I'm a remote guy and have been for over 10 years (different companies) and being a part of a community targeted at "just remotes" is something I've wanted for a long time.
The site is polished; extremely so for something "brand new". It was a joy to write my first two posts, setup my profile and read literally everything on the site this evening. Little things like the activation e-mail not ending up in my spam folder in GMail (which seems to happen with every "Show HN" activation message) make me believe you've got a bit of experience doing things like this.
There haven't been that many forum/HN/Reddit-style sites that I've actually been excited about -- I'll be checking back in frequently and I hope you manage to build up an active community as a result of the work you've put into this.
You should write a little more why people should put there trust in your website. I mean, it's basically a forum, right? What should make me believe that you are cabable of forming a community that helps each other in these regards? What does it have that Reddit, Stackoverflow and HN don't offer already? Etc.
E.g. we have an aggregator for remote workers. We will gather contracts for you, help with book keeping, have a project manager and corresponding tools prepared (issue tracker, wiki, chat channels) etc. To not make it an ad, I won't say our name. But I just want to show you that people already spend a lot of effort in that area. Certainly the demands we have working remotely are not all met already. But right now it's hard to see what makes your site interesting.
I love this idea. To come back to this page do I have to go through HN? I tried going directly to hi.remotetogether.com straight from a new tab and it does not work.
Unfortunately I will probably be not contributing at this current moment, as I am in the camp of "looking for remote work" and not "currently employed doing remote work" :)
Looks like a great community and if I were a Digital Nomad I would join. But if you work from home I'd love to have a network around that... And that's why I've created RemoteTogether.
Really nice forum! It's quite difficult to find the remote community, there are a lot of forums with communities related to it (digital nomads, nomads, freelancers) but not for remotes.
I am a remote worker at http://www.whitesmith.co/ and since the beginning, that remote work is part of our core culture. And I hope you don't mind but I would like to share with you the way our remote workers have a presence in the office: https://remotes.in.
Started to be an internal tool but right now is open to all remote workers, our goal is to create the biggest remote HQ in the world!
This tool is in beta version and I would love if you try and give us feedback :)
I had the same problem before realizing it is actually a "username" field. Maybe add a "confirm email" textbox because most of us are probably used to having one on all website signup pages?
Did you check your spam folder? Since we're a new org we are a little unknown by some spam filters.
If it's not in your spam folder will you email your account details to [email protected] ? That we I can diagnosis the issue better. Sorry this is happening to you!
[+] [-] mdip|10 years ago|reply
I'm a remote guy and have been for over 10 years (different companies) and being a part of a community targeted at "just remotes" is something I've wanted for a long time.
The site is polished; extremely so for something "brand new". It was a joy to write my first two posts, setup my profile and read literally everything on the site this evening. Little things like the activation e-mail not ending up in my spam folder in GMail (which seems to happen with every "Show HN" activation message) make me believe you've got a bit of experience doing things like this.
There haven't been that many forum/HN/Reddit-style sites that I've actually been excited about -- I'll be checking back in frequently and I hope you manage to build up an active community as a result of the work you've put into this.
[+] [-] insteadof|10 years ago|reply
[+] [-] ob1gman|10 years ago|reply
http://hi.remotetogether.com/t/remotetogether-why-now/20
[+] [-] erikb|10 years ago|reply
E.g. we have an aggregator for remote workers. We will gather contracts for you, help with book keeping, have a project manager and corresponding tools prepared (issue tracker, wiki, chat channels) etc. To not make it an ad, I won't say our name. But I just want to show you that people already spend a lot of effort in that area. Certainly the demands we have working remotely are not all met already. But right now it's hard to see what makes your site interesting.
[+] [-] arsenide|10 years ago|reply
Unfortunately I will probably be not contributing at this current moment, as I am in the camp of "looking for remote work" and not "currently employed doing remote work" :)
[+] [-] ob1gman|10 years ago|reply
hi.remotetogether.com should work. Got to resolve this problem. :)
[+] [-] scribu|10 years ago|reply
Not all remote workers are nomadic, but all digital nomads work remotely.
[+] [-] ob1gman|10 years ago|reply
Looks like a great community and if I were a Digital Nomad I would join. But if you work from home I'd love to have a network around that... And that's why I've created RemoteTogether.
[+] [-] joshbackstein|10 years ago|reply
Other than that, I like it!
[+] [-] ob1gman|10 years ago|reply
If you want to send me your email I'll let you know when I've finished setting it up. Thx for the feedback! And good call!
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[+] [-] mjcsmf|10 years ago|reply
I am a remote worker at http://www.whitesmith.co/ and since the beginning, that remote work is part of our core culture. And I hope you don't mind but I would like to share with you the way our remote workers have a presence in the office: https://remotes.in. Started to be an internal tool but right now is open to all remote workers, our goal is to create the biggest remote HQ in the world! This tool is in beta version and I would love if you try and give us feedback :)
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[+] [-] ob1gman|10 years ago|reply
The forum is just the start. Also have some podcasts coming soon. Sorry for the confusion.
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[+] [-] ob1gman|10 years ago|reply
thx!
[+] [-] bobbles|10 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] ob1gman|10 years ago|reply
If it's not in your spam folder will you email your account details to [email protected] ? That we I can diagnosis the issue better. Sorry this is happening to you!
[+] [-] hhw3h|10 years ago|reply