hn who's hiring — uk startups
i run this monthly to find early-stage uk startups actively hiring — companies i want to work with.
the problem
hacker news hiring threads are a goldmine for early-stage startup intelligence — but manually filtering thousands of posts for uk roles, then checking each company's funding stage, takes hours every month. there was no systematic way to do this at scale.
the approach
- 01 fetch
pulls the current month's hacker news "who's hiring" thread in full.
- 02 pre-filter
removes non-uk posts before any ai calls — cuts costs significantly without missing relevant roles.
- 03 extract
claude identifies company name, open roles, tech stack, and location from each uk post.
- 04 funding check
cross-references each company against crunchbase. series b and later are filtered out — this feed is early-stage only. companies with no crunchbase data are kept by default.
- 05 log
results write to google sheets sorted newest-first, deduplicated by comment id.
the workflow
