The Remote Freelancer
List of community-curated resources to find topical remote freelance & contract work for software developers, web designers, and more!
See Why and Contributing. Alexa Rank: This is an estimation on how popular the site is, with #1 being the most viewed site on the internet in the US. Graph of changes over time
| Clients | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Alexa Rank | Hires these Types | |
| Upwork | 200 | Designers, Developers, & Others | |
| Freelancer | 700 | Designers, Developers, & Others | |
| PeoplePerHour | 2,000 | & Gigs | Designers, Developers, & Others |
| Toptal | 3,000 | Designers, Developers, & Others | |
| Guru.com | 5,000 | Designers, Developers, & Others | |
| Turing | 6,000 | Developers | |
| Truelancer | 10,000 | Designers, Developers, & Others | |
| Crossover | 10,000 | Developers & Business Mangers | |
| arc.dev | 20,000 | Developers | |
| Scalable Path | 70,000 | Designers & Developers | |
| freelancermap | 80,000 | Developers, Engineers, Consultants, Others | |
| StoreTasker | 100,000 | Shopify Developers | |
| Soshace | 100,000 | Developers | |
| Adeva | 200,000 | Designers, Developers, & QA | |
| Speedlancer | 600,000 | Designers & Developers | |
| Worksome | 2,000,000 | Consultants, Data Scientists, & Developers | |
| Tutoring | |||
| CodeMentor.io | 10,000 | Tutoring | Developers |
| Other | |||
| Name | Alexa Rank | Hires these Types | |
| Fiverr | 100 | Gigs | Variety |
| Bonsai | 20,000 | Tools | Designers, Developers, & Others |
| Jobdone.net | 1,000,000 | Gigs | Variety |
| #frontenddevelopers.org | 1,000,000 | Community | Developers |
| Remote One | 1,000,000 | Tools | Designers, Developers, & Others |
| Clarrow | 2,000,000 | Tools | Designers, Developer & Others |
| Jobs | |||
| Name | Alexa Rank | Hires these Types | |
| Dribbble Jobs | 1,000 | Designers | |
| Angel List Jobs | 2,000 | Variety | |
| FlexJobs | 7,000 | Variety | |
| We Work Remotely | 10,000 | Variety | |
| Hired | 20,000 | Designers, Developers, & Product Managers | |
| RemoteOK | 80,000 | Developers | |
| Himalayas | 200,000 | Designers, Developers, & Product Managers | |
| No Fluff Jobs | 200,000 | Developers | |
| Golangprojects.com | 600,000 | Go/Golang jobs, filter on remote jobs | |
| Remotesome.com | 1,000,000 | Developers | |
| Jobhunt.ai | 8,000,000 | AI/Machine learning jobs, filter on remote jobs | |
| Team Extension | 8,000,000 | Eastern Euro Developers, Designers, QA | |
| Agency | |||
| Name | Alexa Rank | Hires these Types | |
| Codeable | 40,000 | Wordpress Developers developers | |
| Superside | 50,000 | Designers | |
| Working Not Working | 70,000 | Designers | |
| X-Team | 70,000 | Developers | |
| Experfy | 80,000 | Data Scientists & Developers | |
| Gun.io | 100,000 | Developers | |
| Gigster | 200,000 | Developers, Project Managers, & Designers | |
| DOZ.com | 500,000 | Marketing | |
| Moonlight | 1,000,000 | Developers | |
| 10xmanagement | 1,000,000 | Designers & Developers | |
| Lightboard | 2,000,000 | Designers | |
| Dreamlance | 10,000,000 | Designers & Developers | |
| CodersClan.net | 10,000,000 | Developers |
Regional, or Language-Specific
- UK
- Gigged AI - Newcomer in the space with Clients ready but little Talent.
- devitjobs.uk
- Germany
- Latin America
- Workana – Largest Latin American freelancer network
- French
- Denmark
- Worksome - Denmark's largest platform for local freelancers.
- Dutch
- Freelance.nl - Leader in the Netherlands.
- Marktplaats - Kind of like Craigslist.
- Spanish
- Freelancer MX - Contrata a freelancers expertos para tu trabajo en l?nea.
- Persian
- Ponisha - Ponisha is an online network for freelance professionals, in Iran.
- Brazilian
- 99 Freelas - Contrate os melhores freelancers do Brasil.
- Russian
- Freelansim - биржа удаленной работы для IT-специалистов.
- FL - профессиональный ресурс, предназначенный для поиска работы или исполнителя на удаленную работу.
- freelance.ru - Биржа фриланса, каталог фрилансеров и самозанятых по категориям.
- Indonesian
- Projects.co.id - Leader in Indonesia.
- Fastwork - Newcomers.
- Sribu.com - is For Designer (but sribulancer.com is dead).
Why
This repo was inspired by this Hacker News thread about one software developer's experience with Upwork. For all those who have had bad experiences with Upwork, I wanted to create a list of additional resources that software developers can use to find freelance, nomadic and contract work.
Contributing
Please please please contribute to the list! If you have freelance work available or know someone who does, feel free to open a pull request to augment this list!
Thank you for looking :) Good hunting!
Differences between types
| Clients | Jobs | Agency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interaction with Clients | Your interaction is with clients directly, organization does little/no communication with clients | You interact with employers directly, organization does little/no communication with clients | Organization handles clients and just gives you work. You have little/no interaction with clients |
| Control over working environment | Generally you can work however, using own tools, supplies, set own hours, etc | Employer controls how you work generally. Provides tools, sets hours, tasks, etc. | Agency might direct you on what tasks to do but you have flexibility on how to accomplish them |
| Payment | Client pays you, but through the organization (which may takes its cut) | Employer pays you salary (withholding taxes) | Agency pays you |
| Choice of Client or Project | Complete control of client/project | Complete control of job selection | Little/no choice of project or client |
| Vetting/Interviews | Clients vets you | Companies vet you | Organization vets you, Client wouldn't really vet you individual |
Other resources
Aggregators
- https://findwork.dev
- http://jobscribe.com/
- https://www.hellobonsai.com/gig-list
- https://www.folyo.me/
- http://www.lancelist.com/
- https://www.letsmakeapps.io/
- https://freelandr.com/
- https://remotephp.io
- https://periodix.net
- https://www.remotelyawesomejobs.com
- https://www.nynedge.com/
- https://remotework.fyi/
- https://www.vollna.com/
- https://remotebond.com/
Bounties based and open source
Remote jobs
- lukasz-madonawesome-remote-job – A curated list of awesome remote jobs and resources. Inspired by Awesome Python.
- HN Hiring (hnhiring.me)
- HNHIRING – All Jobs From Hacker News 'Who is Hiring?'.
- Remote Leaf – Receive hand-picked remote jobs posted anywhere delivered straight to your inbox.
Job tracking tools
- Upfeed – Smart and personalized Upwork's feed.
- Upwork jobs feed tracker – Convenient way to track new jobs for Upwork freelancers.
Who
Codinronan originally started this resource, Andy Chase has been maintaining since 2017. Special thanks to everyone who has submitted corrections and new sites. Also thanks to Georges Kabbouchi who developed the website version based on a design from Ovidiu Alexandrescu.
License
None. Literally, why would I include a license in this. Copy, paste, skewer, go nuts. (Ok, officially, "The Unlicense")