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Show HN: Hnwork.app – UI for Who is hiring posts

A developer built hnwork.app, a structured UI on top of Hacker News' "Who is hiring" posts, offering text search, filters, analytics, and an API. Job posters can create verified accounts with structured postings (requiring salary range), and job seekers can browse without signing up or create accounts for comments and API access.

Background

- Every month, Hacker News (HN, a massive tech-community news aggregator run by Y Combinator) publishes a "Who is hiring?" thread — an unstructured text post where companies list job openings in the comments. It's popular but notoriously hard to search or filter because it's just raw text. - This tool (hnwork.app) is a third-party UI built on top of those threads, adding search, filters, salary requirements, analytics, and an API. It's the creator's side project, originally conceived at a YC hackathon. - The post is a "Show HN" — a tradition on Hacker News where makers present their projects to the community for feedback. The audience is mostly engineers, founders, and tech workers who both use the hiring threads and build tools like this. - Similar tools have existed before (e.g., whoishiring.io), but the space keeps getting reattempted because the official threads remain intentionally minimalist and unstructured.

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