Comment by Jasber | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Jasber | Hacker News Reader

Hey HN! Here's a small side-project I've been working on to help remote workers. I noticed when I switched to full-time indie dev, I experienced some new problems, like building discipline, habits and healthy routines. I don't like most productivity advice, as Paul Buchheit says most advice is limited life experience + over-generalized to fit your situation.

I thought a good way around this would to just tell stories about remote workers, how they got started, what they like, what they don't like, routines they've found that are helpful, etc...

So that's what the site aims to do—interview remote workers so you can learn from their experiences.

One cool thing about the site is you can deep dive specific questions, like

* What do you like about remote work? http://remotehabits.com/interviews/question/what-do-you-like....

* What do you not like about remote work? http://remotehabits.com/interviews/question/what-do-you-not-....

Let me know what you think, thanks!

the best thing is no commute, the energy overhead of a long commute is terrible. The worst thing is missing out on conversations/decisions being made at the office. My corporate office is in San Diego while I'm in Dallas, even though I'm a director and the buck stops with me in engineering, lots of sidebar conversations and decisions get made in Sand Diego face-to-face and not on conference calls and slack channels.

This is very difficult to address. I think people (in the office) need to buy in and use chat or email as communication mode number one. Either that or someone needs to come out with some better tele-presence for remote teams to interact with people in the office.

I've considered setting up a couple of tablets with webcams in my remote office and my office in the company. That way people can come talk to me whenever they need to.

Think about what you are saying. We should forgo direct communication with people next to us, in favor of an online alternative? Even though your goal is noble (enabling remote workers) your method is unnatural.

I agree that a way to better integrate remote workers is essential. However disposing of direct communication is not the way to do it. I don't have an answer, we need a novel approach.

Noticed both those links are broken, doh! Here they are again:

* What do you like about remote work? http://remotehabits.com/interviews/question/what-do-you-like...

* What do you not like about remote work? http://remotehabits.com/interviews/question/what-do-you-not-...

Looks like we soaked your quota, sorry!

It's not in the Wayback Machine, is there another cache somewhere?

This is great. I'm currently browsing for viable, worthwhile opportunities for myself to set my girlfriend and I on the path to getting out of the city. Need more outdoors time.

I haven't worked purely remotely before outside of a couple of light projects where I was the sole eng/dev.

I'm always keeping my eyes open for new resources. Looks like it might be helpful! Good idea, and nice job.

This is great, I've been thinking about doing something similar but not been able to make the time so it is good to see someone else doing it. There is quite a lot of information out there about tackling the logistical challenges of operating remotely esp for software development, great to hear other perspectives and industries.

We already used up your bandwidth quota?

This is great!

Just one feedback - kindly reduce the CSS font-weight from 900 to something like 400-500.

Thanks for the feedback!

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