🧑💼 Hirestack
The hiring pipeline a small company actually needs.
Hirestack at a glance
| Price | $49, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | Greenhouse / BambooHR at $100s/mo — roughly $2,400 a year, every year |
| Type | Self-hosted web app |
| Platforms | Your own server (VPS / Docker), any browser |
| Category | Business Operations |
Hirestack features
📢 Job postings
Title, description, location and type; each gets a clean public URL the moment you publish.
🌐 Public careers page
Auto-generated at /careers, brandable, server-rendered and fully HTML-escaped.
📝 Application form
Name, email, phone, cover letter and a resume upload with a 10MB cap and file-type validation.
📋 Pipeline kanban
Drag candidate cards between applied, screening, interview, offer, hired and rejected.
⭐ Candidate profiles
Resume download, star rating, tags, cover letter and full history in one place.
🗒️ Notes and email log
Multi-user notes plus a paste-in email thread log per candidate.
🎯 Interview scorecards
A simple rubric: criteria rated 1-5 with comments, per interviewer.
🔎 Cross-job search
Filter every candidate you have ever had by text, stage, tag or minimum rating.
$49 once — that's the whole pricing page
Greenhouse / BambooHR charges $100s/mo — roughly $2,400 a year, every year. Hirestack is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Hirestack inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Hirestack guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — Hirestack is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/applicant-tracker-mvp. The $49 buys the packaged Windows installer and updates; building from source is free.
Where do resumes and candidate data live?
In a SQLite file plus a plain uploads folder on your own disk — resumes never go in the DB. Back it all up with cp.
Is this a subscription in disguise?
No. $49 once, no renewal, no annual contract. Self-hosted or offline, your candidate data stays yours.