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Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?
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Re: Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?
#72I have hired through A.Team and Moonlight. Both seem to have good engineers and good employers, both allow for part-time roles (Moonlight afaik _only_ has part-time roles). I heard from the engineers I hired through the platforms that they are happy with it from their end too.
Is that https://www.moonlightwork.com/ ?
Re: Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?
#73You can look up for freelance platforms like fiverr, upwork. It is not boring everyday have different task/work, It is feels like puzzle solving everyday.
I'd strongly recommend against a platform like Fiverr. I spent some time doing various odd DevOps and Linux jobs on there. I basically had to charge next to nothing for my services because the sheer amount of other people doing the same thing (probably to a very low standard). Despite this I thought building up my reviews would be a good way to increase my prices and still get work on there, which it was. Unfortunately the attitude of quite a large percentage of the people who hired me was just absurd. Difficult language barriers in many cases, endless disputes over deliverables, constantly changing requirements and even some cases blaming me for things completely out of my control. What I was hoping would eventually lead to a nice little side business of odd sysadmin type things just made me really stressed and frustrated and I realised why I work for a company where there's a barrier between me and the end user and their insane demands.
Re: Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?
#74Not a recommendation, no affiliation, but Angelist maintains a job board for startups
Re: Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?
#75I have hired through A.Team and Moonlight. Both seem to have good engineers and good employers, both allow for part-time roles (Moonlight afaik _only_ has part-time roles). I heard from the engineers I hired through the platforms that they are happy with it from their end too.
Is that https://www.moonlightwork.com/ ?
Yes.
Re: Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?
#76I'm in the same position, and I am once again asking for "talent management" to become a thing. I am a software engineer, I am willing to pay a recruiter/manager some percent of my revenue to keep sending work my way and find new quality clients. Yes, I would pay a recruiter to keep around so that I do not have to spend time sending resumes and searching job boards whenever a contract dries up. Right now I am looking…
When I was a recruiter I did this. It was difficult though. It worked best when the dev had a specialized skill set. In 2015ish a lot of companies needed native ios or android devs in Chicago. I had 1-2 folks who would dive in, build a mobile app, then leave. They were awesome. Clients were okay with it because they needed something fast and it wasnt their core app. I remember doing it a few times with vue, ember, and react (early in the react days) as well.
We were a lot less likely to be able to talk a company into doing that for a typical full stack dev.
That being said you will probably have to talk to a lot of recruiters to find someone who has the right relationships to do this. Like 2 out of the 80 recruiters at the company I worked for would have gotten you to me. The rest would have pressured you to interview for a full time role. That is just at one recruiting agency.
Re: Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the description, it would probably be a better fit to work as a contractor via an agency. You get the hit of the agency comission but at least most of the talking will be through some Project manager assigned to the client.
That hit in commission can be very efficient, since you save a lot of time you can bill at a high rate.
We hire out to various agencies, and I'm not sure any of them disclose to us what their cut is, but from talking to the people, it sounds like most only take a low single digit percentage on the hourly rate (1~5%). e.g. engineers on $150/h contracts saying their paystub says $140-145/h. YMMV
Re: Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?
#78I'm in the same position, and I am once again asking for "talent management" to become a thing. I am a software engineer, I am willing to pay a recruiter/manager some percent of my revenue to keep sending work my way and find new quality clients. Yes, I would pay a recruiter to keep around so that I do not have to spend time sending resumes and searching job boards whenever a contract dries up. Right now I am looking…
I haven't tried it yet but I've seen 10x Management[0] mentioned on Hacker News. It's essentially the model you're describing.
Re: Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?
#79I've used a recruiting company https://www.facet.net/ that also handles contract work, and works with a lot of startups. They can add you to a mailing list to send you opportunities that match your criteria.
I'm one of the founders here. Yes, we work with hundreds of startups and large FN 500 companies. Happy to answer any questions. That's why we created Facet - trying to eliminate recruiter spam and create a better experience for engineering, product, or design contractors. Dev founded - dev run.
Re: Ask HN: Where can I find small companies to work for part-time?
#80If you have any experience with the game Counterstrike, reach out to me. Email is in my profile. I run a small, bootstrapped B2C business and have a number of interesting projects I could hand off to people. It’s a weird prerequisite, but without it there generally isn’t enough context to do meaningful work sans a lot of hand holding.
Are the projects all development related?
Most likely either building bots, in-game automation, or related to some sort of trading system for virtual assets.