Ask HN: As a skilled developer, how do you make pocket money with little time?
We're working to solve this problem at <a href="http://MoonlightWork.com" rel="nofollow">http://MoonlightWork.com</a>. At my last startup, I had a lot of friends who wanted to help us out - but they had day jobs that they couldn't leave. So, I started hiring them part-time as contractors. It was great - we had top talent, and they could focus on interesting problems while making extra money.<p>Moonlight is still in its early stages but we are doing thousands of dollars per week in business. Our average hourly rate based on paid contracts so far has been $146.79. We're focusing on more specialized work rather than generic web development from scratch. Early projects have ranged from a custom algorithm for a hedge fund to some infrastructure work to support Tensorflow. The benefit to companies is that they have access to specialized engineers for focused projects, and they can get a match within 48 hours.<p>If you're interested in short-term projects, you can join at <a href="https://MoonlightWork.com/apply" rel="nofollow">https://MoonlightWork.com/apply</a> - we're working on increasing the number of projects, so sorry if it takes a couple weeks to get a first project match.<p>We're going though YC's Startup School MOOC, and we did live office hours with Sam Altman a few weeks ago. You can see the video here: <a href="https://youtu.be/abtHadERzXU" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/abtHadERzXU</a>