Why employers look for a We Work Remotely alternative
We Work Remotely is one of the best known remote job boards, and for a long time the choice for a remote hire was simple: buy a listing there, buy one on Remote OK, and wait. That model works when you hire once or twice a year. It starts to hurt when remote hiring is a permanent part of how your company grows.
Three things usually push a hiring team to look elsewhere:
- Every role is a new purchase. Ten roles a year means ten checkouts, ten receipts and ten listings someone has to write and paste.
- Searches run longer than 30 days. Senior engineering, staff product and leadership roles often take two or three months. With 30-day listings, every extra month is another charge, or the role quietly drops off the board.
- The listing lives apart from your ATS. When the hiring manager edits the description in Greenhouse, or the role closes, someone has to remember to update the board too.
None of this means We Work Remotely is a bad board. It means the per-post model was designed for occasional hiring, and many remote-first companies now hire every month.
What a year of remote hiring costs on each model
Here is the math for a typical US startup that opens 12 remote roles over a year, never has more than 10 open at once, and sees half of its searches run past 30 days.
| Per-post board at $299 base | RemoteBoard Growth, yearly | |
|---|---|---|
| 12 initial listings | 12 x $299 = $3,588 | included |
| 6 roles that need a second month | 6 x $299 = $1,794 | included |
| Visibility upgrades | extra per post | 3 featured slots a month included |
| Total for the year | about $5,382 before upgrades | $1,788 |
A smaller team with four roles a year and never more than three open at once would pay about $1,196 in base listings on a per-post board, against $588 for a year of RemoteBoard Starter. If you truly hire one person a year and the search fills in under a month, a single listing anywhere is cheaper than any subscription, and we would rather you know that up front.
Where We Work Remotely still wins
An honest comparison has two sides. We Work Remotely has been running since 2011 and has built a large, loyal audience of remote workers who check it daily. If you need maximum reach for one urgent role this week, an established brand like that is a reasonable place to spend $299.
RemoteBoard is a newer board. What we offer instead is structure and economics: remote-only listings checked every hour, filters for eligible countries and timezone overlap that candidates actually use, and a flat price that does not grow with every role you open. Many teams use both for a while, keeping a per-post listing for the one hard-to-fill role and running everything else through a flat plan.
Who RemoteBoard fits best
- Remote-first startups that open a new role most months and want their Ashby or Lever board mirrored without extra work.
- Agencies and consultancies that staff client projects with remote contractors and keep several roles open at the same time.
- Talent teams at scale-ups running 15 to 30 remote roles, who need team seats, invoices with company details and per-job stats with CSV export.
- US companies hiring across borders that need to say plainly which countries they can employ in and which hours people must overlap.
If your company hires one remote role a year, a per-post board is probably the cheaper choice. If you hire four or more, the flat plan usually wins within the first few months.
How the switch works in practice
Turn off auto-renew on any live listings elsewhere so they finish at the end of their 30 days. Then paste your careers board URL at the top of this page. The preview shows your remote roles as RemoteBoard listings before you pay anything. Create an employer account with your work email, choose the plan that covers the number of roles you keep open at once, and your roles are listed within the hour.
From then on the board follows your ATS. A new role opened on Monday appears on RemoteBoard on Monday. A role closed on Friday leaves on Friday. If you do not use Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby, you can write roles directly in the employer editor, and the same flat plan applies. Our guide on how to write a remote job post covers what to include so the right people apply from the right places.