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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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Post by djohnston »

dewey wrote: post #43
saasxyz wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not trying to trick people into believing all those postings were posted directly on my site. Anyone clicking around the site will simply find out that it is curated from various sources. And also on the top there is a clause that says "updated daily". Isn't it enough for people to understand this is curated from external services?

> Isn't it enough for people to understand this is curated from external services Usually "curated" means hand selected and filtered, not just scraped and automatically posted. It's an aggregator of aggregators at this point.

Aggregator of aggregator is a viable business these days, till u get aggregated XD

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

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Post by djohnston »

peter422 wrote: post #26

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?

Just aggregate this dude and you've upped the game!

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

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Post by em-bee »

sokoloff wrote: post #57
em-bee wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

legal limits only apply to hiring in countries where the company has a legal presence. in those places there is a possible limitation on legally hiring fulltime contractors as they may be classified as employees. everywhere else there is no legal limit to hiring contractors, simply because it doesn't make sense for any country to prevent its citizens from selling their services to a foreign company, nor has the count…

Any US entity has restrictions from contracting with entities in some embargoed countries. https://ofaclawyer.net/prohibited-transactions/ is for the US, but I think most countries have something similar.

yes, but these are a few exceptions and they apply to most countries worldwide. using that as an argument that a truly location independent job is not possible feels a bit pedantic, when the parent comment is about companies that artificially limit their remote hiring to a few specific countries for no discernible reason.

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

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Post by ItsTooMuch »

em-bee wrote: post #60
ItsTooMuch wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, your guess is wrong as I had no business license at the time and the local tax/insurance agency would come after me immediately (because nobody would've been paying my mandatory insurance). I had 25 days of vacation (standard here, 5 days over minimum). The US company had to register with the local tax agency - there is a standard procedure for this situation. Applicable labor law is based on physical location sp…

in germany/austria i don't need a business license to be a sole proprietor. i just need to report my income and pay the relevant income taxes. suing was meant to be a stand in for any way to sort out complaints. how does your labor agency force a remote company to comply with your laws? in particular how would they deal with wrongful termination? maybe we are talking about the same thing, and there is just a differen…

I'm in Czechia.

I really don't know more about resolving complaints as I haven't had any problems. I guess at some point things would go to courts.

Employment is the thing that's defined as employment by the labor law, where the employer signs an employment contract with you and then pays you salary and sorts out your taxes/insurance... Contracting is having a business licence and sending invoices to a customer - with zero relation to labor law. In particular, no concept of vacation, and you pay your own taxes and insurance.

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

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Post by em-bee »

ItsTooMuch wrote: post #64
em-bee wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

in germany/austria i don't need a business license to be a sole proprietor. i just need to report my income and pay the relevant income taxes. suing was meant to be a stand in for any way to sort out complaints. how does your labor agency force a remote company to comply with your laws? in particular how would they deal with wrongful termination? maybe we are talking about the same thing, and there is just a differen…

I'm in Czechia. I really don't know more about resolving complaints as I haven't had any problems. I guess at some point things would go to courts. Employment is the thing that's defined as employment by the labor law, where the employer signs an employment contract with you and then pays you salary and sorts out your taxes/insurance... Contracting is having a business licence and sending invoices to a customer - wit…

employment for me is what gives me the right to holidays, employer contributions to insurance, overtime pay and protection against unlawful termination.

this is why i consider any remote employment a contract:

you have to pay all taxes yourself, there are no employer contributions (you just have to negotiate a higher salary).

you have no legal means to force the remote company to follow local employment laws, other than an international contract dispute.

it is possible that some countries make it easier to treat a remote job as employment by simplifying taxes or easier access to unemployment benefits, compared to a truly self-employed person.

it may be that czechia offers that. given that it is part of the EU it would actually be interesting to know if other countries offer that as well, or if it is even based on some EU wide regulation.

there may also be specific treaties between countries that support this.

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

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

BazookaMusic wrote: post #30

The quality of the posted jobs is a bit questionable. Still laughing from this: www.realworkfromanywhere.com/7369835152

There is an empty bullet point in the "what you get" section.

It requires psychic abilities to uncover this hidden goodie.

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

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Post by kyriakos »

paxys wrote: post #46
peter422 wrote: post #26

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?

I'd wager "freshremote.work" is doing exactly the same thing. This is why 90% of job boards on the internet are useless. Just stick to reputed ones (Indeed, LinkedIn) or go directly to the company's careers site.

Seen sites that scrape HN who's hiring
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