thenduks

Resume: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ryanfunduk

Strengths: Ruby (+Rails), JavaScript/ES6/Babel, CoffeeScript, Node, React, Redux, Backbone

Have had some experience with plenty of other things but those are the big ones. Happy and used to jumping into new things and unfamiliar codebases. Self-motivated and have started several products from scratch myself.

Contact info: https://ryanfunduk.com/contact

Next, my wife and I started CourseCraft (https://coursecraft.net, launched December 2012, e-course creator tools + we handle transactions for 5%-9% of sales). Since it's transaction-based it's a lot less consistent monthly, but growing faster. A typical month is $300-$400 in revenue, but it's been a lot higher (and a lot lower) here and there.

Or how about some supporting type stuff: app error handling, a recommendation engine for your framework of choice, maybe a simple admin panel for doing support (using Postmark Inbound or some-such).

If you're into web stuff, it's always a good exercise to re-implement some complex plugin in a simpler way. I made a simple 'tour' plugin that a lot of people like (jQuery-TourBus), or you could make a simple carousel plugin, or maybe just make a simple sticky feedback popup thing, etc.

    # ...

    def initialize
      @request = PaypalAdaptive::Request.new
    end
    
    # ...

    def verified_status( opts={} )
      begin
        opts.assert_keys! :first_name, :last_name, :paypal_account_email
        result = @request.get_verified_status(
          emailAddress: opts[:paypal_account_email],
          firstName: opts[:first_name],
          lastName: opts[:last_name],
          matchCriteria: 'NAME'
        )
        Rails.logger.debug "PAYPAL VERIFICATION: #{result.inspect}"
        return result.success? && result['accountStatus'] == 'VERIFIED'
      rescue
        return false
      end
    end

What I can't stand is that accounts in some countries (at least India) can't send payments from balance. So you can't get your fee. This is mentioned nowhere in the docs, a customer just hit it one day and that's how I found out. I asked paypal what other countries can't send payments and they said... wait for it... they "don't have a list". I kid you not: https://twitter.com/rfunduk/status/412980259001102336