Render is a cloud platform for deploying and running applications. The product covers Web Services, Static Sites, Background Workers, and Cron Jobs, with managed Postgres and Key Value storage alongside.

Founded by Anurag Goel and headquartered in San Francisco, with team members distributed globally. Has raised $258M.

Used by ReadMe, Hodinkee, Evolve, and Thatch, among others. ReadMe's migration off Heroku is featured on the customers page, which gives a sense of the positioning.

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ChatGPT Has the Users. Claude Has the Job Posts.

Among 867 hiring tech companies, 169 name Claude in their job posts, 135 name OpenAI, and 80 name Gemini. Open-weight models show up at 8. The consumer ranking, inverted.

Tech Job Market Report: July 2026

Snapshot of the July 2026 tech job market on Remoet: where the open roles are, who's hiring most, what techs pay, and which benefits show up most often.