Introducing Forcepull
A network of 200+ specialist job boards, built around relevance instead of volume.
In the two years since I last posted here, AI coding tools have taken over my world.
I’ve got full-fat subscriptions to Claude Code and Cursor, plus low-fat ones to ChatGPT, Grok, Gamma and Manus. I even bought a monstrously powerful desktop to run LLMs locally. It’s fair to say I’m drinking the AI Kool-Aid.
AI has made it so easy to get an MVP up and running in an evening. It feels like I’m back at the beginning of my coding career, wondering how it will all work out. I’m getting so much done, and have never been this productive, or felt so hopeful.
I’m dropping a new side-project every month right now. I’ve become a machine. I’m not pinning my hopes on any single side-project, but would like to take some time to highlight one of them: forcepull.com
What is Forcepull?
It’s a job board. It’s a simple idea.
You post a job, pay $15 via Stripe, and the right candidates can find and apply.
I was fed up of the prohibitive business practices employed by most popular job boards. Many charge obscene fees, and gatekeep application links, forcing job seekers to hand over their email just to apply.
So I decided to build my own board. And it’s live now. Check it out at forcepull.com.
The Core Idea
It’s a network of job boards, over 200 domains, with a tag-based distribution model. If you post a job and tag it with Ruby, then it will show up on rubyjobs.work, and if you tag it with Crypto, then it will show up on cryptojobs.work. You get the idea. Under the hood it’s a single Rails app powering a network of sites.
Not a marketplace. A filter.
No BS
There’s a no-bs vibe too. No upsells, no placement boosting, no hidden costs, no competitor-site scraping, or stealing jobs from other boards (even though everyone else does it). No gatekeeping, or requiring job seekers to hand over their email addresses before they can see the apply button. No cold calls, or spam emails to companies who have posted on other sites. No analytics software spying on people, no tracking pixels, or privacy zuckering. No dark patterns. No horseshit.
In fact, I’m doing almost no promotion. I’m just going to let it run, and wait.
It’s slowly gathering pace, and a few jobs have been posted already. Not a meteoric uptake but it’s ok because it’s bootstrapped, and I don’t have corporate backers looking to profit from it. At this rate, it will likely take years to establish trust in the brand, but that’s fine too.
I’m not trying to build the biggest job board on the internet, just one that’s actually useful.
And if it doesn’t work out, well the whole process has been so cathartic for me. Building something cool from start to finish and getting it out there has rejuvenated me, and I’m coming up with new ideas for future side-projects every day thanks to AI. In fact I have already begun working on my next venture. I’ll post more once it’s up and running.
There’s a deal on right now
It’s free to post a job until May 31st 2026, at which point regular pricing will kick in, $15 per job post.
If you’re hiring, you can post a job on https://forcepull.com