You have met this pattern. A board shows you six roles, then a wall. The titles are visible. The employer names are replaced with grey blocks. The apply links are behind a membership. The pitch is that the curation is valuable, and it might well be, but what is actually being withheld is a job advert that an employer wrote, paid to publish, and would very much like you to read.
Nobody on this site will ever do that to you. Not as a marketing promise, as a structural one, for reasons that are partly principle and partly self-interest, and I will give you both.
The rule
Postings are never gated. Derived data sometimes is.
A posting is the employer's work: the title, the description, the company, the location, the apply link. It is not mine. It was published to be read, and a board that indexes it and then hides it is charging admission to somebody else's shop.
What is mine is everything this project computes on top: which roles are genuinely remote as opposed to "remote-friendly", which employers will sponsor a visa, which technologies a posting actually implies, and, the big one, the fact that a role showed up here within an hour of going live on the employer's own board. That work did not exist until this pipeline made it. That is what there is to sell.
What that means concretely
Signed out, with no account at all, you get every job page in full. Description, employer, direct apply link, and every landing page. Lists stop at 8 rows with an invitation to make an account, because a page has to earn one. Google sees exactly what you see; there is no version of this site that a crawler gets and a human does not, and a subscriber sees more than a crawler, never less.
With a free account, the board opens: all 20,151 roles, paginated, every filter except the two below, a weekly digest, and three lists of 5 5 employers followed, 5 roles on the shortlist, the last 5 you opened. Past that a list is truncated, never emptied: the count is always printed, and nothing you kept is deleted.
With Pro, four things. Roles the hour they land instead of 168 hours later, and alerts within the hour instead of weekly, which is the main one. The workplace and visa-sponsorship filters, the two columns this pipeline computes rather than reads. The shortlist and the history without a limit on either, and no limit on how many employers you follow. And the full list of tracked employers, with an alert the hour any of them posts.
That is the entire paywall. There is no fifth thing, and if you find one that is a bug rather than a business model.
About the blurred rows
In three places you will meet a short tail of blurred rows: under the single role the remote board shows a non-subscriber, under the one sponsoring role a visa search returns, and under the parts of your own account a free tier reads back in part. Nowhere else the board itself is free and is never blurred, because nothing there is being held back. They are placeholders. They are not roles, not your roles, and not the roles being held back nothing real is sent to the browser and smeared with CSS, because a blur is one devtools toggle away from not being a paywall at all.
What they are is a shape saying the list continues, over a sentence saying by exactly how much, in a number you can check against the same page's own count. If you ever sharpen one and find a real posting underneath, that is a bug and I want to hear about it.
Why time and not company names
Every paywall is a bet about what people will pay for. Hiding employer names is a bet that you will pay for information. Holding back recency is a bet that you will pay for timing.
The second bet is the honest one here, because timing is the thing this site actually produces. Nobody else's hourly read of 382 employers' ATS endpoints exists; the employer names are on the internet for free and always were.
It is also the one I can defend without embarrassment. If you never pay a penny, you still get the whole board 20,151 roles with working apply links, every one of them readable in full at its own URL. You are 168 hours behind, and if that is fine for you then it is genuinely fine. Plenty of good roles are still open 168 hours in. What paying buys is the front of the queue on the ones that are not.
The two selfish reasons
I said I would give you the self-interest as well.
Google requires it. Search engines' job-posting policies are explicit that a user must be able to see the posting details without logging in. A board that gates its postings forfeits the rich results and risks a manual penalty. So the boards that blur employer names are not just being unfriendly; they are giving up the search traffic that would make them findable, which is why you tend to meet them through a newsletter rather than through a search.
A gated board cannot be checked. Every number on this site (20,151 roles, 382 employers, 242 roles that look like they will sponsor) is one you can go and count yourself, right now, without an account. That is not generosity. It is the only reason to believe any of them. A board that hides its inventory can claim any figure it likes, and several do.
What I will not do either
While I am writing the rules down, the rest of them:
- No sponsored listings. No employer has ever paid to appear here or to appear higher, and if that ever changes it will be labelled on the row, not disclosed in a footer.
- No dead postings. Employers' boards are re-read hourly and a role that disappears is closed here within the hour. The two-month ghost listing with a dead apply link is the single most common thing wrong with job boards and it is entirely avoidable.
- No reposting to look busy. A role appears once. Boards that recycle old postings to keep the "new this week" number up are lying to you about exactly the thing this site sells.
- No selling your address. The mail you get is the mail you asked for, from here, and one click stops it.
- Cancel in one click. No notice period, no form, no retention call, and Pro runs to the last day of the term you paid for rather than stopping the moment you press it. What the Terms say is what happens. I would rather promise less there and keep it than promise more in the marketing.
The test
You do not have to take any of this on trust, which is the point. Open the board signed out, in a private window, and check: can you read the whole description? Is the employer named? Does the apply link go to the employer's own site rather than to a signup page?
Then do the same on any board asking you for money. Whatever else you take from this post, take that test. It separates the boards selling their own work from the boards selling somebody else's, and it takes about forty seconds.
The board is here. No account, nothing blurred.
