It looks like I'm working with statistically 'wrong' stack for a wannabe remote dev
I get the same feeling. What's yours?
.net, javascript, sql :) web dev on MS stack
Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
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Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
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-te…
How do you find small businesses with these technical issues? Using networking?
Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
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-te…
How do you find small businesses with these technical issues? Using networking?
About half word of mouth and referrals. I work through an agency now and get customers through them. Once in a while I get a lead/customer from articles on my blog.
Every business has a backlog of bugs and enhancements they don't have resources for, so it's not so much a matter of finding them as it is persuading them you can help. Listening and understanding their business problems is the key.
Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
#94From 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…
What about legacy systems that were once popular but aren't anymore, like PHP? I know there's a lot of wordpress development demand out there and fewer and fewer skilled devs who are willing to learn and/or work with PHP.
PHP is still too mainstream these days.
However, if you are an experienced Perl programmer, you'll have better luck.
But _starting_ with Perl or PHP is probably not the best course of action; this is a path for already experienced developers.
Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
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I get the same feeling. What's yours?
.net, javascript, sql :) web dev on MS stack
I'm also a mostly Microsoft stack developer, and I looked at remote jobs, and there are very little with this stack.
It's popular with enterprises, which are very much remote-adverse.
I didn't find a solution, although I'm doing a side project in React - now I need to learn either Node or Ruby I guess (my backend is .NET based).
Node has Visual Studio and Azure support, so it would be the least painful I guess.
Re: Ask HN: What stacks dominate in remote jobs?
#96Surprised I am not seeing C# here. One of my remote gigs was the Microsoft stack.
I didn't see many when I searched. Where did you find it? Word of mouth or a website? Thank you :)