OnlyHiring Reviews and Details

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1. What makes OnlyHiring unique?

   Only Hiring is a job board for Reddit's hiring subreddits that lists only the posts where someone is paying for work. A language model reads every new post from 18 subreddits and drops the rest. Of the 1,036 posts it has read so far, only 447 were hiring. The others were people advertising their own services, questions and spam. Each job that stays gets a short summary, pay pulled out as a number you can sort by, and a scam score from 0 to 1 with the red flags it found. Likely scams are hidden by default. Remote jobs say whether they're open worldwide or only to certain countries, and you can filter by that, by language requirements and by whether there's a paid test task. Every listing links to the original Reddit post, which is where you apply.

2. Why should a person choose OnlyHiring over its competitors?

   Reddit is where a lot of small freelance jobs get posted, and many of them never reach Upwork or Indeed. Searching Reddit yourself means scrolling past hundreds of titles, and more than half of them aren't hiring posts. Only Hiring does that sorting for you and adds pay you can sort by and scam warnings you can see before you reply. There's no sign-up, no fees, no bidding and no application form. You read a summary, and if the job looks worth it, you reply on Reddit. The site is free and the code is open source, so you can check how it works. It also admits the model gets things wrong, which is why every listing sends you to the original post first.

3. How would you describe the primary audience of OnlyHiring?

   Mostly freelancers looking for paid, short-term work: designers, developers, video editors, writers, artists and game developers. The typical job here pays somewhere between $15 and $450 per project, so these are one-off gigs and contracts, not salaried roles. A good share of visitors are people who already know r/forhire or r/slavelabour and are tired of digging through them, and some come for regional communities like r/hiringpakistan, which has the most listings. A smaller group is employers who want to know where to post a job, which is what the site's guides cover.

4. What's the story behind OnlyHiring?

   I kept looking for freelance work on r/forhire and r/slavelabour and kept scrolling past people advertising their own services and posts asking whether Upwork is dead, just to find the few real jobs. Some of the real-looking ones were scams too, like upfront fees or Telegram-only contact. In October 2026 I built Only Hiring to do that sorting once, for everyone. A private pipeline scrapes new posts and has a language model grade them. This website only reads the results. I picked a square bracket as the design idea because people on hiring subreddits mark a real job by starting the title with [Hiring]. Early on I expected to catch a lot of scams. I found 6 in 311 jobs. Real jobs on bad terms, like "payment only after all 30 clips are approved", were far more common.

5. Which are the primary technologies used for building OnlyHiring?

   The website is Next.js 16 with React 19, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS v4, deployed on Vercel. Job data lives in Neon Postgres, which the site reads through a role that can only SELECT. Accounts use better-auth with a second Neon database, and feedback emails go out through Resend. A separate private pipeline, written in Python, scrapes the subreddits and grades each post with a language model (DeepSeek, with Qwen as a backup grader).

6. Who are some of the biggest customers of OnlyHiring?

   Only Hiring has no paying customers. It's a free site with no ads or subscriptions, and I don't have named company users to list.