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Small team, a marketplace to build.

PortModels is one account and one balance for every small AI app in the gallery. Users top up once and run whatever they need; developers publish into demand instead of building a company around a weekend project. We are hiring the people who make that a real market.

Remote Async by default 4 open roles

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Frontend Engineer, AI Apps Full-time Marketplace Quality Lead Full-time Growth Lead, Community Full-time or contract Part-time Intern, AI Part-time
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How we work

What working here actually looks like

A small team running a live product. Short path from an idea to something users can open, and no layer of people between you and the thing you shipped.

You own what you ship

Each role owns its area end to end — decisions included. Nobody here is executing someone else's ticket queue.

Remote and async

Work where you are, on a schedule that fits your life. We write things down instead of holding meetings about them, and we overlap a few hours a day.

AI-native, not AI-theatre

We build with these tools every day and we are honest about their limits. Using them well is part of the job in every role on this page.

Open roles

4 roles we are hiring for now

Every role is remote. Apply by email with a short note and links to your work — pay is discussed openly on the first call, based on the role, your experience, and where you are.

Frontend Engineer, AI Apps

Full-time Remote JavaScript / PWA
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You build the small AI apps themselves — installable, offline-capable PWAs that run on the PortModels model API and ship into the gallery. Idea on Monday, something people can open by Friday.

What you will do

  • Build and ship small AI apps as progressive web apps — installable, fast on a mid-range phone, usable on a bad connection
  • Wire them to the PortModels model API and Connect with PortModels sign-in, including metering and per-run pricing
  • Use AI coding tools to move quickly, and review what they produce like you would a junior engineer
  • Turn a rough brief — often straight off the app requests board — into a working product
  • Own what you ship after launch: bugs, ratings, comments, and the next version

What we are looking for

  • Strong modern JavaScript or TypeScript, and real product sense in the browser
  • Genuine PWA experience: service workers, manifests, caching strategies, install prompts, offline state
  • You have worked against an LLM API — streaming, token costs, retries, and what to do when a model returns nonsense
  • You use AI assistants daily and are honest about where they help and where they do not
  • Things you have shipped that we can open and use

Bonus: usage-based billing, IndexedDB, Web Push, or image and audio model APIs.

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Marketplace Quality Lead

Full-time Remote Review & ops
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You own the review queue and the quality bar of the gallery. Every app that reaches a user went past you first, and the reason people trust a marketplace of small apps is that someone did this job properly.

What you will do

  • Review every submitted app against the publishing rules — does it work, does it match its listing, is the pricing honest
  • Test submissions end to end on real accounts before they go live, on desktop and on a phone
  • Write approve or reject decisions a developer can act on, in plain language, without a back-and-forth
  • Watch listings after launch: ratings, comments, refund requests, abuse reports, and apps that quietly break
  • Keep the publishing guidelines current as new cases come up, and flag the patterns worth fixing in the product
  • Curate what the gallery leads with, so the front page reflects the best of what is there

What we are looking for

  • Detail obsession — you notice the broken state nobody else clicked into
  • Clear written English; most of this job is explaining a decision
  • Judgment where the rules do not cover the case, and the spine to say no and stand behind it
  • Experience in app review, marketplace operations, trust and safety, or QA
  • Comfortable running a queue on your own and reporting what it is telling you

Bonus: SQL for pulling your own numbers, or a background in fraud and abuse patterns.

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Growth Lead, Community & Platform Presence

Full-time or contract Remote Growth
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PortModels is explained best by showing what people build on it. This role turns the gallery into a weekly publishing engine and puts PortModels in front of the people who would use it.

The specific idea: every week you pick real apps from the gallery and turn them into public material — a build story, a sixty-second demo, a teardown of what an app costs to run and what its developer earns — and you publish it where builders and early adopters actually are: X, Reddit, Hacker News, LinkedIn, Product Hunt, Indie Hackers, YouTube Shorts and TikTok, dev.to, and the newsletters that cover AI tools. You are the person in the comments, in the launch threads, and in the Discords — the recognisable face of PortModels in public.

What you will do

  • Own the weekly calendar: one flagship piece a week plus a daily presence across platforms
  • Produce the material yourself — posts, threads, screen recordings, short video, developer stories
  • Run launches: Product Hunt, Hacker News, subreddit and Discord AMAs, and the follow-up that keeps them alive
  • Build and run a community space for developers publishing on PortModels, and keep it worth being in
  • Find and brief creators, newsletter writers, and small channels who reach the same people
  • Instrument all of it — know which source produced which signups, and cut what does not work
  • Bring what you hear in public back to the product team; you are our loudest feedback channel

What we are looking for

  • You have grown an audience from near zero — your own or a product's. Send links; this is the part we care about
  • You write fast, in your own voice, and in English that does not read like a press release
  • You know how developer and AI communities work, and what gets a post buried for sounding like marketing
  • Comfortable on camera, or at least behind a good edit
  • Analytical about funnels, attribution, and what a channel is really worth
  • Independent — for a while this is one person and a calendar

Bonus: an existing audience in AI or developer tools, video editing, or a Product Hunt or Hacker News launch you can point at.

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Part-time Intern, AI & Development

Part-time 15-20 hrs / week Remote Paid
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For a student who is already building things with AI in their own time. Real work on a live product, around your classes, paid — not a coffee-run internship.

What you will do

  • Prototype small app ideas end to end and find out fast whether they are worth building
  • Test new models as they are added to the catalog and write up what they are actually good at
  • Help with documentation and code examples that other developers will copy
  • Reproduce bug reports and check releases before they go out
  • Bring your own ideas to the app requests board — some of them will get built

What we are looking for

  • Currently studying, any subject, with roughly 15-20 hours a week to give
  • You can write code — JavaScript or Python is plenty to start
  • You already use AI tools daily and have opinions about which ones earn their place
  • Curious and self-directed; we will point at a problem, not dictate the steps
  • Something you have made that you can show us, however small

You get: paid hours, mentorship from people shipping this daily, your code in production, and credit for what you ship.

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Hiring

How the process runs

Three steps, and we reply either way. No panel of six interviews and no take-home that eats your weekend unpaid.

  1. 1

    You write to us

    A short email: which role, why this one, and links to things you have made. We read all of them ourselves and answer within a week.

  2. 2

    A call, then a small paid task

    Half an hour to talk through the role, then a scoped piece of real work — a few hours, paid, and close to what the job actually is.

  3. 3

    Decision and offer

    We go through the task together, agree on terms and start date, and you get feedback either way.

None of these, but you want in?

Tell us what you would do here and why it matters. Good people make their own role more often than not.

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