$ whoami
sshire
Apply to jobs over SSH. No web form. No bot magnet.
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This is a live recording of the demo above — try it yourself.
Why SSH instead of a form?
A web form is easy to scrape. A REST endpoint is easy to spam. sshire has neither — it's a terminal app that lives behind an SSH server.
Connect without a real terminal and it rejects you outright:
$ ssh -o BatchMode=yes jobs.sharadregoti.com
Requires an active PTY
Most mass-apply bots can't get past that. A determined, purpose-built agent can — this is a filter, not a wall.
Not a new idea
This was inspired by superlogical.com, whose actual careers link is ssh superlogical.jobs. sshire is an open-source implementation of the same idea, so any team can run their own.
How good is this, really?
As a security control: it stops unsophisticated scripts, not a determined agent with a real terminal. 3 out of 10.
As a fun, shareable way to make your careers page stand out: pretty good. 6 or 7 out of 10.
We built it anyway, because the second reason is a real reason to ship something.
Try it yourself
It's free, open-source (MIT), and self-hostable in about an hour.
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