Show HN: Arc – Hire full-time remote developers and engineering teams

We're excited to announce Arc today! We aim to change the way we hire and work remotely.

My first startup SocialPicks (YC 07!) was actually a remote company back in 2006. I was based in the Bay Area, co-founder Keven was in Vancouver, and our lead dev Olivier was in Toronto. This was pre-Slack, pre-Zoom, pre-Trello. I guess we’re the OG’s of the remote world. Back then it was actually quite hard to grow our remote team, as this would require, essentially, trusting strangers on the internet to join us on the intense rollercoaster ride of startup life.

Fast forward to today: The bulk of remote hiring services are still focused on finding short-term freelancers, rather than thinking of remote work as a genuine full-time employment option. It’s clear that the friction of going remote is still too high for many organizations and individuals. This is why we are launching Arc today: to offer a complete remote hiring solution to find full-time remote developers and build remote engineering teams.

We're introducing Arc early to get feedback from the HN community. As we work to reduce the friction of hiring remotely for both sides of the hiring equation, we invite you - developers and organizations alike - to join us on this journey.

We would love to hear any thoughts or feedback!

I'm signed up to CodementorX for over a year now.

I liked the vetting process and the people working there were very nice and helpful.

Never got a project via that platform, but I also only applied actively for projects for a month or so, then I got a book deal and after I wrote that book I got other projects where companies directly contacted me.

The service itself seems to be rather passive, like, you have to search and apply for projects yourself and hope you get one. It's not that they have a bunch of recruiters doing that work for you, which I would prefer.