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you love coding, you love starcraft, now's your chance to put your skills to work on your passion.
ggtracker helps players win more and go deeper into the games they love, with personalized stats, charts and coaching. We're applying the power of data to make Starcraft more fun and interesting for fans and players.
Our alpha site has been up for less than a month. Although we've only built a few of our ideas and bought no ads at all, we already have hundreds of users coming back to the site regularly. People seem to especially appreciate our emphasis on clear presentation and usability.
For example, here's a chart from my profile page, where you can see that I'm steadily getting better at keeping my worker production up:
Our goal is to make the ultimate tool for coaching, self-coaching and self-tracking. You shouldn't be endlessly laddering with no particular signs of improvement and no meaningful guidance. You should be able to see your skills improving, and get data-driven insight about what you need to work on to take yourself to the next level.
Here's the TL thread introducing ggtracker. (If you have general comments or ideas about ggtracker, it'd be cool to discuss them there. This is meant to be the thread about working for ggtracker.)
Who will I be working with?
+ Show Spoiler +I'm David Joerg, ggtracker's founder. ( full background on linkedin) I studied Computer Science at Harvard, and in 1999 co-founded a mobile software company called Vindigo. Vindigo’s award-winning personal navigation software was the inspiration for Foursquare. After that I did ten years of advanced work in automated trading. As it turns out, analyzing Starcraft replays has a lot in common with analyzing trading.
Skills & Requirements
+ Show Spoiler +You should: - be a talented software engineer, ready and eager to learn, ship working software and make great things happen
- take an interest in all aspects of software development: front-end, back-end, testing, specification, design, persistence, protocols, robustness, deployment, it's all interesting, isn't it?
- have a flair for rigorous analytical thinking
- have a positive, can-do attitude
You can work remotely. Or if you can come to New York City, all the better!
How to apply
- email to dsjoerg at ggtracker dot com
- upload a game to ggtracker, and include a link to it in your application
- include a list of things you've built, a brief bio, and your online profiles (Github, stackoverflow, LinkedIn, personal website, etc)
Thanks!
ps. also looking to hire a graphic designer for the logo and site style.
EDIT: un-spoilered the How to apply section so that hopefully more people pay attention to it 
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i think "hack starcraft" is a bad title for this.
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On April 18 2012 10:55 johnnywup wrote:
i think "hack starcraft" is a bad title for this.
It's really attention grabbing actually.
GLGL to ggtracker and applicants.
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On April 18 2012 10:55 johnnywup wrote:
i think "hack starcraft" is a bad title for this.
It's actually more of the term that a lot of modern programmers use. Hackers by definition are what most people would call programmers, hackers are not people that try to break into computer systems to steal info, those are "breakers", As such, the people that would be serious applicants for this type of job would know what "Hack" means in this case.
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On April 18 2012 10:55 johnnywup wrote:
i think "hack starcraft" is a bad title for this.
I disagree, I clicked on it to know why 1. TL would accept the title "Hack StarCraft" even with misconceptions of what is
"hacking" per se.
and 2. What "hacking StarCraft" entails.
Worked well.
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Hack StarCraft is a title that is going to reach the people the OP wants to reach, I think. Everyone else thinking the title is about maphack or whatever doesn't seem like a big deal.
I'd apply if I didn't already have plans for this summer. This tool sounds pretty sweet, both technically and for the community, so I hope you find who you're looking for!~
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What kind of requirements are you looking for in an applicant? I'm highly interested in applying, however I'm still a university student (junior), albeit in computer science. Just don't want to waste your time with a frivolous application!
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damn, this guy is a serious baller. wish i was a better engineer.
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Excellent site. The graphs really bring the information from the replays alive. Great presentation.
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Any room for a coffee boy? I'll work for "thanks" even.
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On April 18 2012 10:55 johnnywup wrote:
i think "hack starcraft" is a bad title for this.
Hacking in a programming sense is very much different from hacking in a computer security sense (programmers usually differentiate between hacking and cracking). A hacker is basically a skilled/clever programmer, and a hack is a messy but creative solution to a problem.
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Have to admit, as a fan of branding myself I find the name "GGTracker" horribly hard to come up with a creative logo for. 
Might think it over and apply at some point but more than likely it will slip my mind at some point. XD
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sounds cool but I suck at anything like this
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What language? I am à software developer in java. Is it à fulltime commitment?
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On April 18 2012 10:55 johnnywup wrote:
i think "hack starcraft" is a bad title for this.
Disagree... I checked the thread out and I almost never look at sponsored threads. :D
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On April 18 2012 10:51 dsjoerg wrote:
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ps. also looking to hire a graphic designer for the logo and site style.
Get this guy: http://raihn.wordpress.com/
He's done some really great work!
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On April 18 2012 15:54 Get.Midikem wrote:
What language? I am à software developer in java. Is it à fulltime commitment?
From the website:
be familiar with or willing to learn Python/Django, Ruby on Rails, and Javascript/HTML/CSS/jQuery
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For those interested: the original term for "hacker" means someone writing code in an unstructured manner. Now, of course, it has a different meaning.
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On April 18 2012 11:46 Imbu wrote:Show nested quote +On April 18 2012 10:55 johnnywup wrote:
i think "hack starcraft" is a bad title for this. It's actually more of the term that a lot of modern programmers use. Hackers by definition are what most people would call programmers, hackers are not people that try to break into computer systems to steal info, those are "breakers", As such, the people that would be serious applicants for this type of job would know what "Hack" means in this case.
You are absolutely wrong, hacking means taking something apart and/or modifying something to make it better, faster and more efficient or just make it do things hackers like. In this case this means changing the Starcraft game engine or game logic script. A classic example of hacking Starcraft would be to make a LAN version.
What ggtracker does is analyze (data mine if you will), create some sort of wrapper but never hack anything.
Of course what common culture thinks of hacking is also wrong, true hackers would never use it for bad, but for their own curiosity, to not accept things as they are and see how they work in order to improve them.
The first usage of hacker was done in the model railroad club, where they would tweak the model trains and tracks to make their train run faster. Since then the term got a massive amount of negative publicity, which led people to believe that hackers are criminals.
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