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Show HN: the remote-only job board called HireThere (a weekend project)
- Jeremy1026 14y agoVery good idea. Clean execution as well.
- coreymaass 14y agoThanks very much! It was a good excuse to learn Twitter bootstrap, and put my own spin on it :-)
- simone-audiobox 14y agoInteresting project. Looks lean and fast. No bells, just exactly what you need. Good job.
- vellum 14y agoThat's a clean design. I'd make the top part smaller though. Maybe trim down the logo size, move it to the left, move the search bar up top, and put the results closer to the top. Also, since your listings are one liners, I'd put more listings per page.
- coreymaass 14y agoI've been debating about that. I want it to feel design-y, but if it's interfering with the experience, then it's not a good thing... :-) Thanks!
- coreymaass 14y agoIt's smaller now, and there are more records.
- insteadof 14y agoThose tags you have, (design, content, management, etc.) make them clickable and group all those jobs under it. It at least looked like it would be that way.
- coreymaass 14y agoOoh, good suggestion. I'll add some sort of filtering on the categories.
- BrianEatWorld 14y agoDefinitely something I will use. I noticed that you are getting a fair amount of postings from Authentic Jobs. Are you importing them by hand? How are you determining if they are truly remote? I find AJ is a really strong source of freelance remote work, but I also noticed that not all of the jobs using the "telecommute" tag on AJ are entirely remote. Similarly, there are a good deal of postings on AJ with geographic restrictions on who the poster will work with due to time differences. For a site that is strictly remote jobs, you may want to include either a work day filter, where night owls on the West Coast can still team up with European companies or a filter that hides European positions with time constraints from West Coast users.
- coreymaass 14y agoThanks! Yes, I'm importing jobs from Authentic Jobs using their API. I'm looking at doing the same with a few other sites, too. Any suggestions are welcome :-) I filtered their results by both the "telecommute" flag and searching for "anywhere". It's a really interesting idea to list timezones. I hadn't thought of that. Maybe when I get some more jobs posted, I'll ask employers if it's something they'd want.
- entropy_ 14y agoI'd say timezones is definitely something you want to have available as information. I've gotten needlessly excited about possible remote jobs way more times than I can count only to find out that they only want people within ~2~3hrs of NYC or SV(I'm in UTC+2 so that's 7hrs and 10hrs respectively)
- oab123 14y agoanything that makes it easier to find good people, remote or otherwise, works...
- demosquared 14y agoEven if you are using stripe, you should use SSL on your payment page where you collect credit card and other user information.
- coreymaass 14y agoThanks, yes, I'm going to install an SSL cert shortly. Technically it's low risk without it, but I definitely want to cover my bases, and make the user feel good, too.
- coreymaass 14y agoSSL cert installed.
- thehodge 14y agoWasn't there another job board for remote workers launched last weekend on HN? EDIT :: Sorry, for the bluntness, I read the tittle as ONLY remote worker job board, rather than the remove worker ONLY job board..
- thehodge 14y agoTo answer myself, yes, yesterday actually - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326314 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326314
- coreymaass 14y agoCrazy, right?! He beat me by a day :-) I actually reached out to him. We both have remote-only job boards AND personal finance apps. I'm nervous to find out what he's building next :-)
- lem72 14y agoYou guys should remotely link up and work on some amazing project together as you both seem to be on the same wavelength!
- coreymaass 14y agoI know, right? We'll start as a consulting business, and build products on the side... one or two miracle functions later... we'll be 37signals!
- joshguthrie 14y agoIf you could go and write a Rails-killer (let's say, using node), I wish you all the best.
- coreymaass 14y agoHa! Thanks, I'll get right on that :-)
- noce1 14y agoAwesome! Will spread the word.
- smiler 14y agoYou cannot search for "c#" - it strips the # out
- coreymaass 14y agoHa, wow! I'll fix that. Thank you for beta testing :-)
- coreymaass 14y agoFixed.
- pagade 14y agoLooks like search ignores special chars. 'C++' was considered as 'C'. 'Java' worked fine.
- coreymaass 14y agoFixed. Sadly there are no C++ jobs yet :-(
- pc86 14y agoNo Erlang? This looks well done. Good job.
- onassar 14y agoAnother one :) Going to add it to my http://imnosy.com/ http://imnosy.com/ account. Now I've got three different places to find remote jobs :)
- kgodey 14y agoWhat's the third?
- onassar 14y agoSo far, I've got: https://hirethere.com/ https://hirethere.com/ http://remojobo.com/ http://remojobo.com/ http://jobmote.com/ http://jobmote.com/
- coreymaass 14y agoHirethere definitely needs an RSS feed, or email subscription option or something.
- jdefontes 14y ago+1 for RSS.
- nawitus 14y agoHow is this different from earlier job boards?
- coreymaass 14y agoI honestly couldn't find another job board that only listed remote jobs. As of yesterday, there's one other :-) And searching for remote jobs on the established sites was generally very clunky. So I think it's a niche that needs some attention.
- coreymaass 14y agoOh, and I should've mentioned! If you want to post a job, let me know, and I'll give you a coupon code for a free listing!
- redmattred 14y agoSimplyHired, Indeed, & JobG8 all have api's you can use to backfill jobs that you might want to check out. You can drill down your search query to just include remote jobs I'm guessing.
- rorrr 14y agoPlease please please add an optional field for salary (hourly or yearly), and let me filter by jobs that specify salaries. Emailing dozens of jobs just to find out they pay $15/hr is a huge waste of time.
- coreymaass 14y agoHow would you want to search it? hourly? annually?
- rorrr 14y agoEither. They can be roughly converted between eachother.
- anotherevan 14y agoWould it be worth adding some sort of optional region field? Some people may only be willing to hire people in certain countries or time zones for whatever reasons. "I'm sorry, we're only hiring people in the USA, not the Antipodes."
- coreymaass 14y agoI've had a few suggestions for timezones, or preferred hours. I'll definitely consider it.
- thrwaway00 14y agoI'm just starting to learn programming, and I was curious what language the website is written in? RoR? Also, what other technologies did you use?