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Blog Name
Company blog · thunderboltlabs.com/postsprogrammingweb
Blog Name is the company blog at thunderboltlabs.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2012, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Using Bundler With Rubymotion”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A developer consultancy's site with published hourly rates and a hire page. HN commenters cite it as an example of how to market and price consulting work, mainly in discussion of freelancing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Using Bundler With Rubymotion2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-25
- Efficiency with Sublime Text and ruby2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-20
- Efficiency with sublime text and ruby2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-19
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-06
What Hacker News says?
Bjourne - Notice the OP mentioned "promotion, estimation, and pricing" as part of being great. Thomas Fuchs quotes clients at $800/hr ( http://script.aculo.us/thomas/ ). Thunderbolts labs is quoting $277/hr for their consulting rates ( http://thunderboltlabs.com/ ). And these are people that publicly advertise their rates. I know several other individuals at these levels that just don't publicly advertise. Skills in…
Comment linking /
on “Do you really want to be making this much money when you're 50?”Submitted Machine Learning on the Cheap and Easy as a story · 110 points
HN discussionFrom http://thunderboltlabs.com/hire : "Development is $277 an hour per developer. Technical work is done in pairs." Ouch. It looks like they've got the skills and marketing figured out. I think there's a great lesson in there for all of us freelancers.
Comment linking /hire
on “Kalzumeus Podcast 3: Growing Consulting Practices, with Brennan Dunn”Submitted Why we don't use a Rails template as a story · 27 points
HN discussionThis was my favourite Podcast so far. A few things I really took away from it ( which I'll be implementing in my own freelancing /consulting business ) in no particular order 1. Charge more..... 2. Sell yourself as someone who solves business problems, not as someone who implements technical solutions 3. http://thunderboltlabs.com/ - An excellent example of how to sell yourself as a developer, without selling yourse…
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on “Kalzumeus Podcast 3: Growing Consulting Practices, with Brennan Dunn”Submitted RestKit Object Mapping with RubyMotion as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Angled Mind – Why AngularJS is awesome as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Art vs. Engineering as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting started with machine learning as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Efficiency with sublime text and ruby as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Efficiency with Sublime Text and ruby as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Bundler With Rubymotion as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted RESTful Drag & Drop with Rails and Multiple Models as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Efficiency with Sublime Text and Ruby as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Efficiency with Sublime Text and Ruby as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Great "Page not found" by Thunderbolt Labs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Configuring a New Pairing Station as a story · 1 points
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