When I first pitched this idea to Y Combinator, Michael Seibel called it, and I quote, “a bullshit idea.”
But we built it anyway. Because we had to.
I’ve launched and shut down startups, and one truth has become painfully clear: Your hiring decisions will make or break your company.
Yet picking the right applicant feels like a gamble. Anyone who’s opened a job post lately knows the feeling: an overwhelming flood of applicants, and no real way to know who’s actually good.
At RocketDevs, a staffing company, we felt this every single day. Vetting wasn’t just part of our job; it was THE entire business. To scale it, I would have had to duct-tape eight overpriced tools together and pray they didn’t break.
So we built Hivemind 🐝🧠. First for ourselves, and now for you.
IF the goal of an ATS is to find the best candidates that apply,
THEN Hivemind is the best on the market. By an order of magnitude.
It’s the first car in a market full of horses.
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"The first car" is a bold claim. So, what's under the hood?
Hivemind is the first agentic recruiting platform. That’s just a fancy way of saying we combined powerful AI with smart, automated workflows.
Here’s why that matters.
Think about every ATS on the market today. Strip away the UI, and what are you left with? A glorified spreadsheet. A candidate applies, and they just sit there in a list. The system doesn't do anything until you do. It's a dead tool, and all the work still falls on you.
Hivemind is workflow-first. This means it’s alive ⚡
The moment a candidate applies, Hivemind kicks into action based on the process you define. It screens the resume, sends a skill assessment, follows up, and schedules the interview. It's a proactive agent working for you 24/7.
We are laser-focused on skill-based vetting. Which means Hivemind comes loaded with tens of thousands of expert-designed questions covering 1,200 roles, ready to deploy with any workflow.
You give it a stack of applicants. It gives you back a ranked shortlist of vetted candidates, ready for you to talk to.
Just add the Hivemind link to your job post and come back a week later ✅
__________________________________________
Here’s what it can do:
It ranks resumes and profiles against the job description.
It proctors and grades well-designed skill assessments across 1,200 roles.
It auto-routes candidates based on their scores.
It proctors personality assessments (Clifton, Briggs-Myers) and grade against the role
It automatically follows up with dropped-off candidates.
It schedules interviews based on your calendar.
It co-pilots your in-person interviews! (Zoom + Google Meets).
It co-pilots voice calls and takes notes (Beta).
It straight up calls candidates and does phone interviews.
It collects all feedback and uploads it to a central report card for each candidate.
It funnels all matters that require your review into one inbox.
It is 100% customizable. Simple when you need it, and powerful when you need more.
__________________________________________
Isn't recruiting still a people-based process?
Absolutely. Hivemind is designed to put you in the driver’s seat. We built "Manual Review (a centralized inbox inspired by Superhuman) where you can jump in at any stage. You get the final say; Hivemind just does the tedious work for you. It also includes powerful copilot features that capture insights from your conversations and upload them directly to a central report card.
__________________________________________
Who It’s For
Founders scaling without a dedicated recruiter
Global companies getting 1000+ applicants a day
Anyone tired of résumé roulette, guesswork, and time drain
__________________________________________
A One-Time Deal for the Product Hunt Community 💰
We've been bootstrapping Hivemind for two years, obsessed with solving this problem. To celebrate our launch and thank this community for its support, we’re doing something we’ll never do again.
We are offering a $199 lifetime license. Seriously. 🎁
This isn't a recurring sale or a seasonal discount. This offer is available exclusively for our Product Hunt launch.
This deal will end permanently at midnight on August 29th. Once it's gone, it's gone forever.
To claim your lifetime license, sign up at gethivemind.ai
__________________________________________
I'm not on Twitter, but you can always DM me on LinkedIn (Ali Elzeiny). If you message me with a feature request, there's a good chance I'll build it.
I've also been making content on YouTube recently. I just posted a deep-dive video on how we used Reddit Ads to bootstrap RocketDevs to $5M ARR, achieving a 10-18x ROAS. If you're looking for growth hacks, check it out.
And of course, a huge shoutout to the team. Bootstrapping a product is like eating a shit sandwich every day 😅 I’m blessed to work with engineers who obsess over every pixel, every workflow, and every user ❤️
Congrats on the launch of Hivemind! 🚀 It’s truly exciting to see a platform that takes recruitment to the next level with AI-powered workflows and skill-based vetting. The idea of automating and streamlining the hiring process while keeping human oversight is a game-changer for scaling teams. Love the vision behind this, especially for founders and global companies overwhelmed by the applicant flood. Wishing you continued success as you revolutionize recruitment! 🙌
Looking great! Automating resume screening, testing, and interview scheduling all in one place feels like a huge time saver for founders and small teams also appreciate that there’s still a manual review option.
The absence of criticism often indicates lack of impact. Kudos on launching HiveMind
From applicant pile to precision shortlist, this tool vets candidates and ranks them by signal, not noise. Fast, focused hiring without the guesswork.
🚀 "Skill-based hiring on autopilot" sounds powerful! Here are a few comment-style suggestions you could use depending on tone:
Professional:
👉 Hire smarter, not harder — let skills drive the process while automation does the heavy lifting.
Engaging/Marketing:
⚡ Say goodbye to guesswork! Skill-based hiring on autopilot = faster, fairer, and future-ready recruitment.
Short & Catchy:
🎯 Skills over resumes. Automation over
Tested with my gaming studio. Reduced our need to sift over 1k+ candidates to the top 30 candidates we were hiring for. Amazing product!
Congrats @ali_elzeiny Huge respect for the journey - we even covered your story on LaunchPerk Magazine! 👉 http://bit.ly/3HW79Ao
Love it. To achieve functional goal of a business, team scaling is a must. Proper automation will help to speed up. Congrats on the launch (:
There are starting to be new legislation popping up where it's now mandatory to provide interviewers a chance to opt out from AI evaluated video interviews (e.g. Ontario, Canada). Are there ways to integrate an "opt-out" option within the HiveMind workflow?
Looks like a really promising tool for streamlining the recruiting process! Automating repetitive tasks can save a ton of time for hiring teams.
Thanks for the demo earlier! Loved being able to build my own drag-and-drop hiring workflow and having AI evaluate resumes + further assess candidates based on my criteria. We're definitely coming on board!
This feels like a big time-saver for hiring teams. Does HiveMind plug directly into ATS platforms, or is it more of a standalone layer right now?
Hey PH, I’m Ali Elzeiny 👋
Bootstrapping RocketDevs 🚀 ($5M ARR).
Launching Hivemind 🧠($0M ARR).
When I first pitched this idea to Y Combinator, Michael Seibel called it, and I quote, “a bullshit idea.”
But we built it anyway. Because we had to.
I’ve launched and shut down startups, and one truth has become painfully clear:
Your hiring decisions will make or break your company.
Yet picking the right applicant feels like a gamble. Anyone who’s opened a job post lately knows the feeling: an overwhelming flood of applicants, and no real way to know who’s actually good.
At RocketDevs, a staffing company, we felt this every single day. Vetting wasn’t just part of our job; it was THE entire business. To scale it, I would have had to duct-tape eight overpriced tools together and pray they didn’t break.
So we built Hivemind 🐝🧠. First for ourselves, and now for you.
IF the goal of an ATS is to find the best candidates that apply,
THEN Hivemind is the best on the market. By an order of magnitude.
It’s the first car in a market full of horses.
__________________________________________
"The first car" is a bold claim. So, what's under the hood?
Hivemind is the first agentic recruiting platform. That’s just a fancy way of saying we combined powerful AI with smart, automated workflows.
Here’s why that matters.
Think about every ATS on the market today. Strip away the UI, and what are you left with? A glorified spreadsheet. A candidate applies, and they just sit there in a list. The system doesn't do anything until you do. It's a dead tool, and all the work still falls on you.
Hivemind is workflow-first. This means it’s alive ⚡
The moment a candidate applies, Hivemind kicks into action based on the process you define. It screens the resume, sends a skill assessment, follows up, and schedules the interview. It's a proactive agent working for you 24/7.
We are laser-focused on skill-based vetting. Which means Hivemind comes loaded with tens of thousands of expert-designed questions covering 1,200 roles, ready to deploy with any workflow.
You give it a stack of applicants. It gives you back a ranked shortlist of vetted candidates, ready for you to talk to.
Just add the Hivemind link to your job post and come back a week later ✅
__________________________________________
Here’s what it can do:
It ranks resumes and profiles against the job description.
It proctors and grades well-designed skill assessments across 1,200 roles.
It auto-routes candidates based on their scores.
It proctors personality assessments (Clifton, Briggs-Myers) and grade against the role
It automatically follows up with dropped-off candidates.
It schedules interviews based on your calendar.
It co-pilots your in-person interviews! (Zoom + Google Meets).
It co-pilots voice calls and takes notes (Beta).
It straight up calls candidates and does phone interviews.
It collects all feedback and uploads it to a central report card for each candidate.
It funnels all matters that require your review into one inbox.
It is 100% customizable. Simple when you need it, and powerful when you need more.
__________________________________________
Isn't recruiting still a people-based process?
Absolutely. Hivemind is designed to put you in the driver’s seat. We built "Manual Review (a centralized inbox inspired by Superhuman) where you can jump in at any stage. You get the final say; Hivemind just does the tedious work for you. It also includes powerful copilot features that capture insights from your conversations and upload them directly to a central report card.
__________________________________________
Who It’s For
Founders scaling without a dedicated recruiter
Global companies getting 1000+ applicants a day
Anyone tired of résumé roulette, guesswork, and time drain
__________________________________________
A One-Time Deal for the Product Hunt Community 💰
We've been bootstrapping Hivemind for two years, obsessed with solving this problem. To celebrate our launch and thank this community for its support, we’re doing something we’ll never do again.
We are offering a $199 lifetime license. Seriously. 🎁
This isn't a recurring sale or a seasonal discount. This offer is available exclusively for our Product Hunt launch.
This deal will end permanently at midnight on August 29th. Once it's gone, it's gone forever.
To claim your lifetime license, sign up at gethivemind.ai
__________________________________________
I'm not on Twitter, but you can always DM me on LinkedIn (Ali Elzeiny). If you message me with a feature request, there's a good chance I'll build it.
I've also been making content on YouTube recently. I just posted a deep-dive video on how we used Reddit Ads to bootstrap RocketDevs to $5M ARR, achieving a 10-18x ROAS. If you're looking for growth hacks, check it out.
A big thank you to @rohanrecommends for hunting us!
And of course, a huge shoutout to the team. Bootstrapping a product is like eating a shit sandwich every day 😅 I’m blessed to work with engineers who obsess over every pixel, every workflow, and every user ❤️