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Tech hiring is broken on both sides, and everyone just accepts it.
Candidates hand over their full info to a platform on day one — then get cold-messaged for roles that even don't match and never see a salary number until the third call.
Recruiters, meanwhile, fly blind: they pay from 20+% of a hire's monthly salary as a success fee to such platforms/agencies... Or even worse, pay-per-job-post...
I wanted to fix the asymmetry of trust. So DevHunt is built privacy-first: a candidate's contact details stay hidden until they decide to share them in chat. Salaries are shown upfront, in plain numbers.
And recruiters get a real ATS, pipeline analytics, NPS feedbacks from candidates, and an employer-branding page — on a flat monthly subscription, not a cut of every hire.
The goal was simple: make the candidate the one in control, and give recruiters the data they've never had, and a fair price for this.
I started out building "a better job board." That framing was wrong.
The deeper I got, the clearer it became that the product isn't the listings — it's the trust model around them. Once I reframed it as "who owns the candidate's data and when," everything downstream changed: how matching works, what a recruiter can see, when contact info unlocks. The privacy-first contact flow became the spine of the whole platform rather than a feature. Is this was something new? - ofcourse not, but how we treat it is metter.
The business model shifted too. A 20+% - success-fee model quietly punishes the recruiters who hire well. Moving to a flat subscription meant the incentive is to make hiring work, not to maximize placements.
And at the end I see this product to be not a "a marketplace with listings" to "an operating system for hiring that respects everyone in the loop."
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About DevHunt on Product Hunt
“Direct tech hiring”
DevHunt was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #65 on the daily leaderboard. Connect tech companies and candidates directly. No success fee. Transparent salaries. Full candidate privacy.
DevHunt was featured in Hiring (15.3k followers), SaaS (42.5k followers) and Privacy (11.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 61.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted DevHunt?
DevHunt was hunted by Ivan Ivanov. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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