About

Why I built it

I applied for jobs every day for about six months. I did not get a single online assessment or recruiter call in that time. The problem was not effort — it was that every role I could find had already been found by everyone else. The listings that reach you first are the ones reaching several hundred other people at the same time.

So I stopped applying through the places that surface the same jobs to everyone, and started going directly to the job boards of companies backed by venture firms — companies doing serious engineering that most people have never heard of. Within five days I had one online assessment and one recruiter call.

I am one person and five days is not evidence. But the mechanism is not mysterious: when I cross-checked roles from this list against the same postings on LinkedIn, the ones here were typically showing around a hundred applicants, against eight hundred or more for the roles that had been recommended to me. The jobs are not better. There are simply fewer people applying, because nobody has heard of the company.

I built this so I would not have to check sixteen hundred career pages by hand. It is now public because the problem was never specific to me.

What it is

Around 12,000 engineering roles at more than 1,600 companies, drawn from the portfolios of 70 US venture firms, across 19 US metros plus remote.

Where a company publishes to its own applicant tracking system, that listing is read directly and preferred over the investor's board, which tends to lag. Everything is re-checked twice a day. You can filter by city, seniority, company, company size, role, industry, funding stage, salary and investor, and save any combination of those to come back to.

Who it is for

Software engineers who are tired of applying into listings with eight hundred applicants — particularly new graduates and early-career engineers, for whom that ratio is the whole problem.

It is also built for people who need visa sponsorship. Every description is read for what it actually says about sponsorship, and roles are marked accordingly: those that explicitly offer it, those that explicitly rule it out, and — honestly — the large majority that say nothing either way. Being able to skip the roles that have already said no is worth something on its own.

What it does not do

It is not faster than the big job boards. Most of what is listed here has been open for weeks; only a small fraction was posted in the last few days. If you are looking for a feed of everything posted in the last hour, this is the wrong tool. The advantage here is reach into companies you would not otherwise find, not speed.

It does not cover every company, or every city, or non-engineering roles. It cannot tell you whether a company is any good. And a listing occasionally outlives the job — boards are not always tidied up after a role is filled.

What it costs, and what it knows about you

Nothing, and almost nothing. There is no sign-up, no email, and no account. The site stores a random ID in your browser so it can remember which roles you have opened and the filters you have saved, plus a first name if you decide to type one. No password, no IP address, nothing sold to anyone. Clearing your browser's site data erases all of it.