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Ask HN: Can you name companies (5+ employees) with distributed/nomadic teams?

20 points by traviagio 11y ago

So far I have: 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?

toomuchtodo 11y ago
Zapier's entire team is remote.
luckydude 11y ago
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
- zerr 11y ago
  And are you hiring?
  - luckydude 11y ago
    Not right now, we're trying to see if we can market our way back to being a known brand. If we can do that, yeah, we'll be hiring.
Mz 11y ago
www.metafilter.com/ At least 5 employees, distributed team. Their podcasts are produced using Skype, iirc.
pieterhg 11y ago
Nomad List is a team of 5+ data editors, writers + founder. http://nomadlist.com http://nomadlist.com
- traviagio 11y ago
  Didn't know you've got that many people involved. Awesome stuff. By the way, are you in Bali? I would love to chat.
creature 11y ago
FetLife, the kinky social network, is entirely remote.
- toomuchtodo 11y ago
  I could've sworn they were based out of Vancouver based on their last job posting for a DevOps person.
walterm 11y ago
BuzzFeed is known for having a lot of its tech teams working remotely. http://www.buzzfeed.com/benronne/how-buzzfeed-tech-never-loses-the-remote-employees#.hp65RbvG2 http://www.buzzfeed.com/benronne/how-buzzfeed-tech-never-los...
lazerluke 11y ago
SoftLayer Catalyst
lostlogin 11y ago
Pretty sure http://rogueamoeba.com 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 http://m.imore.com/debug-66-paul-kafasis-rogue-amoeba
thomasmeagher 11y ago
Product Hunt
bbeneschott 11y ago
There is a list of 60 here: https://remote.co/qa-leading-remote-companies/ https://remote.co/qa-leading-remote-companies/
- traviagio 11y ago
  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.
Nilef 11y ago
Baremetrics, GrooveHq
- toomuchtodo 11y ago
  Isn't Baremetrics only 2 or 3 people though?
  - scalesolved 11y ago
    They are six now https://baremetrics.com/about https://baremetrics.com/about
    - toomuchtodo 11y ago
      Excellent! So glad to hear they're growing!
pascalmahe 11y ago
Stack Overflow, from the very beginning [0] [0] http://blog.codinghorror.com/on-working-remotely/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/on-working-remotely/
- traviagio 11y ago
  I missed that one, awesome find.
jasonkester 11y ago
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.
- jimcsharp 11y ago
  For a company without an office, why are they limiting their hires to the US?
  - jasonkester 11y ago
    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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irl_zebra 11y ago
Automattic/Wordpress I believe.