Remote Tools Rides the Remote Work Wave to 55K Pageviews and a Sold-Out Sponsorship Launch
A Bengaluru directory for remote-first products turned the pandemic traffic spike into SEO and social media growth, then sold out eight weeks of $300 sponsorships in a single day.
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Business snapshot
- Business model
- Website directory
- Started
- Oct 2018
- Team
- 3 founders + 5 staff
- Based in
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Monthly pageviews
- 55K+
- Products listed
- 1500+
- Newsletter subscribers
- 5K+
- Community members
- 1500+
- Sponsorship price
- $300/week
Tools
- Tailwind CSS
Founder-reported figures, not independently verified.
Who built it, and what they built
Hrishikesh Pardeshi runs Remote Tools together with two co-founders, Suvansh and Karthik, from Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. The business began in October 2018 and has a team of five.
Remote Tools is a directory where people discover new remote-first products. It lists more than 1500 products, draws over 55K pageviews each month, and has a newsletter audience of more than 5K subscribers.
The team also runs Remote Clan, a community for remote workers that went live in mid-2020. It counts over 1500 members, with a typical week bringing 150+ comments and 500+ upvotes.
How they grew
The pandemic-driven shift to remote work gave the site a major lift. In March 2020, unique users jumped 355% and pageviews climbed 258%.
To capture that momentum, the team published Covid-19 resources, and their starter guide to remote working was recommended by Google in its Discover section. They also moved the community launch forward, going live in June 2020.
Two channels became priorities. Hrishikesh began posting consistently on LinkedIn and Twitter, growing to 11000 and 2000 followers, and the team shifted to a heavy SEO focus in late 2020, building keyword clusters around products like Discord and Google Chrome.
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