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I was tired of wasting engineer time on screening calls so I built Niju

Details

External ID
45801221
Source
HN
Company
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Product
I was tired of wasting engineer time on screening calls so I built Niju
Website domain
niju.dev
Launched
Nov. 3, 2025
Cohort
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Upvotes
14
Upvotes percentile
0.5938864628820961
Tags
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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.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a workflow automation tool for Real estate yet.