Career stuff

1,000 Routes with Nick Bennett

Nick Bennett interviews solopreneurs and micro-agency owners about the unusual routes they took to stand out in a crowded market. Each guest explains how they found and sold their niche. It is free to listen.

AI Chopping Block

Salary intelligence for AI careers: real, anonymous comp data across 200+ role and city pages, a weekly read on which AI roles are growing and which are getting cut, profiles of AI-native companies, founder interviews, a newsletter and a Slack community. The job board pulls tens of thousands of roles from company career pages, most with pay ranges. Its location labels are precise: remote anywhere is marked apart from remote in named countries or regions, so you know before you click whether a role is open to you.

AuthoredUp LinkedIn Text Formatter

This tool formats LinkedIn posts with bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, bullet points, numbered lists, and emojis. Unlike Typefully, Typegrow and Poper, it previews the post as you edit. It is free and needs no signup.

Boss Responses

Treasa Edmond helps freelancers stop thinking like employees and start running a business. Episodes cover client management, boundaries, and pricing. It is free to listen.

career-engine

An AI-powered job search plugin for Claude Code. It runs a multi-agent pipeline for CVs and cover letters, with an employment coach, a review loop, and DOCX export. Open source on GitHub.

Editor portfolio examples

Live portfolio sites built by working editors, collected by the Journo Portfolio site builder. See how others present services, samples, and client lists before building your own.

EverestX

A managed hiring platform: describe what you need and EverestX delivers vetted fractional marketing-specialist matches. Built for companies hiring, not for professionals seeking fractional work directly.

Fractional Jobs

A job board and talent network for fractional roles in engineering, marketing, design, sales, finance and more. Companies contract and pay the fractional leader directly, with no ongoing commission.

FractionalPulse

A weekly newsletter of curated fractional job listings, with posted compensation and market-rate benchmarks included. Useful for gauging what fractional work actually pays before you negotiate.

Fractionus

A marketplace matching companies with 5,000+ vetted fractional executives across CFO, CTO, CMO, COO, and specialist roles, with 48-hour turnaround. Free for the hiring side, no placement fees.

GoFractional

Browse exclusive roles from verified companies ready to bring on fractional leadership. Apply directly, set your own terms, and skip the cold outreach. Access executive-level leadership without the overhead. Tell us your specific needs and match with a pre-screened operator, ready to start this week.

GTM 8020

A marketplace connecting companies with vetted fractional experts in SEO, paid ads, and RevOps, plus a Become an Expert track for specialists who want in. Good for both sides of a fractional marketing hire.

High-Income Business Writing Podcast

Ed Gandia gives freelance B2B writers practical business advice on landing better clients and raising fees. Recent episodes cover positioning that holds up as AI takes over commodity writing. It is free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and his site.

How Solos Scale

Nick Bennett and Erica Schneider share the frameworks they use to grow a solo business or micro-agency past the income ceiling of one person. Episodes come out about every two weeks. It is free to listen.

Jamstack site generators

A community-maintained showcase of open source static site generators, with stars and language listed for each. One way to build a portfolio site from code instead of a site builder.

Lenny's Podcast / Lenny's Newsletter

Deeply researched advice on product, growth, and career decisions, published as both a newsletter and a podcast. Consistently useful even outside a pure product role.

LinkedIn Tools by Typegrow

A free suite of LinkedIn tools, including a carousel generator, post formatter, and hashtag finder. Handy for polishing a post before it goes out.

My GitHub

My GitHub profile. The repos here are the tools I build for my own work: agent pipelines, document templates, and small utilities. Open source, so take whatever is useful.

My Sharebird profile

My Sharebird profile, where I answer product marketing questions from other PMMs. Useful if you want my take on a specific problem before booking a call.

O-CMO

A marketplace connecting tech companies with 300+ vetted fractional CMOs and marketing specialists. Worth a look whether you're hiring marketing leadership or offering it.

Ranked CMO

"The only directory built for Fractional CMOs" - Get a free, SEO-indexed profile. Collect verified client reviews. Get discovered by founders searching for your exact expertise. Rankings are based on five factors: verified client reviews (35%), review volume (20%), profile completeness (20%), verification status (15%), and recent activity (10%). Paid placements are clearly labeled. Read the full methodology.

RecruitFractional

A curated marketplace connecting companies with vetted fractional C-suite and VP-level executives, with no commission for operators offering their services. A tighter, more senior-focused alternative to the broader fractional marketplaces.

Reedsy

A marketplace connecting authors with publishing professionals: editors, book designers, publicists, and translators. Professionals apply to join and get hired for freelance projects. Worth a look if you edit, design, or market books.

roadmap.sh

Community-curated learning roadmaps for different tech roles and skills, with interactive checklists to track progress. A clear starting point when you know what you want to learn next but not in what order.

Site Builder Report

Independent reviews and rankings of website builders, based on the reviewer's own testing. A good first stop when choosing a platform for your portfolio site.

Technical Writer Projects

A technical writer's working portfolio kept as a GitHub repository. Each project lists its purpose, the skills it demonstrates, and the finished document. One way to run a portfolio without building a website.

The Alliance

The Alliance runs exclusive professional communities with an inclusive mentality. Worth a look if you are after a peer group rather than an audience.

UpliftGTM

A job board for GTM, sales, and marketing roles, full-time and contract, with dashboards for candidates and employers. General GTM hiring rather than fractional-specific, unlike the other marketplaces here.

YCombinator

YC turns builders into formidable founders: YCombinator has AMAZING resources!! Just a few include: Startup School Newsletter Requests for Startups For Investors Verify Founders Hacker News Bookface SAFE Find a Co-Founder Events