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The talent marketplace is broken.

The demand for designers & developers has never been higher. FAANGs are throwing insane offers at top talent. And all that’s left for many startups is scraps: boot camp grads & budget agencies.

That scarcity is not a new phenomenon. When I left Google in 2015 to start freelancing, I charged $300 an hour for design & development work.

Was I just that good?

The truth is, people paid $300, not because I produced value at that rate, but because I was paying $3K in Brooklyn rent. Not because I was worth $250K+ a year, but because Google was paying me that without blinking an eye.

If you're going to compete, you need to find another way to scale your team than so-called 10X freelancers.

I'm James Knight, cofounder and Chief Nerd at No Nerds No Problem.

In 2021, we created Nerds-as-a-Service to help startups like yours scale with top-notch talent from across the globe. Since then, we’ve built a team of 20+ world-class Product, Design, and Development Nerds, blending onshore leadership with nearshore execution. A team that’s waiting to help you delight your customers with new features, blow through your growth targets, and impress your investors along the way.

Let's chat: calendly.com/nonerds

Email me: [email protected]

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Comment · 3 years ago
Sure, just get the people that take the risk to agree to it. Should be easy.
Comment · 3 years ago
By "certain populations" do you mean a small selection of the worst members of almost all populations?

Jumping to conclusions and pushing narratives isn't the exclusive purview of any particular group, especially not in 2023.

Comment · 3 years ago
Truly sharing the fruits of success means truly sharing the risk taken.
Comment · 3 years ago
SEEKING WORK

Are you looking for designers and developers that build exactly what you ask for?

Keep looking. That’s not us. Otherwise, keep reading.

In 2023, tech is a commodity.

Around the world, there are millions of professionals that can build functional software.

Thousands and thousands of freelancers, agencies, and studios that won’t totally f*ck things up.

These days, building an app right is easy. But building the right app?

That’s hard.

In 2023, you’re competing against companies with market caps in the TRILLIONS.

You can’t beat them at their own game. You have to invent your own.

Be the David to their Goliath.

If you want a company that builds software, keep looking.

But if you want a company that sells slings?

Email me at [email protected].

We'll take Goliath down together.

Comment · 3 years ago
Great article, but I think its odd to call James I of Aragon's conquest of Mallorca a "Catalan conquest".

Poor Aragon, always getting its history rewritten by Catalan separatists and those that sympathize with them.

Comment · 3 years ago
With a few exceptions, everyone here on HN is wildly privileged. The .0001% of world-history.
Comment · 3 years ago
You have been blessed to work on self-organizing and self-managing teams. When we come into client orgs, they typically have no process in place and cannot understand why they're not shipping features.

Scrum isn't perfect, but its an "industry-standard" practice that we can use to get quick buy-in from client stakeholders, and then use to apply even the most basic level of process to these teams.

As an engineer at Google or a freelance developer it never made much sense to me.

But as a manager of remote, distributed, international teams?

It makes a lot of sense.

Comment · 3 years ago
That doesn’t mean the “they” here isn’t unclear. I wasn’t sure whose Mastodon handle Paul Graham shared. I certainly didn’t think OP meant he shared his own handle.
Comment · 3 years ago
I dunno, I think Messiah works as an ending to the trilogy. There's quite a bit of intrigue and action. Nothing gets too weird—Duncan's Ghola is the only new sci-fi addition.

Children takes a sharp turn with the whole possession thing and then Leto's metamorphosis. But Messiah is quite adaptable and is the real ending for many of the same characters as Book 1.

Comment · 3 years ago
Potentially risking downvotes, since religion makes people uncomfortable, but since you mentioned mental health services are lacking, have you tried joining a local church? Priests are the original therapists, and it’s a great way to meet people.

It’s not for everyone, but if you’re struggling to find meaning in your own life, perhaps looking up is the answer?

Comment · 3 years ago
Not sure I need to spoiler alert a book that came out over 50 years ago, but Momoa should be back in Part 3.
Comment · 3 years ago
Because it was Sunday morning in Old Town Scottsdale and there weren't any pedestrians around.
Comment · 3 years ago
Because—other than FSD—the car is fantastic. I can't imagine driving anything else.
Comment · 3 years ago
Only on HN could someone be arrogant enough to think their non-experience is more accurate than another's actual experience.

At no point was anyone—myself, my child, or another party—in any danger. Perhaps that would be different for someone who had never used Autopilot and didn't know how to disengage. But after a year driving that car, I'm comfortable in my assertion that the situation was safe.

But, by all means, please continue with the HN pedantry. We wouldn't want this place to change.

Comment · 3 years ago
We'd used Autopilot (non-FSD) for a a year at that point. I was used to mistakes and knew how to disengage quickly before they could be problems.

I was expecting FSD to be bad, but I sure wasn't expecting it to be that bad.

Maybe without disengaging any of the three incidents could have become problems, but for someone who knows how Autopilot works it was more comical than dangerous.

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