Idea checked

an analytics dashboard for recruiters

Recruiting dashboards are already crowded, but the data does not show a clear recruiter-specific product that is meaningfully different from generic analytics or ATS add-ons.

Confidence: medium — There is some real market activity: 2 named package competitors, 20 GitHub repos, 2 first-hand complaints, and several HN/tavily mentions. But there are no stated buying wants and no unsolved Stack Exchange questions, so the evidence for an urgent unmet need is thin.

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2026-08-01
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hackernews 9
github 20
githubissues 2
discourse nothing found
intent nothing found
stackexchange nothing found
registries 16
tavily 7
devto 2

3 sources came back empty — what that means

discourse searched, nothing relevant found
intent searched, nothing relevant found
stackexchange searched, nothing relevant found

Treat the report as weaker where a source is missing. Nothing here was substituted from somewhere else to fill the gap.

Interest over time From data

Hacker News stories mentioning recruiter analytics dashboard (topic read as “recruiter analytics”), by year — 2 in total, currently rising.

0 2021
0 2022
0 2023
0 2024
1 2025
1 2026

This counts discussion on Hacker News, not global search demand. For developer tooling the two move together; for a local service business they do not.

Who is already building this From data

@kong-ui-public/dashboard-renderer is a live npm package with 150,647 monthly downloads; it renders analytics charts from a JSON definition.
- registries npm: @kong-ui-public/dashboard-renderer 2026-07-31
survey-analytics is a live npm package with 101,288 monthly downloads; it visualizes and analyzes survey data with charts and tables.
- registries npm: survey-analytics 2026-07-28
TalentBridgePro is a GitHub recruiting platform with 28 stars and a last push in 2025-12-27; it includes AI-powered ATS scoring, search, notifications, and analytics dashboards.
- github PranavPatel2105/TalentBridgePro-Using-MVC 2025-12-27
Smart-GitHub-Portfolio-Analyzer has 4 stars and was last pushed in 2026-07-25; it targets recruiters with portfolio analysis, recruiter insights, and PDF reports.
- github Dhiya326/Smart-GitHub-Portfolio-Analyzer 2026-07-19
Employer_dashboard has 4 stars and was last pushed in 2026-03-03; it is a Python recruitment data visualization app for hiring analytics from CSV files.
- github shubham-yadav-07/Employer_dashboard 2026-03-03
Mayzax has 2 stars and was last pushed in 2026-08-02; it includes a real-time analytics dashboard inside an ATS for recruiters and admins.
- github 7even-7even/Mayzax 2026-07-03

What people actually say From data

"Recruiters currently manage applicants but lack insights into job performance." This is a first-hand complaint asking for metrics like total applicants, shortlist rate, rejection ratio, and applications per job.
- githubissues Create analytics dashboard for recruiters 2026-06-12
"I receive 50+ LinkedIn requests weekly. About half are recruiters with legitimate opportunities. The other half are MLM pitches, life coaches, and \"passive income\" schemes." This HN post shows recruiters are part of a noisy, high-volume workflow, though it is about inbox triage rather than analytics.
- hackernews Request Radar – Classify LinkedIn invitations as recruiters or spam 2026-01-30
"Business users are drowning in reports, dashboards, and BI tools that are slow to deliver insights." This HN discussion is about BI more broadly, not recruiting specifically.
- hackernews Conversational BI for Data and Documents 2025-08-28
"We can visualize data LinkedIn won't show its users." This HN comment is about hidden LinkedIn analytics, which is adjacent to recruiter dashboards.
- hackernews Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020) 2020-08-06

People asking to be sold to From data

"Metrics: Total applicants Shortlisted candidates Rejection ratio Applications per job Most active branches" This is a concrete feature request from the recruiter dashboard complaint.
- githubissues Create analytics dashboard for recruiters 2026-06-12
"Analytics dashboards" appears repeatedly inside recruiting products and portfolio tools aimed at recruiters, which suggests people expect analytics to be part of the workflow rather than a separate category.
"Recruiters and hiring managers in specialized industries" is an explicit audience request for a recruiter-focused platform with pipeline and analytics features.
- githubissues Create a recruiter-focused platform with applicant tracking, candidate sourcing, and interview scheduling for a specific industry like healthcare or finance Au 2026-01-31

Where the opening is Model estimate

The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.

The signals do not show a product that is clearly built only for recruiters and centered on decision metrics across ATS, source-of-hire, rejection reasons, and branch-level performance; most existing tools are ATSs, HR suites, or generic dashboard components.
There is no evidence here of a recruiter analytics product that connects multiple hiring systems and gives one live view of funnel health; the evidence mostly shows single-system dashboards or demo projects.
The data also does not show a strong niche angle such as recruiter analytics for one industry, one ATS, or one workflow stage beyond the generic idea of a hiring dashboard.

How big the market might be Model estimate

The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.

This search found 2 named package competitors, 20 GitHub repos, and 2 first-hand complaints, but 0 unsolved questions and 0 stated wants.
The largest monthly package download count seen was 150,647 for @kong-ui-public/dashboard-renderer; survey-analytics had 101,288 downloads a month.
- registries npm: @kong-ui-public/dashboard-renderer 2026-07-31
- registries npm: survey-analytics 2026-07-28
There are at least several communities discussing the topic: GitHub issues, Hacker News, and product pages in Tavily all point to recurring recruiting-dashboard and hiring-metrics content.
The repo set is small in quality signal: most GitHub projects have 1-5 stars, with only one example above 20 stars.

What could go wrong Model estimate

The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.

This may be too close to generic ATS, HR analytics, or BI dashboard software to support a standalone product unless it has a very specific data source or outcome.
The strongest explicit need is only one complaint with 3 comments, so urgency looks limited from this search.
- githubissues Create analytics dashboard for recruiters 2026-06-12
A dashboard alone is easy to copy because dashboard components and recruiting examples already exist in packages, Docker images, and many small repos.

What to do this week Model estimate

The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.

Narrow it to one recruiting system and one job-to-fill workflow, then prove you can answer the exact metrics named in the complaint: total applicants, shortlisted candidates, rejection ratio, applications per job, and active branches.
- githubissues Create analytics dashboard for recruiters 2026-06-12
Interview recruiters who actually use ATS/HR tools and ask which metric they still pull into spreadsheets, because the current signals do not prove a broad unmet need.
Build a thin prototype that ingests one ATS export and produces a live funnel dashboard, then test whether recruiters would pay for that instead of using a generic BI tool.

Competitor strength From data

Counted, not judged. Only projects that expose a hard number — stars, downloads, last commit — appear here, so they stop looking identical to each other. Products with no public metrics are discussed above instead of being given a row they cannot fill.

Project	Stars	Downloads / mo	Activity
npm: @kong-ui-public/dashboard-renderer npm	—	150,647	—
npm: survey-analytics npm	—	101,288	—

2 package
2 first-hand complaints

Domain names From data

Checked live against the registry, built from the subject of the idea rather than the first words of the sentence. A literal check is a fact; a brandable suggestion would be noise.

recruiteranalytics.com taken
recruiteranalytics.io available
recruiter.com taken
getrecruiter.com taken

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