Congratulations, I love it! To me it would be very valuable to have a filter on location requirements - if you have such information available of course. Like, who needs office presence (and where), who is okay part-time, who is offering full remote... but once again, great thing!
Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs
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#12Full-time remote jobs don't require a full-time commitment
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#13Always thought that someone should do something like this but for part-time marketing/comms/content jobs. I'm sure there are men in the following position too, but in my circles there are loads of 30-40yo women returning to work after maternity leave and looking for 2-3 days/week, often in marketing and related jobs. On the other side of the coin, there'd be a lot of small businesses sick of paying an agency but unab…
This rarely works in fields where they hire full time salary employees. The reason being that the part time employee is still very expensive in a lot of fixed ‘per employee’ cost areas like hardware and licenses combined with the fact that the full time salary person is supposed to be available to get the job done even it that involves some overtime or just off hours work, things part time people are notorious for be…
If I was a bastard who wanted value for money, I'd hire those part-time mums. From what I've seen, they end up feeling obliged to work out of hours, so you'd effectively get 0.8 FTE while paying for 0.4-0.6. Roles like social media or content writing with scheduling involved instantly creeps into days off. Horrible approach from an employer, but like I said, if I was a bastard.
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#14Always thought that someone should do something like this but for part-time marketing/comms/content jobs. I'm sure there are men in the following position too, but in my circles there are loads of 30-40yo women returning to work after maternity leave and looking for 2-3 days/week, often in marketing and related jobs. On the other side of the coin, there'd be a lot of small businesses sick of paying an agency but unab…
Content though definitely. I tend to see more short-term/part-time content creation positions than I do eng ones.
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#15This is such a great idea.
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#17I wish you the best of luck and will be keeping a bookmark to check back frequently. I would love some part time work but having done the consultant grind for a long time I’m just exhausted by the process of finding it. I would love a marketplace I could keep tabs on and pick things up when they make since.
I created a mail-chimp subscription which I'll get up and running as soon as I figure out how, but anyone can sign up now.
I'm hoping to get a ton more filters though so people can only get notified about positions that actually interest them.
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#18Thanks for making this! Would you mind sharing what sources this looks at, or are you keeping that proprietary?
The code is some frankenstein monster of a few failed projects I've created over the years, but so far it's doing its job!
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#19Full-time remote jobs don't require a full-time commitment