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Re:Ask HN: Good places to find work as a technical writer? by woollymallard on Sunday April 03, 2022 @05:58AM (#30895750)
My team at Daily is actually hiring for this, although I don't see the ad on the site yet (https://www.daily.co/jobs#open-positions)

We're distributed and largely async. My day to day work includes creating demos with our APIs and writing technical blog posts about them, helping maintain our docs, and helping other teams write about what they're working on. I'd been interested in technical writing for a long time, but was hesitant to apply for any of these kinds of roles because I thought it might mean giving up engineering to just write about other people's code. What drew me to this particular role is knowing that I was going to be programming as well as writing. It's been great so far, recommend checking it out if you're interested in that kind of work.

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Re:Ask HN: Good places to find work as a technical writer? by mjoneill on Sunday April 03, 2022 @12:53AM (#30894567)
Check out your local chapter of STC. The Society for Technical Communication has a job bank, but I think you need to be a member to access. Local chapters often share jobs without membership.
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Re:Ask HN: Good places to find work as a technical writer? by pabs3 on Saturday April 02, 2022 @11:41PM (#30894214)
Maybe Google Season of Docs?

https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/

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Re:Ask HN: Good places to find work as a technical writer? by mapaxe on Sunday April 03, 2022 @02:40AM (#30894955)
Draft.dev

also

https://github.com/malgamves/CommunityWriterPrograms

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Re:Ask HN: Good places to find work as a technical writer? by sixhobbits on Sunday April 03, 2022 @02:36AM (#30894941)
We offer this as a service at Ritza[0]. Feel free to reach out. We are hiring.

[0] https://ritza.co

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Re:Ask HN: Good places to find work as a technical writer? by logicallee on Monday April 04, 2022 @02:59PM (#30910668)
Thanks for this! I've applied based on your recommendation. (I hope you don't mind, under "Why are you interested in this role?" I put that I was referred by sixhobbits on Hacker News. :) I appreciate the opportunity you've shared!
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Re:Ask HN: Good places to find work as a technical writer? by greazy on Sunday April 03, 2022 @03:33AM (#30895152)
How do you apply? I can't find any link to jobs or careers on your landing page
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Re:Ask HN: Good places to find work as a technical writer? by sixhobbits on Sunday April 03, 2022 @03:41AM (#30895185)
https://ritza.co/handbook/roles/general-application/
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Re:Ask HN: Good places to find work as a technical writer? by elviejo on Saturday April 02, 2022 @11:01PM (#30893986)
https://www.writethedocs.org/job-board/
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Re:Ask HN: Good places to find work as a technical writer? by paxys on Sunday April 03, 2022 @12:48AM (#30894553)
Can't say about blog posts, since I don't know of any company that has blog writers on staff, but all popular SaaS apps these days are building out their developer APIs and always looking to hire technical writers for their docs.
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Re:Ask HN: Good places to find work as a technical writer? by mrpeanutbutter9 on Sunday April 03, 2022 @01:52PM (#30898922)
DataCamp has a contributor program: https://datacamp-1.gitbook.io/community-submissions/
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Re:Ask HN: Good places to find work as a technical writer? by 35mm on Sunday April 03, 2022 @04:35AM (#30895425)
Write your own blog with good articles about how to do things with software that you like, then get paid via affiliate links (ethical as long as you fully disclose).
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Re:Ask HN: Good places to find work as a technical writer? by bitxbitxbitcoin on Saturday April 02, 2022 @10:06PM (#30893641)
Reddit.com/hireawriter can be a good source for leads.
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Re:Ask HN: Good places to find work as a technical writer? by terrycody on Saturday April 02, 2022 @11:42PM (#30894216)
I think you can check Oreilly media.
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