Most remote job listings are ghosts — already filled, never opened, or posted just to farm résumés. As a developer, that annoyed me enough to solve it with code instead of complaining about it on X.
So I built Remoty.work, which grades every listing A–F on how likely it is to be real. Here's how the detection actually works under the hood.
The problem, from an engineering angle
Job boards are an endless scrape loop. Board A scrapes Board B, which scraped Board C. The same dead listing propagates across a dozen sites, and none of them verify anything. There's no signal for "is this real," so the noise compounds until every board looks identical.
I didn't want to build board number thirteen in that loop. I wanted a layer on top that answers one question every listing should have to: is anyone actually going to read my application?
