Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs

1. There’s a large latent pool of talent that can only do part time/flexible jobs but aren’t even looking because so few are available.

2. The total economic loss from such jobs being rarely offered is massive.

Consider women who stop working for a year or two due to having a child or children. Many are only able to return part time at first. There’s so few part time jobs in software that many choose not to return to the industry. By the time they can return full time they feel so out of touch, from just a few years away, that they never return at all.

Same happens with people who are injured, temporarily disabled etc. The demand of full time only (and often more hours on top again) means that the industry misses out on retaining a lot of skilled talent.

And yes chronic conditions and disabilities are also very disadvantaged by the requirement of full-time only work.

But as cool as the name sidequest is - I don’t think it’s quite right. Because for most people of the scenarios listed above this would not be a sidequest but a main quest.

Awesome work though. And good luck!

Being able to filter by things like industry or type of role would make a huge difference too, or even search by keyword. I know that's additional layers of complexity, but it makes a huge difference when trying to find the right fit!

I have spare time for side gigs, but I'm not cheap, and I don't want to put my information out there (by applying) only to get a lousy offer.

I wanted to mention two things for your consideration:

1. it would be stellar to have Atom/RSS instead of mailing list subscription. I don't need more email in my life to ignore :-)

1. related to that, it appears there are job tags but one cannot click on them in order to find more jobs tagged in that way. I said "related to that" because it would also be stellar to be able to subscribe to just the tags of interest, versus the firehose of all jobs (extra bonus points for `/feed/java+spring+whatever.atom` style multi-tag feed subscription)

Unfortunately for me, I've never been able to do freelance or part-time work because I've always needed healthcare coverage...and living in the U.S, it is much cheaper (but definitely *NOT* cheap) to get it through full-time employment. But, hot damn, if i lived in a country that provided healthcare, man, would i jump at the chances to do this kind of work!

Regardless, for those that can take advantage of this type of work, this is a great move! Kudos and best of luck!!