engineerapart/theremotefreelancer

Listing of community-curated resources to find topical remote freelance & contract work for software developers, web designers, and more!

The Remote Freelancer

List of community-curated resources to find topical remote freelance & contract work for software developers, web designers, and more!

See Why and Contributing. Rank: This is an estimation on how popular the site is, with #1 being the most viewed site on the internet in the US. Up until 2022 Alexa was used, Similar web will be used for future ratings. Graph of changes over time

Clients
Name	Rank		Hires these Types
Upwork	200		Designers, Developers, & Others
Freelancer	700		Designers, Developers, & Others
PeoplePerHour	2,000	& Gigs	Designers, Developers, & Others
Toptal	3,000		Designers, Developers, & Others
Guru.com	5,000		Designers, Developers, & Others
Turing	6,000		Developers
Truelancer	10,000		Designers, Developers, & Others
Crossover	10,000		Developers & Business Managers
arc.dev	20,000		Developers
Scalable Path	70,000		Designers & Developers
freelancermap	80,000		Developers, Engineers, Consultants, Others
StoreTasker	100,000		Shopify Developers
Soshace	100,000		Developers
Adeva	200,000		Designers, Developers, & QA
Speedlancer	600,000		Designers & Developers
Worksome	2,000,000		Consultants, Data Scientists, & Developers
Tutoring
CodeMentor.io	10,000	Tutoring	Developers
Other
Name	Rank		Hires these Types
Fiverr	100	Gigs	Variety
Bonsai	20,000	Tools	Designers, Developers, & Others
Jobdone.net	1,000,000	Gigs	Variety
#frontenddevelopers.org	1,000,000	Community	Developers
Remote One	1,000,000	Tools	Designers, Developers, & Others
Clarrow	2,000,000	Tools	Designers, Developer & Others
Jobs
Name	Rank		Hires these Types
Dribbble Jobs	1,000		Designers
Angel List Jobs	2,000		Variety
FlexJobs	7,000		Variety
We Work Remotely	10,000		Variety
Hired	20,000		Designers, Developers, & Product Managers
RemoteOK	80,000		Developers
Himalayas	200,000		Designers, Developers, & Product Managers
No Fluff Jobs	200,000		Developers
Golangprojects.com	600,000		Go/Golang jobs, filter on remote jobs
Remotesome.com	1,000,000		Developers
Jobhunt.ai	8,000,000		AI/Machine learning jobs, filter on remote jobs
Team Extension	8,000,000		Eastern Euro Developers, Designers, QA
Agency
Name	Rank		Hires these Types
Codeable	40,000		Wordpress Developers developers
Superside	50,000		Designers
Working Not Working	70,000		Designers
X-Team	70,000		Developers
Experfy	80,000		Data Scientists & Developers
Gun.io	100,000		Developers
Gigster	200,000		Developers, Project Managers, & Designers
DOZ.com	500,000		Marketing
Moonlight	1,000,000		Developers
10xmanagement	1,000,000		Designers & Developers
Lightboard	2,000,000		Designers
MeteorOps.com	10,000,000		DevOps Engineers
Dreamlance	10,000,000		Designers & Developers
CodersClan.net	10,000,000		Developers

Regional, or Language-Specific

• UK
  • Gigged AI - Newcomer in the space with Clients ready but little Talent.
  • devitjobs.uk
• Germany
  • germantechjobs
• Latin America
  • Workana – Largest Latin American freelancer network
• French
  • Codeur - Leader in France.
  • Malt - One of the largest platform for french Freelancers.
  • Comet - French platform that search and qualify IT freelancers for each mission.
  • Laotop - French platform that search and qualify IT freelancers for each mission.
• Denmark
  • Worksome - Denmark's largest platform for local freelancers.
• Dutch
  • Freelance.nl - Leader in the Netherlands.
  • Marktplaats - Kind of like Craigslist.
  • Funle.nl - Aggregator of all available IT-specific freelance gigs in the Netherlands
  • de Publieke Partner - Agency in dutch Government freelance assignments.
• Spanish
  • Freelancer MX - Contrata a freelancers expertos para tu trabajo en l?nea.
• Persian
  • Ponisha - Ponisha is an online network for freelance professionals, in Iran.
• Brazilian
  • 99 Freelas - Contrate os melhores freelancers do Brasil.
• Russian
  • Freelansim - биржа удаленной работы для IT-специалистов.
  • FL - профессиональный ресурс, предназначенный для поиска работы или исполнителя на удаленную работу.
  • freelance.ru - Биржа фриланса, каталог фрилансеров и самозанятых по категориям.
• Indonesian
  • Projects.co.id - Leader in Indonesia.
  • Fastwork - Newcomers.
  • Sribu.com - is For Designer (but sribulancer.com is dead).

Why

This repo was inspired by this Hacker News thread about one software developer's experience with Upwork. For all those who have had bad experiences with Upwork, I wanted to create a list of additional resources that software developers can use to find freelance, nomadic and contract work.

Contributing

Please please please contribute to the list! If you have freelance work available or know someone who does, feel free to open a pull request to augment this list!

Thank you for looking :) Good hunting!

Differences between types

	Clients	Jobs	Agency
Interaction with Clients	Your interaction is with clients directly, organization does little/no communication with clients	You interact with employers directly, organization does little/no communication with clients	Organization handles clients and just gives you work. You have little/no interaction with clients
Control over working environment	Generally you can work however, using own tools, supplies, set own hours, etc	Employer controls how you work generally. Provides tools, sets hours, tasks, etc.	Agency might direct you on what tasks to do but you have flexibility on how to accomplish them
Payment	Client pays you, but through the organization (which may takes its cut)	Employer pays you salary (withholding taxes)	Agency pays you
Choice of Client or Project	Complete control of client/project	Complete control of job selection	Little/no choice of project or client
Vetting/Interviews	Clients vets you	Companies vet you	Organization vets you, Client wouldn't really vet you individual

Other resources

Aggregators

• https://findwork.dev
• http://jobscribe.com/
• https://www.hellobonsai.com/gig-list
• https://www.folyo.me/
• http://www.lancelist.com/
• https://www.letsmakeapps.io/
• https://freelandr.com/
• https://remotephp.io
• https://periodix.net
• https://www.remotelyawesomejobs.com
• https://www.nynedge.com/
• https://remotework.fyi/
• https://www.vollna.com/
• https://remotebond.com/

Bounties based and open source

• https://gitcoin.co
• https://bountysource.com
• https://gitpay.me

Remote jobs

• lukasz-madonawesome-remote-job – A curated list of awesome remote jobs and resources. Inspired by Awesome Python.
• HN Hiring (hnhiring.me)
• HNHIRING – All Jobs From Hacker News 'Who is Hiring?'.
• Remote Leaf – Receive hand-picked remote jobs posted anywhere delivered straight to your inbox.

Job tracking tools

• Upfeed – Smart and personalized Upwork's feed.
• Upwork jobs feed tracker – Convenient way to track new jobs for Upwork freelancers.

Who

Codinronan originally started this resource, Andy Chase has been maintaining since 2017. Special thanks to everyone who has submitted corrections and new sites. Also thanks to Georges Kabbouchi who developed the website version based on a design from Ovidiu Alexandrescu.

License

None. Literally, why would I include a license in this. Copy, paste, skewer, go nuts. (Ok, officially, "The Unlicense")

theremotefreelancer's Issues

Remote Digest url

Check the url for Remote Digest, nothing there right now just a default GoDaddy page.

Add Folyo.me

remotecoder.io and remotedigest.com sites are unavailable to access

both site are unavailable. while remotecoder.io showing that it is on hiberation mode, undergoing refurbishment, and remotecoder just showing white blank.
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or it just me?

Please add clarification what Alexa rank means and why it is important here

Thank you :)

X-Team?!

X-Team is not a marketplace or job listing resource.

If you're going to include X-Team, you'd need to consider adding any of the other 90,000 "hire our anonymous team!" outsourcing companies.

(Thank you for the otherwise helpful list.)

Ideas for improvement

• Re-check types and fill in the rest of the types
• Make scripts for:
  • Updating Alexa ranking (showing change might be cool also)
  • Re-generating markdown from data.csv
• github pages integration with sortable/filterable tables
• Ideas for more metrics and columns

codegophers.com seems to be down

hacker news monthly job postings?

not sure how you'd incorporate it, but these are a fairly decent source too

Remove Pipeline from this list

Pipeline mostly focuses on PHP and Wordpress, which is fine. But after I attempted to contact them through their website, email, and also twitter, to cancel my subscription, I did not receive a response on any channel.

I now have to call my CC company and dispute the charge. They are a poor business and should be removed from this list.

add turing to list

add https://turing.com/ to list

Already a list at http://alternativeto.net/

http://alternativeto.net/software/upwork/

Agancis

What are the rules for adding an agency?

I ran a 99designs for this respository

https://99designs.com/web-design/contests/popular-freelance-resource-page-needs-design-755889/entries

I'll start slowly working on coding up the winning entry but hit me up if you are interested or have thoughts.

Similar list

I don't know if you've seen this list https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job#job-boards

But there's a lot of crossover with what @lukasz-madon is doing.

New Job Aggregator

Hi there! I develop a new freelance and remote job aggregator. It's called Periodix. (https://periodix.net/). Could you add it to your list?

It helps to find a job faster leveraging AI.

ITFlow is redirecting to spam

ITflow.biz is either redirecting to spam, or a domain landing page.

Hh

High

Domino is now at https://www.wearedomino.com/freelancer

Hey - thanks for adding us to this list. Just requesting this minor update since we've been moving away from the www.askdomino.com url to www.wearedomino.com

[Request] Guide for Managing Time Zones for Remote Freelancers

Hello, I would suggest creating a guide or resource for managing time while working as a remote freelancer. We know that working remotely may have different time zones between the freelancer and employer.

Suggested Topics

1. Setting Up a Schedule: Tips for creating and sticking to a productive work schedule.
2. Tools and Apps: Overview of tools and apps that aid in time management and productivity.
3. Avoiding Burnout: Strategies for balancing workloads and preventing overwork.
4. Setting Boundaries: Advice on maintaining a professional boundary between work and personal life.
5. Efficiency Techniques: Methods like Pomodoro or time blocking to enhance focus and efficiency.

Expected Impact

• Enhanced Productivity: Assisting freelancers in managing their time more effectively.
• Resource Enrichment: Making TheRemoteFreelancer a more comprehensive guide for freelancers.
• Community Engagement: Encouraging discussions and sharing of best practices among freelancers.

No license doesn't imply permission to use and modify

Just FYI, if you don't make your license terms explicit your work defaults to full copyright. That's why people include licenses that explicitly put their work in the public domain and give permissions to copy, modify and republish. No huge deal in this case, I just wanted to let you know since you seem to assume the opposite in the readme.

Proposed rule

I don't think "weekly mailing lists" should be included.

So far they seem to just aggregate from other sites (which freelancers should be checking), and their only "add-on" is charging companies to post exclusive. Some of them also aren't very well maintained.

If anyone has thoughts on this let me know.

Examples:

http://jobscribe.com/
https://www.hellobonsai.com/gig-list
https://www.folyo.me/
http://www.lancelist.com/
More at: https://github.com/engineerapart/TheRemoteFreelancer/blob/master/README.md#aggregators