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Show HN: A support network for working remote – my idea to overcome cabin fever
- sharemywin 11y agoyour confirm email field isn't big enough for my email weird because your main one is.
- orthoganol 11y agoIs this a community/ support group or your startup? Noticed you are calling yourself 'founder'.
- ob1gman 11y agoSo hi.remotetogether.com is a community and support group, but I'm going to eventually create products around RemoteTogether. The forum is just the start. Also have some podcasts coming soon. Sorry for the confusion.
- orthoganol 11y agoThank you for the honesty. I am always looking for support groups as a remote worker and occasional traveler, but to be honest myself, I believe there are too many opportunists/ profiteers in the digital nomad 'industry', and it simply annoys me. I will not be participating, but I wish you good luck. For anyone interested, r/digitalnomad is probably the best 'support group' currently.
- ob1gman 11y agoyeah - no problem. This isn't quite for Digital Nomads really. Honestly, I think digital nomads already have a community... I work from home. I don't work from other countries really. So my vision is to create a community of Remote workers. http://levels.io http://levels.io has done a great job of creating a community for Digital Nomads. RemoteTogether is more for the people who work from home and spend upwards of 10 hours at home working.
- orthoganol 11y agoLevels also has had a fair share of backlash in the DN community for being said profiteer ($100 to join a Slack group, for example. $20 for 14 page 'guides' for cities with info mostly taken from free forums, etc.). If he's your model, go for it. I would just add an asterisk to your use of 'support group' or 'community.'
- ob1gman 11y agoHmm. I didn't quite realize that, honestly. I don't plan to monetize hi.remotetogether.com. I could maybe see ads at some point on there? But that's about it. I have other monetization strategies. Like create an actual product. Also, I would say what Levels.io has done with nomadslist.com is exceptional. I've used it for a couple of trips (Vacations - DigitalNomad-ing) I've been on. I realize you may not be a big fan of him, but he's done some good! Just food for thought. Thanks for the responses though. Very. Very. Very. Insightful. Things I hadn't considered.
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- brudgers 11y agoThe StackOverflow business model might be an interesting case study: the goal has usually [1] been community first and any monitization being done using that community's exhaust fumes. I suppose there is a plausible case that that's Hacker News's business model too...attract people who might apply to YC, get in, and build a successful startup. [1]: StackExchange version 1.0 was an exception.
- ob1gman 11y agoCompletely agree!
- kchoudhu 11y agoHey, I'm starting my first remote gig this week. How very, very timely.
- ob1gman 11y agoAwesome! Sign up. Would love to talk more!
- arsenide 11y agoI love this idea. To come back to this page do I have to go through HN? I tried going directly to hi.remotetogether.com straight from a new tab and it does not work. Unfortunately I will probably be not contributing at this current moment, as I am in the camp of "looking for remote work" and not "currently employed doing remote work" :)
- ob1gman 11y agoAny chance you could send me a screenshot of what you're getting? info@remotetogether.com hi.remotetogether.com should work. Got to resolve this problem. :)
- arsenide 11y agohttp://i.imgur.com/COZJe0p http://i.imgur.com/COZJe0p -- looks like the main landing page!
- ob1gman 11y agoLooks like an issue with DNS. Resolving now. :)
- marshray 11y agoI see what you did there
- peterhadlaw 11y agoThanks for pointing it out to me, twas so subtle I almost missed it
- scribu 11y agoSeems very similar to https://nomadforum.io/ https://nomadforum.io/ Not all remote workers are nomadic, but all digital nomads work remotely.
- ob1gman 11y agoYeah - very true. I would say if you're a digital nomad you should join https://join.nomadlist.com/ https://join.nomadlist.com/. Looks like a great community and if I were a Digital Nomad I would join. But if you work from home I'd love to have a network around that... And that's why I've created RemoteTogether.
- ob1gman 11y agoThis is kind of the story behind RemoteTogether for anyone interested! http://hi.remotetogether.com/t/remotetogether-why-now/20 http://hi.remotetogether.com/t/remotetogether-why-now/20
- erikb 11y agoYou should write a little more why people should put there trust in your website. I mean, it's basically a forum, right? What should make me believe that you are cabable of forming a community that helps each other in these regards? What does it have that Reddit, Stackoverflow and HN don't offer already? Etc. E.g. we have an aggregator for remote workers. We will gather contracts for you, help with book keeping, have a project manager and corresponding tools prepared (issue tracker, wiki, chat channels) etc. To not make it an ad, I won't say our name. But I just want to show you that people already spend a lot of effort in that area. Certainly the demands we have working remotely are not all met already. But right now it's hard to see what makes your site interesting.
- hhw3h 11y agoIt would be nice to use my email as my username.
- bobbles 11y agoGreat logo! Just signed up
- ob1gman 11y agoThanks! :)
- mdip 11y agoGotta say - Well done. I'm a remote guy and have been for over 10 years (different companies) and being a part of a community targeted at "just remotes" is something I've wanted for a long time. The site is polished; extremely so for something "brand new". It was a joy to write my first two posts, setup my profile and read literally everything on the site this evening. Little things like the activation e-mail not ending up in my spam folder in GMail (which seems to happen with every "Show HN" activation message) make me believe you've got a bit of experience doing things like this. There haven't been that many forum/HN/Reddit-style sites that I've actually been excited about -- I'll be checking back in frequently and I hope you manage to build up an active community as a result of the work you've put into this.
- voltagex_ 11y agoActivation email for hi.remotetogether.com didn't come through.
- ob1gman 11y agoDid you check your spam folder? Since we're a new org we are a little unknown by some spam filters. If it's not in your spam folder will you email your account details to info@remotetogether.com ? That we I can diagnosis the issue better. Sorry this is happening to you!
- joshbackstein 11y agoBecause you are dealing with passwords, I'd really recommend forcing HTTPS, which unfortunately doesn't seem to be available at all. Other than that, I like it!
- ob1gman 11y agoI'm going to set that up tomorrow. I honestly wasn't sure what kind of feedback I would get, but so far most people have been excited. If you want to send me your email I'll let you know when I've finished setting it up. Thx for the feedback! And good call!
- joshbackstein 11y agoSounds great! It should be on my profile now.
- mjcsmf 11y agoReally nice forum! It's quite difficult to find the remote community, there are a lot of forums with communities related to it (digital nomads, nomads, freelancers) but not for remotes. I am a remote worker at http://www.whitesmith.co/ http://www.whitesmith.co/ and since the beginning, that remote work is part of our core culture. And I hope you don't mind but I would like to share with you the way our remote workers have a presence in the office: https://remotes.in https://remotes.in. Started to be an internal tool but right now is open to all remote workers, our goal is to create the biggest remote HQ in the world! This tool is in beta version and I would love if you try and give us feedback :)
- jmm7175 11y agoGetting 502 Bad Gateway when trying to confirm account.