Discussing the Remote Work Phenomenon
We are conducting an experiment here - publishing all the remote jobs we’ve found during July on an independent platform. In this case, Google Sheets.
Source for this spreadsheet is our page Top companies hiring remotely in July 2020
Enjoy the hunting!
Time flies fast. It’s been 5 months since I posted the last milestone celebrating 500 subscribers.
I’m happy to announce that this number is now almost 9 times bigger - we are now at 4200 subscribers and counting. I’m not even sure if subscriber is the correct term here - because the original newsletter has evolved into a product with scale I didn’t anticipate. But more about that later.
Presumably the most interesting part for you IndieHackers. Some of these are publicly available on our /open page. Some, I had to dig up for a bit.
Continue reading “First Customer and 4000 Users Later”We spend up to 35 percent of our productive time at work. Shouldn’t we at least make it so it doesn’t suck? But wait, there’s more - the vast majority of people still commute (more than 70 percent) wasting even more of their time and putting unnecessary pressure on the environment in the process.
Easiest solution to all of this? Go remote!
That is, of course, easier said than done. It’s also worth mentioning that by solving the commute and office related pain points, you will inevitably create new ones linked to your new shiny remote lifestyle - but we will get to that later.
With this mini series, I will guide you through the most common situations people looking for remote job typically find themselves in.
Continue reading “How to Get a Remote Job (part 1)”Originally, I set the 500 subs goal for the end November - got there 3 days later. Still, close enough.
More info, charts and 🥧 pies: remoteweekly.cc/open
Haha, just kidding! Noone needs yet another remote job board IMO.
(Although one applicant told me there is never enough job boards, so what do I know.)
There is however one issue that was bothering me for couple of weeks.
The thing is - Remote Weekly is a smart newsletter. It crawls various job boards, Facebook groups or subreddits, applies a little bit of filtering, text-analysis and machine learning so that it can send you only the stuff you are truly interested in.
That is all fine. Except - There is this database of valuable data only being used on the weekends. Isn’t that a waste!
And that’s why I’ve stitched together a lil website - Remote Daily.
It’s basically remote job fulltext search engine.
Goal is to help people who are actively looking for remote position and can’t afford to wait for the weekly newsletter.
That’s right, I’ve created side-project inside my side-project.
You can bookmark any dynamic url to quickly check on new jobs (they are highlighted)
Check it out! Remote Daily
So remoteweekly.cc got to 200 email subscribers this week, yay! 🥳
Follow Remote Weekly journey here on Indie Hackers or on Twitter.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
This post was first published on Indie Hackers.
Although remoteweekly.cc was never gonna be a Product Hunt superstar, it’s good for my mind to just check out this milestone when building a new thing.
I usually do Product Hunt, Hacker News + few subreddits first; and move to an actual day-to-day marketing and promotion of the new thing within the next few days after processing the initial feedback.
This time I did only PH with HN and Reddit to come next week.
I scheduled the post for Sunday (that’s right), but when I checked later that day, it was re-scheduled for Tuesday and eventually launched on Monday! Someone at PH probably had some fun with that, hehe. However it actually served me well as Remote Weekly got 94 upvotes, 400 visitors and 150 subscribers. Not bad for a newsletter 🤷
Follow Remote Weekly journey here on Indie Hackers or on Twitter.
Peace out!
After making getremotejob.xyz, I didn’t really plan any more involvement in the remote work field. After all, the market looked pretty crowded already - for years. It was only meant as a quick way to help out my friends (and other people) asking advice on the remote work and digital nomading thing.
However, it surprised me how many positive responses this simple and stupid html table got.
That got me thinking about an actual product.
What could it be? Mmmm.
Here’s how it’s gonna work
Possible “business models“
Advantages
Disadvantages
The main disadvantage is clearly the weekly interval which can cause
some positions to be already filled when you get the email. On the other
hand, if a position gets filled so fast it’s a bit strange. It’s also not meant for people activelly looking for a job.
Disclaimer
The ideal persona for this product is not actively looking for a job. He/she already has a job, but is thinking about going remote for some reason (traveling, commuting, family).
So I’ve been doing this digital nomading & remote working thingy for a while now; and there was barely a week without people asking me for an advice on how to start with one or the other.
I’ve put together basically a spreadsheet of various resources, companies, Twitter accounts and job boards - all remote work related - and made website out of it.
It’s a list. Nothing more. Probably never will be.