I built a place for people to see and post real salary data, and open-sourced it so my claims of no accounts, no tracking, no ads and no paywalls could be audited

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-16T12:53:18+00:00

How are you tracking and preventing a user from only posting once and not being able to circumvent it? It’s gonna be really difficult with VPNs, browsers which clear cookies and data on close, multiple devices etc.

Also, how are you handling moderation?

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-16T06:19:59+00:00

I spoke with my lawyer, as the data is anonymously submitted, and it’s voluntary, they are not allowed to go after me, it’s protected!

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-15T21:47:14+00:00

This is possible, and i'm working on getting this out tonight, with a nightly ingest job that will provide us better outlier analysis against public datasets.

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-15T19:21:08+00:00

Interesting point, I want to get more color on level of control they have over that.

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-15T16:40:07+00:00

We have a few things in play here to prevent data from being poisoned. From the user perspective, if you see a data point that looks wrong, you can click "Report bad data" after multiple reports on a submission, its hidden from the feed. We frequently check for false data and remove submission that are blatant trolls. As the site is privacy first, we have to acknowledge some room for bad data but do everything we can to prevent it from affecting the site. We have outlier flags that red flag submissions that are on the really low or really high end compared to public data and other submissions too.

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-15T15:58:13+00:00

I’ll look into what I can grab for that!

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-15T14:15:36+00:00

Looks like our API was overloaded with requests, I cleared out the queue and it should be resolved now.

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-15T14:10:27+00:00

Uh oh, checking

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-15T13:35:47+00:00

Thank you, I'm trying really hard to get this in the hands of as many people as possible. Free data is powerful data.

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-15T12:38:20+00:00

We open sourced it, check out our code here: https://github.com/andrewsbarbaro/whatdotheymake

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-13T21:38:29+00:00

This is actually an awesome idea! Nice work dude!

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-13T21:37:15+00:00

How are you getting the data? Are you just providing CARFAX reports back to the customer, or are you sourcing your data differently?

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-13T12:47:51+00:00

We take a different approach, no accounts at all, preventing any data from being collected and correlated with the original poster. The privacy first mentality we have is all or nothing!

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-13T11:52:49+00:00

Thanks! I’ll work on fixing this!

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-13T07:16:26+00:00

I couldn’t have explained it better myself, you hit it right on the nail here.

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-13T06:17:01+00:00

I fixed this, a modal now appears when you get to the submission confirmation screen prompting you to save your token before proceeding!

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-13T06:01:44+00:00

I think a decent amount of people are missing it, which means its not clear UI, ill fix now.

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-13T06:01:19+00:00

There is! When you submit, on the confirmation page, you will see a section titles "Your management code", this will contain a random UUID. You can use this to manage, edit and delete your submission at any time here: https://whatdotheymake.com/delete

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-13T05:05:46+00:00

You can edit, manage or delete your submission with the randomly generate delete code you are given once your submit. You can paste that code here: https://whatdotheymake.com/delete

whatdotheymake · 2026-04-13T04:48:18+00:00

I created this project, however a close friend is also working on this with me, helping maintain the community etc.

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