Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to I built didtheyghost.me, open-source tool for your next job search
(not sure why my previous post didn't appear on Show HN even though I included it in the title, mods please remove if not allowed) Ever applied for a job and never heard back? Many companies just go silent instead of sending rejection emails, leaving you guessing whether to keep waiting or move on. I faced this frustration during my own internship search, especially when there was no real point of contact (automated replies don't count, lol). So, I built didtheyghost.me, a simple open-source tool that crowdsources job application responses. This isn't a job scraper or another job board. It's…
Didtheyghost.me is an open-source tool that helps job seekers track whether companies respond to applications. It crowdsources data on job application responses, allowing users to see how long companies typically take… 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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Search trough and subscribe to Hacker News
2018 · whoishiring.me · its alternatives →
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In an increasingly digital world, newsletters have become an invaluable tool for businesses, content creators, and organizations looking to engage with their audience directly. Whether you’re a startup looking to build a community, an established company seeking to maintain a connection with your cu
2011 · jobstractor.com · its alternatives →
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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 →
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There are existing HN job aggregators, but I thought we could take it a step further. Inspired by an insightful comment on a previous thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36163021), I built a tool that aggregates job postings and intelligently categorizes them based on user-specific preferences: * Country and remote work preferences * Employer type (e.g., startup, corporation, government) * Industry * Technologies used * Role type (developer, architect, product owner, etc.) * Salary range (where available) One of the superpowers of LLMs is reformatting information from…
2023 · kadoa.com · its alternatives →
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Job scraper and applier for indeed.com. Contribute to jmopr/job-hunter development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, My wife graduated in 2022 and she was fortunate enough to land an internship at a small startup which then offered her a permanent position. But ever since then she has been trying to find another job as a frontend dev since the current one doesn't offer any growth opportunities. She started looking in 2023 right when the job market started tanking. She's been at it for months with no success as there are little to no junior roles available and she spent most of her day refreshing linkedin to check for new opportunities. At the beginning of this year I had this idea that I…
2024 · first2apply.com · its alternatives →
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userpitch.ai▲11LinkedIn has become a carnival of fake engagement, spammy DMs, and job listings that lead nowhere. After years of watching my resume vanish into the abyss of the "Jobs" tab, I realized it was time for something new. I’m not alone. I surveyed 1,000 recent college grads—and the vast majority shared the same frustration: Why is there no platform that helps candidates stand out, instead of blend in? So I built userpitch: a candidate-first public platform where people can showcase who they are—not just what they've done—through short, voice-based elevator pitches. No feeds. No spam. No corporate…
2025 · userpitch.ai · its alternatives →
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Paste your JD, resume & rejection to get AI feedback
2025 · share.streamlit.io · its alternatives →
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Last year I was looking for a new role. I sent out applications, did the prep, waited. What came back was mostly nothing. Not rejection emails, just silence. The job listings I'd applied to stayed live for weeks. Some for months. As a software engineer, I decided to dig into it properly. I built a system to continuously track job postings across companies, logging posting dates and measuring how long roles stay open before closing or don't. After 35,000+ listings across 200+ companies, some patterns are hard to ignore. Some listings have been open for 700+ days at companies you'd recognize.…
May 2026 · csvfirst.pythonanywhere.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, We’re definitely not the first to realise there’s something seriously wrong with how hiring and job-seeking works today. Zero-cost communication and LLMs have created so much noise that good candidates can’t get heard, and it becomes all too tempting to game the system with keywords and prompt-hacking. In fact we discovered that 70% of early stage AI startups don't post their jobs on LinkedIn. Instead, many founders hire exclusively within their network, which works at the start but doesn’t scale. We thought a lot about this problem, and pivoted through a few ideas including an AI…
2025 · teeming.ai · its alternatives →
- 11TF
Searching for job roles in tech? I've been there. For six months, I was stuck in the LinkedIn job application loop, getting nowhere. It was soul-crushing. I started to wonder if I was just a bad developer. But I changed my modus operandi and started reaching out to founders building super cool startups that got recently funded but didnt have the chance to post online yet that they are hiring, the response rate was much more significant and I wwas having super cool convos! This approach was so effective, I turned it into a product. I've tapped into premium data sources (we're talking $25K+…
2025 · its alternatives →
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^ That's what our team said to me initially but we think it's pretty chill now. We built a job search tool that uses investor software to help you discover the most exciting companies to work for right now. Free this week so that you guys can try it out before we hard launch next week (paywall is down). Feedback is our oxygen: What can we do better? Are you gonna give us money? Why do you hate the design?
2022 · usemassive.com · its alternatives →
- 13NB
I built a email newsletter that sends you personalized and no-bs job picks from Hacker News' most recent "Who is hiring?" thread. Free forever, instant unsubscribe. To those interested in the architecture, I wrote a small post: https://hnrecap.news/architecture
2024 · hnrecap.news · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I built a UI on top of the "Who is hiring" posts. Take a look at https://hnwork.app! One of the downsides of unstructured text posts is the readability due to it being free-form and having little to no format. While there are other tools that have been built over the years to make perusing Who is hiring posts easier, I took a try on making my own (I actually tried to build this at a YC hackathon a few years back, but got around to completing it recently). Features: 1. Text search and search filters 2. Original post text with call outs to important information 3. Removes…
Jul 2026 · hnwork.app · its alternatives →
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Real-time crowdsourced job listing that gives you a hand up
2020 · teamblind.com · its alternatives →
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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 →
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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 →
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I vibe-coded a small project that turns the “Ask HN: Who is hiring?” thread into searchable job data using OpenAI, PostgreSQL, and Metabase. It pulls the thread using the Hacker News API, uses GPT to extract fields like company, role, location, salary, and contact, stores everything in PostgreSQL, and spins up Metabase so you can explore and search the results. Right now it runs locally, but would anyone be interested if I built this out a bit more and made a public dashboard?
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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After years of solo ventures, failed startups, contract gigs, and countless OSS contributions, I've decided to shake up my job search. Instead of the usual LinkedIn grin, CV spam & endless forms, I'm leveraging my GitHub cred to flip the script on hiring. I've created a "Hire Me" GitHub issue template where companies can "apply" to employ me. It's like a reverse job application, and here's why it's cool: 1. Cuts through the noise: Most dev's GH profile speaks louder than resume. 2. Saves time: No more filling out repetitive forms or tailoring CVs. 3. Transparency: All offers are public by…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! After 2.5 years of development, I'm sharing Job Search Assistant (https://jsa.works) - even though I still don't feel quite ready. It's an open alpha of a job search platform that actually matches positions to your resume properly. The problem: Major platforms like LinkedIn, Indeed, etc. have terrible search despite huge resources. Search for "senior backend engineer" and you'll get frontend internships in the top results. They optimize for engagement, not relevance. My solution: JSA uses LLMs for resume/job parsing and semantic vector search for matching. Upload…
Jan 2026 · jsa.works · its alternatives →
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Skip the job board garbage. Apply direct.
Dec 2025 · its alternatives →
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- 24SW
My friend Angus (angusiguess) & I became annoyed trying to parse through the wonderful 'Who is Hiring?' threads looking for internships this summer, so we made a searchable version. It's just the first roll out, we have some other stuff planned. It's important to note that this was all done programatically, so there is no possibility for 100% accuracy with most fields. We would love to hear your feedback! If you have any more personal issues (ie, want your post removed), contact info is available in our profiles. URL: http://supzu.cc Github: https://github.com/ianbishop/whoishiring
2012 · supzu.cc · its alternatives →
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