Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to The Five Year Itch
Show HN: Experienced software engineers who want to change jobs after a few years need a service targeted at them, that won't make them chase ads nor swamp them with recruiter spam. We built FiveYearItch.com We're wondering: Does this meet a need for the stable, experienced, skilled, but non-rockstar programmers?
The Five Year Itch is a job board for experienced software engineers seeking to change positions after several years in their current role. It targets stable, skilled developers who want to avoid job listing ads and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Five Year Itch launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1AF
I've seen some interests in (simulation) video games here on HN so I thought I'd share a short version of our story. More than 6 years ago, me and my friend from university were playing around with an idea of making a game we always wanted to play. We worked on it on weekends but the progress was quite slow, especially due to so many dead ends and wasted effort. Eventually however, we solidified our direction and decided to take the risk to resign from our well paid SWE jobs and work on it full time. It took more than a year but yesterday we have finally released it on Steam:…
2022 · its alternatives →
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2019 · nocsok.com · its alternatives →
- 4BJ
2020 · bigoofn.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · noageismintech.com · its alternatives →
- 6IM
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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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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After a four year journey, the book I wrote to help junior and mid-level programmers earn their first promotion was published today . The book is titled Junior to Senior: Career Advice for the Ambitious Programmer and is now available on Holloway’s website[0]. I truly believe that soft-skills are what makes the difference between a good programmer and a great one. I also believe that anyone can learn the soft-skills needed to accelerate their programming career. I wish I’d had better resources to learn these things in the early years of my career and I’m hoping this book will become a useful…
2022 · holloway.com · its alternatives →
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index.dev▲188Hire 5% of engineering talent vetted from 200k+ candidates
2023 · workspace.index.dev · its alternatives →
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GradPipe▲84Find engineers who never apply by actual github code
Mar 2026 · gradpipe.com · its alternatives →
- 11JD
Land your dream offer in 100 days. Jobsearch course for engineers in major tech hubs. Training in the Mental Game, Communication, and nailing the Algorithms, UI, System Design, Experience Interviews.
2019 · course.jobsearch.dev · its alternatives →
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- 13IM
Buy and Sell Software Apps • Borderline.biz
2021 · borderline.biz · its alternatives →
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Your 1 year, CS degree replacement. Job Guaranteed.
2015 · chegg.com · its alternatives →
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Start your journey in the IT world and build your career
2023 · lastingdynamics.com · its alternatives →
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I started JobBoardSearch about four years ago as a simple directory of niche job boards (A static HTML file with a dozen job boards) One particular think I'm proud of: I didn't scrape these niche job boards and add them to a dabatabase. The 800+ job boards currently listed were submitted organically by their ownres. Lots of their job boards provide a job feed (API, XML or RSS), I fetch those feeds and use the data in serveral different ways. Each job board has its own page in JBS, where I show jobs from that board. I call this the "meta" part of the site. The same feed powers a few other…
2022 · jobboardsearch.com · its alternatives →
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IT job board built with software engineers in mind
2021 · devitjobs.jobcopilot.com · its alternatives →
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GrepJob▲15Hi everyone, I built GrepJob because I got frustrated with the user experience of LinkedIn/Indeed while looking for a new SWE job. Specifically: 1) Not being able to trust the date posted of any job. The date shown on LinkedIn is often the date the job was reposted by the recruiter and 2) Being shown too many irrelevant jobs. For example, I get shown senior/staff level roles when I search for "Software Engineer II" GrepJob solves 1) by populating the date_posted time directly from each company's ATS system And 2) by extracting seniority, specialty (frontend, backend, etc.), and…
2025 · grepjob.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 →
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- 22KJ
Hi HN, When my daughter got born this year I decided to take 6 months off to be at home with my new daughter and spend the first few months together with her and my wife to be hands on in those first few crucial months. Throughout that time I always kept an eye on the job market so I could stay in the loop and better gauge what my prospects would be to go back into work later, not least because of the economic turmoil. However, I got immensely frustrated with existing job boards advertising software developer jobs. I didn't feel like they included a lot of information which engineers…
2022 · keyboardjobs.com · its alternatives →
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Quick analysis of start up hiring trends for the past ~6 years.
2024 · docs.google.com · its alternatives →
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Tech jobs so hot they’ll make your GitHub repo blush.
2024 · jobs.hackerpulse.io · its alternatives →
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