HN Hackers: Add Yourself

Bug report: there's a minimum login length of 4 chars, but many HN usernames are shorter than that. It seems to make sense to let people use their HN usernames here.

I also find it curious that you seem to have decided we'll all work for $100/hour. I will, but I suspect there are some people on that list who won't.

I'm already getting spammed by someone clearly targeting this demographic (not going to name them because I don't want to give them more eyeballs). I don't feel comfortable with you having scraped this data... I didn't mind entering data when it was a hard to find spreadsheet, but now my email is easily discoverable on this website and I'm annoyed.

Please don't send my password in plain text via email

So how can I claim my profile on this site?

I agree that the show email link should be nixed, and you should use mailto links for the emails if you are going to show emails. I personally would prefer it if you offered a contact form that emailed me via the site (behind a captcha of course).

Why did you have me pick a user name if it's never shown publicly on the site and I log in using my email address?

I guess you are the guy who told me yesterday in the spreadsheet chat that that list should become a rentacoder on steroids, fast execution!

Please always send me my password in plain text for the first time after registration.

sorry, i find the "$100/hr+" problematic.

The link to our HN profile doesn't work because you are automatically lower-casing usernames.

Skills are out of order for some reason. I think listing "core skills" in order is pretty important.

The auto-links in the skills isn't implemented very well. For example, one if the links is:

http://hnhackers.com/search/tags/Ruby%20on%20Rails%20(Prefer...

Obviously just using Ruby on Rails would be much more effective.

The order of the skills is messed up. I think it is important to display it the way it was entered.

Clickable: http://hnhackers.com

My rate isn't $100+/hr -- I don't even charge in dollars.

I like the idea of the site, but it should be opt out by default for anything you scraped from the spreadsheet. Once someone claims their password, they can decide what info to display if any.

Scraping user data from one site and putting it up on your own without their permission is not cool IMO.

I agree with the negative comments about the $100/hr+ subtitle. Apart from the implicit elitism, it isn't even true for a lot of the people in the original spreadsheet.

Also, as has been mentioned in other comments, the reclaim password functionality is broken, so I have no idea what I can or can't edit on my profile.

Using $100+ and up as a subtitle is tacky. Much like "The Ladders" job (Scam) site that claims only 100k+ jobs.

Im not sure why email addresses are hidden behind a "show email" link. That seems counter intuitive (and certainly wouldn't stop a bot etc. :P)

Besides the email being show plain, is it me or the is no way to change the email address? I tried and couldn't find it, and that's really inconvenient.

Great idea! The company I work at right now is constantly looking for outside developers/freelancers for some small projects and I have often found my self asking how can I get in touch with people on HN for these gigs.

Brilliant idea and I hope to be reaching out to some hackers in the NYC area soon.

Great idea. Do you think it would be useful to make the skills section more like tags to keep it consistent?

Semi-related... I wonder how many active HN users there are?

Why does it reverse my skills? If I enter "ruby, rails, linux, html, css, javascript, jquery" it becomes "js, css, html, linux, jquery, rails, ruby"!

I got the "Something went wrong" message when trying to update my profile.

edit I think the site logged me out before updating my profile, and then when I hit "update" (while logged out), that's what gave me the error. Might want to put a before_filter to make sure only logged in users can update stuff.

I have to say I'm impressed with the turnaround time to have hnhackers.com up rbitar. Sure it's a simple straightforward site, but it looks good. The original link was posted less than 24 hours ago. The domain name shouldn't have even propagated that fast lol.

if i search for a query such as 'erlang', can you explain how you do the search - is it by order entered in the database, by rate, etc?

also, nice app!

Please add a link to this thread on the site.

I entered the full HN user url in the field and it didn't complain.

Very nice, I've updated my profile and will be sure to use this to seek other people!

Now it crashes on an attempt to register.

Simple, great looking site. Well done!

this is nicely done. great app :)