Commerce · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Paid job search? Are you nuts?
^ 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?
Paid Job Search is a job discovery tool that leverages investor software to identify promising companies currently hiring. The platform helps job seekers find exciting employment opportunities by analyzing company data… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Paid job search? Are you nuts? launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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2018 · letstalkalgorithms.com · 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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Track and organize your entire job search in one place.
2020 · tealhq.com · its alternatives →
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I have some friends who were laid off and are on the job hunt. We were all quite surprised to learn that LinkedIn does not have a "view jobs only at companies where I have connections", so I built https://jobsbyreferral.com/ It's powered by https://rapidapi.com/letscrape-6bRBa3QguO5/api/jsearch, which is a little pricey, so I'm trying to decide whether to put more effort into the project (I'd have to charge _something_ to offset the costs).
2025 · jobsbyreferral.com · its alternatives →
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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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2015 · trycatch.cc · 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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We built this database using the same software investors use to discover startups. My friends and I really wanted to know which startups to work for. Are we on the right track? PS - there's a paywall but if you want to explore more, just DM me your email and I'll send you a free access code! Thank you so much.
2023 · usemassive.com · its alternatives →
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Social job search - join to help reveal which jobs are live
2023 · its alternatives →
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2016 · benchurch.me · 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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PayScope▲63Resume-based salary estimate from real-time market data
2025 · payscope.ai · its alternatives →
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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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AppliedTrack▲57Your Partner in Navigating the Job Market
2024 · appliedtrack.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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freehire▲15The open-source job search that covers every board
Aug 2026 · freehire.me · its alternatives →
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Hello Hackers, I built this webapp over a weekend and launched on May 11 to help (also to impress) my cousins and friends who were obsessed with high paying jobs. As a matter of fact they look for high paying jobs everyday. Currently, a few thousand websites(including YC Jobs) are crawled to find high paying jobs. That number will go way up in the coming months. Remarks and suggestions are most welcome. Thanks
2023 · 10xjobs.net · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I got tired of the existing means of finding jobs, so I created a platform that searches company job portals directly for the latest job postings. Originally it was meant for just software engineers, but I've expanded to a larger variety of careers. It's entirely free to use, you can create an account to keep track of the jobs you apply to with the job tracker. I'd love to hear what you all think, and what your experience has been as a job seeker. https://radar.jobs Thanks, Ross
2025 · radar.jobs · its alternatives →
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