I was tired of wasting engineer time on screening calls so I built Niju
Details
- External ID
- 45801221
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I was tired of wasting engineer time on screening calls so I built Niju
- Website domain
- niju.dev
- Launched
- Nov. 3, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 14
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5938864628820961
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- HR & recruiting
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ai screening for recruitment interviews
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The system records candidate screens/audio, runs code in a standard sandboxed runner, and generates LLM summaries and transcripts, all of which rely on standard third-party APIs.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: HackerRank, Take-home exercises, CV filtering, HR screening calls
Concerns raised: AI judges candidates without transparency or feedback, Candidates lose ability to make human impression, Companies will screen excessive candidates, wasting applicant time, Pressure and stress of being judged by unknown AI, No differentiation between candidates, reducing funnel quality
Feature requests: Provide feedback to candidates from AI screening, Make AI evaluation criteria transparent, Reduce time commitment required from candidates, Tailor assessments for company-specific needs
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 42 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #18 of 43 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 5 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a workflow automation tool for Real estate yet.