This is an 'Ask HN' post where a developer seeks advice on finding a low-effort, fully remote tech job with low expectations and minimal product involvement, primarily to fund non-monetizable passions. The post generated significant engagement, indicating a widely shared sentiment among developers about work-life balance and disengagement.
A starter prompt for Claude Code, what you'll need, and how to reach them.
You are an expert career advisor and developer. The goal is to create a comprehensive 'Quiet Quitting Guide for Developers' that helps developers identify and secure low-effort, fully remote tech jobs. This guide will focus on roles with minimal product involvement, low expectations, and a focus on 'time for passions.' The output should be a detailed outline for an e-book or online course. Outline the following sections: 1. **Introduction:** Acknowledge the developer sentiment for reduced work and frame the guide as a pragmatic approach to work-life balance. 2. **Identifying 'Low-Effort' Roles:** Define characteristics of such roles (e.g., maintenance, infrastructure, internal tooling, large stable companies), and list specific job titles to look for (e.g., Staff Engineer, SRE, DevOps, Senior Backend Engineer at non-startups). 3. **Crafting Your Resume & Interview Strategy:** How to downplay ambition, highlight stability and maintenance skills, and screen for low-pressure environments during interviews. 4. **Optimizing Your Workday:** Strategies for efficiency, automation (e.g., using AI coding tools), delegating, and setting boundaries to complete work in minimal hours. 5. **Company Culture Cues:** How to identify companies with high turnover, vague descriptions, or established, less agile processes that might fit the criteria. 6. **Legal & Ethical Considerations:** Briefly touch on managing expectations and fulfilling basic responsibilities without misrepresenting effort. 7. **Resources & Community:** List job boards, tools, and communities for like-minded developers. Ensure the tone is practical and empathetic, addressing the user's need for 'shelter, calories, and hobby materials' while minimizing work impact.
Reach out to developers expressing work-life balance concerns on platforms like Hacker News and Reddit, offering insights from products like Lumivara Forge and Forge Kit on automating work and building efficient systems, repositioned for personal productivity and reclaiming time for passions.
Hey HN, I'll probably get a lot of flak for this. Sorry. I'm an average developer looking for ways to work as little as humanely possible. The pandemic made me realize that I do not care about working anymore. The software I build is useless. Time flies real fast and I have to focus on my passions (which are not monetizable). Unfortunately, I require shelter, calories and hobby materials. Thus the need for some kind of job. Which leads me to ask my fellow tech workers, what kind of job (if any) do you think would fit the following requirements : - No / very little involvement in the product itself (I do not care.) - Fully remote (You can't do much when stuck in the office. Ideally being done in 2 hours in the morning then chilling would be perfect.) - Low expectactions / vague job description. - Salary can be on the lower side. - No career advancement possibilities required. Only tech, I do not want to manage people. - Can be about helping other developers, setting up infrastructure/deploy or pure data management since this is fun. I think the only possible jobs would be some kind of backend-only dev or devops/sysadmin work. But I'm not sure
No direct contact needed for this 'Ask HN' post, as it's a general request for advice. The operator's goal is to create a product for this audience.
“No direct outreach for this 'Ask HN' post. The angle is to identify a shared sentiment and build a product (e.g., a guide or community) for this developer segment, then market it where they congregate online.”
Open the original ↗