Show HN: Apply for jobs by directly emailing relevant people at a company
A tool that helps job seekers bypass traditional application portals by finding and emailing relevant employees at a target company. Users enter a company name and position, and the tool provides email addresses and LinkedIn profiles of relevant people, enabling personalized outreach directly from the user's own email account.
Background
This is a Show HN post — a category on Hacker News where founders share side projects or startups they've built. The pitch is a tool that bypasses standard job portals (LinkedIn, Indeed) by letting applicants email specific people inside a target company directly. The implied logic: most applicants use one-click "Easy Apply" systems, so a personal email to a hiring manager, team lead, or recruiter stands out. The tool claims to automatically find those people's email addresses and LinkedIn profiles, then send personalized emails from the user's own account. Key context: cold emailing for jobs is a known tactic (sometimes called "sniper hunting" vs "spray and pray"), but scraping email addresses at scale raises questions about data privacy and platform terms of service (especially LinkedIn). The HN audience will likely discuss the legality of email scraping, email deliverability (getting flagged as spam), and whether this is clever hustle or just spam-as-a-service.