Great idea, but it seems to be designed for well connected people. I don't know anyone outside my country and I really want to work abroad someday (I had plans for it in the past year, but have to abort the idea for some reasons and want to try again next year).
How can I appear in the newsletter? Just asking a friend to send me in the form? But maybe he's not a well connected person too, and the 2 referrals in the latest newsletter[1] are from people who live and work in the startup world.
So, in the end, it becomes a lottery: ask someone to send your name and wait for your luck.
Something like that. Then you can make a selection based by github, mobile apps published (counting even the non-worldwide apps, for developers from other countries like me), academy works and other projects (websites, hardware, etc).
If I'm a remote contract developer looking for new contracts, is there a way for me to use this to get my details out to people? It was a little unclear to me. Subscribe implied I had positions to fill and suggest a developer didn't really imply I could suggest myself? I tried HireMyFriend which is a little similar but I haven't had any luck with that because I don't have enough developer friends on Twitter to recommend me.
I've worked exclusively with remote teams for almost 8 years now. Love it! I'm happy to be a referrer and have connections to London, Romania, Sweden and Spain. Feel free to get in touch (email in profile). I've also met or networked with many of the existing referers (Dmitri via HNLondon, Rob Fitz, and Ryan Hoover via producthunt) Good group so far!
You may want to fix your Mail Chimp setup. After I confirmed my subscription, I was redirected to http://www.youraudience.io/ when I clicked on 'Continue to website'. I think you want to point it to developeragents.com.
I have subscribed as someone who is looking to get in to remote contract work.
I like the idea. It would be great if signup had three funnels:
(1) I want to hire a remote developer
(2) I want to recommend a remote developer
(3) I am a remote developer looking for work
I would imagine you could rank people in Bucket #3 by some GitHub criteria (languages, commits, stars on projects, etc.) and also by the number of people in Bucket #2 who recommend the developer. I think FounderDating works in a similar way -- you have to get recommended by people in the network, but maybe you could just let the hiring people in Bucket #1 sort devs by the number/quality of recommendations from others.
How can I appear in the newsletter? Just asking a friend to send me in the form? But maybe he's not a well connected person too, and the 2 referrals in the latest newsletter[1] are from people who live and work in the startup world.
So, in the end, it becomes a lottery: ask someone to send your name and wait for your luck.