Our TeamJust two friends building a job search engine that we would want.
Ali Mir
Ali MirProduct, dev, design, marketing, & support. Prev at Meta, Doordash, and Rippling.LinkedIn
Hamed Nilforoshan
Hamed NilforoshanData science, machine learning, & strategy. CS PhD at Stanford. Prev at Airbnb & Snapchat.
Why we started HiringCafe

Try this experiment—go to any job board, from Indeed to LinkedIn, and search for a job. You’ll encounter plenty of job postings, but the user experience is so poor that you’ll likely lose interest after a few searches.

From irrelevant search results to outdated job postings, to full-on scams and jobs posted by agencies on behalf of other companies, it’s a complete mess. So, we decided to build a job site that we would want to use ourselves. A job site that delivers near-perfect search results, has super advanced search filters, and is free of scams.

After several weeks of iteration, we launched our first version on Blind (view post ) and Reddit (view post). Our post on Blind brought us to the front page of the app, and our Reddit post reached the top of the r/ChatGPT subreddit. We gained so much traction that our systems crashed, and we had to shut down for a few weeks to redesign our architecture. We hadn't anticipated such a response, but we were thrilled to see it!

Since then, we've been iterating constantly and consistently delivering a product that is one step closer to our vision. We've developed a platform that we're proud of, and we're excited to share it with you!

Popularity100% word-of-mouth, organic growth.