Terms
No Varnish is a job board for roles where AI tools are part of the work. Posting is free. These terms describe what happens to a listing once you submit it.
Every listing is reviewed
Nothing publishes automatically. A person reads each submission and either approves it or rejects it with a written reason, normally within one business day. A rejection is not a ban: you get the reason and a link back to your submission, and you can fix it and resubmit.
We reject listings that:
- hide compensation, or state a range so wide it says nothing
- are recruitment agencies advertising an unnamed client
- are not really a job — courses, unpaid “equity only” work, or lead capture
- are tagged with tools the role does not actually use
- duplicate a listing already on the board
Compensation is mandatory
Every listing shows pay. There is no field to hide it and no “competitive salary” option. This is the single rule the board is built around, and it is the most common reason a submission is turned down. The only exception is a listing we sourced ourselves from another board, which is labelled as such and says plainly when the original did not publish a figure.
The clock
A listing runs for 30 days from approval, not from submission, so time spent in review costs you nothing. A bounty with a deadline sooner than that closes on the deadline instead. You can close a listing early at any time, and you will be emailed before it expires so you can renew it.
When a listing ends it is not deleted. It stays online, clearly marked as closed, with the apply button removed and links to similar open roles. Search engines are told it has ended.
What it costs
Nothing. Posting is free, there is no paid tier, and the site never asks for a card. Nothing on this board can be bought — not a position in the feed, not a faster review, and not the removal of a report.
If that ever changes it will be published on the pricing page before anything is charged, and no listing already posted under these terms will be charged for retrospectively.
Reports and removal
Anyone can report a listing without an account. Reports are private and no number of them removes a listing on its own — they only tell us to look. If we take a live listing down, it routes through the normal rejection path so you receive a written reason rather than finding it silently gone. See the sourcing policy for removing a listing your company did not post.
Your content
You keep ownership of what you write. You give us permission to display it here and in the digest emails, and to keep showing it in the archive after the role closes. You confirm you are entitled to advertise the role and that what you have written about it is accurate.
What we do not promise
We do not promise a hire, a number of applicants, or a level of traffic. We do not verify claims made in a listing beyond a read for plausibility, and the verified badge means only that the poster used an email address at the company’s own domain.
These terms describe how the board actually operates, and are kept in step with it. They are not legal advice.