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Remote OK
remoteok.com · Remote job board · founded by Pieter Levels
$42,000MRR · stated publiclast crawled 2026-08-12⚠ founder-stated, not Stripe-verified: ~$42k/mo is the figure reported for Remote OK in 2026 coverage of the founder’s openly-published portfolio revenue. Not on TrustMRR. launched 2015
01 / detected channel mix
programmatic seo 60%
marketplace 25%
founder audience 15%
Programmatic SEO (inventory as pages) 60%Two-sided marketplace 25%Founder audience 15%
// mix weights are our estimate from detected signal volume
01b / strategy evolution
Spun out of Nomad List when the same audience kept asking the same question: where do I find work I can do from here. A job board is the purest programmatic-SEO business there is, because the inventory writes the pages for you — every posting is a URL, every posting targets a long-tail query someone is typing this week, and the employer pays for the privilege of creating it. 35,000 of this site’s 35,011 sitemap URLs are job pages.
02 / channel claims — with receipts
RANK 1
Programmatic SEO (inventory as pages)
detected35,000 /remote-jobs URLs out of 35,011 total. The listings are the content: each paid posting becomes an indexable page targeting a specific role-plus-remote query, so the SEO surface grows every time someone buys.
high confidence
RANK 2
Two-sided marketplace
detectedEmployers pay to post, job seekers arrive free from search. The paying side funds the content that attracts the free side, which is what makes the seeker traffic worth paying for. A loop rather than a funnel.
good confidence
RANK 3
Founder audience
statedLaunched to an audience that already existed from Nomad List, and kept in front of it by a founder who posts revenue publicly. Portfolio products cross-feed each other.
low confidence
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