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Show HN: Find Remote Work
- akcreek 9y ago"The best place to find remote jobs." I get really annoyed when such blatantly false statements are slapped onto a website. If you can't say that honestly then it is a great opportunity to be creative with messaging and say something that adds value. This has been a pet peeve of mine for as long as I've been running online businesses. Our competitors are always #1... all of them, at the same time.
- pryelluw 9y agoHow about: A good place to find remote work. I/We try our best to find you good remote work. Still sends the message and positions the service as one that is for the benefit of the user.
- Kurtz79 9y agoHow about: "Weekend/class project where I managed to implement a form for submitting jobs and a search box, together with the backend. Planning to turn it into an actual website for submitting and searching remote jobs, which will be better than the alternatives because..." It would definitely get much better reception and honest criticism.
- WhitneyLand 9y agoIt's PIMM (pre-Internet marketing mindset). Execs or Companies with PIMM have trouble adjusting to the concept that transparency is now often the best way to build trust and strong customer connections to a product, service, company. They don't realize even when they are wrong or make mistake transparency can still come out ahead. They don't realize that if you are trying to for example, sell a TV, creating expensive, buzzword laden, high production value marcom, might not be as effective as having a couple of employee subject matter experts make videos for youtube and provide unvarnished, useful information.
- notahacker 9y agoI'd say the opposite: claiming to be #1 even if you were set up yesterday (and - something of a tangent - striving to be #1 more than striving to be profitable) is the defining paradigm of the internet marketing era. In the pre-internet marketing era you actually had a well established #1 job board for each vertical at the back of a printed trade publication full of expensively-created content to try to build customer connections to classified advertising. In the internet marketing era, people that want jobs Google $industry jobs and find a whole bunch of established or brand new identikit job boards often syndicating the same job ads paid for by the same central supplier, each claiming to be #1 (or "the best" or "biggest choice" or similar) because their metrics suggest making such boasts increases search clickthroughs and return visits.
- wheelerwj 9y agowhy do you care? it's a Show HN, it's obviously just the tagline the one dev made up to show off a weekend project to their internet colleagues. So its not the best right now, but at least they have a goal.
- jcadam 9y agoBah, I've had job interview "take home" projects that were about at this level of difficulty. Note to employers: "Implement a simple REST service in language X" is getting really, really old. You ought to be able to come up with something more challenging that isn't such a boring time sink.
- akcreek 9y agoNot specific to this site, but the cavalier use of this type of statement bothers me because I highly value honesty, integrity, ethics, etc. even on the internet where accountability is limited. If that line is truly their goal then why not just say that, "Building the best place to find remote jobs" That small change honestly communicates why the site exists, why I should be interested in it and why there are limited legitimate job postings at the moment. It also tells me that this site is still evolving and I should check back.
- bonsai80 9y agoNot sure it was done purposely here, but frequently the "Best Such and Such" wording is used for Google, which in turn is because that's what people search for. Those seeking higher Google SERP rankings (everyone) are rewarded for using phrases like "Best Cloud Storage" as their title, h1, and in the description text. I agree with you though, and it'd be nice to see this go away, but it won't until Google changes how this works (or perhaps they already did, but websites assume they're still on to something).
- robjan 9y agoNeeds a moderation policy. The #1 posting is currently "Fart engineer"
- LyndsySimon 9y agoI was sad that it led to a 500 page. I was interested in that position :(
- maerF0x0 9y agowouldnt want to be QA at that place xD
- dbbk 9y agoThat can't be right, I was told this was the best place to find remote jobs.
- s_kilk 9y agoYou really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
- amatera 9y ago... and a Fart Engineer is not an awesome remote job? I wonder how they would control your "output"....
- lukethomas 9y agoThey offer free lunches.
- roryisok 9y agoFinally! I was beginning to think nobody out there valued my skills
- kls 9y agoFunny enough, when I was younger I worked in the game and simulation industry, at the time, we where working on a game that was pretty popular. Anyways, one of the devs comes running in the audio guys office and yells dude turn on the mic, he then proceeds to fart into the mic. The audio guy then stretches it out so it's got this long weird sound to it, we all laugh then a few days later I compile and am running thru a level, pick up a blaster pull the trigger and hear that sound. About that time, the audio guy comes over and is like WTF is going on in here, because I am laughing (loud) uncontrollably (his office was right next to mine), and he was like oh I see you fired the blaster. It made it thru to production as all the execs loved it, the three of us would just giggle every time the game was demoed. Just wanted you to know that your skill may actually be valued.
- reustle 9y agoSimilar: http://remoteok.io http://remoteok.io
- sebringj 9y agostackoverflow careers finds you remote work rather than you finding it
- krallja 9y agoI have not seen any leads on remote work through SO Careers. Maybe I'm blacklisted, or just terrible at my job and don't know it.
- staticelf 9y agoI got my current position through SO Careers. :)
- roryisok 9y agoCan you explain how that works? It looks just like a normal job search engine to me
- sebringj 9y agoMe? I can't tell you how it works, I could guess. But in terms of the experience, it just serves you up jobs. Seems pretty good at it though. Probably using some sort of AI NLP stuff as I get the best matches over any other one for remote consulting type work which isn't as easy to come by. I actually wrote one of those recruiting tools by scraping stack and github and used nlp with some deep linking logic stuff with neo4j. They didn't do anything with it though.
- brailsafe 9y agoWell... the form certainly works. I guess.
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- jbrimble85 9y agoTried to apply for the position of Fart Engineer but it led to a 500 error page.
- robotpony 9y agoAlso tried to apply. At least 60 years worth of experience, if you consider accelerated rate of practice. Disappointed in 500. Thhhbbbttt.
- thinbeige 9y agoNo responsive site in 2017?
- brandonhsiao 9y agoI like the UI a lot. Were the jobs currently listed posted by the companies or you? Really cool if former.
- olahalvorsen 9y agoBetter place to find remote jobs: http://remotive.io http://remotive.io
- kw0lf 9y agoYou mean better than the best (TM) place to find remote work? How's that even remotely (haha) possible?
- j_s 9y agoThere's a list for that! https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job#job-boards https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job#job-board...
- yakshaving_jgt 9y agoSorry for Zalgo'ing your form.
- tzury 9y agoYou got to add moderation. This is what I see out there: Title Company Posted df df 21 minutes ago Forum Spammer Find Remote 29 minutes ago Your mother Definitely 32 minutes ago Chief Sharting Officer Farts and Sharts 2 hours ago Wizard's Assistant SICP Inc. 3 hours ago Failed Engineer Doogle 3 hours ago Fart Engineer Farts Anonymous 5 hours ago http://i.imgur.com/sWM59QJ.png http://i.imgur.com/sWM59QJ.png
- gregjw 9y agoWell that became a shambles fast
- yourMother123 9y agoIt may be beneficial to check what kind of URLs the job posters can submit as Job Urls, it's a popular attack vector
- blackstampede 9y agohttp://i.imgur.com/1N7wXUa.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1N7wXUa.jpg EDIT: put url to imgur instead of direct
- fazkan 9y agodiarrhea testing engineer????wtf...
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- blub992 9y agoThe fictive jobs actually look kind of fun. Maybe you can expand on this and gamify it a little.
- nodex-alex 9y agosome people are calling this a weekend project..... Make no mistake.... this is a ten minute project one can do in a tea break!
- chris__butters 9y agoSuper simple idea but laughable implementation - people trying SQL injections and just spamming the shit out of it means it becomes completely useless. I wouldn't even have that online.
- alangibson 9y ago4th time this site was submitted. 157 days for HN to notice there's no moderation, and off to the front page she goes...
- alangibson 9y agoSomeone just posted one with the full text of War and Peace as the company name. Let this be a lesson kids: always validate your input.
- jmcgough 9y agokudos to whoever posted the entirety of war and peace
- gargravarr 9y agoSeeing 'Boobie Inspector' and 'Fart Master' in the list really does illustrate the internet for you. Really. Just... don't trust people...