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Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
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#22Doing Apple and Microsoft mainly (but basically anything when it's required, like a PHP or Python API for an app or JS for a website), I'd say doing iOS work is the main part of it in terms of offers.
iOS projects are or can be pretty small yet they require a great deal of expertise to execute correctly. I worked on many projects solo or in distributed teams.
Microsoft work is a bit harder to find (or doesn't get delivered on my doorstep as often) but more often when you do land it you're going to be The Only Guy That Knows How The System Works after a while since ASP.Net and WinForms / WPF / etc applications are more often slowly evolving highly specific and mission critical applications, so once you land them you're in a better position than with those many one off iOS applications.
I guess Java and .Net are more or less interchangeable in that regard.
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#23Is this question some cynic attempt to see what keywords are going to be upvoted? What does "remote" even mean here? A ukranian remotely working for a US company? A brit remotely working for a chinese one? Why would there be a difference in stack just because someone is not working in-office but from somewhere else? The stack much rather depends on the field of work, the technology involved and maybe the location of…
No, this is a very legitimate question. I am an Eastern European and having spent 7 years in UK (and last two in London) I realized that all I do here is bleed huge amounts of money for rent. I want to get a remote job and move back to my homeland. This is all about maximizing my chances of getting such a job, because I understand that remote is rather competitive market with developers from developing countries knoc…
> developers from developing countries knocking down salaries
That's not "remote" where the salary has to comply with the company country rules; that's subcontracting, freelancing...
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#24I don't think this is a meaningful question. No stacks "dominate" in remote jobs just as no stacks dominate in on-site jobs. Most remote jobs are just working from home or somewhere else for the same companies that have people on-site. If you want to work remotely what you should focus on is honing the business value you can offer, because that's what companies pay for. No company, whether they hire remote or not, ev…
Maybe I didn't express myself clearly enough - this is all about the practicality of starting remoting. I agree with your point of solving business problems - that is obvious and I am a quite a generalist (with certain preferences) when it comes to tech. I am just trying to be realistic here - I don't find it easy to find a job on site and my guess is finding a remote one is way more difficult with all the devs aroun…
Low-end competition on places like UpWork is mostly piecework, doing small and very specific jobs at sometimes extremely low rates. I don't compete in that market and I don't advise it.
If you want to freelance remotely I advise lining up clients before you start traveling or living abroad, because it's harder to do that remotely. Unless you like churning your customers or doing piecework, you need to aim for long-term relationships. I focus on small- and medium-size companies that don't have in-house IT/programming staff, they are used to outsourcing already. They often have a backlog of work and a history of bad experience with freelancers, so if you gain their trust and show an interest in their business (not just what tech they happen to use) you can find plenty of work.
If you want to find a startup that's hiring remote staff there are online job boards specifically for that.
The business problems I address in my freelancing is taking over legacy applications (usually web sites, and often not very old or even finished) where the original developers have left. This happens a lot -- small businesses are terrible at putting together requirements and specs, terrible at hiring, and don't usually attract the kind of people who want to get hired at Google and Snapchat. I only need a handful of clients to keep myself flush.
My blog (see my profile) has some more specific articles you may find helpful.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, this is a very legitimate question. I am an Eastern European and having spent 7 years in UK (and last two in London) I realized that all I do here is bleed huge amounts of money for rent. I want to get a remote job and move back to my homeland. This is all about maximizing my chances of getting such a job, because I understand that remote is rather competitive market with developers from developing countries knoc…
> developers from developing countries knocking down salaries That's not "remote" where the salary has to comply with the company country rules; that's subcontracting, freelancing...
I was thinking remote as in any kind of remote. Isn't subcontracting the most popular choice here though? For instance - how would one get a remote job in US if they cannot be employed there because of visa restrictions?
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#27I have worked as a PHP full stack developer several times remotely. LAMP/WAMP stack is mostly in demand for most of the startups based in India.
The next in demand is Ruby on Rails, I believe. RoR is basically preferred by small startups who want their product up and running quickly. I've built products with RoR and it's really fast development.
The only drawback is that it is heavy on your pocket, so to speak.
One thing that you should definitely have in your kitty is JavaScript. OO JS is gold. Next in line, AngularJS and ReactJS.
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#28From my experience (working 100% remotely for some years), I'd say that the sweet point lies in relatively "exotic" stacks, like Scala, Erlang, maybe even Rust. It's not that there are more remote jobs in Scala than in Javascript. However, people who hire Scala developers seem to accept that when you need a top Scala team, you have to bring people from all over the world, i.e. they are fully committed to building a g…
That reflects my own experience. I work remotely and our company uses Scala. We have several fully-remote engineers.
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#29We do a lot of remote work with Scala. I think we know each other, but if we don't my work email is noel at underscore dot io.
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