Questions, answered straight

What people ask before their first search.

What is job-boards.io?

You type one sentence about the job you want. Matching postings are scored against exactly that, best first, and the good ones go on a board you track to an offer.

Can I try it without an account?

Yes, and not just once. The home page returns up to five ranked matches with apply links, and any you upvote land on a board in this browser. Both follow you into an account.

What does a free account add?

Up to 100 results a search instead of five. It keeps five searches that can re-run daily, ten boards with notes, twenty alerts, and a Home that counts what you found and applied to.

Is it really free?

Yes. No card, no expiring trial, nothing useful held back. Deleting your account takes your password plus a typed phrase, and removes your boards, jobs, profile and history at once. There is no thirty-day purgatory.

Where do the jobs come from?

Public career-site APIs the companies publish themselves, on platforms from Greenhouse and Lever to Workday and iCIMS. A crawler reads those boards, and USAJOBS, where federal agencies post, into an index, and a search reads the index. Nothing is resyndicated from other job sites.

How does the ranking work?

Your sentence is the criteria. Each posting is scored against it on the role, its seniority and the words you used. Pay, age and remote are filters rather than points, so a well-paid posting cannot outrank a better match. Every score is 0 to 100, and in the app you can open a row to see what it matched.

Do I have to say "remote" in a special way?

No. Write it how you would say it. Mentioning remote ranks remote work first. Remote only drops anything the board does not flag as remote, hybrid included. At least $180k drops postings advertising less and keeps the ones with no published range.

Can I track my applications on it?

Yes. Every board job carries a status: new, applied, interview and offer, plus rejected and archived once it is over. A posting the company pulls after you applied stays on the board, marked No Longer Listed.

How is this different from LinkedIn or Indeed?

Those are marketplaces: one feed for everyone, ranked for engagement. This returns only what matches the sentence you wrote. No ads and no recruiter messages.

What happens to my data?

Signed out, nothing identifies you: the daily counter keys on a salted hash rather than your address. Signed in, two-factor authentication and a device list you can revoke from. Deleting your account removes your boards, jobs, profile and history at once. Nothing is sold.