Ask HN: Can you name companies (5+ employees) with distributed/nomadic teams?
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Pretty sure http://rogueamoeba.com fits the bill. I enjoyed an interesting interview with the founder Paul Kafasis on Debug. I had a good laugh at the discussions about having employees for years and never meeting them. http://m.imore.com/debug-66-paul-kafasis-rogue-amoeba
SoftLayer Catalyst
Product Hunt
There is a list of 60 here: https://remote.co/qa-leading-remote-companies/
That's a great list but it's really hard to distinguish between fully nomadic (Buffer is the perfect example) and companies that hire many workers remotely. I think most of the listed companies hire remotely (ex. Trello) and have big distributed teams.
I am hugely interested in more examples like Buffer.
I am hugely interested in more examples like Buffer.
Baremetrics, GrooveHq
Isn't Baremetrics only 2 or 3 people though?
They are six now https://baremetrics.com/about
Excellent! So glad to hear they're growing!
Stack Overflow, from the very beginning [0]
[0] http://blog.codinghorror.com/on-working-remotely/
[0] http://blog.codinghorror.com/on-working-remotely/
I missed that one, awesome find.
Articulate is at 150+ employees, about 100 of which are developers. And they're always hiring. And they have no office anywhere.
It's surprising they don't come up in these discussions more often.
It's surprising they don't come up in these discussions more often.
For a company without an office, why are they limiting their hires to the US?
They're not. I live in France. Several devs live out of a backpack wherever the sun happens to be shining.
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Automattic/Wordpress I believe.
Zapier's entire team is remote.
We're small, bigger than 5 of course, but small. Been
distributed for 18 years, we tried office space for the
bay area people and eventually went 100% distributed.
We've got people on both coasts of the US as well as the
middle (not sure if we have anyone in MST but we have all
the other time zones covered). And people in Canada, eh?
www.bitkeeper.com
www.bitkeeper.com
www.metafilter.com/
At least 5 employees, distributed team. Their podcasts are produced using Skype, iirc.
At least 5 employees, distributed team. Their podcasts are produced using Skype, iirc.
Nomad List is a team of 5+ data editors, writers + founder. http://nomadlist.com
Didn't know you've got that many people involved. Awesome stuff. By the way, are you in Bali? I would love to chat.
FetLife, the kinky social network, is entirely remote.
I could've sworn they were based out of Vancouver based on their last job posting for a DevOps person.
BuzzFeed is known for having a lot of its tech teams working remotely.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/benronne/how-buzzfeed-tech-never-los...
http://www.buzzfeed.com/benronne/how-buzzfeed-tech-never-los...
Buffer, Toptal, Maptia & Upworthy - fully nomadic, the employees & founders are always on the go
Basecamp, GitHub, Mozilla - known for their distributed teams and mobility but majority of workforce still in HQ
Can you help me find more?