"Remote" on a job board usually means "remote, inside the US".
I wanted a number, so I wrote a script that reads 8 remote job boards (Himalayas, RemoteOK, We Work Remotely, Remotive, Jobicy, Arbeitnow, Working Nomads and the Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread) and labels every posting for one question: can someone living in India apply to this?
(m/w/d) local hires
So roughly 1 in 4 of the relevant "remote" jobs was one I could actually apply to.
No AI, just reading the posting in a fixed order:
A job that only says "Remote" is marked unclear, never "worldwide". Every verdict carries the quoted text it came from, so a wrong one is obvious.
Two mistakes I made first, in case you build something similar: the word "global" in a description ("a global company") is not a hiring statement, and two-letter country codes ("in", "it", "de") match ordinary English words.
It runs on Apify as the Worldwide Remote Jobs Scraper: set your country and keywords, get a JSON/CSV list with a verdict per job. It works for 110+ countries, and as an MCP tool for AI agents.
https://apify.com/yash_harkawat/remote-jobs-eligibility-aggregator
The code is open, including the full rule list in src/eligibility.js:
[https://github.com/yashharkawat/remote-jobs-eligibility-aggregator](https://github.com/yashharkawat/remote-jobs-eligibility-aggregator)
If a verdict looks wrong for your country, open an issue with the job URL and I will fix the rule.