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I made a site for 100% location independent jobs

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Re: I made a site for 100% location independent jobs

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I would love to hear your honest opinion OP. How do you plan to source the jobs? How do you plan to attract job seekers to your site? Remote job boards represents the majority of the spam emails I got since I started posting on Whoishiring. The irony is that, that is a job thread itself and people think that the people posting there are "leads" to their job sites. At first I even posted on a couple, but I got sick of…

Click on apply on any of those job listings, get redirected to some other site.

This is just a basic SEO/referral play. Flag the shit out of this, IMO.

Re: I made a site for 100% location independent jobs

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Please post a link too so that I can take a look and others can trust your claim as well. Some mistakes happen. I am trying my best to eradicate such postings.

>In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire. https://www.realworkfromanywhere.com/9281024581

I am not expert in laws but what I understand here is that job position allows employees to work from anywhere but those employees need a work permission in US. In other words, this worldwide position is open only for US citizens. I may be wrong.

Re: I made a site for 100% location independent jobs

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Perfect, I'm wondering how are you sourcing the jobs. Do you source the jobs manually or automatically?

I'm working on the Remote Jobs API service[1] for the job board developers. Each and every job is manually vetted and carefully curated from 40+ sources. If you think it will be useful, let me know. Happy to set up an account for you.

[1] - https://remoteleaf.com/remote-jobs-api (Founder here)

Re: I made a site for 100% location independent jobs

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Please post a link too so that I can take a look and others can trust your claim as well. Some mistakes happen. I am trying my best to eradicate such postings.

https://www.realworkfromanywhere.com/2179261410 100% remote work environment - work from anywhere in the US https://www.realworkfromanywhere.com/1165562271 Remote based, US only. https://www.realworkfromanywhere.com/6398528378 Because we're looking for teammates who overlap with our clients' teams working hours, this is a remote position available to anyone throughout the Americas (UTC-3 through UTC-10).

Removed. Thank you so much.

Re: I made a site for 100% location independent jobs

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>In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire. https://www.realworkfromanywhere.com/9281024581

I am not expert in laws but what I understand here is that job position allows employees to work from anywhere but those employees need a work permission in US. In other words, this worldwide position is open only for US citizens. I may be wrong.

Fair enough, then I (slightly) misunderstood what your site is about.

Re: I made a site for 100% location independent jobs

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These postings come from various sources where they provide their location as worldwide. Some jobs explicitly say they are bound to a list of specific locations while others say worldwide. I only curate worldwide jobs.

How would you approximate the ratio of jobs posts you scrape to those entered by your 'post a job' feature? EDIT: Thought about it and i guess it's 100% scraped for now..

> EDIT: Thought about it and i guess it's 100% scraped for now..

That's right. I introduced 'post a job' feature only today.

Re: I made a site for 100% location independent jobs

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So the plan here was to scrape the job listings off another site (freshremote.work), pretend those people posted on your site, make a show HN and then hope someone is tricked into thinking this site actually gets traffic and pays you $49? I understand what you are doing but how is this providing any value? Wouldn’t people just be better off going to the site you are scraping from?

Welcome to Job boards. It’s not really a secret that this is how many, many, many of them work.

Re: I made a site for 100% location independent jobs

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> The Axios Smart Brevity Studio team is looking for talented freelancers to create content on behalf of Axios clients at the local level. Individuals will write copy and capture lifestyle imagery and videos (primarily on smartphones) for use on Axios Local’s social media, websites and newsletters. > Ideal candidates will embody an entrepreneurial spirit, a passion for Axios Local’s mission and have the following ski…

It sounds like a lot of the 'jobs' that 'digital nomads' claim to be working at when I meet them. I agree that it doesn't sound real.
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