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Re: Show HN: I built a Job board for work-at-home / remote careers

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Post by insomniax »

karansarin1986 wrote: post #24
deif wrote: post #10

I can't be the only one that gets frustrated at these remote only career sites that don't display salary/day rate. It's such a waste of time for both parties to have to go through the hoops just to find out that the compensation is not worth it. Stackoverflow does it best - provide a filter for jobs that don't provide compensation info.

I get frustrated too, But then I go on glassdoor if I like the job post :P

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.

Re: Show HN: I built a Job board for work-at-home / remote careers

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Post by pieterhg »

insomniax wrote: post #16
rmsaksida wrote: post #12

This is so similar to remoteok.io I thought it was the same website at first. Even the logo is remarkably similar.

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/

Congrats on the launch! I'd appreciate it a lot if you'd consider changing the font on your logo since it's so similar to mine on RemoteOK.io and it's confusing since the domain and the contents itself are so similar. And funny coincidences haha :D

Re: Show HN: I built a Job board for work-at-home / remote careers

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Post by thisplacesucks »

insomniax wrote: post #28
geegee123 wrote: post #27

I think this area has been done to death. You should make it free to post a job. There is no traffic on this site I would post a job for http://textita.com but $300.00 for a zero web traffic website is crazy

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 b…

So you decided to launch a site that has almost a carbon copy of remoteok.io's logo to monetize people's mistakes?

Re: Show HN: I built a Job board for work-at-home / remote careers

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Post by insomniax »

pieterhg wrote: post #32
insomniax wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

Congrats on the launch! I'd appreciate it a lot if you'd consider changing the font on your logo since it's so similar to mine on RemoteOK.io and it's confusing since the domain and the contents itself are so similar. And funny coincidences haha :D

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

Re: Show HN: I built a Job board for work-at-home / remote careers

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Post by pieterhg »

insomniax wrote: post #34
pieterhg wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congrats on the launch! I'd appreciate it a lot if you'd consider changing the font on your logo since it's so similar to mine on RemoteOK.io and it's confusing since the domain and the contents itself are so similar. And funny coincidences haha :D

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

Awesome, thank you!

Re: Show HN: I built a Job board for work-at-home / remote careers

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Post by insomniax »

shardinator wrote: post #36

Hey I went to post a job and got an error: could not find post-job/index.html in your content namespace Also, I realise this is an MVP, so no issue. Hope it does well.

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.

Re: Show HN: I built a Job board for work-at-home / remote careers

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Post by insomniax »

thisplacesucks wrote: post #33
insomniax wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 b…

So you decided to launch a site that has almost a carbon copy of remoteok.io's logo to monetize people's mistakes?

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.

Re: Show HN: I built a Job board for work-at-home / remote careers

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Post by insomniax »

insomniax wrote: post #37
shardinator wrote: post #36

Hey I went to post a job and got an error: could not find post-job/index.html in your content namespace Also, I realise this is an MVP, so no issue. Hope it does well.

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 w…

Added a redirect and cut listing prices in half.

Re: Show HN: I built a Job board for work-at-home / remote careers

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Post by shardinator »

insomniax wrote: post #39
insomniax wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 w…

Added a redirect and cut listing prices in half.

Thanks, will check it out.
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