Work · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. CraigTrend - graph job data over the last year launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1AO
   Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts▲301

   2018 · letstalkalgorithms.com · its alternatives →

2. 2HH
   Historical HN Hiring Data▲146

   Hi HN! A few days ago I saw a graph[0] that showed the # of job postings on HN was declining. I started wondering what other trends I could glean from the data, so I created this! You can filter through the top level comments by keyword; for example you can filter by "remote" to see the massive spike around March 2020. Another interesting thing I found is that I can compare hiring across cities. I hope you enjoy! I made it so that the links to your search are sharable so if you have some interesting data you should be able to just link the page you're on! [0]…

   2023 · hnhiringtrends.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS▲320

   I built Site Spy after missing a visa appointment slot because a government page changed and I didn’t notice for two weeks. It watches webpages for changes and shows the result like a diff. The part I think HN might find interesting is that it can monitor a specific element on a page, not just the whole page, and it can expose changes as RSS feeds. So instead of tracking an entire noisy page, you can watch just a price, a stock status, a headline, or a specific content block. When it changes, you can inspect the diff, browse the snapshot history, or follow the updates in an RSS reader. It’s…

   Mar 2026 · sitespy.app · its alternatives →

4. 4IM
   I made an HN job board▲149

   I noticed the who's hiring threads are very popular every month, so I decided to create a job board specifically for hacker news. You can tag jobs, search, view user's profiles and more. Tell me what you guys thing! Any feedback is appreciated.

   2013 · hnjobs.org · its alternatives →

5. 5
   findmassleads▲20

   Affordable tech stack data for hackers, sales and indies.

   2020 · findmassleads.com · its alternatives →

6. 6IM
   I made a stupid simple but 100% free web analytics▲29

   TLDR: I made a public only web analytics without signup. Stores views and visitors for 10 days before deleting data. Exactly 25 days ago today I posted here, proud of my new web analytics. The response was mixed and my post even got flagged (understandable). It was my first real launch and I actually made a sale just a day later of 49$(!). Back then my project was pay once, keep forever. Since then I have sadly went over to the dark side (subscription based). Anyways, I never went back to look at the post after the first two hours, turns out I got a lot of answers. Most answers was something…

   2024 · indielytics.link · its alternatives →

7. 7
   A structured list of jobs from “Who is hiring?”, parsed with GPT▲68

   Remote jobs, senior jobs, jobs providing equity, etc. from the Hacker News "Who is hiring" threads. Easily sort, filter, and save your favorites to apply to.

   2023 · hacker-jobs.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Transforming "Who's Hiring? (November 2023)" Posts into a Google Sheet▲27

   Hello HN Community! I've transformed the "Ask HN: Who's hiring? (November 2023)" post into a Google Sheet. Here's a quick rundown of the method: I utilized the Hacker News Algolia Search API to extract data. You can find the specific thread URL here: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=comment,st... Using a GET request, I fetched comments from the thread and processed them via the ChatGPT API. Employing the ChatGPT API for each comment, I parsed crucial job details such as company, position, location, and more. This information was structured and…

   2023 · docs.google.com · its alternatives →

9. 9IT
   It took me 5() months to build a Plausible alternative▲44

   After months of using Google Analytics I realized only about 50% of people accepted my cookie-popup. I had months of incorrect data for my website. I started looking for alternatives and eventually found Plausible, which is great (and open-source). Problem is, I didn't feel like paying 9$ a month to see the amount of visitors on a website i didn't even earn anything on, it was just a hobby project. Eventually I started making my own web analytics. Which actually isn't that hard. It took me about a month of working on my spare time every now and then. Being GDPR compliant basically means to…

   2024 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Show HN posts p/month more than doubled in the last year▲34

    Show HN posts per month more than doubled in the last year

    Jan 2026 · petegoldsmith.com · its alternatives →

11. 11IU
    I used an LLM to parse HN Who's Hiring comments to structured job data▲16

    Hello! I used an LLM to extract structured data from each comment on the “Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (January 2024)” post, available at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38842977. This created a dataset of 400+ jobs with data such as title, company name, location, is job remote, salary data, and the URL/email to contact. For the UI, a NextJS static site was created to filter and view the structured data.

    2024 · hnjobsai.vercel.app · its alternatives →

12. 12
    DayCount▲21

    As a freelancer, my monthly revenue depends on how many days I actually work. I found it surprisingly hard to see this clearly during the month. I built DayCount to make worked days (and what they represent in revenue) visible in real time. Feedback welcome!

    2025 · getdaycount.com · its alternatives →

13. 13CA
    Created a Job Board for Remote Programming Jobs▲23

    Based on the multiple "Who's hiring remotely?" and similar posts on HN, I thought it might be useful to have a site that aggregates remote programming jobs. There is way too much spam out and an inconsistent way to say "work from home" so traditional searching doesn't work (or rather, takes a long time per person). I've worked in a few remote programming positions so I figured I might know of some companies or searching tricks to find them. Let me know if you'd find this type of thing useful. If we can get some traffic going, then maybe we can start attracting companies to actually list…

    2010 · workfromhomeprogrammingjobs.com · its alternatives →

14. 14CN
    Craigslist Notifications (Chrome Extension)▲9

    Here is my last weekend project that turned into useful extension. Basic version (Chrome Extension) will always be free and I will try to make money charging for SMS notifications.

    2012 · craigshunter.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Time Off Planner▲7

    I got tired of trying to figure out my vacation balance throughout the year, so I made this website to be a stupid simple solution. It was pretty satisfying to bang it out over a weekend. * not all holidays are supported, and probably will do some custom-holiday-in-cookie functionality, but this is a common US list. * basically only looks good on 'normal' sized browsers

    2023 · daysoffplanner.com · its alternatives →

16. 16LB
    Language breakdown for February “Who is hiring?” post▲21

    2015 · kanecohen.github.io · its alternatives →

17. 17MF
    My first web app. Shiftfrog.com▲6

    I've spent the last couple weeks working on getting this up and running. It's my first web app. The use case it is designed for is for shift workers who work x days on, y days off. So if you ask them "Are you going to be able to go to my wedding on July 15, 2012" they have no idea. This helps solve that problem. Feed back as always is appreciated.

    2011 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    I built a free tool to find valuable expired domains using AI▲6

    Hi HN, I’ve been collecting and analyzing expired domains for years — especially those about to drop. Every day, tens of thousands expire. Most are junk, but a few still have traffic, backlinks, SEO value, or just great names. Finding them used to take hours. Last week I put my internal tools online: https://pendingdelete.domains No login, no paywall Updated daily Combines domain history, traffic, SEO data and AI-driven insights to identify valuable expirations The goal: help spot valuable domains quickly and skip the noise. Still a work-in-progress — would love feedback: Is this…

    2025 · pendingdelete.domains · its alternatives →

19. 19
    I made a script to scrape your Facebook group▲17

    Hey HN, I'm a solopreneur and I scrape stuff. I've had a lot of people ask me to do this, so I decided to build it! Would love to know what you think of it! Adrian

    2024 · thewebscrapingguy.com · its alternatives →

20. 20AT
    A tiny Chrome Extension to search through “Who is Hiring?”▲7

    Hey, folks! I'm writing this small Chrome Extension to help me find jobs I'd be interested in the monthly HN's "Who is Hiring?" thread. I've used React to render the UI that just loads a stripped down version of the posts and look into them by the tags I've chosen. Here's a demo: http://imgur.com/a/CzNSa. I haven't submitted to the Chrome Web Store yet because of their $5 fee. :P But let me know if you'd be interested and I can share the extension with you :)

    2017 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    WhenNOT.com▲7

    I had problems scheduling company get together. 3 days in next 3 months, 12 people, whats the best date for that? I've build the solution to my problem (human coded haha) and recently is started getting traction which is nice, so we added Slack integration (Claude coded). WhenNOT flips the question: instead of "when are you available?", we ask "when are you NOT available?" It's completely free - no premium tiers, no limits. I built it because I needed it for my own team.

    2024 · whennot.com · its alternatives →

22. 22AW
    Another “Who Is Hiring” Aggregator: www.whoishiring.work▲8

    Hello everyone! I know there are already a few "Who Is Hiring" aggregators, but I wanted to show off what I've done. My project was cancelled right before Christmas, so this project was a great way to blow off some steam while procrastinating looking for a new job. Tangentially, I am looking for new career opportunities if your company needs a full stack web developer, lol. This website was completed in about a week and a half. I wanted to present it in a Show HN post on Jan 2 when the usual Who Is Hiring posts were featured, but I didn't think it had enough features to make it useful. Even…

    2020 · its alternatives →

23. 23HN
    Hacker-News Buddies▲6

    https://hn-buddies.stupidlabs.lol Find hackernews audience whose comments matches most to you. This is based on tf-idf weighted keywords match from comments. Covers data from Jan 1, 2020 through May 31, 2026. Keywords that are too rare or too broad across authors are filtered out before scoring. Due to above filtering, a lot of the authors are NOT covered here. Full coverage would have yielded more than a few trillion records, and I don't have that much compute or disk. Details of the process: https://hn-buddies.stupidlabs.lol/about-data --- You can also see who…

    Jul 2026 · its alternatives →

24. 24QF
    Quickly Filter Through Who's Hiring Posts▲8

    Hi all, I made this tool to sift through all the who's hiring posts. You'll need node / npm, but it works locally. It includes 2019 data. In the future, I hope to include all who's hiring posts with better graphs to visualize it. You can download it and play with it from here: https://github.com/vishaldpatel/jobstats And if you do, I'd love feedback! Including code feedback. There's some stuff that I haven't followed. Thank you! - V

    2019 · its alternatives →

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