Why we publish our numbers

freehire is a search engine for jobs. It indexes millions of openings straight from company career boards and other sources, deduplicates them, and serves them over a free, open API. The whole pipeline is on GitHub.

If the pitch is “open and free”, the numbers should be open too. So we built /open: a single page with freehire’s live metrics, no login required.

What’s on it

• The catalogue — how many open jobs, companies, ATS platforms, and Telegram channels we cover. This is the core of what freehire is: reach.
• Daily movement — vacancies crawled in versus postings detected as closed, per day. It shows the catalogue breathing, not a static number.
• Members and engagement — how many people signed up, and how many jobs get saved, applied to, and viewed. Real usage, aggregate-only.
• What’s inside — the shape of the catalogue: top countries, skills, seniority, and the remote share.
• Open source — GitHub stars, forks, and contributors.

Live, not curated

Every figure is read at request time from the same public API you can call yourself — and each headline number links to the endpoint that produced it. There’s no hand-maintained dashboard to massage, and nothing rounded up to look bigger. If the crawler had a slow day, the movement chart shows it.

Small numbers, on purpose

Some of these numbers are small right now — a few hundred members, a few dozen GitHub stars. We’re showing them anyway. That’s the point of building in the open: you get to watch the thing grow, and the honest early number is worth more than a polished vague one. Check back and the curves should bend.

It’s also a demo

There’s a second reason the page reads its data live from the API: it doubles as proof that the API is real and open. freehire is built API-first, so an AI agent can search the whole job market instead of scraping one site at a time — and the transparency page is just another client of the same endpoints.

Take a look at /open, and if a job source you use is missing, adding it is usually one small adapter — contributions are very welcome.