Idea checked
a reporting tool for recruiters
Recruiter reporting is a crowded subfeature, not a standalone wedge; the only live open-source projects are small and slow-moving.
Confidence: medium — There is enough signal to see existing tools and real complaints, but only 2 named open-source projects were found and both are slow-moving. No Stack Exchange data was available, and there were 0 unsolved questions and 0 stated wants in the computed counts.
- hackernews 19
- github 20
- githubissues nothing found
- discourse 2
- intent nothing found
- stackexchange unavailable
- registries 11
- tavily 10
- devto 2
3 sources came back empty — what that means
- githubissues searched, nothing relevant found
- intent searched, nothing relevant found
- stackexchange unavailable this run — HTTPStatusError: Client error '429 Too Many Requests' for url 'https:/
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 recruiting recruiter reporting (topic read as “recruiter reporting”), by year — 1 in total, currently flat.
- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
- 2024
- 2025
- 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
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Recruiterflow BI is positioned as a recruiting reporting add-on that pulls insights from CRM data for staffing agencies.
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SmartRecruiters offers reporting tools for hiring pipelines, with ATS-native reporting and team metrics.
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Talentera advertises applicant breakdowns, drill-down reports, time-to-hire, and recruiter-level metrics.
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Metaview’s blog says 2026 leaders use Greenhouse Analytics and Ashby for ATS-native reporting, Metaview Reports for interview-level data, and Looker or Tableau for cross-stack analysis.
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The only named open-source projects found were bizos-company-os at 76 stars, last push 2026-04-24, and do-not-ghost-me at 76 stars, last push 2026-03-21; both are still maintained but slow-moving.
What people actually say From data
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"I got a email for a senior Java engineer in New York, but I don't do Java and I'm not in New York. I'd love to report people like this." One HN user wanted a way to flag bad recruiter outreach.
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"I received a lot of recruiter and job marketplace spam before, but none have ever took my public information and created a public profile representing me without my consent." Another HN user complained about recruiter misuse of public data.
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"The same companies reposting the" A laid-off engineer described broken hiring patterns after 100+ applications, pointing to messy recruiter and ATS workflows.
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"I usually get bombarded by standard LinkedIn message... all with a slight twist but essentially the same, not a lot of info, I have to do a lot of research around the company," One HN user described recruiter outreach that forces candidates to do the research themselves.
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"The recruiter had copied my LinkedIn profile into a Word document and had sent it to loads of companies, including my current employer." A candidate described recruiter overreach and privacy abuse.
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"They'll stop doing it, when candidates stop beating down their door to get in." This HN comment reflects frustration with recruiter behavior, not a direct product request.
People asking to be sold to From data
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“I’d love to report people like this.” That is a direct willingness to use a reporting tool for recruiter spam.
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“Is there a website that collects these email addresses and uses them to filter emails / shame spammers?” This is a clear request for a reporting and filtering workflow.
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"When a match is found, a reply is sent informing the sender that the message is being reported as spam and will not be read." This shows a concrete behavior people are already automating.
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"I’ve received a lot of recruiter and job marketplace spam before" signals repeated pain that could justify paying for filtering or reporting.
Where the opening is Model estimate
The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.
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The signals do not show a product that turns bad recruiter outreach into a structured reporting trail with evidence, categorization, and team-level analytics.
- hackernews Ask HN: Is there a resource for reporting email addresses for spammy recruiters? 2012-08-21
- hackernews Show HN: FilterBadRecruiters – Check Gmail for 3rd party recruiter domains 2023-04-13
- tavily The Most Advanced Reporting Tool Built For Recruiting & Staffing Agencies
- tavily Customized Recruiter Reporting | Platform Tools
- tavily Reporting & Analytics - Talentera
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Existing tools mostly cover ATS dashboards, pipeline metrics, or candidate feedback reports; they do not clearly focus on candidate-side reporting of recruiter misconduct.
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The data does not show a strong open-source or community-built competitor for reporting recruiters as a specific workflow.
How big the market might be Model estimate
The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.
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This search found 2 named open-source projects, and both are slow-moving.
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There were 2 first-hand complaints and 0 stated wants in the computed counts, which is thin but real demand signal.
- hackernews Ask HN: Is there a resource for reporting email addresses for spammy recruiters? 2012-08-21
- hackernews Ask HN: Can a website take your public profile and create accounts with it? 2019-11-01
- hackernews I got laid off and realized how broken tech hiring is 2026-03-22
- hackernews Show HN: I made a platform to help modernise candidate outreach 2024-04-27
- hackernews Ask HN: Recruiter Blackmail 2014-07-17
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The largest usage-adjacent package signal was devexpress-reporting at 200,945 downloads last month, while Apollo usage-reporting-protobuf had 13,347,262 downloads last month, but those are generic reporting/telemetry signals, not recruiter-specific demand.
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There were matching discussion threads in community.n8n.io and community.openai.com, which suggests adjacent automation interest but not a big dedicated community.
What could go wrong Model estimate
The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.
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This may be a narrow pain point: people complain about recruiter spam, but the counts do not show strong intent to buy a standalone reporting product.
- hackernews Ask HN: Is there a resource for reporting email addresses for spammy recruiters? 2012-08-21
- hackernews Ask HN: Can a website take your public profile and create accounts with it? 2019-11-01
- hackernews Show HN: FilterBadRecruiters – Check Gmail for 3rd party recruiter domains 2023-04-13
- discourse Cyber Abuse deactivation appears to be a classifier false positive - requesting human review (Case ID: C-zjz01nwUQe05) 2026-07-07
- discourse 🎯 Smart Interview Prep Assistant – Automate Candidate Reports & Custom Interview Questions 2025-09-16
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A reporting tool here could drift into trust, privacy, and defamation concerns if it stores or publicizes recruiter complaints.
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The market already has adjacent ATS and BI products, so a new entrant would need a sharper candidate-side wedge than generic reporting.
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The open-source competitors are small, but the broader reporting space is crowded enough that feature parity alone will not be enough.
What to do this week Model estimate
The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.
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Build a candidate-side inbox classifier first: detect recruiter spam, label patterns, and generate a report before attempting a full recruiter reputation network.
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Start with one concrete output users asked for: a shareable report of recruiter/domain abuse with timestamps and categories.
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Test whether users want private blocking and evidence export more than public shaming or analytics.
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If you want a B2B angle, pivot to staffing agencies and recruiter teams only after proving the candidate-side reporting workflow.
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 |
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| ungden/bizos-company-os | 76 | — | Slow 2026-04-24 |
| necdetsanli/do-not-ghost-me | 76 | — | Slow 2026-03-21 |
- 2 open source
- 2 slow
- 2 first-hand complaints
- 2 communities discussing it
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.
- recruitingreports.com available
- recruitingreports.io available
- recruiting.com taken
- getrecruiting.com taken
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