Product hunt clone10/31/2022 ![]() ![]() Some write it like this:Ĭompany: Acme, Inc. NormalizationĮasy right? Well it’d be easy if everyone wrote their feeds in the same way. It’d analyze the feed, see which jobs were remote, then normalize the data and then push it into a simple SQLite database (yes, I’m not using JSON text files as a database anymore, thank you :P). I made a folder called “sources” and simply started writing a PHP script for each source. That meant I had to write a little robot for each feed. ![]() In terms of sourcing, most job boards out there have RSS feeds, or JSON accessible APIs. So from the base up I wanted to have an extreme amount of accreditation to the sites where I sourced from and linking back to them wherever possible. I can’t just take people’s content and profit from it. Without asking them, it just did it, and it added value. So how was I going to make this actually add some value? I thought about how Google News indexes articles and then creates traffic for the sites. And that sounded a lot simpler then it turned out to be… Ethics of aggregation It’d make the point stronger that remote work is an option, and let people actually find jobs. What if you can put all those remote jobs from all those standard job boards out there and put them together? That’d solve it. Then there’s a few dedicated niche remote job boards out there but the amount of jobs posted on each board is still pretty slim: They often don’t have real categories for remote work, and it’s mostly just mentioned in the job posting. Major job boards are not embracing remote work yet. And that’s weird because I know those jobs are out there. I still talk to people every few days that would love to work remotely but they can’t find any jobs that allow them too. If we want remote lives to become the standard, we need to make it easier for people to get jobs. Problemīut it’s not happening fast enough for me. ![]() Why? Because I think the net benefit of all of this can be positive for people worldwide. I’ve organized over 25 meetups in the last 6 months to get nomads together and started a chat community called #nomads for remote workers, which is now 2,500+ members strong and obviously I’ve been blogging a lot to spread the message. I built Nomad List to get people to realize they could move to different places, save money and get a better quality of life. I’ve explored lots of these questions, the problems that people doing this have and tried to come up with solutions in the form of products. What does home really mean if your location changes every few months? What’s the point of governments and nation states if nobody feels tied to one country? What is a “local” community if everyone’s moving around? And how will people make money? How will it transform work? It has big social, political and economic connotations. I think it’s up there with virtual reality in how radically it will transform societies. I’ve been passionate about remote work for a while now. I’d like to share everything that went wrong, and the few things went right in building and launching it. They’re all MVPs, built to see if they can get market fit in a month. The story was covered well by WIRED previously. Almost a year a go, I set a goal to launch 12 startups in 12 months. ![]()
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