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24 alternatives to Greenlight

Hire engineers in days, not months

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Greenlight launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Headlight▲116

    Easily screen tech candidates with take-home assignments

    2017 · headlightlabs.com · its alternatives →

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    Hire from the world's largest developer community

    Jan 2026 · recruiter.daily.dev · its alternatives →

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    GitHired▲360

    Hey HN - today I’m launching GitHired. A hiring platform that ranks developers based on what they actually build — not what they claim on a PDF. It’s called GitHired, and here’s the core idea: GitHub > Resumes Instead of trusting “proficient in React” bullet points, we analyze a candidate’s actual GitHub: their real tech stack their most complex projects how active they are what kinds of contributions they make which skills match your job description and yes, we detect fake “green square farming.” Why we built this Because engineering hiring is broken. Resumes are inflated. Activity charts…

    Dec 2025 · githired.tech · its alternatives →

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    Backlight▲282

    Make design systems that front-end teams want to use

    2021 · backlight.dev · its alternatives →

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    Refer people you know and get paid when they get hired

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Write the perfect recommendation, help a friend land a job

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Hire elite global talent in 24 hours

    2024 · clouddevs.com · its alternatives →

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    Sidewise▲118

    Source the best engineers, without understanding code.

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Learn to code by building fun projects 💻

    2018 · enlight.nyc · its alternatives →

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    Enlight▲281

    Learn to code by building projects

    2016 · enlight.nyc · its alternatives →

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    An evaluation too that helps you hire developers faster

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    I'm Taylor, I spent about a year as a Fractional Head of Product. It was my first time not in a full-time W2 role, and I quickly learned that the hardest part of the job wasn't doing the Product work (I was a PM for 10+ years), it was finding good clients to work with. So I built Fractional Jobs. The goal is to help more people break out of W2 life and into their own independent careers by helping them find great clients to work with. We find and vet the clients, and then engineers can request intros to any that seem like a good fit. We'll make the intro assuming the client opts in after…

    2025 · fractionaljobs.io · its alternatives →

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    Developer jobs. Guaranteed reply from companies in 5 days.

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Worklight▲115

    A new way to manage your projects. Perfect for remote teams.

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    The best way to evaluate talent

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    HireWise▲128

    A fresh job board theme built with Astro, Tailwind CSS & MDX

    2023 · lexingtonthemes.com · its alternatives →

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    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 →

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    Workby▲83

    Hire and get hired around the globe

    2022 · workby.io · its alternatives →

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    Discover jobs in the green economy

    2023 · greenish.careers · its alternatives →

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    A daily aggregator of design, development & engineering jobs

    2016 · jobspade.com · its alternatives →

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    Weekly list of software contractors ready for immediate work

    2017 · moonlightwork.com · its alternatives →

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    Free online courses and job search help for clean energy

    2021 · joingreenwork.com · its alternatives →

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    Find engineers who never apply by actual github code

    Mar 2026 · gradpipe.com · its alternatives →

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    Operational insights for your Open Source applications

    2016 · its alternatives →

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