Show HN: the remote-only job board called HireThere (a weekend project)

http://hirethere.com

by coreymaass • 13 years ago

69 44 13 years ago

hirethere.com

Jeremy1026• 13 years ago

Very good idea. Clean execution as well.

coreymaass18• 13 years ago

Thanks very much! It was a good excuse to learn Twitter bootstrap, and put my own spin on it :-)

simone-audiobox• 13 years ago

Interesting project. Looks lean and fast. No bells, just exactly what you need. Good job.

vellum• 13 years ago

That's a clean design. I'd make the top part smaller though. Maybe trim down the logo size, move it to the left, move the search bar up top, and put the results closer to the top.

Also, since your listings are one liners, I'd put more listings per page.

coreymaass18• 13 years ago

I've been debating about that. I want it to feel design-y, but if it's interfering with the experience, then it's not a good thing... :-) Thanks!

coreymaass18• 13 years ago

It's smaller now, and there are more records.

insteadof• 13 years ago

Those tags you have, (design, content, management, etc.) make them clickable and group all those jobs under it. It at least looked like it would be that way.

coreymaass18• 13 years ago

Ooh, good suggestion. I'll add some sort of filtering on the categories.

BrianEatWorld• 13 years ago

Definitely something I will use.

I noticed that you are getting a fair amount of postings from Authentic Jobs. Are you importing them by hand? How are you determining if they are truly remote? I find AJ is a really strong source of freelance remote work, but I also noticed that not all of the jobs using the "telecommute" tag on AJ are entirely remote.

Similarly, there are a good deal of postings on AJ with geographic restrictions on who the poster will work with due to time differences. For a site that is strictly remote jobs, you may want to include either a work day filter, where night owls on the West Coast can still team up with European companies or a filter that hides European positions with time constraints from West Coast users.

coreymaass18• 13 years ago

Thanks! Yes, I'm importing jobs from Authentic Jobs using their API. I'm looking at doing the same with a few other sites, too. Any suggestions are welcome :-)

I filtered their results by both the "telecommute" flag and searching for "anywhere".

It's a really interesting idea to list timezones. I hadn't thought of that. Maybe when I get some more jobs posted, I'll ask employers if it's something they'd want.

entropy_• 13 years ago

I'd say timezones is definitely something you want to have available as information.

I've gotten needlessly excited about possible remote jobs way more times than I can count only to find out that they only want people within ~2~3hrs of NYC or SV(I'm in UTC+2 so that's 7hrs and 10hrs respectively)

oab123• 13 years ago

anything that makes it easier to find good people, remote or otherwise, works...

demosquared• 13 years ago

Even if you are using stripe, you should use SSL on your payment page where you collect credit card and other user information.

coreymaass18• 13 years ago

Thanks, yes, I'm going to install an SSL cert shortly. Technically it's low risk without it, but I definitely want to cover my bases, and make the user feel good, too.

coreymaass18• 13 years ago

SSL cert installed.

thehodge2• 13 years ago

Wasn't there another job board for remote workers launched last weekend on HN?

EDIT :: Sorry, for the bluntness, I read the tittle as ONLY remote worker job board, rather than the remove worker ONLY job board..

thehodge2• 13 years ago

To answer myself, yes, yesterday actually - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326314

coreymaass18• 13 years ago

Crazy, right?! He beat me by a day :-)

I actually reached out to him. We both have remote-only job boards AND personal finance apps. I'm nervous to find out what he's building next :-)

noce1• 13 years ago

Awesome! Will spread the word.

smiler• 13 years ago

You cannot search for "c#" - it strips the # out

coreymaass18• 13 years ago

Ha, wow! I'll fix that. Thank you for beta testing :-)

coreymaass18• 13 years ago

Fixed.

pagade• 13 years ago

Looks like search ignores special chars. 'C++' was considered as 'C'. 'Java' worked fine.

coreymaass18• 13 years ago

Fixed. Sadly there are no C++ jobs yet :-(

pc86• 13 years ago

No Erlang?

This looks well done. Good job.

onassar2• 13 years ago

Another one :) Going to add it to my http://imnosy.com/ account. Now I've got three different places to find remote jobs :)

kgodey• 13 years ago

What's the third?

onassar2• 13 years ago

So far, I've got: https://hirethere.com/ http://remojobo.com/ http://jobmote.com/

coreymaass18• 13 years ago

Hirethere definitely needs an RSS feed, or email subscription option or something.

jdefontes• 13 years ago

+1 for RSS.

nawitus• 13 years ago

How is this different from earlier job boards?

coreymaass18• 13 years ago

I honestly couldn't find another job board that only listed remote jobs. As of yesterday, there's one other :-) And searching for remote jobs on the established sites was generally very clunky. So I think it's a niche that needs some attention.

coreymaass18• 13 years ago

Oh, and I should've mentioned! If you want to post a job, let me know, and I'll give you a coupon code for a free listing!

redmattred• 13 years ago

SimplyHired, Indeed, & JobG8 all have api's you can use to backfill jobs that you might want to check out. You can drill down your search query to just include remote jobs I'm guessing.

rorrr2• 13 years ago

Please please please add an optional field for salary (hourly or yearly), and let me filter by jobs that specify salaries. Emailing dozens of jobs just to find out they pay $15/hr is a huge waste of time.

coreymaass18• 13 years ago

How would you want to search it? hourly? annually?

rorrr2• 13 years ago

Either. They can be roughly converted between eachother.

anotherevan• 13 years ago

Would it be worth adding some sort of optional region field? Some people may only be willing to hire people in certain countries or time zones for whatever reasons.

"I'm sorry, we're only hiring people in the USA, not the Antipodes."

coreymaass18• 13 years ago

I've had a few suggestions for timezones, or preferred hours. I'll definitely consider it.

thrwaway00• 13 years ago

I'm just starting to learn programming, and I was curious what language the website is written in? RoR?

Also, what other technologies did you use?

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