Founders

founders, how did you hire your first engineers? any advice?

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

building @alfaca @offmarket @perl | alum South Park Commons | previously cofounder SBLY.com, eng at Stripe | peter-kim.com

sharing sneakpeek and building in open on Farcaster does wonders. 

founder my co founder @peter (great entrepreneur who happens to be an engineer) here when there were less than 600 people, so you can find not only coin alfa, but talent alfa here

ty @dwr.eth @v for building FC

Contract to hire every time. Practice like you play. Look for curiosity, self-direction, velocity. Long term part time is a trap

Let them claim a bounty that involves the actual problems you’re solving. Ask friends to review their technical choices when possible. Move from bounties to contractor. If they buy into the vision, move them to team with equity (4 years vesting, 1 year cliff).

I got lucky. Belgian dude that loved to drink beers and build software on weekends. He had a good gig but I could tell he really wanted to do something more. So just gave him a call and said you can build whatever you want and I’ll protect you from the rest of the bullshit