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Hello! After a lot of work, I’m proud to announce that remote.io is now globally distributed thanks to Cloudflare Worker Sites and Cloudflare KV storage. This transition has helped us achieve sub-second load time throughout the site by having our data at the edge.

If you’re interested in the journey, I’ve outlined the build process to date in the following blog post (also hosted at the edge):

https://www.remote.io/blog/19/globally-distributed-website-f...

Added a redirect and cut listing prices in half.

I wouldn't say using the same font for a part of it is "almost a carbon copy" but yeah, that pretty much sums it up. I'll be updating the text form of the branding soon though.

There's an entire industry around that called Cash Parking. There's at least four different remote job sites with similar domains that I receive traffic (and email) for if you'd like to look those up to make some more pointless comments.

Thanks for the report! I will temporary cut the listing price in half to make up for the trouble.

I believe it may be a cache issue from our original build and you having visited previously. If you could, please hard-refresh (Ctrl+F5) or visit the job portal directly: https://portal.remote.io/

I'll work on a quick temporary fix as well.

If your issue persists, please contact us with the address of the page that you were on previously when you clicked to post so we can investigate further.

Hey Pieter, I will update it when I get some time to redo all of my marketing collateral.

A future goal is to implement salary estimation based on the job role. The hope is to do something similar to Payscale but based on the salaries provided for the listings which contain salary info and geographic location of the companies.

Yeah, we both use the Google font named Pacifico. I may change it but a font change is pretty low on my priorities list.

The listings come from feeds of numerous job sites and applicant tracking systems. I run them through custom filters to pull out the ones that are specifically remote-friendly.

Thanks! It was one of a few really awesome ones that I was able to snag at the launch of the TLD.

Zero traffic? It's far from zero traffic. The domain was averaging 1k unique visitors per day before there was even a site from typo's while people were looking for other remote job sites. That's actually what convinced me to finally develop it.

I initially launched it in September but that was more of a soft launch to see if it would be worth my time and the traffic has been increasing. The past 2 days have been a bit higher with this HN post and averaged between 4-5k unique visitors / day.

This is a known problem and I'm afraid I don't have an easy solution for that right now.

The problem is that a separate index must first be built to assign all related tags to job listings as some don't have any and others don't have all related ones.

Once that is completed, the search functionality will be reverted to what it was initially with the ability to search by strings and/or tech tags individually.

I've been contemplating how I'm going to achieve this for a couple weeks and have a pretty good model in mind but no ETA on when it will be implemented.

Salary has been added to the job search results for the positions that list it.

Salary has been added to the job search results for the positions that list it.

What's your skill set?

I agree and wish everyone did provide a salary. Will add it to the job listing search results, if provided, soon.

The site is for all types of jobs, not strictly software related ones.

"coder" isn't a great choice of search term. If that's what you searched for, that's what you'll get as the search results are based on the job description, as well as the technology tags.

I agree that is rather annoying. I'll add salary, when available, to the job search results page soon (probably today or tomorrow).

I'll also look into adding a filter to exclude those without salary listing but can't promise any timeline on that.

Pieter Levels (creator of remoteok) is one of the inspirations for building the site.

Another interesting coincidence is that he has levels.io and I have level.io (I registered it about 4 years prior to him).

To make things even stranger, he posted my exact birthday on a mock ID he created for his blog (Feb 20, 86): https://levels.io/remote-worker-visa/

No! I'm actually the original registrant of the domain. I actually have way too many domains and ideas that I'd love to build and this is a great example.

I originally registered it with the intent of building a remote monitoring and management tool or an infrastructure provider company but never got around to doing either venture.

The remote job site came about because I realized I was getting a lot of unintentional traffic from people searching for remote jobs. As it wasn't a terribly difficult venture, I decided to build it out and see how it went and so far, it's done well.

You may be searching too broadly. Adding additional keywords will help to narrow the results.

When searching, you can see the number of results returned at the top left.

EDIT: I did find an error that was sometimes causing auto-complete and search to not work. This has been resolved.

It also searches job descriptions for those keywords. If the keyword is in the job description, the result is returned.

No matter what you do, you will almost certainly seem arrogant or entitled. The only counter-balance to this is to make sure that if you're late to arrive, you are the last one to leave. That shows that you're devoted and willing to work whatever hours necessary.

Since the bad example has already been brought up, you're going to be fighting an uphill battle to redeem yourself. You may want to start negotiating a different shift that still puts in the hours but allows you to come in later and leave later. Another idea is to push remote work and stress that you aren't customer facing and that you'd be more productive working from home anyway.

Companies that are reluctant to take this approach will sometimes allow work from home X days / week so that they can see you're still producing so that's another option you can try if they flat-out turn down fully-remote.