Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Wife couldn't find a dev job so I built a tool to automate the search
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…
This tool automates job searching by scraping LinkedIn for new frontend developer positions and alerting users to openings, eliminating the need to manually refresh job boards throughout the day. It was created to help… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Wife couldn't find a dev job so I built a tool to automate the search launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Find your dream job, even if you've been rejected many times
2021 · szadamiak.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
- 2IM
Find information, resources and relevant links for entrylevel.io. This domain may be for sale.
2020 · entrylevel.io · 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 →
- 4IB
As someone who struggles with social anxiety, expanding my network through traditional means has always been challenging. I found existing networking apps either too spammy (LinkedIn) or too much like professional dating (Bumble Bizz), and they just didn’t work for me. About a year ago, I developed a matching system for a local startup accelerator. This system connected founders, mentors, and investors based on industries, skills, and job functions, facilitating over 5,000 meetings that led to some amazing outcomes. Inspired by this success, I enhanced the system to focus on email…
2024 · moreoverlap.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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Find your first remote developer job or internship
2020 · arc.dev · its alternatives →
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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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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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No B.S. Devs▲51Hire frontend devs in the U.S. pre-screened by frontend devs
2024 · nobsdevs.com · its alternatives →
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Job hunting while working full-time felt like running two careers at once. By the time I finished work, I barely had the energy to research the right companies, let alone tailor my resume for every role. I wanted a "Career Co-Pilot", something that didn't just list jobs, but actually did the heavy lifting of matching and applying. Most tools were just static databases or basic template editors. I couldn't find a solution that automated the entire workflow from discovery to submission. That’s when I decided to build something — the tool I wish existed when I was job hunting. I'm building this…
Jun 2026 · jobspire.co.in · its alternatives →
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Work Onward▲81A map-based hiring platform for small businesses and locals
2023 · workonward.com · 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 →
- 14WU
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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Hi HN! I'm Matt, founder of Frontend Mentor (https://www.frontendmentor.io). We provide front-end and full-stack coding challenges with professional Figma designs, enabling developers to build real projects and grow their skills. The problem: AI coding tools are great, but they can work against you when you're learning. Ask Copilot or Cursor to help with a beginner project, and they'll happily write the whole thing for you. You ship the project, but you didn't really learn anything. What we did: We added AGENTS.md (and CLAUDE.md) files to every challenge's starter code. These files…
2018 · frontendmentor.io · its alternatives →
- 17TF
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 →
- 18CA
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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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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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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The best free job search and career toolkits + 4-week cohort
2023 · roadmap.net · its alternatives →
- 23JF
2018 · jobder.net · 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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