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Million-Dollar SaaS Companies, Which Have No… Offices

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Close.io also fits nicely in that category as well. We actually started as a more typical Silicon Valley startup but over the last few years transitioned to now being a fully remote/distributed team (profitable with $X million ARR).

What I miss about being in-person is the unplanned conversations on the way to lunch about a problem or feature idea, that otherwise may not have happened at all.

But overall being remote has allowed our team to have better work/life balance, have recruiting/hiring advantages [1], support our world-wide customers better, and lead for more distraction-free work.

[1] We're currently looking for 1-2 senior engineers: http://jobs.close.io/?lever-source=hnsaasremote

Articles, Which Have No.... Content

I think that's a little unfair; there's:

* 10 individual companies mentioned

* a one sentence summary of the business itself

* A quote from someone involved in that company about remote working

* more than 1 link per company with resources about how they themselves deal with remote work

The site itself - it's visually very cluttered and it does itself no favours, but it's a good one-page collection of links about remote work (many of which I think have been discussed here before).

I have no affiliation or connection with this so no skin off my nose but to say there's no content is a little flippant.

And some of them even have handy graphs and researched numbers like ARR. Not affiliated with these guys either but I agree there is content here.

I agree. Even if it's a bit of a roundup post, there's limited material on this stuff in general. Even small tidbits on process or philosophy are helpful.

Or has false content? Basecamp clearly has an office, has been in Chicago since they started. Pretty sure the others have offices too.

I know this goes against the usual attitude about remote work around here but...

That flow-chart at the bottom is hilariously true. I've been a part of remote work as both a manager and an engineer, and this is exactly how it is because of different locations, the lo-fi aspect of existing remote collaboration tools, and the activation energy required to communicate more often (and if you're in different timezones, good luck to you!).

If you're an engineer that wants to really understand what you're trying to build and why, or if you want to be part of the problem-identification stage rather than just implementing someone's specs, this type of arrangement will drive you insane.

Some engineers are perfectly happy with a detailed spec though. For them, I completely understand the lure of remote work.

Incase anyone is curious or missed this like I did the first time around: the metric they are using is ARR.

Which to be fair is not a whole lot of money so not having an office makes sense. Once you pay for servers, marketing, and payroll you're probably not left with much.

But also to be fair, most of these companies are quite a bit more than $1 million ARR.

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