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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. Rank: This is an estimation on how popular the site is, with #1 being the most viewed site on the internet in the US. Up until 2022 Alexa was used, Similar web will be used for future ratings. Graph of changes over time

Clients
NameRankHires these Types
Upwork200Designers, Developers, & Others
Freelancer700Designers, Developers, & Others
PeoplePerHour2,000& GigsDesigners, Developers, & Others
Toptal3,000Designers, Developers, & Others
Guru.com5,000Designers, Developers, & Others
Turing6,000Developers
Truelancer10,000Designers, Developers, & Others
Crossover10,000Developers & Business Managers
arc.dev20,000Developers
Scalable Path70,000Designers & Developers
freelancermap80,000Developers, Engineers, Consultants, Others
StoreTasker100,000Shopify Developers
Soshace100,000Developers
Adeva200,000Designers, Developers, & QA
Speedlancer600,000Designers & Developers
Worksome2,000,000Consultants, Data Scientists, & Developers
Tutoring
CodeMentor.io10,000TutoringDevelopers
Other
NameRankHires these Types
Fiverr100GigsVariety
Bonsai20,000ToolsDesigners, Developers, & Others
Jobdone.net1,000,000GigsVariety
#frontenddevelopers.org1,000,000CommunityDevelopers
Remote One1,000,000ToolsDesigners, Developers, & Others
Clarrow2,000,000ToolsDesigners, Developer & Others
Jobs
NameRankHires these Types
Dribbble Jobs1,000Designers
Angel List Jobs2,000Variety
FlexJobs7,000Variety
We Work Remotely10,000Variety
Hired20,000Designers, Developers, & Product Managers
RemoteOK80,000Developers
Himalayas200,000Designers, Developers, & Product Managers
No Fluff Jobs200,000Developers
Golangprojects.com600,000Go/Golang jobs, filter on remote jobs
Remotesome.com1,000,000Developers
RemoteYeah2,000,000Data Scientists & Developers
Jobhunt.ai8,000,000AI/Machine learning jobs, filter on remote jobs
Team Extension8,000,000Eastern Euro Developers, Designers, QA
Agency
NameRankHires these Types
Codeable40,000Wordpress Developers developers
Superside50,000Designers
Working Not Working70,000Designers
X-Team70,000Developers
Experfy80,000Data Scientists & Developers
Gun.io100,000Developers
Gigster200,000Developers, Project Managers, & Designers
DOZ.com500,000Marketing
Moonlight1,000,000Developers
10xmanagement1,000,000Designers & Developers
Lightboard2,000,000Designers
MeteorOps.com10,000,000DevOps Engineers
Dreamlance10,000,000Designers & Developers
CodersClan.net10,000,000Developers

Regional, or Language-Specific

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

ClientsJobsAgency
Interaction with ClientsYour interaction is with clients directly, organization does little/no communication with clientsYou interact with employers directly, organization does little/no communication with clientsOrganization handles clients and just gives you work. You have little/no interaction with clients
Control over working environmentGenerally you can work however, using own tools, supplies, set own hours, etcEmployer 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
PaymentClient pays you, but through the organization (which may takes its cut)Employer pays you salary (withholding taxes)Agency pays you
Choice of Client or ProjectComplete control of client/projectComplete control of job selectionLittle/no choice of project or client
Vetting/InterviewsClients vets youCompanies vet youOrganization vets you, Client wouldn't really vet you individual

Other resources

Aggregators

Bounties based and open source

Remote jobs

Job tracking tools

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")