[Widdershin]

This has happened a few times to me.

First was some downhill skateboarding projects - a bushing recommendation system and a site that allowed me to search all NZ skate shops from one place.

A popular US skate shop posted on Reddit looking for interns, but they weren’t interested in hiring so remotely.

Fast forward a week and the CTO got in touch to say that he’d interviewed a bunch of dud candidates, and meanwhile had been watching me commit exactly the code they were looking for.

Ended up contracting with them for a bit building an internal equivalent of the search tool, as well as bushing recommendations integrated with their listings.

The next is my work in the Cycle.js community (niche FRP JS framework). Mostly worked on trendy dev tools, but also did some valuable work on improving the speed, reliability and clarity of async UI tests that is still arguably close to best-in-class for JS.

That resulted in multiple job offers and an approach from Manning for a possible book deal, but none of it was that good of a fit.