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Why and how I built a platform to help developers find remote jobs.

Tom Cafferkey on April 06, 2020

Working remotely is becoming more and more popular. Since 2005 it has grown 173% and continues to increase year on year. This growth can be attribu...
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Nishchal Gautam • Edited

Wow! The site looks good, decent number of job postings, I would advise you to invest some more money and do some marketing and advertising, I'm going to use this for my next job search, is this open-source by any chance?

I did however found some jobs which aren't really remote, they require you to be in us and be authorized to work there

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Tom Cafferkey

Hey Nisch thanks for the amazing feedback and advice!

As for the jobs you found please can you email them over if you still have them to hand?

Thanks!

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Reaper • Edited

Oh crap! I've got competition!
Kidding man, great work!

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Tom Cafferkey • Edited

Thanks Sid! Sounds like so have I then haha. At least we've both have encountered similar problems that need solving.

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Reaper

Only difference, companies are actually using yours. xD

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Wassim Ben Jdida

Great idea with a great design, Good Luck !!
and thanks for introducing knex.js im so excited to start using it in the next projects :)

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Tom Cafferkey

Thanks Wassim, really appreciate it!

If you have any Knex questions feel free to reach out on Twitter and I'll try and help where I can.

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Wassim Ben Jdida

Thank u so much :)

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Andrés Pérez

Looks pretty cool, would be lovely to have the option to filter based on location ;)

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Tom Cafferkey

We’re currently working on this feature 🙂

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Mangabo Kolawole

The platform is simply great! Good job!

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Tom Cafferkey

Thanks for the kind feedback Mangabo!

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Sergey Sachkov • Edited

Seems like the app doesn't work.

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Tom Cafferkey

Well, the timing couldn't have been better. Thanks for letting me know. Fixed and looking in to the cause.

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Emma Goto 🍙

The illustrations are so cute 😍

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Tom Cafferkey

Thanks Emma! Credit to the talented artist in the footer of our website for those!

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Oleg Gulevskyy

That's really cool, Tom!
Well done! Love the design of your platform, simple and clean.

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Tom Cafferkey

Thanks Oleg really appreciate the feedback. The design is all Nicks (mentioned in the article) doing and vision. And we are only just getting going! Exciting times.

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Artur Neumann

If you want to have more tests-coverage, contact me, we are specialized in creating tests ;-)

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Tom Cafferkey

Thanks Artur! I'll bear that in mind :)

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Nenad Cvetković

You don't have QA jobs. It's just sad.

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Tom Cafferkey

Not at the moment Nenad, sorry to disappoint but it’s something we will be looking at! 🙁

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Jez Williams 🌎🌱

This is amazing Tom, nice one! 🎉

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Tom Cafferkey

Thanks Jez!

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miku86

Great work, Tom!

Are these testimonials in the "What people are saying..." real?

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kirschd

Hey Tom, great article and resource. I had looked at it back when you announced and now that I tried it again it is down - DNS issue on CF.
Are you planning on continuing with this? Thanks!