If you're a developer, the short version is: job boards and LinkedIn make you go searching and scrolling; TermWorks brings relevant opportunities to you while you work, and pays you when they're useful. They solve different problems — here's how they compare.
TermWorks vs. job boards and LinkedIn
| Job boards / LinkedIn | TermWorks | |
|---|---|---|
| How it reaches you | You browse a feed or get InMail | Surfaces in your terminal, between commands |
| Targeting signal | Profile, title, keywords you typed | The work you're actually doing (your stack and tools) |
| Your effort | Active searching and filtering | Passive — keep working |
| Noise | High — recruiter spam, irrelevant blasts | Low — at most once per session, configurable |
| Who pays / earns | Free to you; you're the product | Free to you; you earn 50% of every opportunity shown |
| Privacy | Profile and activity tracked | Only coarse command categories leave your machine |
Why terminal context beats a feed
A LinkedIn title says what you were hired as. Your terminal shows what you're doing right now — running kubectl and terraform during a rollout, or pip install-ing an ML stack. An opportunity that lands in that moment ("platform-eng role at an AI startup") is far more relevant than anything a feed can infer from a stale profile — and it arrives without you searching.
For developers
You don't join a job board or maintain a profile. You install once, keep working, and relevant roles and tools find you — and you earn a 50% share of the revenue from every opportunity shown in your terminal, cashed out monthly via Stripe. See how developers earn from their terminal.
For companies
Instead of paying to blast a feed, you reach engineers at the moment they're working in your stack, and you pay per impression shown to a relevant developer — bot- and fraud-filtered, so you're not paying for junk traffic. Target by language, framework, cloud, and toolchain. Get started as an advertiser.
The honest take
If you're actively job-hunting today, a job board is still where you go to search. TermWorks is for the other 95% of the time — when you're heads-down building and the right opportunity should come to you. They're complementary, not mutually exclusive.