Posting a job

Writing a job post is free. The wall is at publishing, not at the blank form: it is a better use of your time to see the finished thing and then decide whether to pay for it than to meet a price in front of an empty page. A draft you write on a free plan is saved and waiting when you subscribe.

The form

Three sections, and they ask in this order deliberately: what the work is, then its shape, then its price. "$800" means nothing until you know whether it buys twenty hours or forty.

• Title and description.
• Employment type: full-time, part-time or project-based, and hours a

week.

• Pay: one amount, one period (hour, day, week, fortnight, month, or one

you name), and a currency. Leaving it blank is a real answer and reads as "Salary not stated".

• More settings: the skills, tools and industries the work needs, and your

screening questions.

Preview, then publish

The primary action is Preview, which writes the draft and shows you the real page a freelancer will see, rendered from the real row rather than from a copy of the form. Publish is on that page.

Publishing lands you on a confirmation, not on the public listing: your own job's public page blurs your pay back at you, because that page reads no account information at all and cannot know you wrote it.

Screening questions

Optional, and every applicant answers all of them before their application can be sent. They come back with the application in the applicants queue.

What is public and what is not

The public job page carries the title, the description, the employment type, hours a week, and whether the poster is a company or an individual, with the poster's first name.

Pay and your identity are not on it. They are readable only by an ID-verified freelancer, which is what the verification gate is for, so a scraper, a signed-out visitor and an unverified account all see the same anonymised post.

After it is live

• Edit anything. The listing shows when it was last meaningfully changed;

pausing and resuming do not touch that date.

• Pause it, and applications stop. Pausing is deliberately not behind the

subscription: somebody whose plan has ended must be able to stop a job that is still collecting applications they cannot read.

• Resume, and it is live again.
• Delete it, unless it has been taken down by moderation: a takedown

outranks the owner.

A paused job keeps its URL and renders a calm state rather than a 404, so somebody who was sent the link is not left with a dead page.

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Applicants and invitations.