Yep it is true. We have so much more to do that we need more people to help us. We just added a page to the website with a small description of the kind of person we are looking for. Here it is:

Fleck.com could use some help. Are you living in Amsterdam or near Amsterdam and would you like to work full time in a good karma small team at unreasonable hours? Do you know everything there is to know about PHP and MySQL and maybe even Javascript? Are you capable of working by yourself, hard to distract and stressproof? Do you like to find bugs, even in your own software?

Then why not contact us?

Please include a short history of what you have done, how old you are, what kind of education you have had and what your hobbies are. We are also interested in any projects or websites you have worked on.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

In the Dutch press there were some comments on the ‘enormous‘ (update: the journalist meant it in a good way and I didn’t notice his sarcasm ) amount of money we would have spend on the launch of Fleck. Some journalist thought we organized a party in a fancy club and paid all expenses for the attendees As we are a privately funded startup we try to keep the cost as low as possible (of course).

I’ve made a list with the total costs of the fleck launch trip in New York, so you can judge for yourself:

4 white suits (from the cheapest online shop in The Netherlands) € 201,46 (including shipping)

Suit customization € 81,35

Permanent markers € 12,-

4 white ties € 18,72

4 roundtrip tickets Amsterdam-New York (economy class Delta) € 1632,65

2 rooms, 4 nights at Stanford hotel € 1560,-

Hotel Wifi (4 accounts 3 days) € 78,- (Paid out of our own pockets).

Taxi costs € 238,-

Drinks, food (Burger King, American Burger, Cafe Muse, Soho Grand, Shime, 2nd 156 and A ave, Pastis, Starbucks, Gansefoort Hotel -oh no, the bachelorette party ladies from New Jersey paid that one-, Marriot Times Square -broadway lounge-, and the Lotus -thanks Thor!-) € 380,-

Hiring a PR firm (Well you could say that Heineken did our PR… so, about 200 dollars)

Sponsoring TechCrunch 8 Meetup (Next time Michael, we were short on budget)
The trip was € 4124,18 altogether. Is that outrageous for the launch of your company?