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I offer this perspective as someone who is only willing to work remotely because I have significant sensory sensitivities, because I suspect there are many other people like me: The colors in your logo clash so badly/scream so loudly they're physically painful for me to look at, even for a second. It's the first time I can remember ever yanking my phone away from my eyes because of how jarring a logo was.

There's a good chance this is not an issue for people who just have a preference for working remotely, and so might not be worth considering if they're your target market. But for those of us who might come across your site because we depend on remote work for gainful employment, it's so bad as to be exceptional.

That's an interesting ailment. Have you tried Dark Reader? It has modes where it can desaturate everything on the web page. If you're on Windows, you can apply filters to your display output. f.lux has those. I used to use grayscale mode. Sometimes you have to turn colors off to realise just how distracting they can be.

i guess it's inspired by google's logo. but for reasons that i can't explain, the google logo screams less than this one.

I guess it could be because of the brighter yellow of the last e. Will try to fix it.

i think it's more than that. google logo only has four colors. though you probably don't want to copy the google colors exactly. i'd research some sensible color schemes. there are design tutorials about that.

Thanks for your feedback. I am sorry if the logo hurt your eyes physically. Will try to see how the logo can be adjusted to make it appear less painful. I guess the colors are brighter which may have made it feel that way.

I also have significant sensory sensitivities (due to Autism). Feel free to check my profile for my email if you want to get in touch.

I also got a little nauseous by glimpsing at the logo :)

Thanks for the feedback. The logo has been modified as per suggestions in the comment.

Pet peeve: please allow filtering by location and/or nationality requirements. So many remote jobs have them, but half the time you only find out when you apply that it's for, e.g. US citizens only, or GMT-5 to -8 etc.

Seconded, especially as most jobs clearly state in their requirements which time zones or jurisdictions they accept. If you're hand-picking them, it should be fine to add or scrape that data from the posting itself.

Agree, but this is not a pet peeve. This is quite a fundamental feature to avoid 99% of jobs being irrelevant. This is the first think I looked to do when i got on the page, and I lasted 1 second.

This is the exact reason I've created Remote Leaf[1]. Remote Leaf helps job seekers save time by scouring hundreds of remote job boards and send them the ones that are fit based on the skills and location.

[1] - https://twitter.com/abinaya_rl

Thanks for checking out the link and commenting. Will include the relevant filter for this purpose.

yep, 100% agree with you. This also became a lot more common after covid were more companies were suddenly 'remote' but not silicon valley remote

Thanks, will do. Perhaps a filter for this will be a good idea?

Relevant filter has been included. Please have a look at the new and improved site

Verified handpicked 19k jobs? Really?

I’m a little bit skeptical...

Yea, second that. I think they just picked some sites to scrape. I found a paid research study listed as a job.

While it’s technically a 1 time contract job, it’s not a job

Thanks for your comments and pointing that out. There is no scraping done. We are not claiming all jobs to be permanent. The only thing is that all jobs are remote. Will include a filter for this reasons.

All the companies who offer remote jobs are handpicked and their jobs are checked to ensure that they are for remote work before they are inserted in database.

There are tons of job boards out there. Every flavor imaginable. The main problem is not finding the job listing, it's:

1) the signal to noise ratio both for the employer and for the job seeker

2) the broken and high-cost interview process

3) the uncertainty of how the employee will turn out even if they pass the interview and the uncertainty of how the job will turn out for the employee

Thanks for your comments. Those are really valid and good points. We will consider those in further development. Can you please also provide your recommendations on how can we assist in solving that issue.

Small aside : « be free, work? » those are antinomique in my book.

The author of this job listing must be from the United States.

Thank you for the new word, I will have to save it for another perfect context

You are welcome!

it's be free -> work remotely not just work...

Thanks for clarifying .. That's the point.

If you search for a term that has no results. It says "Snap! Your search resulted in 1 jobs. Try searching again using a different keyword."

Thanks for your comment. Can you please suggest a better phrase?

Perhaps something that indicates no results, rather than (erroneously) one result?

Thanks for the suggestion. The snap! was added to show that we haven't been capable enough to have job listings for the intended search.

For some reason your search bar lets me move it around lol. I can place my finger on it and move the text. Not a big deal.

The main issue I have is that I get to the landing page and I don’t know what to do. What do I search for?

A list with filters would at least give me an idea of what categories I have to choose from, or what fields are available to look at.

Thanks for checking the site. The behavior you mentioned about the search bar is not the expected one. Can you please tell me the browser you are using?

As for the main issue you mentioned, the search bar mentions search remote jobs and the title of the site is clear about it which we believe is good enough. As for the categories we are working on the filters for them.

iOS Safari.

Thanks for letting me know. We have updated the website with new features, please kindly have a look and let me know your thoughts.

When I search for perl it returns entries for HyperloopTT which doesn't have any openings for perl. I assume you are just sub-string matching against all text. If I add a blank before and after perl it doesn't match any text. Wrapping blanks around perl would also preclude matching "^perl" or "perl\.".

Do you have any plans to allow matching only words?

Thanks for your insights. Yes, we do plan to improve the search capabilities and will incorporate this.

The new version of the website has been launched. The new version has improved search capabilities. Please kindly check it and let me know if it works better.

Because this is going to come up, what's the advantage of using this over, say, weworkremotely?

One of the advantage is that all the jobs are from authentic sources and we plan to have the highest number of remote jobs.

Are you insinuating that not all weworkremotely jobs are authentic?

What I am trying to imply is that these are jobs that are authenticated by us and we are striving to list the highest number of jobs posted on daily basis. These jobs are ones verified by a team (group of friends) and shared which are then put in database for users.

Your mention of "highest" goes to the direct opposite of the quality you make us expect by "verified handpicked".

I can understand that in general we would assume the increase in quantity may impact the quality negatively but I think we should not generalize this. Highest in this case is in relative terms. We are striving to verify and put higher number of active jobs on daily basis than other similar tools available plus we are trying to ensure the quality is not reduced for the listings that we make available.

I'm having a very hard time understanding how this landed on the front page of HN

Thanks for taking time to check and comment. It will be nice if you can provide suggestions that can help in making the platform which you think will make it reach and/or go beyond your level of expectations.

What is the product exactly here? Who is paying for what?

Or... How post jobs?

We are planning to add that feature for verified employers. If you would like to include a job as an employer you can contact hello@beefrii.com

It appears to aggregate remote jobs from platforms with affiliate link programs.

There is no affiliate link and we are not getting paid from any of the listings.

The service is provided for free for job seekers.

Are you a non-profit?

How can you work on this and handle "verified handpicked" content without getting some money in any way?

We are not charging any fee or money to the users. At this moment, there is no money being made from the platform.

Thanks everyone for your comments. I appreciate your responses. We will be incorporating recommendations as received in the comments.

Another helpful search criterion would be permanently remote vs. temporarily remote.

Thanks for the suggestion. Will try to incorporate

I like the site. It would be nice to search or browse by employers.

To search a job from a specific employer, you can just search the employer name in the search field.

That has been incorporated in the search bar now and you can search using the employer name as a keyword.

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