I spent my weekend rebuilding Employ Borderless from scratch (and I’m way too excited about it)
I hate WordPress.
Okay, that’s not entirely fair. WordPress is great for blogs. It’s great for simple websites. It’s great for a lot of things.
But it’s terrible when you’re trying to maintain information about 180+ countries and 50+ EOR providers that changes every single week.
You know what’s fun? Manually updating pricing tables across 30 different pages because RemoFirst changed their fees in Brazil. You know what’s even more fun? Realizing you missed updating 5 of those pages and now you’re giving people outdated information that could cost them thousands of dollars.
So this weekend, I did what any sane person would do: I threw it all away and built something new.
The problem was simple
People come to Employ Borderless to make decisions about global hiring. They need to know: Which EOR provider should I use? What does it cost to hire someone in Vietnam? What are the compliance requirements in Germany?
And that information changes constantly. Providers update pricing. Countries change labor laws. New players enter the market.
With WordPress, every update was manual work. Copy. Paste. Format. Repeat 47 times. Hope you didn’t miss anything. Hope you didn’t break something.
I wasn’t giving people the best information. I was giving them the most recently updated information I had time to manually change.
That’s not good enough.
What I built instead
A completely custom solution that treats country data and provider data like what it actually is: structured information that needs to be updated systematically, not 50 different blog posts.
Now I can:
Update provider pricing once and have it flow everywhere it needs to
Build automations that flag when information is outdated
Add comparison tools that actually help people make decisions
Ship new features without wrestling with page builders and plugins
The whole point is this: I don’t want people to browse information about global hiring. I want them to make a decision and move on with their lives.
What’s next
I’m building a bunch of stuff I couldn’t do before:
Real-time provider comparisons based on your specific use case
Automated updates when providers change their pricing or features
Better filtering so you see only what’s relevant to your situation
A dark mode because apparently that’s what the kids want
But honestly, the best part is this: I can now make sure that when a CEO is trying to figure out how to hire their first remote employee, they get the right information, not just the information I had time to manually update last week.
That’s what this whole thing is about. Making decisions easier. Getting people the answers they need. Solving the problem and getting out of the way.
WordPress couldn’t do that. So I built something that can.
Now back to building.