(I sent the following email to the SeattleTechStartups this morning. Reposting here for the record.)
Hi everyone,
Unfortunately, I’m writing to announce that we are closing our doors after 22 months in business. I am working out the transition details over the next few days. We’ll post the story of ClayValet; I’ll send
another email when it’s online.
In the meantime, some of you may be interested in helping us liquidate:
Startup developers (Ruby/Rails, other languages, Linux)
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My colleagues, Ken and Jason, are now available for full-time and contract development work here in Seattle. If you’re hiring developers, you should really talk to them: they’re smart, they learn fast, they both know several languages, and they’ve done quality work on our Rails website and Ruby workflow engine. I’ll be happy to put you in touch, forward you their resumes, and serve as a reference.
Ideal startup office space
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Our office space is the best deal in Seattle. It’s paid through the end of the month; for $600/month (+ $100/parking) you get 700+ square feet as 4 private offices in a great Capitol Hill location (1631
Belmont #1, 98122). For an additional $600 up front, it comes with desks, office chairs, breakroom furniture, and Speakeasy DSL (which we can transfer to you, saves 2 weeks of installation). It’s the perfect
starter package for a frugal startup. Map:
Software and Web assets
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Also available:
- Our workflow engine, built in Ruby on top of MechanicalTurk, makes it easy to use Mechanical Turk for non-trivial tasks.
- Our Rails website (SaneShopping.com) with content, domains, shopping experts, and 800+ registered users, currently running on Amazon EC2 (including MySQL master/slave replication with S3 backups)
Please contact me about any of these, and thanks to STS for your support over the last couple of years. Best wishes to all of you in your own endeavors.
Mikhail
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SaneShopping. Remarkable personal advice.
http://saneshopping.com
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Mikhail Seregine, CEO
206.909.8296 cell
mikhail@clayvalet.com
