I previously founded and sold a VC-backed marketplace for short-term contract programming work. However, I think any of the marketplace-style business models are flawed because they have to be so controlling to maintain their cut of the revenue.
I believe we need a simple job board for part-time, freelance software work. No long process to apply. No need to rate your coworkers to get paid. No subscriptions or revshare. Just a lightweight job board with a great email and good matching.
I have a full time job as a software engineer that I enjoy. I work 4 10-hour days and have Fridays off. High inflation and increased expenses are driving me back into the job market looking for ways to supplement my income, but I don't want to fight for gigs on freelance platforms like Upwork.
Ideally I want a reliable project where I can invest 8-12 hours per week. One idea I had was to offer my services to companies looking to fill full time roles as a 'bridge' employee until they find their full time candidate (I could even participate in the interview process).
I guess I'm looking for a 'long term gig'. Am I nuts? Or is there a job board out there for companies/startups that need just a bit of extra help?
I have been in retirement but with the downturn selling assets makes my heart hurt more than it should, so I'd be willing to do short-term contract work. I definitely do not want to join any company as an employee.
Job board that caters to software engineering, full-stack, product-adjacent concerns.
Hello HN. This is what I call a reverse job board. I was hesitant in making it paid right away because of the lack of jobs but I wasn't entirely sure how I would go back later, so I did. If you are looking for a contract, it is completely free to post. Let me know if any one has any suggestions or questions. Thanks!
I am a full time developer by day and I freelance and moonlight by night. I got really tired of not being able to find jobs online that fit into my freelance and moonlighting. Its been hit or miss along the way. So this past weekend, I took the time to create a website for just that. It allows companies to post jobs for Hourly positions, as well as contract positions. The idea is simple, help the developers that need part time work find a job. So please forgive the shameless plug, but this is where I am sharing it for the first time: https://weworkhourly.com and https://wecontractwork.com Over time, the jobs will cost money, but I have put the first 25 jobs on each site to be FREE. Hopefully that might get some momentum.
Like: i'm tired of looking for work, let the work find me.
Create an auction with "hire-me" apps. It may be half-baked/weekend projects/proof of concept things etc. People come over to that kind of a "marketplace", and make an offer, no CV/interview required.
The reality is that being self-employed requires building business skills and being able to sell your skills. I previously founded a VC-funded developer marketplace, and the people that won all the jobs were the great communicators - not the most experienced (or inexpensive) developers.
Fractional work is a nice in-between where you ideally have a retained part-time contract, paid weekly or monthly, so that you aren't constantly looking for new projects.
It would be great if there was a matching service that:
was not upwork or similar - just a simple listing. I don't want to advertise and market, I just want to get a part time job with like 10 hours a week where I fix react components or even per line of code.
does not take a huge chunk of the interaction profit (most of these services want a percentage, I think that's ok as long as it's less than 1% and not exceeding $100)
I'd imagine the person that hired this company would have rather had some moonlighter help him through - $7-8k would have been amazing for someone like me. I'm not really a designer but I can do some limited design work or create backends.
I am a Freelancer (from Bangalore), Right now i am not working on any projects and was wondering which Job Boards does fellow Freelancers use and which of them work actually?
Or what's the best way to get projects? (mainly Development)
Hey guys, we just hacked together this little site for casual contracting. The premise is there's no long-term commitment / equity payment nonsense. This is for small, quick cash jobs that take less than 40 hours (maybe a website proof of concept, for example). We think RentACoder, Elance and the like are too centered on heavyweight, long-term projects with extended commitments. We'd hope this would be something a Hacker News user might use to earn some extra money on the side. There are invite codes on Twitter http://twitter.com/casualcontract.
Hey guys, we just hacked together this little site for casual contracting. The premise is there's no long-term commitment / equity payment nonsense. This is for small, quick cash jobs that take less than 40 hours (maybe a website proof of concept, for example). We think RentACoder, Elance and the like are too centered on heavyweight, long-term projects with extended commitments. We'd hope this would be something a Hacker News user might use to earn some extra money on the side. There are invite codes on Twitter http://twitter.com/casualcontract.
Employment tends to be all or nothing but often a day's work to provide a basic income while working on a startup idea is what's needed. Recruiters tend not to be interested in part-timers so what kind of programming services have you found to be a good source of part-time income? I'm thinking of services offered to small/medium businesses rather than startups, ie. part-time employment not side projects.
there is an interesting startup idea - small freelance jobs. I work full time but would like to pickup an interesting side project here or there that could be done late at night on my own without the hassle of odesk or whatnot. I have no work for you but you hit on an interesting concept, freelance jobs for under $1000 maybe? Just a thought.
I recently had some personal stuff which made it necessary for me to cut back on the hourly commitment I could make to work, but found it difficult to find contract, part-time, freelance (anything not full-time) jobs through traditional means, so I built sidequestjobs.
It's an aggregator, so it gets jobs from various sources and curates them into part time, freelance, or contract based positions. I'm hoping to add more sources over the next coming weeks, but I wanted to post it to get some feedback now.
If you are going to work a few weeks for free, you may as well think of a good small business application and build it. At least you will make money from it or you can add that to your resume.
I dislike going through interviews and all the rituals that involve working for a company full time.
I don't like to stick to one project for a long time, which is visible on my resume, and recruiters don't like that.
I've been thinking of a way to work around these traits, and what I have come up with is - work part time, on B2B, with invoices instead of employment contracts.
I'm hoping that with B2B it will be easier to find work, fast. It should be more flexible to employers.
But where do I find people to do work for?
Edit: I'm a full stack developer, mainly focused on Go and React.
I don't anticipate us getting a lot of clients with budget for a part-time employee anytime soon, unfortunately. I imagine a lot will be remote, but probably not part time. Still happy to have you in our pool in case we do (I think I see you in the signups list - something about oddball proprietary languages, yeah?) but it's not a wildly high-probability bet in the short term.
I really, really, really wish I had a better solution for this sort of thing.
I believe we need a simple job board for part-time, freelance software work. No long process to apply. No need to rate your coworkers to get paid. No subscriptions or revshare. Just a lightweight job board with a great email and good matching.
So, I'm working on building that:
https://frctnl.xyz
(Using a throwaway because I'm not talking about this project publicly yet.)
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