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wellpaid.io — Contract-only jobs board, with remote jobs & rate trends
Too many jobs boards don't focus on contractors. wellpaid.io is the contract-only jobs board for contractors in the tech industry.
* Find remote jobs
* Analyse market rates and trends
* Build a personalised jobs feed based on your skills
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This is super cool, I appreciate this :)
I wonder how the brand will be perceived to the clients. I'm imagining myself in the shoes of a company that needs to hire an a contract engineer and cringing at the fact that it's values are all about money and payment. As an engineer, fuck yes. As a company, disgust. Second concern is that "high rate" is subjective. $1,000 for some people is low, for others very high.
Anyhow, it's an interesting idea and I hope it succeeds. I would use this if there was an international version.
@chrisrxth seconded on the contextual high rate. Possible road map item, @chrisvxd? Allowing users to customize the amounts to filter by?
I disagree on the company disgust. Too many companies paint a rosy picture of their organization. If they want to attract high-end talent, pay high-end rates. If they want to retain high-end talent, they can do so by proving cultural prowess during the first contract-term.
@chrisvxd @scottsilvi I absolutely agree that they should pay well if they want to attract and keep talent. But retaining talent is a concern about employees, not contractors. If you want to retain a contractor, you give them a retainer or an employment offer.
I'm curious if companies will find the branding clever or tasteless.
@chrisrxth @scottsilvi The context for the high rate is whether it's above or below the expected market rate for _that skill_. I've thought about switching it to something less blunt, like a distribution graph, so people can actually get an idea of how it fits in the market and then make their own call on whether it's "low", "medium" or "high"... but I need to give that some more thought.
Re: rates - I agree with you in the context of employees, but I think this is different for contractors. Companies hiring contractors are already prepared to pay the money, and are more motivated by finding someone good, fast.
Re: international - that's definitely on the horizon! Sign up to the platform / follow me on PH and I'll shoot you an update when it's ready.
This looks really good and there seems to be a good depth of jobs on it. I'm definitely going to give it a try!
@ninjapixel Developers, Developers, Developers!
Ping me on the wellpaid.io chat if you need anything.
I used Wellpaid in October, which led me to a few potential contracts. Though I found my next contract elsewhere, I took a few interviews through wellpaid, and found the site very useful for determining my value.
Pros:Beautiful interface, good data, user focused
Cons:Could use more jobs
@mastemine I totally misread that as a criticism 😅
I'm certainly hoping to add design skills in the future.
@mastemine Hey Logan - I've added graphic design, UI & UX support, and jobs have already started to show up!
@frcbls Thanks Ferruccio! I hope it's as useful for you as it is for me. Make sure you sign up so you can stay in the loop 😃
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