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rosstamicah | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?

Having used a handful of sites like freelancer.com and elance.com with varying results, I'd say the best results I've seen were from postings I put up on freelanceswitch.com job board (jobs.freelanceswitch.com/jobs)

rosstamicah | 13 years ago | on: LivingSocial: Employees' and Founders' Common Stock Now Worthless

I have not loled to a comment like this in years. Thank you.

rosstamicah | 13 years ago | on: Meet Watsi, Y Combinator's First Nonprofit

Next up, a YC L3C (a hybrid for and non profit)

rosstamicah | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Tech Down South?

There is tons of stuff going on down here in South Florida. Best place to get it all in one shot is The Miami Herald's Starting Gate: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/the-starting-gate/

rosstamicah | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which startups are providing services to professional photographers?

Look at the hundreds of WP photo themes on themeforest

rosstamicah | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Good places to learn UI/UX?

The companion piece to Dont Make Me Think - Rocket Science Made Easy is a must read too

rosstamicah | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2012)

SEEKING FREELANCER: UI/UX Bootstrap Work

Adding features to Sponsorist.com, need a UI/UX expert to help layout new signup flow (preferrably 1 page), profile pages, embeddable widgets, etc. Need to keep it in Bootstrap. Please email info at sponsorist dot com for more info

rosstamicah | 13 years ago | on: Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y

If, in 5 years time, 50% of the internet looked like default bootstrap.....this would not be a bad thing. At all.

rosstamicah | 13 years ago | on: Pay $100.000 if you link to Saygent's website

i am going to add "please go hyperlink this site" to my startup's terms

rosstamicah | 14 years ago | on: PayPal handles 60% of web transactions, leaves Google in the dust

"Paypal doesn't require this. A buyer can use their credit card. They don't need to sign up for anything."

This is not exactly true. When a buyer uses their credit card they are promoted to add an email address which essentially creates a Paypal account for them. They may never actually log into that Paypal account and use it, but they will have a paypal account with the info they've entered. It's Paypal's sneaky way of signing people up.

rosstamicah | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Startups, what are your most pressing needs?

Users here too.

rosstamicah | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: Sponsorist, A sponsorship marketplace for everyone

Hey there, thanks so much for the feedback! Absolutely, the site is already open to sports team and athletes and there are a few sports listings on the site already. I'm setting up a campaign to reach out to 4 groups: sports teams/athletes, schools, tech events, and nonprofit fundraisers.

rosstamicah | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: are there any website equivalents of "Show HN"?

killerstartups.com, betalist.com

rosstamicah | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do the growing number of marketplaces handle outgoing payments?

Agreed, my startup has a two sided payment process and was flagged by Paypal very early on for violating their Acceptable Use Policy. This was for the mere fact that the business model made my business a third party handler, which violates that agreement. Some companies fly under the radar on this, I wasn't one of those.

So, the realistic options left imho are ACH using something like AmazonPayments and sending out checks, which has its issues. Unfortunately there simply aren't as many options for paying money out as there is taking it in.

Btw my startup is Sponsorist.com, currently taking $ in through Stripe and sending out as checks. For now. :)

rosstamicah | 14 years ago | on: Inside Stripe

Here's how my startup ended up using Stripe: After being told by Paypal I couldnt use Paypal at all (due to my business model being a violation of their Acceptable Use Policy) and then more recently Braintree telling me I could only process low number transactions (less than $250), Im happy to say that http://www.sponsorist.com now processes payments with Stripe.

rosstamicah | 15 years ago | on: Grasshopper Virtual Phone System Down for 30+ Hours

Not the first time people were p'oed: http://www.bnet.com/blog/smb/how-i-infuriated-customers-by-a...

rosstamicah | 15 years ago | on: Google docs for android

Well, its not perfect, but its better than GDocs.

rosstamicah | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do AirBnB, Etsy etc. handle payments?

me too, i have a startup where i need to take payments, then split them up and send out to two people, interested to know more

rosstamicah | 15 years ago | on: Is There Money in Open Source?

While this article definitely was geared more toward the individual/hobbyist/"solving a problem" reader, its great to see a broader discussion of open source economics open up. For those individuals, which (if any) OS marketplaces do you guys prefer to use, or would you rather put something out on your own?

rosstamicah | 15 years ago | on: South Florida HN Meetup for Miami Tech Week (Wed, 9pm, Ft Laud)

I'll be attending Superconf this weekend, excited to get some insight on startups from the guest speakers, and other attendees. Hopefully i'll find a good local dev too. :)