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Show HN: RemoteFriendly – A remote job board inspired by HN
Hi HN,
I've designed the site based on what I wanted a couple of years ago when I had been looking for a remote job. It's very early and any feedback is appreciated.
I've also used this opportunity to reduce some of that front-end framework fatigue by using just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Edit: I'll add location and salary filters as soon as I wake up tomorrow
- NithurM 4y agoSite looks cool. Where do you source the jobs from?
- lakomen 4y agoDev language filter would be desired as well
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- dt3ft 4y agoLooks great, I love the minimalistic design! Would it be possible to provide a filter which enables you to list jobs that do not have a physical location requirement? For instance, if I live in Sweden, how can I see which remote jobs I am eligible to apply for?
- 1xdevloper 4y agoYou can do ctrl + f "Worldwide" for now. I'll add filters for locations and salary soon :)
- NithurM 4y agoAs someone from a third world country, I had this problem with other remote job boards too. I was disappointed when they say remote but only in certain location. I created a Github repo to aggregate and curate location independent remote jobs. I hope it can be helpful to you also. https://github.com/Nithur-M/work-from-anywhere https://github.com/Nithur-M/work-from-anywhere Please let me know what do you think. Leave a star if you like the project.
- sam1r 4y agoDoes anyone of have a full list of the other ones [services] similar? I love this, but want to make sure I'm not missing out on all the possibilities. Great font, reminds me of musicForProgramming [1] featured recently. [1] https://musicforprogramming.net/sixtythree https://musicforprogramming.net/sixtythree
- solardev 4y agoI love the manually curated categories and how fast it is. Some feedback: 1) It's hard to tell where the job postings are crawled from. Are they recent? Are they comprehensive? Are they fully remote? I can't tell if it's even real data or just some sample postings you put up to demo the UI. Some insight into your crawling methodology would help with trustworthiness. 2) There's no easy way to distinguish the companies from one another, either in terms of their industry, their scale, their rankings, etc. 3) Lack of sorting/filtering makes it hard to drill down beyond the basic category It's a great start though, and thanks for putting this together!
- 1xdevloper 4y agoThanks for the feedback! 1) I used HN's June and July "Who is Hiring" threads as a starting point and listed more jobs from the companies that posted there. I manually listed only the jobs with a salary range so there's no automatic crawling right now. I setup a couple of scripts/pages to make the process very easy for me though. All jobs listed are fully remote. 2) There are also company pages for the jobs listed (e.g. https://remotefriendly.com/companies/posthog.com/ https://remotefriendly.com/companies/posthog.com/). They're pretty basic right now but I plan to add a lot more detail in the future. 3) Definitely on the todo list. You can just use ctrl + f for now since the since the site design is simple.
- solardev 4y agoRe: 1) If sustainable for you, having a "human-curated jobs board" would actually be a plus in my book! So much of indeed, monster, etc. are spam, so a smaller but higher quality listing would be awesome!
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- 0xPersona 4y agoCongrats! I launched a job board recently too [1] specifically for Anon Friendly jobs (jobs where you can work pseudonymously). We have similar domain names :D One thing you might want to look into is adding Structured Data [2] for job postings. Doing so "makes your job postings eligible to appear in a special user experience in Google Search results". It could help you reach more people. [1] https://anonfriendly.com https://anonfriendly.com [2] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structured-data/job-posting https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure...
- EduardoBautista 4y agoHow does one get paid without giving personal information?
- 0xPersona 4y agoGood question. So many of these jobs all you to work pseudonymously but your legal identity is still shared with some members of the organization (like execs/HR/finance) for onboarding purposes. Some just pay out in cryptocurrency to a wallet address.
- Silica6149 4y agoInteresting, but if my legal information is still shared with the company, what are the benefits of getting paid in crypto?
- 0xPersona 4y agoMany of the benefits of being paid in crypto are just benefits of crypto in general: decentralized, permissionless, censorship-free money. Aside from that, there's an emerging trend that I think is both really cool and will end up being the default way most people are paid. That trend is "payment streaming". Products like Superfluid [1] let you stream cryptocurrency payments. Staff could be paid in realtime rather than waiting to receive a monthly paycheck. That will prove really compelling for prospective employees and I think that most organizations will eventually make the switch to streaming salaries. Some organizations even have public dashboards that show how much is being streamed in realtime and to whom. The transparency is super cool! In the near future, we'll look back on the way we get paid today as unbelievably suboptimal and anachronistic. [1] https://www.superfluid.finance/ https://www.superfluid.finance/
- qwerty3344 4y agoI think it'd be nice to have a way to sort/filter by locations and also by salaries
- summertime42 4y agoThis is amazing. Thank you so much for making sure salary is listed!
- breakfastduck 4y agoEchoing the other commenter, location filter would be a huge improvement.
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- cdnsteve 4y agoJob boards need to focus on signals and data that matters. - remote definition plus remote where? Not everyone is US based. Timezones may be important - salary currency, benefits, rays, bonus, etc. Salary based on geo or wherever you are? - tell me about culture without a team ping pong photo - why is the company worth applying to, what's the growth rate and funding, how long in business - leadership info and views they share, this often leads to company policies. Have they built successful companies before? - is this position urgent or just a casual fill when needed
- stedaniels 4y agoA link to the "Remote working" policy document publicly hosted on their main domain would be a solid choice, with key points summarised in the job posting.
- runnerup 4y agoAnd are they only hiring exclusively people whose resume show a stint at a FAANG company or a CS degree at a top-10 school?
- nowherebeen 4y agoElitism is a real thing in certain tech companies.
- tchalla 4y agoYeah Remote Where? I can’t believe job postings and websites can’t list this information upfront without asking for it. Most of such offers are typically from the US, which says something about the mindset of the society.
- muzani 4y agoI think most wealthier countries outsource to other countries in the same timezone, but prefer local for legal purposes. American cities can be bloody expensive, and the more out of town areas can be significantly cheaper to live in, even compared to South America and developing countries. EU's salary ranges aren't so far; they can hire from the cheaper EU countries as well. Commuting between EU countries is also relatively easy when necessary. Australia has a large pay gap and probably hires outside the country a lot more compared to other countries in the world. But they're a much smaller tech employer than the US.
- jonathan-adly 4y agoLove the aesthetics and the creativity. The right design for the right audience. Congratulation on your launch!
- zkid18 4y agolooks nice, but sadly to see almost all position constraint on country / region of residence. not everyone today has a privilege obtaining a legal status to work in US or EU.
- kamac 4y agoThe salary ranges are very misleading, unfortunately. For example, posthog will only pay 120k gbp for a senior full stack in London, while they’ll pay 220k usd for the same role in Seattle. Ramp also doesn’t pay 200k+ for roles based in EU.
- 1xdevloper 4y agoSince Posthog points to their salary calculator in their job posted, I listed the lowest and the highest possible values as the range. For ramp, the $250k+ salary is listed based on their "who is hiring" post [1]. But you might be right about the salary being applicable to only US candidates. Otherwise, I pretty much listed what's there on the job pages. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31590252 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31590252
- 650REDHAIR 4y agoThat’s insane.
- emptysongglass 4y agoI don't get this pay disparity between Europe and the US. It's totally crazy to me as someone who has lived and worked in both the States and Denmark (and citizen of both). We work the same hours. If you're in a major metropolis you're paying the same amount of money for food, a home, etc. You're getting taxed at a much higher rate, on average, in Europe. Why do we put up with this? I think EU employees should just say we will take the same pay you're paying your US employees or we won't take the offer. Giving in to the insane expectation is what keeps us underpaid to our US counterparts.
- em-bee 4y agofull-time/part-time values would be great, same with fully and partly remote
- 1xdevloper 4y agoIf a job is part-time/contract, that info is displayed. But I guess it's better to be explicit and display "Full-time" as well based on the feedback. All jobs are fully remote.
- junon 4y agoA good one for Germany, Austria and Switzerland: https://zuhausejobs.com https://zuhausejobs.com
- Lordarminius 4y agoGreat job. You might also want to add a filter for tech stack.
- scoot 4y agoThe CSS doesn't load, looks like craigslist. No trust
- nimchimpsky 4y ago
- mch82 4y agoReally nice site. Works great on mobile. Assuming the jobs are a json array, it would be cool to add a simple text filter box to the job list.
- edumucelli 4y agoI find it great, simple, quick and gives the most important info for me: salary range, region and company website. Keep it up!
- athrowaway3z 4y agoThe salary difference between US and EU makes me cringe.
- bambax 4y agoOne very simple feature that most job boards seem to lack is to filter out companies; if, after checking out one position, someone decides they don't want to work for a specific company, it makes little sense to still show them all the other positions.
- cbartlett 4y agoPersonally I can't wait until non-remote job boards start showing up. Most jobs I see advertised are remote or at least hybrid and list this as a headline benefit. But I want to go to an office and be around other people. I know I'm in the minority these days but I can't be alone.
- webscout 4y agoWhat APIs / sites are you scraping from?
- chazeon 4y agoProbably need also an level filter, entry/senior/etc.
- nmajor25 4y agoI maintain a GitHub repo of companies that hire remote devs: https://github.com/nmajor25/companies-hiring-remote-devs https://github.com/nmajor25/companies-hiring-remote-devs. Could give you some additional sources for your job board.
- 1xdevloper 4y agoThis is awesome, I might use that list in the future! I used HN's "Who is Hiring" as a starting point and added more jobs from the companies that posted there. You can see the list of companies here: https://remotefriendly.com/companies/ https://remotefriendly.com/companies/
- gkapur 4y agoIt would be pretty cool to do some quantitative analysis of how remote friendly these company's stacks actually are, ie. are they "remote friendly" or actually friendly to remote employees...