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What books would you recommend for improving technical writing skills. I am more interested in design docs and not so much by technical documentation or user manuals.

I am a software engineer with 16 years of experience in web technologies. I have been working on a side project that brings automated integration test to the age of micro-services. In the past few month as a Senior Software engineer for a YC company I've been tuning that side project to make setting up integration testing a breeze. My next step before releasing the tool is to use it with another 10 projects in order to make it more holistic that it currently is.

What will I do for you:

    - Setup your CI environment to run integration tests upon developers commits/PR. That includes setting it up if you don't have one.
    - Write tests for to up to 10 user flows.
    - Provide a 5 hours mentoring session to your engineers so they can start adding test scenarios in minutes. If you need me to be your "test guru", maintain and improve your integration test suite over time. I might be able to do it for one or two company (if I like your product and team).

How much will it cost:

I first thought that I would offer this service for free. But after giving it some thoughts, I think that I only want to offer this service to companies that recognize the necessity of a solid test suite and that are willing to pay for it. You could still wait for the tool to be ready for prime time.

Who am I: build my first website in 2000 using Microsoft front page and since have probably used most of the web technologies that have made that decade and a half. I currently work for a YC company as the Director of Software engineering.

What's next?

If you are interested or are just curious, I would be happy to hop on a call with you.

Currently working on the hypothesis of my future venture and come to a the current hard to answer dilemma.

Our value proposition is two fold:

1. Bring education to the hundred millions of people that do no have access to school and by nature are often poor. Targeted to the developing world. 2. Making education an addictive experience and a part of everyday life of people in the developed world through the use of Gamification.

Now the dilemma arise because that we believe that the only way to address the first target would be to take NGOs money in order to put the equipments and the setup in the hands of the users.

Do you think that we can take NGOs money while remaining a business?

PS: We think this project would explode it kickstarter funding, if we could use it. But unfortunately we can't.

What other means do we have to fund such a venture.

Thank you.

Currently working on the hypothesis of my future venture and come to a the current hard to answer dilemma.

Our value proposition is two fold:

1. Bring education to the hundred millions of people that do no have access to school and by nature are often poor. Targeted to the developing world. 2. Making education an addictive experience and a part of everyday life of people in the developed world through the use of Gamification.

Now the dilemma arise because that we believe that the only way to address the first target would be to take NGOs money in order to put the equipments and the setup in the hands of the users.

Do you think that we can take NGOs money while remaining a business?

PS: We think this project would explode it kickstarter funding, if we could use it. But unfortunately we can't.

What other means do we have to fund such a venture.

Thank you.

Currently working on the hypothesis of my future venture and come to a the current hard to answer dilemma.

Our value proposition is two fold:

1. Bring education to the hundred millions of people that do no have access to school and by nature are often poor. Targeted to the developing world. 2. Making education an addictive experience and a part of everyday life of people in the developed world through the use of Gamification.

Now the dilemma arise because that we believe that the only way to address the first target would be to take NGOs money in order to put the equipments and the setup in the hands of the users.

Do you think that we can take NGOs money while remaining a business?

PS: We think this project would explode it kickstarter funding, if we could use it. But unfortunately we can't.

What other means do we have to fund such a venture.

Thank you.

Currently working on the hypothesis of my future venture and come to a the current hard to answer dilemma.

Our value proposition is two fold:

1. Bring education to the hundred millions of people that do no have access to school and by nature are often poor. Targeted to the developing world. 2. Making education an addictive experience and a part of everyday life of people in the developed world through the use of Gamification.

Now the dilemma arise because that we believe that the only way to address the first target would be to take NGOs money in order to put the equipments and the setup in the hands of the users.

Do you think that we can take NGOs money while remaining a business?

What other means do we have to fund such a venture.

Thank you.

Funding your start-up with NGOs money

It's been I while I haven't felt that stupid (It lasted a few seconds). When I saw the video of Google Nose, I was amazed. I was keen to try that awesome new tech from "The Google"... Looked around for how I can buy the "odor producer" device without success. But wait? no device? just bring your nose closer to the screen and click on smell? What a shame I really did that (twice). If this April fool joke was fron another website or internet giant I'm sure I would not have felt for it. But it was Google...