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One thing that irks me about sites for remote work is that they don't distinguish between countries.

A lot of employers will be remote, but only within their own country. I want to filter out remote jobs that won't accept candidates from outside of the UK, for example.

Great point, we can add that as a field for employers to fill out when creating the listing.

I wanted to make the same point. I spent some time on the site and went away about 75% sure its US only, but it's hard to tell since many US cities are named after UK cities.

A really common example (outside of the UK) is Melbourne, Australia & Melbourne Florida.

I would also ad to that, timezone. Some employees are flexible on country as long as you fit into a certain timezone range.

> but only within their own country

Yeah, although this only plagues US and UK companies as I've seen.

Well, quite a large share of job posts is from the US, so it has a significant impact on usability in practice

It's not a "filter" as you'd say but if you're based in Europe there is this site that displays jobs that are specific for EU resident for instance https://eu-remoters.com/

I dislike services that aren't upfront with their prices. Requiring an account to be created AND providing the full job specification before seeing the cost will probably result in a large drop-off of your potential customers.

The value of posting on a brand new job board is about zero, if anything it's net negative when taking into account the time used. So, for a brand new site that lists only 10 jobs, I'd expect this to be free for a while to build up volume and value.

Hey, co-creator here, thank you for your feedback! Pricing page can definitely be added. We should add the baseline pricing elsewhere throughout the site to make sure there is no confusion as well. Our plan is to actually make listings free for the first few months as we build up a base.

It super minimalist. As a result it looks clean and seems easy to navigate.

But it is slow. I don't know why, I'd expect something a little faster given the minimalism.

It took me a few tries to notice the green progress bar at the top. That was an interesting UI Choice.

From a business perspective. There are an increasingly large number of sites/platforms targeting remote workers specifically in addition to the usual sites for publishing jobs. So if you are going to get into this, you need a way to get eyeballs of your target job hunters which will then get you money from your target employee hunters.

1. visit https://everlookjobs.com/

2. enter Kotlin in search box and click Search

3. press Back button on browser

Behaviour: URL changes to previous page but content stays the same

Expected: Search box to clear, and full list of jobs to show

Thank you for the feedback! I think I know what the issue is, we will take a look and get that fixed.

YARJW - Yet Another Remote Job Website

Yet most of them have American jobs where you need to be base in America to take the job, or ultra low paying non American jobs. And few are upfront about salaries. I mean it all blah blah blah React blah blah team blah blah culture, apply now (which to anyone serious means tailor made cv) then what I find out the salary is half my current one 8 hours of time investment in? This is where I kinda like recruitment agents despite their sins! </rant>

I don't even get why companies don't post expected salary range. It's a waste of time for everyone involved if there's a completely different expectation.

"competitive salary". Oh really? In who's opinion?

I normally start the conversation with the "talent agent" or "technical recruiting specialist" with some pleasantries and then: "Before we get to deep into this and I waste your time, my expected minimum salary is $X. Is that inline with what you are willing to offer your ideal candidate?"

That way I am being the magnanimous one in not wasting THEIR time, and they can't come back with well our salary ranges are based on experience blah blah blah.

Do I leave money on the table by showing my number first? Possibly, but I know what I need to live my semi-extravagant, travel-filled life, and still save.

You would be surprised how many people don't know they are worth $40k more if they had just asked. If they start posting the range, you can bet the average wage overall would go up, and that effects runway/bottom line significantly.

All of these sites can be easily crushed by established players... Indeed, Hired, ZipRecruiter etc...

Still the gold standard: https://weworkremotely.com/

Biggest job board out there. I've found my last 2 jobs there.

However, for me as a developer, the gold standard is StackOverflow jobs. Nicely formatted, easy to find data, tags with tech skills. Very often there is a salary range.

So, a buddy of mine & I built a remote job board application in hopes of gaining experience with side businesses.

Used some pretty cool technologies for it... Serverless, NextJS, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Cloudfront, etc..

Before we start building more features, we'd like to hear some feedback on what you guys think.

Cheers

I gave it a cursory look from the perspective of someone on the lookout for remote opportunities to replace my non-remote grind. At a glance, I like what I see, but there are a couple of things that stuck out to me:

- The search seems pretty limited. I am on mobile, and accidentally entered “python “ instead of “python” (trailing space), and got 0 results.

- it would be great to be able to do more than single key phrase search. E.g. I might be interested in Full-time JavaScript jobs in Canada. I didn’t see a way to search for that, aside from sifting through all results for “JavaScript” by hand.

- In addition to a more expressive search, I’d love to be able to subscribe to an RSS feed for a given query

Overall, it looks like a great start! These are just my $0.02 on mobile

What's the price for posting a job?

So I signed up for an account to discover pricing and they have 3 plans - all of which enjoy a 50% launch discount:

Basic -$39 (30 days listing + share on twitter); Pro -$59 (everything in Basic + display company logo, job posting highlighted); Ultimate -$79 (everything in Pro + Pin to top for 7 days).

Here's my question for the product makers: what's the aim of building this product - is it a side project or change how an existing problem is currently being solved?

Thank you.

Definitely makes sense as a side project + great way to gain experience!

How long did it take you guys to build this?

Hi guys,

Nice and responsive interface. I did a quick search for Clojure jobs and found 1. The page said nothing about hours, compensation, expectations about the actual work/results. Might be a cultural issue, but in northern europe we're very up-front about these details so if you want to reach outside the US I recommend making a template that covers all of these issues.

Job description template is on the horizon. We are also adding salary range as a field for job postings. Thanks for the feedback!

Make this compulsory. There is a budget for the role or the role doesn't exist. I have a budget for how much I can accept or I won't waste their time interviewing.

You need to show, and ideally being able to search by, the valid region/timezones of the jobs. For instance, US-only is very common. Another examples are Europe, UTC-1 to UTC+3, etc.

Just a heads up, in Firefox with remote scripts blocked using uMatrix, the JS on this page goes into an infinite loop if I don't allow the Stripe script, which I wouldn't normally bother allowing unless I was about to pay for something.

Site is minimalist, which is something I like. I wish the search would accept synonyms for technologies/languages, like "js" or "node.js" would be accepted for respectively Javascript and Node.

First of all - I kind of like the design of the website! It sucks a bit the broken back button though.

Also, a kind of funny thing: open dev tools, network tab, start monitoring, click on a tag or search for something and boom:

    location: "toronto"
    companyId: "cf4dc3ce-07b0-4c73-94ca-e6b0b05298d3"
    config: {isHighlighted: true, hasLogo: false, isPromoted: false, hasSocialMedia: true}
    status: "active"
    companyNameLower: ".."
    createdAt: "2020-01-20T02:25:08.078Z"
    views: 114
    text: "test automation engineergit, python, selenium, java, sentry, redistorontofull-time"
    expiresAt: "2020-02-20T02:25:08.040Z"
    updatedAt: "2020-02-04T15:26:41.590Z"
    desiredPosition: "Test Automation Engineer"
    amount: 59
    jobType: "full-time"
    applyUrl: "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/viewform?entry.1432237434=c7dd38b9&entry.1192563077=cfc6f88f"
    description: "....."
    id: "4c7ad16a-eecc-482c-a6a1"
    timesApplyClicked: 3
    productId: "ca731006-d129-4623-9991"
    tags: "git, python, selenium, java, sentry, redis"
    totalVotes: 0
    logo: false

Kind of TMI, like "views" or "timesApplyClicked". Not sure this was meant to be public.

edit: formatting

Update: there are also information about the company itself, which looks kind of sensitive data.

Something is wrong. I clicked on a Python job in San Antonio but then it redirects you to an offsite page hosted on Lever, on there in the actual application says the job is in Prague? Thats Czech Republic right? Am I just victim of bad copy paste by the recruiter?

Edit: Funnily enough there IS a Prague in Texas too..quite close to San Antonio... no surprise, but it's definitely not looking like the type of city with any 'tech' office.

> but it's definitely not looking like the type of city with any 'tech' office.

Maybe that's why they need to go remote?

Nice design, look and feel. However I found it quite slow when clicking a job and the loading of the job detail page. I know you have the progress bar indicator at the top of the page, but it moves really slowly and it takes a while before the page even changes, so if I hadn't had noticed the progress bar, I would likely have thought it was a dead link button or the system was not responding.

EDIT: Another suggestion - when viewing the job detail screen, it would be nice if I could click on the 'tags' under the job description to see other jobs with the same tags too.

EDIT 2: Same with the job type (Full Time, Part Time etc.) and the Location. If these were links that opened a new list of matching jobs, that would be handy IMO.

Thanks for taking the time out to give us feedback!

We will take a look at the loading speeds and maybe look at better ways to show page loads. The top progress bar was done very early on and after many design iterations might not be the greatest UX anymore.

As for your other points, if I’m on the job detail page and click one of the tags would you expect that to open a new tab? Or instead begin listing jobs underneath the current job detail?

I'm seeing lots of new job boards recently. I guess the market must be quite hot right now.

I'm really curious how do you make companies post a job on those new boards?

> I'm really curious how do you make companies post a job on those new boards?

I'm not sure you do. Historically, you would have your sales personnel call the company's HR dept and sell them the spot.

Looks great, but with hardly any jobs listed and a payment required to list jobs... you're going to have a really hard time gaining traction.

I searched for c# contract

None of the jobs were c#. As far as I could tell, none of them were contracts either.

Wow saw Bellroy whose wallet I use has a Haskell job!! And it’s in Australia. That’s an interesting combo. Give how rare Haskell jobs are and how rare Aussie jobs are on boards like this.

It's a small thing but you have a typo in the hero message:

"opportunites" is missing an "i", after the second "t".

Easy to miss!

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