Questions, answered straight
The short version of everything people ask before they build a board. No answer here is longer than it needs to be.
What is job-boards.io?
A job board you build for yourself in about two minutes. You describe the job you want in one plain-English sentence, and job-boards.io finds openings from real company career pages, scores every one against what you asked for, and puts the best matches on top.
Is it really free?
Yes. No credit card, no trial that expires, no paid tier hiding the useful parts. And deleting your account - your password plus a typed phrase, so it cannot happen by accident - removes everything at once.
Where do the jobs come from?
Straight from the source: the public career-site APIs companies themselves publish on platforms like Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and SmartRecruiters. The catalogue covers roughly twelve thousand employers. Because a posting is read from the company's own board, its presence there proves the job is live — when it disappears from the source, your board says so instead of leaving you chasing a dead listing.
How does the ranking work?
Your sentence is the criteria. Each posting is scored against it — role, seniority, salary floor, remote preference — and facts like posting age and pay are read off the listing rather than guessed. A posting that is four weeks old ranks below an equally good one from yesterday, and the reason for every score is shown on the card.
Can I track my applications on it?
Yes. Every job on a board carries a status — new, saved, applied, interview, offer — and you move it along as you go, in a list or on a kanban board. If a company takes a posting down after you applied, the job stays on your board with a note, because your application did not disappear with the listing.
How is this different from LinkedIn or Indeed?
Those are marketplaces: they show what pays them to be shown, ranked for engagement, the same feed for everyone. This is your board: it only contains jobs that match criteria you wrote, ranked by how well they match, with no ads, no recruiters, and no one else's activity in it.
Do I have to say "remote" in a special way?
No. Write it how you would say it. Mentioning remote ranks remote work first; saying remote only excludes on-site roles outright. Salary is stricter: writing "at least $180k" removes postings that advertise pay below that, and keeps the ones that do not state pay at all - dropping every listing without a published range would discard most of the market.
What happens to my data?
Your account carries two-factor authentication, you can review and revoke every signed-in device, and deleting your account - your password plus a typed phrase - removes your boards, jobs, profile, and application history at once. Nothing is sold, and there is no thirty-day deletion purgatory.