Finally, after a year of struggle, remotefront started to get some traction

I am Sandeep, from Kolkata, India and I am building https://remotefront.io

I am from a place where I am very fortunate enough to earn in dollars. My father used to earn around 10,000 INR (133 USD) a month. I have struggled my whole childhood with a lack of money. I studied in a government school and completed my engineering with a 100% scholarship.

I received my first computer in 2014 and I started to learn to code. I found it very interesting and I was spending 10+ hours learning to code and building stuff. In August 2016, I landed my first internship. Then in 2017, I started to earn via a programming job.

It was a Data Visualisation company and I was writing vanilla javascript to render some mathematically heavy charting solutions. I was paid 390 USD a month. It was good but not enough. By then I could understand that I am being paid a lot less but I had no choice.

In 2018 I found a FB group called Hackathon Hackers and back then I had a craze of building an Android Game and I end up building and publishing one Android Game in the play store. I was sharing my progress in building the game in that FB group. In 2018, I was making around 1000 USD a month.

In Nov 2018, I received a Facebook message request offering me a remote job. I was interviewed and I was given a small project to execute. I completed the project and submitted it in time. The guy hired me for the remote job and I was offered 3400 USD a month. I was so happy 😀 and my life changed after that.

Now I am making around 130K USD a year, from Kolkata India for a company based in Los Angeles, USA. All thanks to the remote job.

You might wonder why all these are important. A remote job has changed my life and it has changed my life for my family.

With the same mission, I started working on https://remotefront.io so it provides equal opportunity to everyone out there.

One thing I noticed with all other remote job boards is that they all are extremely poor in design, too colourful to browse, no way to subscribe for the correct remote jobs.

I want to change that. remotefront.io gathers remote jobs from 10+ sources and provides you with a simple single interface to browse them.

Let me be honest, I was not getting any traction till this May. I realized I need to be active and start doing marketing.

• I started replying to people on Twitter and gained some 200+ followers.
• Started focusing on SEO and created pages like remote-frontend-jobs
• Written Reddit thread and started communicating with people eg https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/pxzcqv/collected_over_1000_remote_jobs_for_frontend

After all these finally, I started to receive some paid users for https://remotefront.io

Stats for last 30 days

1. Around 18k page views https://imgur.com/c46Ik3j
2. Around 2.25k users https://imgur.com/q9VlMyr
3. 68 people Signups ( I introduced signups 10 days ago )

I won't stop here, I will make improve remotefront.io day by day and hopefully by next year this time, https://remotefront.io would be a pretty known place for anyone looking for a remote job.

Thank you for reading and If you like to receive more updates you can follow me on Twitter

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