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Ask HN: Help me find an online hangout for freelancers and remote people?

18 pointssharmi8 comments

I am working solo on my little projects at home.

Sometime back, I came across a site, styled like stackoverflow, where freelancers posted casual questions and chatted. It was more like an virtual water cooler.

If anyone knows a site like that, pl post it here. Thank you

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Possibly Nomad List? It's for digital nomads, so there's lots of freelancers & remote workers on there, but also mixed in with travel discussion. They have Slack channels too. I think it might be a paid membership now:

https://nomadlist.com/forum

If you're looking for solo developers, there's the Bootstrapped forums, which is like a modern version of the Joel On Software forums. It's starting to attract some of the growth-hacker / info-product types lately though.

http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/

https://indiehackers.com

The guys from the Coding Blocks podcast have a Slack channel where quite a few people interact, though it’s not totally limited to freelancers. I’ve gotten some good feedback and input when I’ve asked questions there, however. And most of the conversation is good.

https://www.reactiflux.com serves that purpose for me. It's React-focused, but lots of knowledgeable, helpful people in there including the great #jobs-advice channel.

The #freelance on Slack, but it's not free. I'm a member there, and it's been valuable. I've gotten gigs that have paid for the membership price many times over.

hashtagfreelance.slack.com

Check out https://digitalfreelancer.io/

They have a slack group for developers that's really good

wouldn't Reddit be a place for that?

you could also checkout indiehackers.com

Not sure if there are any slack channels.

Reddit's programming related subs are all pretty much overrun by n00bs (I readily admit that I am one of them) up voting every shitty tutorial they can find (i don't do that). I also suspect that the non n00bs are somewhat dominated by opinionated folks who have a sort of tunnel vision for their various careers / the tech world in general.

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