Fixing how developers get hired with daily.dev recruiter

For years, we’ve watched tech recruiting drift into chaos. Spammy LinkedIn messages. Outdated resumes. Endless ghosting. Recruiters chasing candidates who never respond, and developers drowning in noise. It’s a broken loop that wastes everyone’s time and burns trust on both sides.

Today, we’re announcing daily.dev Recruiter - a new way to hire developers built on top of the world’s largest developer network. Not another job board. Not another sourcing tool. A trust-first, intent-driven hiring engine that connects recruiters and developers through mutual opt-in introductions, not cold outreach.

Why we built this

We’ve spent years earning the trust of over a million developers who use daily.dev to learn, grow, and stay sharp every day. That trust is sacred and we’re using it to fix one of the biggest pain points in the tech ecosystem: how great developers find (and are found for) great opportunities.

Recruiting should be built on context, not spam. Developers shouldn’t have to sift through irrelevant offers from strangers who don’t understand their work. Recruiters shouldn’t have to guess what someone wants based on a static resume or an outdated LinkedIn profile.

With daily.dev Recruiter, we’re turning real developer behavior (what people read, follow, and build) into high-signal matches. We help recruiters understand who a developer is now, not just who they were years ago.

The current system is broken

Tech recruiting has two modes: fishing and hunting.

Fishing means posting jobs and waiting. You get a flood of applications, mostly unqualified, because the best people aren’t actively looking.

Hunting means cold outreach - scouring LinkedIn, firing off InMails, and praying for a response. It’s a grind that burns goodwill and yields little.

LinkedIn became the default tool for both, and it’s showing cracks everywhere:

• Recruiters pay more every year for weaker results.
• Developers ignore messages because they’re flooded with spam.
• Profiles are self-reported, outdated, and unverified.
• Search is clunky, filters are limited, and real intent is invisible.

Recruiters are frustrated, developers are jaded, and the entire system has lost trust. We can do better.

What makes daily.dev different

daily.dev isn’t a database - it’s a living network. Developers start their day with us, stay informed, and engage deeply with content and community. We see real signals of skill, curiosity, and intent that no resume can capture.

We’ve turned those signals into a new kind of recruiting workflow:

1. Smart matching: Our system identifies developers whose current engagement, skills, and interests align with the role.
2. Candidate opt-in: Only those who say “yes” are surfaced to recruiters.
3. Double opt-in intro: We facilitate mutual introductions, ensuring both sides actually want to talk.

That’s it. No cold DMs. No guessing. No ghosting.

Recruiters get warm intros to qualified, interested developers. Developers get opportunities that fit their direction, not just their past.

You can see it in action at recruiter.daily.dev

For recruiters

• Hire where developers actually are, not where they were.
• Cut your screens per hire in half.
• Reach the passive candidates LinkedIn will never show you.
• Stop burning time on cold sourcing and start closing high-intent conversations.

For developers

• Stay in control. Only engage with roles that match your interests.
• Be discovered for who you are today, not for an outdated job title.
• Explore opportunities without being spammed.
• Every introduction is opt-in, high-context, and human.

Why this matters

Recruiting is one of the biggest, most stagnant markets in tech. LinkedIn owns it by default, not by merit. Its monopoly has created complacency - rising prices, stale data, declining trust.

We’re not trying to replace LinkedIn’s database. We’re building what comes next: a developer-first hiring protocol based on trust, signal, and intent.

Developers already live on daily.dev. That changes everything. We don’t need to scrape profiles or beg for attention. We can simply help the right opportunities find the right people, at the right time, through a network developers already love.

Our mission

Trust is our moat. We protect it at all costs.

Most recruiting tools burn trust to scale - we’ll scale because we protect it. daily.dev has always been the place where developers go to learn and grow, not to be sold or spammed. daily.dev Recruiter extends that ethos into the hiring world.

Our goal is to make hiring feel human again. To make intros meaningful, not transactional. To fix what recruiters hate about sourcing and what developers hate about being sourced.

If you’re hiring engineers, designers, or data folks - and you want to do it with precision and respect - you can join the pilot today at recruiter.daily.dev.

We’re building the future of developer hiring from first principles. No spam. No guesswork. Just trust, intent, and outcomes.