{"id":7363,"date":"2012-06-13T16:35:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T00:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=7363"},"modified":"2012-06-13T16:44:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T00:44:40","slug":"when-someone-make-video-with-horrible-singing-to-try-an-hire-an-engineer-you-know-things-have-gotten-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/when-someone-make-video-with-horrible-singing-to-try-an-hire-an-engineer-you-know-things-have-gotten-tough\/","title":{"rendered":"When someone makes a video with horrible singing to try and hire an engineer, you know things have gotten tough."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/6-13-2012-5-33-31-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7365\" title=\"6-13-2012 5-33-31 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/6-13-2012-5-33-31-PM-300x143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/6-13-2012-5-33-31-PM-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/6-13-2012-5-33-31-PM.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>What can you say? This guy named Amir posted a request to hire a programmer in [softwaredev-92] for his company fitbuddies.\u00a0 But instead of the normal ask, he created a video and sang to it.\u00a0 Horribly. Now we all know its really hard to find a coder much less a coder willing to work on at a startup, so the market is tight.\u00a0 Is that what we can come to?\u00a0 Creating YouTube film to find coder?\u00a0 Crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here is his pitch and the video at the end.\u00a0 The sound did not kick in for a bit so please do NOT turn up your speakers; you will regret it.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m working on a tech project that aims to connect friends in your social graph to work out together offline. I have a basic prototype now of a mobile web app, and I&#8217;m looking to work with a committed app developer to get us to beta. Rather than spam with an overly detailed job spec full of 8 programming languages when only 2 or 3 are needed, I&#8217;ve put together this (funny?) video. To clarify on &#8220;committed&#8221; developer, it can be anywhere from just a temporary hire (if you&#8217;re only excited in it as a project) all the way to an actual co-founder (if we&#8217;re really excited about each other). Compensation would be cash and\/or equity, depending on experience and the role we agree on<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Amir<br \/>\namir.malayery@gmail.com<br \/>\n<a href=\"www.fitbuddies.com\">www.fitbuddies.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vpcHvauVQPk?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>and a link to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iKQOGBnwdBQ&amp;feature=watch_response\"> the long version<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can you say? This guy named Amir posted a request to hire a programmer in [softwaredev-92] for his company fitbuddies.\u00a0 But instead of the normal ask, he created a video and sang to it.\u00a0 Horribly. 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