Ask HN: Anyone struggling to find high quality freelance devs?

cisforce 3 years ago |

Not necessarily white and not necessarily male even if you have a first glance at our website

There’s a bit of an inspiration or one of the possible meanings https://www.military.ie/en/who-we-are/army/army-corps/cis-co...

anovikov 3 years ago | |

But seriously, what was the meaning you put into it?

As i understand, the goal of the project is to provide a way to work for those Russians who chose to not leave Russia when Russian residents were banned from Upwork...

cisforce 3 years ago | | |

We started in 2018 and most of our freelancers are in Eastern Europe, including Russia but now many of those who were in Russia (and equally Ukraine and Belarus) relocated to other countries for known reasons). Now we even have some freelancers from the US and LatAm, as well as Armenia, Georgia, Poland, Serbia etc etc

Initially it refers to both CIS countries labour market and CIS in a sense of a known IT abbreviation

anovikov 3 years ago | | |

But that looks like a way to put people off? Some will see it as "cis" in the sense of 'cisgender' which is just funny, no one will think of IT abbreviation (i am in the industry for 20+ years and heard it for the first time today), and if someone remembers what CIS is (few outside of Russia know), they will see it as "Putin and his puppet regimes" and see negatively. Anything that has to do with Russia is toxic now, you need to look for a way to hide or obscure it rather that bring forward.

I am doing a lot of sales in development and i read a convo on one forum where clients gather and the convo went like "...their company is is Croatia but i suspect they are Russians. where do i report?".

cisforce 3 years ago |

None ever asked this question before, it must be a bad joke!

pplanel 3 years ago | |

in fact, I thought the same. maybe "cis" became an example of metonymy?

cisforce 3 years ago | | |

If we get a few more comments like that we should seriously think about renaming to sysforce or something

anovikov 3 years ago |

what does the name even mean? as in "white, cisgender men"?

cisforce 3 years ago |

If the answer is yes, cisforce.com solves it for you