A job board with standards

Every ask, newest first

Each line is an AI paraphrase of what the writer wanted. The link goes to their own words on Hacker News.

Reader’s note. No-leetcode is the most common filter; some would pay as candidates.

1. Aug 2026Wants a job board of companies vetted for pragmatic engineering culture, not over-engineered microservice shops. Read it: a comment in “Choose Boring Technology (2015)”
2. Mar 2025Wants a comprehensive list of startups where engineers choose what to build. Read it: a comment in “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)”
3. Feb 2025Wants a job site for finding small, niche companies with long-lived software products. Read it: a comment in “20 years working on the same software product”
4. Oct 2024Would pay as a job seeker for a vetted job board that protects against ghost listings. Read it: a comment in “Ghost jobs are wreaking havoc on tech workers”
5. Feb 2024Wants a list of companies that skip the leetcode-style interview process. Read it: a comment in “How to hire low experience, high potential people”
6. May 2023Wants a job board where interviews are only realistic, context-specific take-home tests, not leetcode. Read it: a comment in “The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs”
7. Jul 2022Wants a job board showing only jobs worth caring about. Read it: a comment in “Giving a shit as a service”
8. Mar 2022Wants a list of medium-to-large companies with fully remote options. Read it: a comment in “Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th”
9. Aug 2020Wants a list of companies that purposely avoid leetcode in hiring. Read it: a comment in “A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode”
10. May 2020Would pay $10-20 monthly for a job board listing pay upfront, with no vague ranges. Read it: a comment in “Show HN: Devslist – Browse hundreds of remote developer jobs in one place”
11. Jun 2019Wants a job board for tech with no leetcode-style hiring. Read it: a comment in “Show HN: A job board for companies fighting ageism in tech”
12. Jan 2019Would pay for a Glassdoor-style job board showing only jobs with good work/life balance, inferred from commit patterns. Read it: a comment in “Do they have work/life balance? Investigating potential employers with GitHub”
13. May 2018Wants a site classifying companies by onboarding, quiet workspace, clear requirements, salary range, remote policy and interview process. Read it: a comment in “Show HN: Whiteboardfree – Developer Jobs at Companies That Don't Whiteboard”
14. Feb 2013Wants to find companies that interview without puzzle questions, as a career changer who froze on algorithm interviews. Read it: a comment in “Why we don't hire programmers based on puzzles and tricks”
15. Jun 2012Wants a job site that requires company name, salary and location in every listing. Read it: a comment in “The Recruiter Honeypot”
16. May 2012Wants a list of tech companies with better-than-average representation of women. Read it: a comment in “In war for talent, 'brogrammers' will be losers”
17. Jun 2010Wants a non-recruiter service that matches them to companies by the characteristics they seek. Read it: a post: “Ask HN: How did you find your company & job?”
18. Oct 2009Wants a job board highlighting companies with distributed teams that do not require relocation. Read it: a comment in “Being Successful as a Distributed Team”