Posted in FreelanceLocalTech Chronicles at 10:49 am by andy

We now support freelancer listings in India and Ireland!  Woo-hoo!!

Because the Republic of Ireland does not support postal codes outside of Dublin, we needed to invent a new way for people to sign up and declare their ”base” location.  For other countries, it was the postal code; in India and Ireland (and likely for many countries we plan to add over the next few months), we ask the freelancer to select the city nearest their location from our list of cities in their state/province/territory.  That city is then used like the postal code: all cities within 30 miles (48 km) of the selected “base” city will include the freelancer listing.

Now that we have this new technique for handling countries without postal codes, we can more quickly add new countries.  I think the next set will be Western Europe, then Eastern Europe, and then we’ll look at our analytics and see which region should follow.