RaulOnRails

Love to hear this!

ha! I used to work there until 2020. They have almost no meetings because they have all those employee monitoring tools: mouse/keyboard activity tracking, browser URLs tracking, screenshots every X minutes, etc.

I made a fun little game where you have to pick the 3 names most commonly used for Peter Steinberger’s AI assistant as fast as possible. Made in Ruby on Rails.

Love it! Super useful, especially since Apple's OS is super buggy and doesn't do a great job at this.

Hey HN,

In 2020 I got fired for trying to create a better work culture.

So I built something to help others escape toxic workplaces.

Introducing Calm Companies

→ A curated list of companies that prioritize people over hours worked → No hustle culture. No burnout. No BS. → Just $5/yr for weekly job alerts

To celebrate my 1st ever Ruby conference attendance and try to bring some tribute to the community, I made a little game called ♦ The Ruby Triathlon 2025 Challenge ♦

Have fun playing it! (ofc, it's built in Ruby on Rails )

I've built a tiny game to celebrate Cognition's recent acquisition. Free to play on any device.

After a long hiatus, I’m back to building my own apps/tools. So being sick and tired of sitting through endless meetings throughout my career, I wanted to illustrate just how much these meetings actually cost companies in terms of time and money.

To do this, I’ve created the Meeting Waste Calculator. A tool that shows the hidden costs of meetings. Simply enter your team size, meeting frequency, and duration to immediately see your numbers.

There are also a couple of easter eggs included in the results page. Have fun!

In a way it is, but I haven't done anything in the past few months, so it kinda faded. Made $250 from "buy me a coffee" this year, and yeah, I paid taxes on them.

I basically send an invoice for each tip I receive. Talked a lot to my accountant about this, and she said that if I don't invoice the people sending me these tips, I'm doing fraud, and can pay huge fines once I get caught. I think only as an NGO you're allowed to receive tips w/o paying taxes on the amount. I have an LLC, so I have to invoice every income.

I think Unsplash was kind of like this until they were bought by Getty Images. Really loved they're way of presenting ads.

On a personal note, I tried getting into ads for one of my personal projects (a map of recycling points for my hometown), but Google declined my application because it doesn't have much content on it — though it's kind of absurd because people use my web app, to find locations on the map, not read content. I ended up not doing ads for now, and keep receiving "buy me a coffee" donations.

Took a long break for writing, but it feels good to finally publish about the subject of working hours. It wanders through my mind every now and then, and I'm baffled that we've changed so much the way we spend our time ever since the Internet gained traction, and all the electronic devices, yet we still obey to the 8-hour workday unwritten rule. Feels like this century we'll have to adapt the way of working to our modern lives.

Yep. I totally agree. A calm company should be a place where you’re allowed to fail without being forced to get out the backdoor the next day.

Failure is what make people grow, and if you don’t let them do that in a constructive and empathic manner, you’ll probably just using them as resources.

What does the calm companies idea mean to you? I’m eager to hear more if it’s different.

Hey! Thanks. I’m glad your resonate with the concept. I’ll add more context to this in the upcoming days, but the gist is: an aggregator of companies that are transparent, question profit at all costs, want to stay small on purpose, and put people first.

It’s going to be a mix of remote companies and local businesses. And people will be able to suggest companies that fit this profile as well.

You’ll also know if some of them have any openings or not.

For me it was The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

A "Black Swan" is an improbable event that has a major impact, and happens when people least expect it (e.g.: 9/11, WWI, 2008 economy crisis).

Black swans can have a negative or positive impact. The negative ones can wipe out things build over decades in a matter of seconds, while the positive ones can take longer (e.g.: the advancement of technology in the past 30 years). The positive ones need to be put on scale with longer intervals of time. They’re harder to notice if you look at a specific time in history.

Had a small issue with the subscribe after I removed the cookies. It should be fixed now. Sorry about that, everyone.

It does not. It was planned to remove the use of them. And now that you asked the question, I went ahead and removed them :) Thank you for the reminder! ️

Remote jobs need a fresh start. Especially now during these tough times.

We're tired of seeing "US Only", "UK Only", "In The Middle Of Nowhere Only" in a job description. True remote companies do know how to work in more than a single country.

For us remote equals unique. We’re all wired differently and have various ways, times of the day, or tricks that make us do our best work. Putting everybody in a cubicle automatically means wiring people in a different way, whilst working remote means "here’s what we need, we don’t care how you do it, at what time of the day you do it, but we need a solution by date X".

A remote-first company should be built under the umbrella of transparency, productivity, freedom, flexibility, responsibility, and discipline.

What differentiates us from other job boards?

When we say remote, it really means remote.

We believe in fairness, care, and trust. We guide our lives by these values, so of course, they are the foundation of Fair Remote too.

For companies, we'll offer full refunds if you don't find the right candidate through our platform. We'll never check that in any way, we take your word for it because we build our service on trust.

You won't be able to boost your job post. No "Featured", highlight, or other strategies to make more money off of you. We'll charge a flat rate of $199 per job post for all businesses.

As an applicant, you'll find here fair remote opportunities that describe the interview process and include a salary range. So you'll be prepared and know what to expect from the company beforehand.

You can reach out to us and say hi@fairremote.com.

For us remote equals unique. We’re all wired differently and have various ways, times of the day, or tricks that make us do our best work. Putting everybody in a cubicle automatically means wiring people in a different way, whilst working remote means "here’s what we need, we don’t care how you do it, at what time of the day you do it, but we need a solution by date X".

A remote-first company should be built under the umbrella of productivity, freedom, flexibility, responsibility, and discipline.

We're tired of seeing "US Only", "UK Only", "In The Middle Of Nowhere Only" in a job description. True remote companies do know how to work in more than a single country.

What differentiates us from other job boards?

When we say remote, it really means remote.

We believe in fairness, care, and trust. We guide our lives by these values, so of course, they are the foundation of Fair Remote too.

For companies, we'll offer full refunds if you don't find the right candidate through our platform. We'll never check that in any way, we take your word for it because we build our service on trust.

You won't be able to boost your job post. No "Featured", highlight, or other strategies to make more money off of you. We'll charge a flat rate of $199 per job post for all businesses.

As an applicant, you'll find here fair remote opportunities that describe the interview process and include a salary range. So you'll be prepared and know what to expect from the company beforehand.

If you're willing to give us a shout on one of your social platforms or on your website, we'd highly appreciate it.

You can reach out to us via email: hi@fairremote.com

We're on social under: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sunergos.ro Twitter: https://twitter.com/fairremote LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sunergos-ro

Today, me and my wife, launched our new service: Fair Remote.

Remote jobs need a fresh start. Especially now during these tough times.

We're tired of seeing "US Only", "UK Only", "In The Middle Of Nowhere Only" in a job description. True remote companies do know how to work in more than a single country.

For us remote equals unique. We’re all wired differently and have various ways, times of the day, or tricks that make us do our best work. Putting everybody in a cubicle automatically means wiring people in a different way, whilst working remote means "here’s what we need, we don’t care how you do it, at what time of the day you do it, but we need a solution by date X".

A remote-first company should be built under the umbrella of productivity, freedom, flexibility, responsibility, and discipline.

What differentiates us from other job boards?

When we say remote, it really means remote.

We believe in fairness, care, and trust. We guide our lives by these values, so of course, they are the foundation of Fair Remote too.

For companies, we'll offer full refunds if you don't find the right candidate through our platform. We'll never check that in any way, we take your word for it because we build our service on trust.

You won't be able to boost your job post. No "Featured", highlight, or other strategies to make more money off of you. We'll charge a flat rate of $199 per job post for all businesses.

As an applicant, you'll find here fair remote opportunities that describe the interview process and include a salary range. So you'll be prepared and know what to expect from the company beforehand.

If you're willing to give us a shout on one of your social platforms or on your website, we'd highly appreciate it.

You can reach out to us via email: hi@fairremote.com

We're on social under: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sunergos.ro Twitter: https://twitter.com/fairremote LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sunergos-ro

Today, we've officially launched our new service

Remote jobs need a fresh start. Especially now during these tough times.

We're tired of seeing "US Only", "UK Only" in a job description. True remote companies do know how to work in more than a single country.

For us remote equals unique. We’re all wired differently and have various ways, times of the day, or tricks that make us do our best work. Putting everybody in a cubicle automatically means wiring people in a different way, whilst working remote means "here’s what we need, we don’t care how you do it, at what time of the day you do it, but we need a solution by date X".

A remote-first company should be built under the umbrella of productivity, freedom, flexibility, responsibility, and discipline.

What differentiates us from other job boards?

When we say remote, it really means remote.

We believe in fairness, care, and trust. We guide our lives by these values, so of course, they are the foundation of Fair Remote too.

For companies, we'll offer full refunds if you don't find the right candidate through our platform. We'll never check that in any way, we take your word for it because we build our service on trust.

You won't be able to boost your job post. No "Featured", highlight, or other strategies to make more money off of you. We'll charge a flat rate of $199 per job post for all businesses.

As an applicant, you'll find here fair remote opportunities that describe the interview process and include a salary range. So you'll be prepared and know what to expect from the company beforehand.

If you're willing to give us a shout on one of your social platforms or on your website, we'd highly appreciate it.

You can reach out to us via email: hi@fairremote.com

We're on social under: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sunergos.ro Twitter: https://twitter.com/fairremote LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sunergos-ro