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Ask HN: Good places to find work as a technical writer?
I like writing and would love to contribute more of my time to writing technical documentation, blog posts, etc. Are there any good places where I can find such jobs?
- bitxbitxbitcoin 5y agoReddit.com/hireawriter can be a good source for leads.
- elviejo 5y agohttps://www.writethedocs.org/job-board/ https://www.writethedocs.org/job-board/
- pabs3 5y agoMaybe Google Season of Docs? https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/ https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/
- terrycody 5y agoI think you can check Oreilly media.
- paxys 5y agoCan't say about blog posts, since I don't know of any company that has blog writers on staff, but all popular SaaS apps these days are building out their developer APIs and always looking to hire technical writers for their docs.
- mjoneill 5y agoCheck out your local chapter of STC. The Society for Technical Communication has a job bank, but I think you need to be a member to access. Local chapters often share jobs without membership.
- mapaxe 5y agoDraft.dev also https://github.com/malgamves/CommunityWriterPrograms https://github.com/malgamves/CommunityWriterPrograms
- sixhobbits 5y agoWe offer this as a service at Ritza[0]. Feel free to reach out. We are hiring. [0] https://ritza.co https://ritza.co
- greazy 5y agoHow do you apply? I can't find any link to jobs or careers on your landing page
- sixhobbits 5y agohttps://ritza.co/handbook/roles/general-application/ https://ritza.co/handbook/roles/general-application/
- logicallee 5y agoThanks for this! I've applied based on your recommendation. (I hope you don't mind, under "Why are you interested in this role?" I put that I was referred by sixhobbits on Hacker News. :) I appreciate the opportunity you've shared!
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- 35mm 5y agoWrite your own blog with good articles about how to do things with software that you like, then get paid via affiliate links (ethical as long as you fully disclose).
- woollymallard 5y agoMy team at Daily is actually hiring for this, although I don't see the ad on the site yet (https://www.daily.co/jobs#open-positions https://www.daily.co/jobs#open-positions) We're distributed and largely async. My day to day work includes creating demos with our APIs and writing technical blog posts about them, helping maintain our docs, and helping other teams write about what they're working on. I'd been interested in technical writing for a long time, but was hesitant to apply for any of these kinds of roles because I thought it might mean giving up engineering to just write about other people's code. What drew me to this particular role is knowing that I was going to be programming as well as writing. It's been great so far, recommend checking it out if you're interested in that kind of work.
- mrpeanutbutter9 5y agoDataCamp has a contributor program: https://datacamp-1.gitbook.io/community-submissions/ https://datacamp-1.gitbook.io/community-submissions/