RemoteHub
Productivity
remote work directory
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
2 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 9 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score -0.37.
Execution: 1 for, 3 againstIdea: 1 for, 3 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Well-done, useful metric of company city coverage
From 2 comments
That's true, but I've seen a lot of those remote work website being a remote worker myself, and this it's A LOT ahead. Also this link in particular shows the most important…
madarco on HNThank you, this is well done and I'm a proponent of anything that gets more people on board with remote work!
highwayman47 on HN
Objections
Company data is incomplete or wrong
From 3 comments
How do you get the data? I know one company in the list and the numbers/countries are completely wrong.
Keats on HNThis dataset is very incomplete. I guess I’m partially at fault for that as I know your team reached out to me multiple times to answer a survey prior to you launching the site.…
tristor on HNElastic has 1800+ distributed employees, should probably be in your list
bevacqua on HN
Feels like a directory that companies use for boasting, not real statistics
From 2 comments
To me it just seems like they make money off of these companies, and, as a quid pro quo, put up a website calling them "top". Nothing much to see there.
stakhanov on HNYea, I was actually expecting and hoping to see some sort of actual statistics about remote work, not a score-board for companies to boast on about how wide they've spread.
clarry on HN
Map misses Asia employees
From 2 comments
I note that none of these companies appear to have any employees in Asia...
Aeolun on HNYeah, I later found that the map just centered on where most employees were, and that was always Europe/US, so Asia was never really displayed.
Aeolun on HN
Requests
Add real remote work statistics and surveys of remote workers
From 2 comments
Yea, I was actually expecting and hoping to see some sort of actual statistics about remote work, not a score-board for companies to boast on about how wide they've spread.
clarry on HNHow about questionnaires for remote workers? It'd be interesting to know more about why and how people ended up working remote, how it impacts their lives, how it impacts their…
clarry on HN
Add more companies such as Automattic and Elastic
From 2 comments
Automattic should really be on that list: "We’re a distributed company with 1,146 Automatticians in 72 countries speaking 92 different languages.” [0] [0]:…
docdeek on HNElastic has 1800+ distributed employees, should probably be in your list
bevacqua on HN
Questions
How is the company data gathered?
From 1 comment
How do you get the data? I know one company in the list and the numbers/countries are completely wrong.
Keats on HN
Can people still contribute data?
From 1 comment
This dataset is very incomplete. I guess I’m partially at fault for that as I know your team reached out to me multiple times to answer a survey prior to you launching the site.…
tristor on HN
Alternatives named
Other remote work job sites
From 1 comment
YARW - Yet Another RemoteWork Website
HIP_HOP on HN
Buffer's State of Remote Work report
From 1 comment
Cool, thanks. Also curious how people end up working remote. Maybe they read about how cool remote work is (haha ok there are downsides too) and then they ask their employer to…
raunometsa on HN