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InsideJobs.tech
A competent developer can reproduce the job-board mechanics (scraping, DB, search, emails) using open-source prior art, but they cannot easily recreate the service's proprietary aggregated dataset and recruiter relationships that deliver the product's main value.
Visit website↗$29/mo
$348/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$100one-off80 h to build
$90/mo6 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 4 seats.
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
- Periodically crawl recruiter and agency sites, normalize and index job posts, provide searchable filters and per-user daily digests, gate full job links behind a subscription checkout.
What it still won’t have
- The site's existing aggregated dataset of 12k+ hidden roles (proprietary crawl/collection)
- Search relevance and curated filtering tuned to this dataset
- Trust and continuity of daily email alerts built from years of crawling
- Any recruiter relationships or direct links the product has already collected
What remains hard
- Proprietary data
12,400+ tech jobs that never hit LinkedIn.
- Proprietary data
✓ Full access to every live role
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 4 seats.
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 self-hosted job-board in Node.js (Fastify) + Postgres, deployable to DigitalOcean/Render. Core features: scheduled scrapers (simple HTTP fetch + CSS/XPath parsing) configurable per-domain, dedupe & normalize job records in Postgres, REST API for listing and faceted search, a minimal React front-end to browse/filter and view role summaries, Stripe subscription gating for 'unlocked' job links, daily cron worker that matches user filters and sends digests via SendGrid, admin UI to add/remove source domains. Out of scope: training ML ranking models and building large-scale distributed crawlers. Include error handling, retries for scrapers, tests for API endpoints, and Docker compose + deployment docs.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- 2 cited sources+1
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- 3/3 assessment runs agreed+4
- Hard moats found in the evidence-3
- Evidence score57
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 · 2
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productInsideJobs.tech — The hidden tech job market, in one place
- official pricingPricing — InsideJobs.tech
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
