Show HN: Remote jobs for creative, non-technical people

Posted by keiferski on Thursday December 05, 2019 @09:53AM
from the show-hn dept.

I’ve been working remotely for over 5 years, initially as a support tech and then as a writer/editor/marketing person. My background is in art and philosophy, so the main remote job boards like WWR and Remote.co never quite appealed to me. Most of the jobs listed are technical (developers, DevOps, etc.) and the non-technical jobs always feel like an afterthought.

So, I decided to make Remote Poet (https://remotepoet.com) - remote jobs for creative people. Obviously the word “creative” has quite a few meanings, but I am including any jobs that can be considered artistic or creative in a general sense. The categories I've listed on the site are:

- Animation and Motion Graphics

- Art

- Architecture and Interior Design

- Content Marketing

- Editing / Copyediting

- Fashion

- Film / Video

- Graphic Design

- Illustration

- Marketing

- Music / Audio

- Photography

- Product Design

- Technical Writing

- UX / UI

- Video Games

- Writing / Copywriting

At some point, I may add programming jobs (as they are definitely “creative” in some sense) but the niche of remote software jobs seems pretty full. In any case, I hope the site is useful. If you have any suggestions or comments, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Re:Show HN: Remote jobs for creative, non-technical people by the_matrix on Thursday December 05, 2019 @10:24AM (#21713063)

The words "technical" and "non-technical" are also quite vague these days because once you start focusing deep enough in a field, it does become technical even if IT isn't involved - that's another widely used error, "technical" isn't just about Information Technology.

Each of these skills you've mentioned have their own technical nuisance and even IT gets involved at some point or other even in fields like art and architecture.

And yeah, programming is as creative as it gets whether you regard it as technical or not!

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Re:Show HN: Remote jobs for creative, non-technical people by keiferski on Thursday December 05, 2019 @10:27AM (#21713093)

True, but in general startup terminology, "technical" tends to mean "can code." The idea of the site is to feature remote jobs that don't require programming skills and/or are art/design-related, as many people find coding overly difficult.

But yeah, perhaps there is room to improve the messaging. The long-term goal is to build a travel brand targeted at remote creative workers.

Re:Show HN: Remote jobs for creative, non-technical people by keiferski on Thursday December 05, 2019 @09:54AM (#21712716)

Clickable link: https://remotepoet.com