Seeking an experienced Django/Python back-end dev for mobile engagement startup

[Andrew Haeg]

Hi all: 

I'm a long-time journalist (MPR News, APM, The Economist), co-founder of the Public Insight Network, and am now starting a new mobile engagement platform called Groundsource. We're a mission-based for-profit, seeking to make it easy for journalists, NGO's, researchers and others to quickly get "eyes on the ground" by connecting with people who can share first-hand knowledge and experience via SMS, IVR and the mobile web. 

We've got a solid alpha version in testing, and are looking for senior Django / Python back-end developer to join us for a two-month sprint to beta, and perhaps beyond. We've already got a slate of media, NGO, community organizing and local government partners lining up to use the platform once it's in shape -- from South Africa and Brazil to Michigan, California and points beyond.  

We're looking for someone to focus on the back-end buildout, starting with nuts-and-bolts platform stuff (payment gateway, API, security, CRM integration, account management, etc),  with potential to shape the technical vision for the future of the platform. We're going to open source the platform, and would like someone who can spark a community of global devs to pick up the code and do great things with it.

We need a strategic partner with vision and passion for making software that matters. We're funded through alpha, and will be seeking to mostly bootstrap rollout with paid revenue from beta customers. 

Please ping me if you or someone you know might be interested. I can demo the tool and discuss our vision. 

Best, Andrew Haeg 

612.501.0690

http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewhaeg

[Ray Shan]

Hi Andrew, I've been intrigued by these tools. What's the difference between the new product, Public Insight Network and http://www.helpareporter.com/? Just the mobile focus?

Ray

[Andrew Haeg]

Mobile is a big differentiator. We're also going to be offering the platform to a wide range of other users with a similar  need for on-the-ground context, including NGO's, public sector orgs, community organizations, and others. PIN is useful, but having developed it from the beginning, it's not scalable or (as a result) sustainable; and HARO is designed for U.S. publicists to get easy access to reporters.

Groundsource is about making it easy to create persistent, sustained relationships with people around the world to better understand their needs, their day-to-day challenges and aspirations, to enable better decision-making -- all by connecting to the simplest mobile phones you can buy. In many ways it's a bigger idea that PIN or HARO, combined (and I can say that while remaining modest because it's true). 

Let me know if you're curious to learn more and I can show you a demo. 

- Andrew

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[Andrew Haeg]

I'd like to renew a request from a few months back (copied below). We're now in closed beta (beta.groundsourcing.com) and are seeking an experienced Django-phile/Pythonista who can work for a few months for equity as we line up paying customers, and see if we can bootstrap our way to traction or need to raise some additional money.

The good news is that we've got a few active projects running, we have some very significant media orgs starting to set up pilots, and numerous other community orgs and NGO's doing the same.

We need someone to take some of the development load off our lead developer, and to help us as we ramp up to open beta. We're a team of four very committed people, looking for another to plug in. If you join us, expect to be asked for your vision and your opinion: We want a creative technologist who can help imagine new directions and opportunities as well as cut code.

E-mail me if you're interested. 

- Andrew