Show HN: Siderly – Get remote work with your side project

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by userium • 11 years ago

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siderly.com

userium14• 11 years ago

Just noticed some bugs on large screens, will fix those. Any feedback is welcome, thanks!

patkai2• 11 years ago

Some issues with masonry isotope on large displays

lillukka• 11 years ago

userium14• 11 years ago

Thanks, yes I have that article on the site.

dang• 11 years ago

We changed the title from "40% of Women Leave Tech; Could Remote Work Be a Solution?" because it was baity and the page's own language is more informative.

JDiculous• 11 years ago

That's hilarious. When you want views, just reference the "gender problem" in tech. Genius.

userium14• 11 years ago

The idea behind this was that since 40% of women leave engineering in the middle of their careers (1), the site encourages women to get remote work in tech by showcasing their side projects. The goal is to decrease the amount of women leaving tech. Also, on a related note, we need women to stay in engineering in order to launch the next generation of startups (2).

(1) http://www.studyofwork.com/files/2011/03/NSF_Women-Full-Repo... (2) http://readwrite.com/2010/02/20/you-cant-launch-next-generat...

prawn• 11 years ago

The creator and submitter is female. This could well be a problem she's familiar with and trying to solve rather than exploit.

userium14• 11 years ago

Thanks Dang! True.

I first had a slogan on the website that "for Women who build things for the Web". However, personally I dislike sites that are so obviously directed for women, e.g. "Learning to code for women." That's why I tried to make the site more gender neutral, however the underlying idea is to attract (men and) women to create side projects and ultimately for them to get more remote work opportunities. All side projects don't become startups, but they can be useful in other ways.

Udo2• 11 years ago

I love the idea, but I'm not a LinkedIn user. Wouldn't it be more inclusive to transform the "LinkedIn URL" field into a general purpose URL field?

Also, if you post something, it's a bit of a black hole. The entry is held for moderator approval and when you go back to the "show what you made form" it's as if nothing ever happened.

userium14• 11 years ago

That's true, a Stackoverflow profile would be probably more suitable, or whichever link gives more information about the developer.

There is an alert after submitting the form, and a redirect to the frontpage. It's set to disappear quite quickly. I will improve on that, thanks for pointing it out!

Udo2• 11 years ago

or whichever link gives more information about the developer

If you're not planning to integrate with some specific API, it could be any URL, including a personal site.

qmr2• 11 years ago

Why do you feel it has to be to a specific site?

Personally I do not participate in either of those sites. The only thing a Stack Overflow profile shows is how skilled someone is at quick draw Googling answers to very simple programming questions.

jstx• 11 years ago

A bit of a nitpick, but I've noticed the trend of several sites to only allow SSO with one, maybe two, 3rd parties. More egregious, no ability to sign up directly.

Are other languages missing something like node's Passport to allow easy integration to multiple SSO providers or is single-single service sign on an active choice that is growing in popularity?

userium14• 11 years ago

I was actually thinking that is Omniauth enough as a log in option?

detaro• 11 years ago

I've read that people think offering to many choices is confusing...

I agree though, unless you directly tie into another service direct sign-up is a must. And I still don't understand why OpenID had to die...

userium14• 11 years ago

Thanks to everybody who already submitted their side projects, I quickly checked some of them, and they look amazing. I will go through them soon to publish them on the frontpage.

curiousjorge• 11 years ago

so I'm not sure how this works. Is your side project a metric for your ability as a developer?

patkai2• 11 years ago

As I understood the point is that people who only want to work remotely and/or part-time can show with their side projects their motivation and ability to do so.

voiceclonr• 11 years ago

The "Show what you have made" button seems broken for me.

userium14• 11 years ago

Thanks for pointing that out, I will look in to it.

mindcrime• 11 years ago

So, how does this work, exactly? I mean, I get posting your side project, but how does it work for whoever is out there looking for people to work remotely?

userium14• 11 years ago

This is just an MVP, later there could be more functionality for recruiters who are looking for remote workers?

Uptrenda• 11 years ago

Hey, this is cool. Nice work.

userium14• 11 years ago

Thank you! :)

rrowland• 11 years ago

I got excited thinking this was a way to either:

A) Recruit other developers onto your side project or B) Hire other developers to help with your side project.

I'd be interested in finding side projects to contribute to, or finding people that would like to contribute to mine. Are there sites out there for either of these purposes? If not, sounds like a good side project...

lorica• 11 years ago

Not sure if this is exactly related - http://sideprojectors.com

tectonic• 11 years ago

Whatcha working on?

fiatjaf• 11 years ago

https://assembly.com/

qmr2• 11 years ago

You lost me at "LinkedIN".

userium14• 11 years ago

I will change that! :)

krapp• 11 years ago

Is this only for hosted, web app projects?

userium14• 11 years ago

No, I think also Github projects or e.g. JSFiddle / Codepens could be featured on the site.

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