this is something like remojobo.com which was on HN some time back
We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals
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#12Too bad there are many 'remote but inside the US' jobs posted. Anyone got a clue why that is?
Taxes and international payments are a huge pain would be my guess.
Just hire people as contractors and it is extremely easy. They send you invoices periodically, you send them money through regular bank wire transfer.
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#13Too bad there are many 'remote but inside the US' jobs posted. Anyone got a clue why that is?
Probably to ensure a good overlap, timezone-wise.
http://jobmote.com usually tags those with 'US-only' or similar.
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#14Everyone and their mother is making a jobs board: StackOverflow, JSFiddle, Github, Techcrunch, now these guys...
They had one before already and sold it.
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3196-sortfolio-lives
Edit: sorry, yes, my brain got mixed up. I used to use Sortfolio going through lists of agencies and checking out if they have vacancies open.
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#15Too bad there are many 'remote but inside the US' jobs posted. Anyone got a clue why that is?
Probably to ensure a good overlap, timezone-wise. http://jobmote.com usually tags those with 'US-only' or similar.
I like that one better, thank you.
Would be interesting to know if it is because of timezones as West Coast would work very well for me.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Taxes and international payments are a huge pain would be my guess.
Just hire people as contractors and it is extremely easy. They send you invoices periodically, you send them money through regular bank wire transfer.
There are limits to how much you can do this as a US-based company, and if you overstep the bounds the IRS will come a-knockin'. I imagine it's much easier to hire someone as a real employee inside the US, and based on the size of many of the companies, they probably don't have the accounting or legal resources necessary to deal with real international employees.
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#18Browsing through these jobs is enough to kill your faith in humanity. I don't think I saw any I'd want to work for regardless of salary. Cases in point: We're looking for a younger developer ... There will be no compensation for this job https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/20 You will be working with interesting people, namely me. https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/10 EDIT: I take back the initial statement, there are a lot…
Although to be fair, that job 20 does offer equity in the company in lieu of monetary compensation. Maybe not what you're looking for, but still a different beast than working for free.
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#19Browsing through these jobs is enough to kill your faith in humanity. I don't think I saw any I'd want to work for regardless of salary. Cases in point: We're looking for a younger developer ... There will be no compensation for this job https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/20 You will be working with interesting people, namely me. https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/10 EDIT: I take back the initial statement, there are a lot…
I'm pretty sure it's illegal to look for "younger" developers. Might want to rethink that one.
Of course if there is no monetary compensation, maybe it doesn't matter.
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#20I love the concept, but as a developer working on non-web technologies, it's discouraging to see that this practice is less common outside the world of web dev.