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

20 points by traviagio 10 years ago | 25 comments

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?

bbeneschott 10 years ago |

There is a list of 60 here: https://remote.co/qa-leading-remote-companies/

traviagio 10 years 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.

lostlogin 10 years ago |

Pretty sure 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

pascalmahe 10 years ago |

Stack Overflow, from the very beginning [0]

[0] http://blog.codinghorror.com/on-working-remotely/

traviagio 10 years ago | |

I missed that one, awesome find.

jasonkester 10 years 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 10 years ago | |

For a company without an office, why are they limiting their hires to the US?

jasonkester 10 years ago | | |

They're not. I live in France. Several devs live out of a backpack wherever the sun happens to be shining.

luckydude 10 years 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 10 years ago | |

And are you hiring?

luckydude 10 years 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.

walterm 10 years ago |

BuzzFeed is known for having a lot of its tech teams working remotely.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/benronne/how-buzzfeed-tech-never-los...

pieterhg 10 years ago |

Nomad List is a team of 5+ data editors, writers + founder. http://nomadlist.com

traviagio 10 years 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 10 years ago |

FetLife, the kinky social network, is entirely remote.

toomuchtodo 10 years ago | |

I could've sworn they were based out of Vancouver based on their last job posting for a DevOps person.

toomuchtodo 10 years ago |

Zapier's entire team is remote.

irl_zebra 10 years ago |

Automattic/Wordpress I believe.

Mz 10 years ago |

www.metafilter.com/

At least 5 employees, distributed team. Their podcasts are produced using Skype, iirc.

Nilef 10 years ago |

Baremetrics, GrooveHq

toomuchtodo 10 years ago | |

Isn't Baremetrics only 2 or 3 people though?

scalesolved 10 years ago | | |

They are six now https://baremetrics.com/about

lazerluke 10 years ago |

SoftLayer Catalyst

thomasmeagher 10 years ago |

Product Hunt