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24 alternatives to JobLens – AI-powered job search for 'Who Is Hiring'

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…

JobLens aggregates job postings from Hacker News hiring threads and uses AI to organize them by country, remote status, employer type, industry, technology stack, role type, and salary range. The tool reformats… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. JobLens – AI-powered job search for 'Who Is Hiring' launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1HR

    Hey HN! I'm excited to show off this side project I've been working on. This project matches your resume with the best matching jobs from the monthly HN Who's Hiring post. It works by creating a vector embedding of your resume using OpenAI's embedding API, and then ranking the jobs using a vector similarity score. (You can toggle between max inner product, cosine, and euclidean in the "Advanced Options") I was laid off in August and it took a whole 6 months for me to find my new job. Fortunately, I found my new role on January's HN Who's Hiring post. So I hope this will prove useful to any…

    2023 · hnresumetojobs.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, We’re building OpenJobs AI, an AI recruiting agent focused on the outbound sourcing workflow. In recruiting, teams often already know what kind of person they want — but still spend a lot of time manually searching, filtering, and writing first-touch outreach. We wanted to see how much of that work an agent could actually take over. Today, OpenJobs AI focuses on the sourcing part of recruiting. Given a role, it can help with candidate discovery, filtering, matching, and outreach initiation. The goal is to move sourcing from a manual, repetitive workflow into something an agent can…

    2025 · metix.ai · its alternatives →

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    This is a personal experiment that uses LLMs to rank unstructured job posting data based on user-defined criteria. Traditional job search platforms rely on rigid filtering systems, but many users lack such concrete criteria. One of the superpowers of LLMs is understanding unstructured data, like the job postings in the monthly "Ask HN: who's hiring" threads. So I built a little tool that lets you define your preferences in a more natural way and then rates each job postings based on the relevance. You can define what you're looking for in simple terms and get a custom list ranked by…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Find your next hire or your next role from Hacker News monthly threads. AI-powered matching between candidates and job postings.

    Sep 2026 · hnmatchmaker.com · its alternatives →

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    Play with hackernews' "who is hiring". Contribute to hacker-job/hacker-job development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    HireKeyfree tier, from $39/mo▲238

    Your recruiter-informed AI copilot for tech job search

    22d ago · hirekey.io · its alternatives →

  8. 8IM

    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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    JobFlow▲118

    Your AI co-pilot for job hunting

    Mar 2026 · jobflow.ink · its alternatives →

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    Improve your resume with the power of AI

    2023 · jobs-scout.com · its alternatives →

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    Web site created using create-react-app

    2024 · bernawil.github.io · its alternatives →

  12. 12JC

    My friend and I got tired of job hunting (347 applications, 4 responses) so we built AI agents to help job seekers instead of replacing them. The problem: 73% of applications never reach humans, 250+ people apply to each job, but 85% of positions are filled through networking. Our solution: AI agents that find hiring managers for any LinkedIn job, analyze your profile fit, and generate personalized outreach messages. Instead of competing with hundreds in the application pile, you reach decision-makers directly. Technical bits: LangChain + OpenAI for job parsing, Next.js + Supabase, custom…

    2025 · jobcompass.ai · its alternatives →

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    hireBrain▲128

    Where AI meets tech talent and HR/Recruitment

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Get hired faster with our AI-based job application assistant

    2023 · jobhunnt.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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    AI powered resume tweaker

    2025 · joblensai.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Meet the JobGen.AI workforce: Jenny, AI Receptionist; Jess, AI Recruitment Assistant; Olivia, Property Sales Assistant; Emma, Job Search Assistant; plus the JobGen.AI Partners program.

    2017 · jobgen.io · its alternatives →

  18. 18YA

    A search tool for Hacker News AskHN Who

    2018 · kennytilton.github.io · 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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    Supercharge your LinkedIn job search with AI-powered clarity

    Apr 2026 · joblens-ai.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21WU

    hey y'all -- can you please tell us if our job search tool sucks? :D we built it using an investor platform called Harmonic.ai to gather startup data, then contextualize it so that job seekers could find out about the most exciting startups hiring first (like if they just raised, growing headcount fast, have an ex-unicorn founder, etc). pretty sure we're the first platform doing anything like this. anyway, let me know what you think. really excited to launch this thing soon! getting feedback from the hn community first is really fun :)

    2022 · joinmaasive.com · its alternatives →

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    Hand-picked list of remote jobs from HN Who is hiring.

    2020 · remoteleaf.com · its alternatives →

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    Rank every HN 'Who is hiring?' post against your resume, then draft emails and prefill applications from a local dashboard. Runs on Claude Code. - MaxwellVolz/hn_whos_hiring

    21d ago · github.com · its alternatives →

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