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      The Office

      9 Aug 2006

      So after 5 years of freelancing and working out of my house, I have finally moved into a real office, care of Pandora Squared. It isn’t much to be excited about, all things considered, but it is my very first office ever, so there. We’re at a fairly high-rent building in The Fort, and from my 8th floor window I can see all the way across to Market! Market! and Serendra. Not bad for a first-timer, if I do say so myself. We’ll probably be moving out of this place within the next 5 months though, as we’ll be growing too large for this 40sqm space pretty soon.

      Work on our next major project has been slowly unwinding; I’m not sure exactly how much of it I can write about without breaking our pinky-swear NDAs so I’ll just say that we’re putting together a very big Filipino social network focusing on one of my favorite things (no, not poker). I should be able to write more about it within the next week or so, as rollout schedules have been heavily compressed on this one; we are going to be pushing out a public beta before the end of this month and launching first week of October.

      **We’re trying to grow our development team as we go along, so if anyone out there has web development experience and wants to learn Ruby on Rails, please feel free to .**

      4 Responses to “The Office”

      1. sal Says:
        August 11th, 2006 at 7:19 am

        I’m a fan of your work and I’m interested on learning. If you guys wanted to expand in Canada. Let me know.

        -sal-

      2. elaine Says:
        August 11th, 2006 at 11:06 am

        hello luis! u don’t really know me but i’ve been stalking your page since the hifiber days po. sensya na didn’t mean to stalk. anyways may tatanong lang po sana ako sa inyo. i have a brother whose into creating corporate websites and whatnots. i’m not really into this techie stuff but considering na this is your area of expertise i just had to ask. my younger brother po kase was spotted in one of the IT orgs he’s with and an american guy wants to hire him. freelancer po siya eh and he doesn’t know kung how much ang dapat niya i-ask. sorry to bother you po i don’t know who to ask kc. we don’t know the rates and my younger brother’s thinking of resigning from his work na…

        super thanks po talaga =)

      3. luis Says:
        August 11th, 2006 at 9:31 pm

        the amount your brother should ask for depends greatly on where he will be working. if he’s staying in the Philippines, salary ranges are PhP25,000 to 40,000 per month. if the American you’re working for doesn’t know the market rates you could probably get away with doubling that number (but don’t quote me on that).

        in the US, you’d be looking for about $3000 to $4000 per month minimum I think, as it costs $400 just to rent a small room there … and that’s in a lower-end part of town.

      4. Says:
        October 28th, 2006 at 8:35 pm

        hi luis! i am a big fan of highfiber.org and also saw what you did with mobiuslive.net. just like to ask if you are still into website design and development? if yes, how much do you charge for a personal (developed in flash or if not flash, a site with graphics) and community (just like highfiber!) websites? hoping for your response!

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