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

20 points by traviagio ↗ HN
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?

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

jasonkester
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
For a company without an office, why are they limiting their hires to the US?
jasonkester
They're not. I live in France. Several devs live out of a backpack wherever the sun happens to be shining.
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irl_zebra
Automattic/Wordpress I believe.
luckydude
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
And are you hiring?
luckydude
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.
Mz
www.metafilter.com/

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

pieterhg
Nomad List is a team of 5+ data editors, writers + founder. http://nomadlist.com
traviagio
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
FetLife, the kinky social network, is entirely remote.
toomuchtodo
I could've sworn they were based out of Vancouver based on their last job posting for a DevOps person.