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GitHired

Find Your Next 10x Engineer

Details

External ID
46178994
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
GitHired
Website domain
githired.tech
Launched
Dec. 7, 2025
Cohort
—
Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.10400763358778627
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

Hey HN - today I’m launching GitHired. A hiring platform that ranks developers based on what they actually build — not what they claim on a PDF. It’s called GitHired, and here’s the core idea: GitHub > ResumesInstead of trusting “proficient in React” bullet points, we analyze a candidate’s actual GitHub: their real tech stacktheir most complex projectshow active they arewhat kinds of contributions they makewhich skills match your job descriptionand yes, we detect fake “green square farming.”Why we built thisBecause engineering hiring is broken. Resumes are inflated. Activity charts are gamed. ATS filters reward keywords, not skill. And companies end up spending weeks interviewing the wrong people. Developers deserve a fairer signal. Recruiters deserve to know who can actually build things. And teams deserve better than guessing.We’re live today If you’re hiring engineers - or you are an engineer and want to see your “real” GitHub profile - try it. (No waitlist. No paywall surprise. Just launched.)I’d love to hear what you think — feature requests, brutal feedback, edge cases, all of it.Let’s fix dev hiring.

Enrichment

Theme
git and repository workflow tools
Vertical
HR & recruiting
Function
Marketplace
Audience
B2B
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
engineer recruiting platform
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Partial The applicant dashboard and job portal are standard, but evaluating thousands of private and public Git repositories at scale for code quality, complexity, and authenticity requires complex AST static analysis and heavy background compute pipelines.

What it would actually take: Building a real version requires an asynchronous worker architecture (e.g., Celery/Temporal with Docker sandboxes) that clones candidate repositories, parses Abstract Syntax Trees (using Tree-sitter) across multiple languages, detects commit anomalies/plagiarism, and evaluates code complexity metrics. Integrating GitHub App auth for private repository scanning while adhering to strict privacy and data-retention compliance requires enterprise backend and security engineering expertise.

Discussion

15 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: LinkedIn, Traditional recruiting/screening systems

Concerns raised: Doesn't work for developers with only private company repo experience, Git activity doesn't correlate with actual coding ability or team skills, Can't detect if someone hired someone else to populate repos, Favors bootcamp grads over experienced engineers with broad domain expertise, Misses soft skills, team dynamics, and professional experience

Feature requests: Support for prefers-reduced-motion CSS to reduce screen flashing, Summary/granola view for each engineer, Integration with LinkedIn candidate databases

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 178 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #165 of 179 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 38 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a marketplace tool for Horizontal yet.