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Fancy Hands | https://www.fancyhands.com | New York City - Full Time (onsite)

Fancy Hands is a personal assistant service. We've had a lot of good press, we're growing and we need some help.

We're looking to hire a python programmer to work on our back end. The ideal candidate would become our head of engineering.

Specific details: https://www.fancyhands.com/jobs/python-app-dev

We're also hiring front end developers: https://www.fancyhands.com/jobs/frontend-web

Fancy Hands is a small, profitable company trying to change the way people work. We'll won't call you a guru, ninja, or rockstar


Yeah. I like MTurk, but it's pretty impenetrable.



I sure hope this isn't the same type of hardware failure as the last one: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/09/05/recurly-suffers-hardwa...

We've actually started using redundant billing providers to handle this case. I'd hoped we'd never have to actually need it again though: http://www.fancyhands.com/blog/redundant-billing-information...


Found out from one of our users via twitter. We switched to EasyDNS after (one of the) the godaddy fiascos.

Hopefully they get it sorted soon.


It doesn't have a great way to upload from the desktop to G+, does it? I've been trying to figure this out for pics that don't originate on an android/iOS device.

I guess picasa can do it, but picasa leaves a lot to be desired.


I use Shotwell to upload to Picasa which is really a thin wrapper around G+. I also still use Picasa to do any prints I might want since G+ doesn't have that as part of its interface yet.


It's one of the first times the whole service has been down, but parts of the service go down at least once a week. memcache, task queues are "elevated" with regularity and urlfetch is frequently down totally. ("elevated" generally means unusable).

Of course master/slave even has scheduled downtime.


It's fine, because they're at 100% availability. Just totally down: http://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/64201bd8-5392-49fc-a47c-...


We plan a lot of people's dentists appointments (mine included). Even though I need to go to the dentist, I've got some mental block to actually schedule it myself.

(PS: Sounds like you were an enjoysthin.gs user, thanks for that!)


Pretty close. We charge you right away (you would have received an email asking to approve the charge) and then use our own card.


How do you handle the credit card processing fees - do you end up charging your end-user more to compensate?


I'd also like to know how much the fee for this is.


I am probably reacting too quickly, but I note about 3 other places (not including the sibling comment to this one) where people have asked you whether or not you charge a markup and purchases, and you've not answered.

Granted, it's only been an hour, but that silence doesn't make me feel good.


(Sorry, we were at lunch).

Nope, at this point, we don't take any percentage or fee. We even pass along any discounts we receive (we get up to 15% off flower some purchases for example and we pass that along to you).


But your payment processor has to charge you something, who pays for that? I've been wondering that for other services as well, e.g. Google Wallet.


Great! Thanks. I'm inferring that you're on the East Coast... :


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