Show HN: I built a Job board for work-at-home / remote careers
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This post originally pointed to https://www.remote.io/, but that domain has changed hands and the new owners asked us for a fresh start. I think it's reasonable in such a case to take the company name out of the title and the URL on the submission, so have done that here.
Keyword searches match jobs with no keyword matches. Like devops
It doesn't work at all for me. I always get the same results no matter what I type on the search box.
You may be searching too broadly. Adding additional keywords will help to narrow the results.
When searching, you can see the number of results returned at the top left.
EDIT: I did find an error that was sometimes causing auto-complete and search to not work. This has been resolved.
When searching, you can see the number of results returned at the top left.
EDIT: I did find an error that was sometimes causing auto-complete and search to not work. This has been resolved.
It also searches job descriptions for those keywords. If the keyword is in the job description, the result is returned.
Searching for `nim` the language, returns results with words like `animation` or `minimal`.
This is a known problem and I'm afraid I don't have an easy solution for that right now.
The problem is that a separate index must first be built to assign all related tags to job listings as some don't have any and others don't have all related ones.
Once that is completed, the search functionality will be reverted to what it was initially with the ability to search by strings and/or tech tags individually.
I've been contemplating how I'm going to achieve this for a couple weeks and have a pretty good model in mind but no ETA on when it will be implemented.
The problem is that a separate index must first be built to assign all related tags to job listings as some don't have any and others don't have all related ones.
Once that is completed, the search functionality will be reverted to what it was initially with the ability to search by strings and/or tech tags individually.
I've been contemplating how I'm going to achieve this for a couple weeks and have a pretty good model in mind but no ETA on when it will be implemented.
The domain is awesome. Did you pay a premium for it?
No! I'm actually the original registrant of the domain. I actually have way too many domains and ideas that I'd love to build and this is a great example.
I originally registered it with the intent of building a remote monitoring and management tool or an infrastructure provider company but never got around to doing either venture.
The remote job site came about because I realized I was getting a lot of unintentional traffic from people searching for remote jobs. As it wasn't a terribly difficult venture, I decided to build it out and see how it went and so far, it's done well.
I originally registered it with the intent of building a remote monitoring and management tool or an infrastructure provider company but never got around to doing either venture.
The remote job site came about because I realized I was getting a lot of unintentional traffic from people searching for remote jobs. As it wasn't a terribly difficult venture, I decided to build it out and see how it went and so far, it's done well.
You know "medical coder" has NOTHING to do with software right?
The site is for all types of jobs, not strictly software related ones.
"coder" isn't a great choice of search term. If that's what you searched for, that's what you'll get as the search results are based on the job description, as well as the technology tags.
"coder" isn't a great choice of search term. If that's what you searched for, that's what you'll get as the search results are based on the job description, as well as the technology tags.
I can't be the only one that gets frustrated at these remote only career sites that don't display salary/day rate. It's such a waste of time for both parties to have to go through the hoops just to find out that the compensation is not worth it.
Stackoverflow does it best - provide a filter for jobs that don't provide compensation info.
Stackoverflow does it best - provide a filter for jobs that don't provide compensation info.
I agree that is rather annoying. I'll add salary, when available, to the job search results page soon (probably today or tomorrow).
I'll also look into adding a filter to exclude those without salary listing but can't promise any timeline on that.
I'll also look into adding a filter to exclude those without salary listing but can't promise any timeline on that.
Salary has been added to the job search results for the positions that list it.
I get frustrated too, But then I go on glassdoor if I like the job post :P
A future goal is to implement salary estimation based on the job role. The hope is to do something similar to Payscale but based on the salaries provided for the listings which contain salary info and geographic location of the companies.
Kind of related; but can someone give me some advice on what to look for when looking for a remote job? I kind of know what to look for when interviewing with local companies, but how do I know if a company that works remotely is a good fit? How do I know they know how to work remotely effectively?
How do they ship code?
How do they make decisions and include remote workers?
How do they do meetings? Daily standups using camera or just a slackbot? No meetings at all? Weekly meetings? Figure out what you like and filter from there.
One thing you must look out for and ask about it remote culture. I've worked at companies where on-premises engineers had more say than remote engineers. If leadership doesn't stomp that behavior out immediately, the company will skew towards that. Leadership must make a conscious effort to create and encourage remote working culture.
How do they make decisions and include remote workers?
How do they do meetings? Daily standups using camera or just a slackbot? No meetings at all? Weekly meetings? Figure out what you like and filter from there.
One thing you must look out for and ask about it remote culture. I've worked at companies where on-premises engineers had more say than remote engineers. If leadership doesn't stomp that behavior out immediately, the company will skew towards that. Leadership must make a conscious effort to create and encourage remote working culture.
This is so similar to remoteok.io I thought it was the same website at first. Even the logo is remarkably similar.
Pieter Levels (creator of remoteok) is one of the inspirations for building the site.
Another interesting coincidence is that he has levels.io and I have level.io (I registered it about 4 years prior to him).
To make things even stranger, he posted my exact birthday on a mock ID he created for his blog (Feb 20, 86): https://levels.io/remote-worker-visa/
Another interesting coincidence is that he has levels.io and I have level.io (I registered it about 4 years prior to him).
To make things even stranger, he posted my exact birthday on a mock ID he created for his blog (Feb 20, 86): https://levels.io/remote-worker-visa/
Congrats on the launch! I'd appreciate it a lot if you'd consider changing the font on your logo since it's so similar to mine on RemoteOK.io and it's confusing since the domain and the contents itself are so similar. And funny coincidences haha :D
As a former remote worker, showing the salary would be priceless and instantly put you on top. Nothing worse than wasting your time and finding out a position is severely underpaid.
Nice domain man!
Thanks! It was one of a few really awesome ones that I was able to snag at the launch of the TLD.
Congrats, on launch. But change the logo. It looks pretty similar.
https://remoteok.io/hire-remotely
BTW how are you getting listings?
https://remoteok.io/hire-remotely
BTW how are you getting listings?
Yeah, we both use the Google font named Pacifico. I may change it but a font change is pretty low on my priorities list.
The listings come from feeds of numerous job sites and applicant tracking systems. I run them through custom filters to pull out the ones that are specifically remote-friendly.
The listings come from feeds of numerous job sites and applicant tracking systems. I run them through custom filters to pull out the ones that are specifically remote-friendly.
I think this area has been done to death.
You should make it free to post a job.
There is no traffic on this site
I would post a job for http://textita.com but $300.00 for a zero web traffic website is crazy
You should make it free to post a job.
There is no traffic on this site
I would post a job for http://textita.com but $300.00 for a zero web traffic website is crazy
Zero traffic? It's far from zero traffic. The domain was averaging 1k unique visitors per day before there was even a site from typo's while people were looking for other remote job sites. That's actually what convinced me to finally develop it.
I initially launched it in September but that was more of a soft launch to see if it would be worth my time and the traffic has been increasing. The past 2 days have been a bit higher with this HN post and averaged between 4-5k unique visitors / day.
I initially launched it in September but that was more of a soft launch to see if it would be worth my time and the traffic has been increasing. The past 2 days have been a bit higher with this HN post and averaged between 4-5k unique visitors / day.
So you decided to launch a site that has almost a carbon copy of remoteok.io's logo to monetize people's mistakes?
I wouldn't say using the same font for a part of it is "almost a carbon copy" but yeah, that pretty much sums it up. I'll be updating the text form of the branding soon though.
There's an entire industry around that called Cash Parking. There's at least four different remote job sites with similar domains that I receive traffic (and email) for if you'd like to look those up to make some more pointless comments.
There's an entire industry around that called Cash Parking. There's at least four different remote job sites with similar domains that I receive traffic (and email) for if you'd like to look those up to make some more pointless comments.
Actually...that would be quite interesting.
I recently heard about this racket, did not realise how developed it was. And I find it really amusing. So...please link them too. Not sure why people are so against it? The site you are slightly ripping off is not original.
The activity should be called cheekySEO :)
I recently heard about this racket, did not realise how developed it was. And I find it really amusing. So...please link them too. Not sure why people are so against it? The site you are slightly ripping off is not original.
The activity should be called cheekySEO :)
Hey I went to post a job and got an error: could not find post-job/index.html in your content namespace
Also, I realise this is an MVP, so no issue. Hope it does well.
Also, I realise this is an MVP, so no issue. Hope it does well.
Thanks for the report! I will temporary cut the listing price in half to make up for the trouble.
I believe it may be a cache issue from our original build and you having visited previously. If you could, please hard-refresh (Ctrl+F5) or visit the job portal directly: https://portal.remote.io/
I'll work on a quick temporary fix as well.
If your issue persists, please contact us with the address of the page that you were on previously when you clicked to post so we can investigate further.
I believe it may be a cache issue from our original build and you having visited previously. If you could, please hard-refresh (Ctrl+F5) or visit the job portal directly: https://portal.remote.io/
I'll work on a quick temporary fix as well.
If your issue persists, please contact us with the address of the page that you were on previously when you clicked to post so we can investigate further.