Check the safety rules

Understand what counts as a signal and what is blocked.

Trust CenterNo gossip mode

Hidden hiring only works when trust is visible.

AltRefer is not a layoff board, review site, salary database, or rumor marketplace. It is a moderated signal network for safe hiring clues and warm referral paths.

Anonymous by default

Required

Human moderation

Visible

Signal provenance

The product rule is simple: people can hint that hiring is happening, but cannot expose private claims, names, compensation, layoffs, client secrets, or blame.

Operating principles

live

Signals, not gossip

AltRefer accepts hiring intent, role context, and warm-path clues. It rejects layoffs, named-person blame, compensation claims, and confidential client detail.

live

Origin labels stay visible

Every opportunity is labeled as Insider-hinted or AltRefer-found so candidates understand confidence and provenance before acting.

live

Anonymous by default

Insiders can help without revealing identity. Warm referrals happen only when the insider chooses to respond.

live

Non-monetary rewards

Signal Karma gives contributors priority alerts, private reputation, impact receipts, and better matching without turning hints into bounties.

live

Public-source compliance

AltRefer-found signals come from public career pages, ATS links, and explicit public posts. Logged-in scraping is outside the product rail.

live

Human moderation before reach

Hints do not enter the match feed until AI flags and a human review path classify them as clean, redacted, or rejected.

Readiness

What is already live, and what is blocked.

This keeps the product honest while the beta stack moves from prototype mode into persistent operation.

Role-aware Launchpad

ready

Candidates, insiders, moderators, and founders now have next actions.

Trust Center

ready

Public safety principles explain what AltRefer allows and blocks.

200-update map

ready

The product roadmap is split into ten 20-update phases.

Admin route gate

ready

Ops routes require ALTREFER_ADMIN_PASSCODE in production.

Supabase persistence

blocked

Needs NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL and SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY.

Preview env

blocked

Vercel preview env is blocked until a Git repository is connected.