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Great idea, but it seems to be designed for well connected people. I don't know anyone outside my country and I really want to work abroad someday (I had plans for it in the past year, but have to abort the idea for some reasons and want to try again next year).

How can I appear in the newsletter? Just asking a friend to send me in the form? But maybe he's not a well connected person too, and the 2 referrals in the latest newsletter[1] are from people who live and work in the startup world.

So, in the end, it becomes a lottery: ask someone to send your name and wait for your luck.

Love your feedback. How would you prefer the process? Would you be ok with public self-submitting ?

Something like that. Then you can make a selection based by github, mobile apps published (counting even the non-worldwide apps, for developers from other countries like me), academy works and other projects (websites, hardware, etc).

If I'm a remote contract developer looking for new contracts, is there a way for me to use this to get my details out to people? It was a little unclear to me. Subscribe implied I had positions to fill and suggest a developer didn't really imply I could suggest myself? I tried HireMyFriend which is a little similar but I haven't had any luck with that because I don't have enough developer friends on Twitter to recommend me.

Awesome feedback. I think we will simplify the process a bit :)

Hey HN - OP here.

It is our goal to create a promotion platform for skilled remote developers.

The core idea is that you should be able to work for world-class companies no matter where you live or how strong your network is.

We started it as a newsletter and are now thinking how to productize it the right way. Would love HN feedback on this project!

Thanks in advance.

Btw if you are interested this is our latest promotion newsletter - sent yesterday: http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=67059689ed5b0e257201ff3b...

I've worked exclusively with remote teams for almost 8 years now. Love it! I'm happy to be a referrer and have connections to London, Romania, Sweden and Spain. Feel free to get in touch (email in profile). I've also met or networked with many of the existing referers (Dmitri via HNLondon, Rob Fitz, and Ryan Hoover via producthunt) Good group so far!

hey Mike

perfect - emailed you :)

You may want to fix your Mail Chimp setup. After I confirmed my subscription, I was redirected to http://www.youraudience.io/ when I clicked on 'Continue to website'. I think you want to point it to developeragents.com.

I have subscribed as someone who is looking to get in to remote contract work.

Thanks! I (think i) fixed the mailchimp issue.

Ad remote work - best to recommend yourself via the form - we will figure it out from there - next promo is on monday

I like the idea. It would be great if signup had three funnels:

(1) I want to hire a remote developer (2) I want to recommend a remote developer (3) I am a remote developer looking for work

I would imagine you could rank people in Bucket #3 by some GitHub criteria (languages, commits, stars on projects, etc.) and also by the number of people in Bucket #2 who recommend the developer. I think FounderDating works in a similar way -- you have to get recommended by people in the network, but maybe you could just let the hiring people in Bucket #1 sort devs by the number/quality of recommendations from others.

GitHub commits sounds about as good a way to judge a developer as lines of code produced.

Want to expand to include also Linux sysadmins/DevOps?

FYI: "See how this looks like".tr("how", "what")

Thanks fixed. Non-native as you can guess.

If you find further typos best to email me directly: andreas%%klinger.io - TIA :)

I am a developer in the US at this point but am returning back to India very soon. This seems like something only for the US/EU area, right?

At the moment yes. But mainly because of our limited network.

Screw not signup capable latter-day-than-thou twitter-centric web projects.

How do you apply to be a referrer?

We changed this process a bit recently

Simply submit the first developers - if the background check works out we will whitelist you for future postings

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