Learning and careers decision
Hidden Jobs
A competent developer can replace the job board and direct-apply features (multi-week effort), but reproducing the AI application service and any curated proprietary data would be harder — keep paying if you need the automated application workflow.
Visit website↗$17.99/mo
$216/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$100one-off60 h to build
$0/mo4 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 1 seat.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Crawl/ingest remote job postings, store and index them, provide search/filters and direct-apply links, and manage user accounts/subscriptions.
What it still won’t have
- Built-in AI application submission service (automating applications using your CV)
- Any proprietary job-curation heuristics or datasets Hidden Jobs uses
- Brand, convenience, and any curated premium listings Hidden Jobs negotiates
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 1 seat.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a searchable remote-tech job board using Next.js (React) + TypeScript, Postgres (hosted via Supabase) for storage and auth, and Stripe for subscriptions. Core features in scope: scheduled scrapers/connectors to ingest job postings (CSV/ATS/company careers), a normalize-and-index pipeline, a user profile page to upload CV and set role/category filters, a search and filter UI showing direct-apply links, and an admin review workflow for new posts. Out of scope: AI-driven automatic application submission and training proprietary models. Include error handling, retries for scrapers, pagination, rate-limit safeguards, logging, and unit + integration tests; provide Docker deployment and instructions for running on a single VPS or Vercel + Supabase stack.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- 4 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- 3/3 assessment runs agreed+4
- Evidence score62
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 4
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productHidden Jobs — homepage
- official pricingHidden Jobs — pricing and subscription
- official productHidden Jobs — FAQ
- official productHidden Jobs — Post a Job form (mentions Supabase)
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
