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Professional community of software developers
Company blog · moonlightwork.com/blogcareerstartups
Professional community of software developers is the company blog at moonlightwork.com, writing about career and startups. Since 2017, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 82 times, most often “Moonlight work”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (23) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly point readers to Moonlight as a marketplace for short-term contract and freelance developer work, usually in threads about finding side income. The comments do not discuss its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 23 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Join Moonlight's professional community of software developers and designers. Find and work with quality candidates based on their experience, location, and availability!
Most-linked posts?
- Moonlight work10 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2017-02-28
- Show HN: Moonlight – experienced software developers, on demand8 people · 23 mentions · first linked 2017-04-22
- /4 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2017-04-17
- Digital Nomad's Guide to Information Security2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-21
- /onboarding/developer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-12
What Hacker News says?
I don't recall if I mentioned it to you when we spoke previously, but there is also Moonlight. I don't know what your skills are or if that helps you. https://www.moonlightwork.com
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on “How poverty changes your mindset”Submitted Show HN: Orbit – Weekly list of software contractors ready for immediate work as a story · 71 points
HN discussionWe spent a lot of time building tagging systems to organize technology skills on https://www.moonlightwork.com . The coolest part was training a collaborative filter on the tags. So, when you add "Django" as a skill, it could recommend "Python" as a related skill. This made for some refined user experiences. Getting typeahead search right took a lot of refinement. Here is some of the logic we ended up implementing o…
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on “I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems”Submitted Show HN: Moonlight – experienced software developers, on demand as a story · 17 points
HN discussionOne to add that's not on the list: https://www.moonlightwork.com
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on “List of places to find remote jobs and freelancing projects”Submitted Should you hire a cheap or premium contractor to build your app? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionWe prototyped https://www.moonlightwork.com without code. Here was our basic workflow: 1. Marketing site set up using Squarespace 2. Developers apply using Typeform. We add them to a Google Sheet with Zapier. 3. New jobs submitted through Typeform, which triggers an email to us 4. We manually set up a new Google Form to collect proposals. We send the results google sheet to the client. 5. We manually search for deve…
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on “Ask HN: What are some hacks of real founders who did things that don't scale?”Submitted Digital Nomad's Guide to Information Security as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWe are looking at alternatives like Payoneer. I have a personal moral opposition to PayPal :-) We very seriously investigated cryptocurrencies. We found that companies would have to pay with crypto to make it legal under us law, and companies were not ready to do that yet. Details here: https://www.moonlightwork.com/blog/cryptocurrency-and-compan...
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on “Ask HN: How do you find freelance work?”Submitted Moonlight (moonlightwork.com) acquired by new owners as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://moonlightwork.com
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on “Ask HN: How do you find freelance work?”Submitted Growth charts for startups as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMoonlight | Software Engineer | REMOTE | Fulltime | https://www.moonlightwork.com Hey all - we're hiring a remote backend developer to join the team at Moonlight. We're building a professional community for software developers, and companies pay us to match to job candidates. The stack is Go on Kubernetes using gRPC, MySQL, Redis, etc. Lots going on and many fun challenges, ranging from ML to real-time messaging. Th…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)”Submitted Gingr uses open-sourced Staffjoy code and gains fast traction as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe average age of developers is increasing. A generation is leaving SF to start families in other cities. Fewer people want to come to SF due to costs and low quality of living, and startups are no longer expected to be in the Bay. Coding schools are graduating new developers all over the country (and the world). The future is remote. I have a contrarian viewpoint: I think employment doesn't work with remote work a…
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on “InVision has no physical headquarters and all 700 employees work remotely”Submitted Hacking YC Startup School as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou're right. During startup school [1], they pushed us to do things manually - which helped us to iterate quickly and learn the process. However, we've hit the limits of what we can do manually right now, so we are in the process of building out an app. (We've even been hiring moonlighters to help us out). We plan to launch the app in the next month, and with that - we should be able to scale the number of projects…
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on “Ask HN: How do you find clients when you have no network and can only do remote?”Submitted Cryptocurrency and companies: Not ready yet as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHi, You're correct - we have more contractors than developers right now. Sorry if you haven't been matched yet - if you send me an email (philip at moonlightwork.com) we can feature you on next week's Orbit [1] email to clients. The process has largely been manual with spreadsheets until now, but soon you will be able to log in and browse all open projects. Over half of our projects have been completed by a contract…
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on “Ask HN: How do you find clients when you have no network and can only do remote?”Submitted Moonlight work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMoonlight | Software Engineer | REMOTE | Fulltime | https://www.moonlightwork.com Hey all - we're hiring a remote backend developer to join the team at Moonlight. We're building LinkedIn for software developers, and companies pay us to match to job candidates. The stack is Go on Kubernetes using gRPC, MySQL, Redis, etc. Lots going on and many fun challenges, ranging from ML to real-time messaging. This role will eit…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)”Submitted Startups Shouldn’t Hire a CTO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe had a great experience. Thanks to all of the mentors, who spent hours per week helping all of the participants in office hours. We're working on Moonlight ( https://www.moonlightwork.com ), where we're helping companies hire expert software engineers as part-time consultants. We grew from no revenue before Startup School to thousands of dollars per week in revenue. Here is our presentation: https://www.startupsch…
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on “Startup School 2017 Presentations”Submitted What’s trending in tech: March 2019 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe looked at cryptocurrency very closely. Basically, money laundering laws and slow adoption of crypto among businesses make it really hard to get adoption among clients: https://www.moonlightwork.com/blog/cryptocurrency-and-compan... I have a moral opposition to Paypal after using it personally, but we are looking at solutions such as Payoneer to expand country support! It's worth pointing out that you can incorpor…
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on “Ask HN: How to become a remote contractor?”Submitted Non-designers: How to develop your brand design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWould be great if you give hint about how much info/time is need to complete the signup on the developer onboarding page: https://www.moonlightwork.com/onboarding/developer
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on “Ask HN: How to become a remote contractor?”Submitted Show HN: Remote work stickers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm a digital nomad who as in the same position. I couldn't find contract work for high-skill engineers. So, I started building a marketplace for it. Today that's Moonlight - we are still small, bootstrapped, and growing, but we have companies ranging from startups to a publicly-traded company hiring through the site. Hourly rates average a little over $100US. https://www.moonlightwork.com
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on “Ask HN: How to become a remote contractor?”Submitted Supporting Open-Source Creators as a story · 2 points
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