All You Want for Christmas… Is a Developer for Your Project?
If you’re looking to hire a developer or designer for your company, move on. While finding great technical talent is hard, this article is going to be all about gifting genuine talent to the ones you love – for the projects they love. While this might seem like a complicated premise, a service called BuildItWith.Me makes it very easy to find like-minded designers and developers with the same (Christmas) goal: creating cool and useful apps!
Christmas time means that we have a bit more time for our personal project, whether they are knitting an ugly Christmas sweater – or – creating a brand new web service or app. While most of us would never consider a Rails-powered, responsive web service just a hobby, some .Me readers are web designers and developers who love to use their skills to create projects of their own. While you can always start a project such as iPhone app on your own, you’ll probably still need someone to help you finish it up. If you’re a designer, a great developer can make the app run. If you’re a developer, the interface needs to be simple and user-friendly.
If you’re not either a developer or designer, but know someone who is working on a project and needs some help to make it even better, BuildItWith.Me can help you find the right talent. While we’re going to go more in depth on the project in the future, BuildItWith.Me’s purpose is connecting designers and developers based on their interest. Unlike a “hiring” network, the purpose of BuildItWith.Me is to help you find some help. Instead of finding a physical gift, why not find the right partner for your loved one’s project? Give them the gift of the right people that can take their passion to the next level!
How Does BuildItWith.Me Work?
Even if you’re not used to services like BuildItWith.Me, that are usually used to hire people, you’ll easily browse through the service that is divided into two sections: Ideas for projects that you want to build; and People for a list of people interested in creating great, new projects.
The homepage of BuildItWith.Me is filled with projects, arranged by their popularity (although you can sort them by the newest project) which is calculated based on the number of likes other users of BuildItWith.Me give a particular projects.
Each project has a specified platform and the traits they need for the project to be successfully finished, such as a back-end developer or designer. The idea creator describes their project in a few paragraphs in an “About” section, as well as saying specifying in more detail what kind of people they’re looking for, besides their traits. It’s quite important to find a team you’ll enjoy working with, since it’s not a paid gig, right?
Build It With Them For Christmas?
While BuildItWith.Me is a very useful service; it wasn’t built with Christmas in mind so I have no idea what might happen if you decide to post a project on behalf of your girlfriend, husband or friend. However, if you know that your loved one truly needs some help with their project, finding a friendly developer or designer to help them with it – could be an amazing match.
On the other hand, if you’re a developer or designer: You can even find someone to help co-create a gift, such as an little original app. As long as it’s cool and you can peek people’s interest, BuildItWith.Me could be the ideal place for like-minded geeks to come together and build cool Christmas apps!
