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Tristan Pollock

Remotely - Find where you want to work based on time, location and team

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Building remote teams requires trust, async collaboration, remote support and an understanding of context and culture for other team members.
We are the first remote jobs platform to make these a key part of the conversation between candidates and employers.

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Duncan Hall
Maker
Hey folks 👋, Excited to be in the Maker seat for the first time and thanks very much to @pollock for the hunt! Before you run screaming at the thought of another remote job board, ask yourself: "what do existing remote job boards do that's specific to remote?" Existing solutions don't cater for the things that make remote work - trust, async collaboration, team culture, and remote specific support. 🧑🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏼 People and teams first With Remotely, each job listing shows the location of remote team members, the hours that team members tend to collaborate, the exact countries the role can support working from, and remote specific benefits and support such as home-office budget or location independent pay. This gives job seekers a much better sense of the kind of remote team they might join, and employers a chance to show that they are genuinely committed to making remote work. 🏆 The best experience for everyone Existing pricing models for traditional remote job boards are unrealistic. Posting a job often starts at several hundred $ and then quickly ramps up with 'extras' like paying just to show your company logo. Not only do we think this is unfair, it creates a dark pattern where companies can pay extra for a 'featured' ad, which is coupled with a poor search experience for job seekers. This incentivizes poor UX in order to charge more to job posters. With Remotely we offer a single, low fee based on the length of time you want to post your job (starting at just $89). All ads are treated equally, and we provide powerful search features on top to let users easily find what they are looking for, including searching by time of day! 🎁 We want your feedback! We are just getting off the ground and have a lot of plans for how we put people, teams, trust, culture and async first when finding the right fit for a new role - but more than anything we are really excited to hear your ideas and feedback. As well as the Product Hunt discount listed above, we're offering a 1 month listing on Remotely completely free to 3 of the best questions, ideas or suggestions of the day. 🙏🏻 Lastly, a special thank you to some of our super early supporters @triketora @stanmarion @colinpflynn @beuno and @benoj - all hiring on Remotely right now! Let us know what you think! 🎉
Bea Heathers
Nice work @_duncanhall can you give more detail on the pricing options?
Duncan Hall
Maker
@bea_heathers Thanks Bea! We have offer 3 pricing levels based on the length of time you want your job to remain active: $89 - 1 week $149 - 1 month $199 - 6 weeks No matter which option you choose, all posts receive all features and are displayed equally. We have some localised currencies as well (£ and EUR) and will be adding more very soon!
Tristan Pollock
Hunter
@_duncanhall finally some smart filters for remote jobs!
Duncan Hall
Maker
@pollock Thanks Tristan - I spent a long time looking at how e-commerce sites handle filters and facets to get inspiration and I'm pleased with the results. Over time with more roles added it'll be interesting to see the different facets that emerge - and happy to take any suggestions!
Ciprian Caba
As a remote engineer myself, I really like how well the data is structured and how easy it is to find appropriate working timezones. That’s a hassle most of the time. UI is amazing and I’m happy to see more and more products being build with tailwind. Accessibility is great and the UX is close to perfect. Having worked with Duncan before, I know the passion and attention to detail that will ho into this product. Great job, my friend
Duncan Hall
Maker
@ciprian_caba Thanks Ciprian, you always encourage everyone to get shit done - something that helped me a lot with Remotely!
Aditya
@_duncanhall Congratulations on the launch! Really like the clean UI of the website. In terms of usability, I would love to see some more filterable categories, especially non-tech categories. It would also be great to have some resources for the new visitors, for example some material on how to approach the job opening, how to apply, etc. I understand that this is just the beginning but these suggestions can be put in the back-log for future reference 😅
Duncan Hall
Maker
@adityavsc Thank you Aditya, this is fantastic feedback! A really big ambition for Remotely is to enable remote work for everyone - not just those of us in tech related roles. We've focussed early on with tech and related roles to get quick feedback on the basics but we are keen to branch out and support remote work in areas where it's currently less available. Part of that challenge is helping companies themselves approach remote work, so resources on how to do so is a great idea - for both job hunters and posters! We definitely hear you on better category filters as well - we're striving to keep the interface as clean and simple as possible so this will be our next fun UX challenge!
Aditya
@_duncanhall So true. There is a need to work on both ends of the spectrum. We are in the transition zone but the future is remote, I have no doubt about that! Love your energy. Wishing you all the success :)
Duncan Hall
Maker
Benoit Chambon
Very nice! To be more exhaustive, I think you should add a preview of the life cost (energy consumption, etc) for each country ;) very smart idea btw!
Duncan Hall
Maker
@benoit_chambon Ding Ding Ding, we have our first winner! 🎉 Thanks Benoit, this is a great idea! I have no idea how we're going to implement this but I love the idea of trying to show candidates something more about each country and the impact it might have! If you're hiring at Koinju you just won yourself a free months listing on Remotely!
Duncan Hall
Maker
@benoit_chambon You can reach out to team[at]remotely.so to discuss!
Eva Shalenko
Being an experienced remote worker for the last 4 years I deeply understand how it is important to organize yourself and your remote team! Great work! Congrats on the launch!
Duncan Hall
Maker
@evgeniya_shalenko Thanks Evgeniya! A lot of teams and individuals have found themselves working remotely very suddenly over the last year without necessarily knowing how best to make it work. We'd love to hear ideas from those who've been remote for several years!
Mike Choi
UI is slightly confusing! Would love to see addition of more jobs and a search bar to quickly filter through countries. But otherwise, I'll be using this soon 👍
Duncan Hall
Maker
@guard_if Thanks Mike! We definitely want to get more jobs added, and we're certainly working on it! We hear you on the searchable countries - we're trying to balance the ability to choose exact countries with simplicity but we still have a way to go. Can I ask - are you viewing on mobile or desktop? And if we added more roles, what type of jobs would you like to see?
Duncan Hall
Maker
@guard_if Thanks for the feedback Mike! I will strive to find more iOS dev roles!
Harry Eddowes
Looks great!
Duncan Hall
Maker
@harry_eddowes Thanks Harry, I spent way longer than any founder should on some of those pixels.
Ben Flowers
I posted a job on this last week - got a few really decent candidates in my pipeline for a design role. Pricing was waaay cheaper than other options I've come across online too - we're very happy!
Duncan Hall
Maker
@benoj Thanks for all your support / threats along the way Ben, really glad we could help finding some great remote candidates!
Mikhail Gorin
I always like the remote collaboration projects :)
Duncan Hall
Maker
@mikhail_gorin Thanks Mikhail!
Raif Esendagli
Congratulations on the launch. It looks great and I'm sure will go from strength to strength with the help and support of the community.
Duncan Hall
Maker
@raifraif Thanks Raif! Education is actually one of the areas we're looking at after tech roles - we already receive visitors looking for remote teaching roles and we'd love to help make remote education available to more people!
Vivek
This is an excellent solution!
Duncan Hall
Maker
@vivekweb2013 Thanks Vivek!
Ken Moo
I like the user interface, nice! I see that you have the pricing mention in the above comment. $89 for 1 week. How many impression can we expect? Thank you.
Duncan Hall
Maker
@ken_moo Thanks Ken, great question. The 1 week option is aimed at teams who either want to try Remotely without a big commitment, or perhaps have campaigns running elsewhere and want a beautiful, remote specific landing page to show how they are committed to remote teams. It's hard to give impression numbers as we are still very new and growing rapidly, but I can say that we get very good engagement on each post - around 2 mins - and several of our early adopters received applications within hours of posting on Remotely!
Rahul Nair
Wow this is just amazing. This definitely come in handy for lot of startups. Congrats on the product launch.
Duncan Hall
Maker
@rahul_nair93 Thanks Rahul!
Lindsey
Can you tell us more about how the "time and space" search works?
Duncan Hall
Maker
@lindseykistler Great question Lindsey! When adding a role we ask job posters to list the countries they can support working from, and to give a time range for when their team tends to collaborate. We encourage this not to be considered as "working hours" but an indication of when people are available online together. Here's the clever bit: We capture the job posters timezone and automatically convert times to the local time zone of anyone searching or viewing jobs. This way everyone can see when teams collaborate without having to do the mental math of "of it's 1pm but +7, is that my time or there's". All times shown are always your time!
Vladimir Lastovsky
@_duncanhall great job! Congrats and good luck
Duncan Hall
Maker
@vladimir_lastovsky Thanks Vladimir!
NotMatthewStafford
Gaddang this is smart. A jobs platform built around the new normal of working remotely. Other job platforms just sort of slap the "remote working" option on as an afterthought.
Duncan Hall
Maker
@notmatthewstafford Thanks Matthew - that's the exact vibe we started with! Remote jobs have different needs and while there are a bunch of successful remote boards out there, they don't really consider what remote work needs.
Martin Ratinaud
This is a really clever idea, congrats ! Along with https://bit.ly/remote-family-ph, Anyone can now find the perfect spot where to live based on his hobbies and get a remote job to be able to do it. Need to do a Product Hunt for it soon! Awesome!