# I checked 900 "remote" job postings. Of the 71 that fit me, 16 were open to India. > Source: > Published: 2026-09-20 03:51:05+00:00 "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](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.