15 Niche Job Board Examples, and What Each One Charges

The Four Ways These Boards Make Money

Before the examples, the shape of the business. Fifteen boards sounds like fifteen models, but there are really only a few, and picking one early decides almost everything else about how the board is built.

The important line in that table is the third column. Every model has a precondition, and boards fail when the precondition is missing rather than when the price is wrong. A per-post board with no seeker traffic sells one listing and never sells a second one, because the employer got no applicants. A seeker-paid board only works if the listings are genuinely hard to assemble by hand.

All 15 Boards at a Glance

Prices checked August 2026. Job boards change pricing frequently and several of these publish no rate card at all, so confirm directly before relying on any figure here.

Remote and Tech Boards

1. We Work Remotely, $299 per 30-day post

The reference point for remote job board pricing. A standard listing runs $299 for 30 days, with paid upgrades that push a listing toward the $599 end depending on placement and duration. Listings come entirely from employers paying to submit, which is unusual: most boards this size supplement with aggregation.

What it got right: it charges a price high enough to filter. At $299 a post, nobody lists a role speculatively, so the board stays free of the low-quality listings that make bigger sites unusable. The price is the product feature.

2. Remote OK, dynamic pricing, $447 at time of check

Remote OK prices job posts dynamically, moving the rate with how many jobs are posted in a given week. That is why third-party sources quoting Remote OK disagree with each other: $299 and $447 can both be accurate, months apart. Posts run 30 days and auto-renew at the original price. [VERIFY] before quoting any specific figure, because this one is designed to move.

What it got right: surge pricing on a job board is rare and it works, because demand for developer attention is genuinely seasonal. Most boards leave that money on the table by publishing one fixed rate all year.

3. Hacker News "Who is hiring?", free

A monthly comment thread, posted automatically on the first of the month, where each hiring company writes one top-level comment. No company runs it, no money changes hands, and there is no search, no filtering, and no application flow. It has out-survived most funded startup job boards.

What it got right: it proves the listings are the product and everything else is packaging. If you are building a board and cannot beat a plain text comment thread on usefulness, the design is not the problem.

4. Wellfound, free to post, monetised on recruiter seats

Formerly AngelList Talent, spun out under the Wellfound name in November 2022. Posting a job is free and always has been. Revenue comes from the recruiter side instead, with Wellfound Recruit at roughly $250 per month per seat and higher tiers above that for advanced search and managed sourcing [VERIFY]. Candidate profiles carry salary expectations and equity comfort up front.

What it got right: it separated the listing from the money. Free posting keeps the listings page dense, which brings seekers, which builds the candidate database, which is the thing employers actually pay for.

5. Remote Rocketship, $5 a week paid by job seekers

Built by one person, Lior Neu-ner, after his wife struggled to find a remote role. It scrapes openings from more than 30,000 companies by reading applicant tracking systems like Greenhouse, Lever, and Workable, then charges job seekers $5 a week or $18 a month for access. A founder interview put revenue around $6,000 a month, with roughly 350,000 unique visitors. FlexJobs runs the same seeker-paid model at far larger scale, charging roughly $23.95 every four weeks and employing a team that hand-verifies listings.

What it got right: it never had to sell anything to an employer, which is the hardest sale in this business. It is also the most contested model on this list. Several founders have publicly objected to their listings being scraped and to the volume of applications that follow, so if you copy this, decide early how you will handle a company that asks to be removed.

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Industry Vertical Boards

6. HigherEdJobs, from $370 per post

Single postings start at $370. Job packs discount that by up to 68 percent for institutions buying in bulk within a twelve month window, a Priority upgrade costs $210 or less in packs of two or more, and accredited nonprofit colleges can buy one flat annual fee for unlimited campus-wide posting. There is no free tier at all.

What it got right: the pricing is built around how universities actually buy, which is annually, by department, through procurement. The unlimited campus plan is not a discount, it is a way of becoming the default posting destination for an entire institution.

7. Health eCareers, $499 per 30-day post

One of the most expensive single postings on this list, aimed at physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and CRNAs. Job packs bring the per-post rate down. For contrast, more general healthcare boards charge closer to $199 for the same 30 days.

What it got right: it priced against the cost of the vacancy, not against other job boards. An unfilled physician role costs a health system a large multiple of $499 per week, so the posting fee never enters the decision.

8. ProBlogger Jobs, $80 for 15 days

A standard listing is $80 for 15 days and a featured listing is $160, with bulk discounts. It is free for writers, and the fee exists mostly as a filter: freelance writing attracts an enormous volume of unpaid and underpaid work, and $80 removes most of it.

What it got right: it is the cheapest board here and that is deliberate. In a market where the median gig pays a few hundred dollars, a $299 posting fee would price out the exact employers the audience wants.

9. Dribbble Jobs, $150 a month

Job posting runs $150 a month, with a $300 a month Hiring Suite adding highlighted and pinned listings. Postings stay visible 30 days. The board sits on top of a design portfolio community of over a million members that existed long before the job board did.

What it got right: the audience came first and the board came second. That order matters more than anything else on this page, and it is the one thing most new boards cannot copy.

10. web3.career and Cryptocurrency Jobs, roughly $300 per listing

The crypto vertical shows what aggregation does to listing counts. web3.career reported 74,665 live listings, and Cryptocurrency Jobs carries over 15,000 listings across 2,000 startups with employer brand pages. Single listings sit around $300, with unlimited monthly plans available at the top end [VERIFY], and all of them are free for seekers.

What it got right: employer brand pages. In a sector where candidates are choosing between companies they have never heard of, the company profile does more work than the job description.

Community and Curator Boards

11. Idealist, $145 per job per location

US nonprofits and government agencies pay $145 per job listing per location and $25 per internship per location, for 30 days. Organisations outside the US post for free, and volunteer opportunities and event listings are always free.

What it got right: the pricing encodes the mission. Charging per location captures budget from large multi-site nonprofits while leaving small international organisations and volunteer roles free, which keeps the listing density that makes the site worth visiting.

12. 80,000 Hours, free on both sides

A curated board of roles the team considers unusually high impact, funded as part of a nonprofit rather than by listing fees. Staff monitor a list of organisation career pages, take submissions, and consult outside experts on unfamiliar roles. Familiar organisations get reviewed in under a minute; unfamiliar ones take longer.

What it got right: curation as the entire product. There is no revenue model to protect, so the board can reject listings freely, and that willingness to reject is exactly what makes it worth reading.

13. Lenny's Newsletter and other creator boards, 10 percent to the platform

Pallet turned newsletter audiences into job boards. The creator sets their own price and duration, employers pay the creator, and Pallet takes 10 percent. Partners include Lenny Rachitsky, whose newsletter reaches hundreds of thousands of product people, and Packy McCormick's Not Boring.

What it got right: it inverted the usual order. Instead of building a board and hunting for an audience, it attached boards to audiences that already existed and had already established trust.

14. The Pragmatic Engineer, closed after 30 months

Worth studying precisely because it stopped. Companies paid $500 a month for one posting or $750 a month for two featured postings plus access to a talent collective, and the author kept 90 percent. Over roughly 30 months it produced about 13,000 applications, 2,800 candidates in the collective, 3,600 company introduction requests and 1,300 accepted conversations. Employers were vetted by hand against a published engineering culture test.

By the author's own account it closed because job boards are transactional: a company that hires successfully stops advertising, roughly 80 percent of customers preferred sourcing candidates directly over the listings page, and application quality was falling as AI-assisted applications rose.

What it teaches: a board with a large trusted audience, hand-vetted employers, $500 monthly listings and real hiring outcomes still churned itself out of business. Recurring revenue in this category comes from the candidate side, not the listings side. Plan for that on day one rather than year three.

Geographic Boards

15. Arbeitnow, Landing.jobs and Cord

Geographic boards win on a constraint rather than an industry. Arbeitnow focuses on English-speaking roles in Germany and Europe and foregrounds visa sponsorship and relocation, aggregating from applicant tracking systems and publishing a free public API of its listings. Landing.jobs runs a self-service tech board across Europe. Cord operates in UK tech with over 250,000 developers, 4,000 companies and 16,000 live positions, built around direct messaging between candidates and companies rather than applications.

Pricing for all three is not public. Landing.jobs routes employers to a pricing page or a booked meeting rather than publishing a rate card, and Cord and Arbeitnow publish no employer pricing at all. That is common in geographic boards, where deal sizes vary by market.

What they got right: visa sponsorship as a filter is the strongest example of a niche that is not an industry. Nobody searching for a sponsored role in Berlin is served by a general job board, and the filter is objective enough to build a product on.

What the Ones That Work Have in Common

Four patterns hold across the boards on this page that are still running.

The audience came before the board. Dribbble had a design community, Lenny had a newsletter, 80,000 Hours had readers, Hacker News had a forum. The boards that started with the board are the ones that had to solve distribution the hard way, and most of them solved it with aggregation and search traffic instead.

Listings existed before revenue did. Remote Rocketship scrapes 30,000 companies, Arbeitnow reads ATS feeds, 80,000 Hours curates by hand. Not one of these boards launched with an empty page and waited for employers. If you are planning a board, decide how the first thousand listings arrive before you decide what to charge for the thousand-and-first. Our guide to filling a board before launch covers the mechanics.

Price tracked the cost of the hire. $80 for a freelance writing gig, $299 for a remote role, $370 for a university post, $499 for a physician. None of these prices reflect board traffic. They reflect what the vacancy costs the employer per week it stays open.

The durable ones sell something recurring. Wellfound sells recruiter seats, Remote Rocketship and FlexJobs sell seeker subscriptions, HigherEdJobs sells annual campus plans. The pure per-post boards are the ones most exposed to the churn that closed The Pragmatic Engineer's board.

Frequently Asked Questions

What This Means If You Are Starting One

The uncomfortable read of this list is that the design of these boards is nearly irrelevant. Hacker News runs a plain comment thread. Remote Rocketship is one person and a scraper. What separates them is whether the niche has a hiring bottleneck worth paying to unblock, and whether listings show up without anyone paying first.

So if you are evaluating an idea, test those two things before you buy anything. Check whether roles in your niche are hard enough to fill that an employer would pay $150 to $500 to fill one, and check whether you can assemble a few hundred real listings on day one. If both answers are yes, the build is the easy part. Our breakdown of whether a niche job board is worth building goes deeper on picking the niche.

Once the idea holds up, the question becomes what you build it on, and that decision has a trap in it. Most job board templates are frontend design only: they give you the listing page and leave you to build listing storage, applications, employer accounts, payments and job posting schema yourself. Kardow, which we build, is a hosted alternative where those pieces ship already connected, and you can preview the job board templates before signing up for anything.