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24 alternatives to 'Job Tips For Geeks: The Job Search' ebook release

Over the past year the Job Tips For Geeks blog has had some success with the HN crowd - readers may have seen Why You Make Less Money or Why You Didn't Get the Interview. I have just released my first ebook "Job Tips For Geeks - The Job Search", which is a step-by-step guide to a job search written specifically for software engineers and tech pros. It is now available for download on several reading platforms on the expected major book sites. The book is set chronologically and starts on moves to make before you start looking, and evaluates the pros/cons of each search strategy (and…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. 'Job Tips For Geeks: The Job Search' ebook release launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    The Junior Developer's Guide to Getting a Job (eBook)

    2015 · bsky.app · its alternatives →

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    Curated directory of job search resources & tools

    2016 · careerstack.io · its alternatives →

  3. 3IM

    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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    Learn how to kickstart your career

    2017 · kickresume.com · its alternatives →

  5. 5TY

    I was just browsing through the "Who got hired?" thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36160198) and it caused me to think about all of the things that happened in my real life due to HN. In 2012 I was hired from a post in the "Who's Hiring" thread that turned out to be a complete life and career transformation. It was at a very famous company that everyone here has heard of and used. They were pre-IPO and I got to be a "part" of that IPO. It exposed me to people smarter than I had ever met, and allowed me to learn from them. It allowed me a path into "big tech" that I…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    The Junior Developer's Guide to Getting a Job

    2015 · bsky.app · its alternatives →

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    Tips on nailing remote interviews at tech companies

    2021 · eisabai.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

  8. 8JA

    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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    The fast & enjoyable way to find a job

    2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10CA

    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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    (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…

    2025 · didtheyghost.me · its alternatives →

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    Crowdsource your career path.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Brain games for job seekers

    2017 · jobflare.io · its alternatives →

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    JobHive▲69

    Meet candidates w/ video applications from lots of job sites

    2014 · jobhive.com · its alternatives →

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    How to find, hire, keep and nurture creative talent

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

  17. 17NB

    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 →

  18. 18TF

    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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    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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    Alysse Metzler on finding a tech job

    2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I built hireindex.xyz – a searchable website that aggregates and indexes candidates from the "Who Wants to Be Hired" threads on Hacker News. Coming soon: Analytics to highlight trends in skills, technologies, and candidate preferences across HN posts. With HireIndex, you can: Search by tech stack. Quickly scan bios, salary expectations, and contact links. Filter by remote/on-site preferences and employment type. I made this because I was tired of scrolling through long threads and wanted a better way to find interesting people. Would love your feedback – especially around UX and…

    2025 · hireindex.xyz · its alternatives →

  22. 22TC

    Hi HN, I figured there are a lot of HN users on here who have a lifetime's worth of valuable tips & advice that they could share with fellow HN users, and that would be very helpful to the rest of us. So I decided to spend a couple of days creating a micro-site where HNers with valuable tips & advice to share, can share those personal-experience derived advice with those of us who would appreciate & benefit from said advice. Link to site: https://yoomter.com Enjoy!

    2023 · yoomter.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23PJ

    ^ 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 →

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    Advice on Landing a Job at Google, Microsoft, or Apple

    2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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