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Analyzing the "Who's hiring thread" for the last 5 months, I found that there are a "good" number of companies willing to do this, but still is not that much and a lot of them say "Just in US"
October Remote: 40 (16.1%), Total Posts: 248
November Remote: 35 (15.8%), Total Posts: 221
December Remote: 39 (17.0%), Total Posts: 230
January Remote: 26 (13.5%), Total Posts: 193
February Remote: 35 (19.4%), Total Posts: 180
Number of people re posting 4 times (1), 3 times (5), 2 times (23), 1 time (110)
I would like to hear, if your company hire remote developers, how has it worked for you, how do you find those guys?
If your company doesn't, what are the main reasons for this? what would it take you to consider a developer in other state or country?
I've seen startups that are fine hiring "consultancy shops" whose developers are overseas but not hiring the developers directly, why is that?
DISCLAIMER: I'm interesting in the subject mostly because I'm working on a current solution to help companies and developers connect through engager.io, we believe there is a giant market of good developers outside the U.S, but unfortunately not all the companies want to hire remotely or can sponsor H1B1 visas.
So, I would like to ask you, which tricks do you use to get your users to know about your product's new features and get them to start using them?
*My cofounder and I are engineers, so customer development/marketing is pretty much a whole new world for us :)