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24 alternatives to I built a tool to rank cities based on purchasing power for SWEs
Show HN: I built a tool to calculate real tech salaries across cities (after tax & COL) As a software engineer obsessed with data-driven decisions, I wanted to quantify how much better/worse other cities would be compared to my current home in Berlin. While sites like Glassdoor and levels.fyi tell you how much you can earn, they don't show what you actually keep after taxes and living costs. So I built Tech City Index - a tool that compares cities based on actual purchasing power for software engineers, combining: * Real-time salary data from levels.fyi * Cost of living data from Numbeo…
Tech City Index is a tool that ranks cities by purchasing power for software engineers. It combines salary data from levels.fyi, cost-of-living information from Numbeo, local tax calculations, and weather data to show… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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City comparison tool to see how far your salary will go
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An easy way for anyone to see what they’d make at Buffer.
2017 · buffer.com · its alternatives →
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Since 2012 the US tech industry has sponsored 176,075 H1B work visas. With an average individual salary up to $39,465 above median household income.
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Your total compensation under current market conditions
2022 · tc.kyh.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN - Like many in tech, I've thought about relocating to different cities. But comparing salaries, income tax, housing costs, and overall cost of living is hard. It's hard to know where you'd actually save up more money. So I built a site to make it easier. It's my first HN project, hope you find it useful. Any feedback is appreciated, thanks!
2025 · takehomepay.city · its alternatives →
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Weave▲237Hey HN, We’re building Weave: an ML-powered tool to measure engineering output, that actually understands engineering output! Why? Here’s the thing: almost every eng leader already measures output - either openly or behind closed doors. But they rely on metrics like lines of code (correlation with effort: ~0.3), number of PRs, or story points (slightly better at ~0.35). These metrics are, frankly, terrible proxies for productivity. We’ve developed a custom model that analyzes code and its impact directly, with a far better 0.94 correlation. The result? A standardized engineering output…
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Levels.fyi▲105Compare career levels across software eng and other fields
2017 · levels.fyi · its alternatives →
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A developer tool to determine how much you should be making
2017 · stackoverflow.com · its alternatives →
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Find the right city for your next remote office.
2019 · beyondhq.co · its alternatives →
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Visualize your pay growth and compare offers 📊
2020 · levels.fyi · its alternatives →
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See how much you can earn in Big Tech.
2020 · mackgrenfell.com · its alternatives →
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I developed an intuitive, cross-platform tool to calculate net salaries in Germany. It simplifies the complexity of taxes, deductions, and social contributions while keeping a clean, minimalistic design. With straightforward functionality and clear visualizations, it helps users easily understand how their gross salary breaks down into take-home pay.
2024 · netsalarygui.de · its alternatives →
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Some time ago, I tried to scrape every Bay Area profile off LinkedIn until the site blocked my entire office network (Lesson learned: Use a proxy). This was Bad because we were (and still are!) hir…
2016 · elaineou.com · its alternatives →
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Interactive post to check your engineering time investments
2016 · engineerworth.com · its alternatives →
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A visual tool for calculating your earnings potential
2014 · standtomake.com · its alternatives →
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2023 · swissdevjobs.ch · its alternatives →
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Excited to share my New Year’s project. For a long time, I’ve wanted to build H-1B data directly into Levels.fyi. Every time I went looking for this data elsewhere, it was a frustrating experience to use. Most H-1B sites felt antiquated, unintuitive, cluttered with ads, or just overwhelming to use. The data was there, but it wasn’t usable, and definitely not pleasant to explore. So out of that frustration, I decided to build the H-1B data experience I personally wanted to use. Right into Levels.fyi. https://levels.fyi/h1b/ Some other pages I'm excited about: Wage Heatmap:…
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Techmap is offering real-time access to global job postings to backfill job boards, monitor competitors, analyze markets, or identify sales prospects.
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PayScope▲63Resume-based salary estimate from real-time market data
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Search 1M+ data points for different companies, job titles, career levels, and locations. Explore our tools to help you get paid more!
2018 · levels.fyi · its alternatives →
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