website, find the office address, go on google maps, check where it is precisely then go on TFL to check how much time it would take me to go to work.
A map as airbnb's or hipmunk for hotel would be so cool, but I can understand not a lot of people really search a job in a specific radius based on transportation time.
And to add to what Matt's said, if you're meaning more than one to a team - we don't have the interface setup but we can assign more than one to a team manually, so post in the forum if that's what you're after and I can 'hook you up', as it were.
Discovered the Lowrider 3d printed CNC a couple of months back which better fit the bill for me to be able to store (printing gantry on a shelf, bed suspended from the ceiling!) so hoping soon that'll enable some of the projects I had in mind for the Maslow.