Where remote roles that actually hire from India live

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What this covers

• The 12 sources (ordered by yield), grouped by job board, network, and inbound
• The hidden filter: "remote (US/EU only)" listings disguised as "anywhere"
• Why Twitter/X who's-hiring threads outperform LinkedIn jobs for fast-moving startups
• The maintainer-DM pipeline that doesn't show up on any job board

Why this matters for Indian devs going remote

Most Indian devs apply to LinkedIn-remote jobs that are silently US-only. Two months of work, zero responses, and the conclusion is "I'm not good enough." The actual issue is targeting. Finding the sources that hire from India is half the job — the other half is filtering even those sources to the truly-global subset.

Outline

The 12 sources, ranked

TODO — YC WaaS, Wellfound, WWR, Toptal, RemoteOK, Himalayas, Hacker News who's-hiring, Twitter, Discord communities, OpenSauced trends, OSS maintainers, founder DMs. Yield per source.

The "remote" lie

TODO — JD language patterns ("remote-friendly", "US-based remote", "anywhere in the world"); how to verify before applying.

Twitter/X who's-hiring

TODO — the @vercel/@linear/@anthropic style threads; the search query; how to bookmark fast.

The maintainer DM pipeline

TODO — roles never posted; how to surface them via OSS contributions.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Applying to LinkedIn "remote" roles without filtering for country eligibility
• Spending all hours on RemoteOK (volume, not yield)
• Ignoring Discord/Slack hiring channels because they "don't feel official"

Templates / examples

TODO — a sourcing-tracker template with yield per channel, JD-eligibility decision script, and bookmarked Twitter search URLs.

Related guides

• YC Work at a Startup: applying to 200 startups in one form
• Filtering job posts for India-eligible roles

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