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The Exit Engine — remotefirst.fyi

Find your exit.
Before the job board
even knows it exists.

We monitor 500+ employer career pages every 30 minutes and auto-submit your application before the job ever reaches LinkedIn or Indeed. You wake up to a text: your application was already submitted.

The Exit Engine — Live system
"Your application was already submitted. Go back to sleep."
500+
Career pages monitored every 30 min
48hr
Head start over job board applicants
50
Free seats — always open, always rotating
$0
Cost to use the tool — free for everyone
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— The Captain, remotefirst.fyi

You're not applicant 10.
You're applicant 300.

By the time a job appears on LinkedIn or Indeed, it has been sitting on the company's own career page for 48 to 72 hours. Hiring managers are already in interviews before you even see the posting.

This is not a resume problem. It is not a skills gap. It is an information timing problem — and the job boards profit from you not knowing about it.

Remote First goes directly to the source. No middlemen. No delay. No competing against the flood of people who saw it after you.

48–72
hours a job sits on a company career page before it hits a job board
That window is where Remote First operates. By the time your competition sees the posting, your application is already in.

Three steps.
You do none of them.

01
We watch the source

We monitor 500+ company career pages directly — Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, iCIMS — every 30 minutes, around the clock. Not job boards. The actual source.

02
We apply before anyone else

The moment a matching remote job appears, we auto-submit your application. Before it hits LinkedIn. Before the flood. While everyone else is still asleep.

03
You wake up ahead

You get a text: "Your application was already submitted." That's it. First mover advantage for people who have never had it — until now.

Built for everyone
the system forgot.

Queer Americans done waiting for their state to decide they deserve rights. Trans people who need out now, not eventually. Neurodivergent people exhausted by a hiring process that was never designed for how their minds work.

People in states that have become hostile, unsafe, or simply unbearable. People relocating to SHIELD cities — Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, Denver. People done with the United States entirely, building a remote life somewhere the world feels less broken.

People who just need a faster exit than the system currently offers.

"You do not have to explain yourself to join."
Queer Americans Trans people Neurodivergent Red state refugees SHIELD city movers Digital nomads International relocators Anyone who needs out No explanation required
SHIELD cities

Cities with local protections for LGBTQ+ residents regardless of federal or state law. Chicago · Minneapolis · Portland · Seattle · Denver · Austin · and more.

Download the SHIELD City Guide →

The ship never stops sailing. Every seat that empties fills again.

The tool is free. Every job alert, every auto-application, every match. Free. We have no idea how many people this will get out over time and that is exactly the point.

There are always 50 free seats. Not trials. Not discount codes. Permanently free — no credit card, no expiration. When someone gets hired and moves on, their seat goes first to a friend they nominate, then back to the free seat waitlist.

Alongside those free seats are 450 sponsorship seats. Sponsors choose to fund this at $99 a month — not because the tool is withheld from free members, but because they believe in what this is doing and want it to keep running. Their guaranteed seat is our thank you, not a price tag.

The developer lives on sponsorships. We say that plainly. Sponsors are not paying for something being kept from others — they are choosing to sustain something they want to exist.

"We don't delete dormant accounts. We don't sell abandoned seats. We hold your place and we wait. When you're ready, we're here."
50
Free seats — always
Permanently free. Rotating. No credit card. No expiration. When someone gets out, the next person gets on.
450
Sponsorship seats — $99/mo
Not a subscription for the tool. A choice to fund the mission. Guaranteed seat is our thank you.
People we can get out
500 at a time. Forever. When the need decreases, sponsorships will too. That's not failure — that's the mission winning.

Everything we know.
Free. Always.

Remote job hunting, escaping hostile states, relocating internationally, building a life somewhere safer. No paywall. No email required.

Guide
The ATS Escape Manual
How applicant tracking systems actually work and how to get past them before the flood arrives.
Read →
PDF
SHIELD City Relocation Guide
Local protections, best cities, and how to line up remote work before you move.
Download →
Guide
Remote Job Hunting Without Job Boards
A complete walkthrough of going directly to company career pages yourself.
Read →
PDF
Leaving the US: Digital Nomad Visa Guide
The countries, the visas, and what you actually need to make it real.
Download →
Post
Why You're Applicant 300 Before You Even Apply
The timing problem nobody in the industry wants you to understand.
Read →
Tool
The Four Tiers Explained
What our job classification system means and which remote roles you qualify for right now.
Read →

Get someone through the door.

Buy someone's first month of sponsorship. $99. We send them a prepaid invite code with your message. They activate it, upload their resume, and we get to work finding them a remote job.

Month two is on them. The invite prompts them to add a card before day 30. If they can't, their account goes dormant — not deleted. Their seat is held. When they're ready, $99 restarts it. They never lose their place.

Our dormancy policy
We are not going to cut anyone off permanently for being broke. We're going to pause and wait for them. Dormant accounts keep their seat. Reactivation is always one payment away.

Gift a sponsorship — $99

One-time charge. They handle month two. You got them through the door.

One email when
a seat opens for you.

The tool is free. The waitlist is free. Join and we'll send you one email when a seat is ready.

This does not affect your waitlist position.

One email. No spam. Ever.

Get in touch.

We don't have full-time staff yet. We'll do our best to respond within a day.

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