The hiring pipeline a small company actually needs.
Freelancers expense a dozen subscriptions — proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking — against irregular income. Owning the tools outright removes a whole line of fixed costs.
The tool this job usually means renting is Greenhouse / BambooHR, at $100s/mo — roughly $2,400 a year, every year. Hirestack does the job for a one-time $49 — running on infrastructure you control.
Title, description, location and type; each gets a clean public URL the moment you publish.
For freelancers, job postings pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $49, not metered per month.
Auto-generated at /careers, brandable, server-rendered and fully HTML-escaped.
For freelancers, public careers page pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $49, not metered per month.
Name, email, phone, cover letter and a resume upload with a 10MB cap and file-type validation.
For freelancers, application form pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $49, not metered per month.
One payment of $49 gets you the packaged Windows installer with everything pre-wired, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/applicant-tracker-mvp and run it free.
Run npm run desktop locally auto-logged-in, or docker compose onto a $5 VPS when you need the careers page public.
Publish a posting and your careers page and application form go live at /careers immediately.
Hirestack is $49, once. Greenhouse / BambooHR at $100s/mo — roughly $2,400 a year, every year. One month of a big-name ATS add-on buys Hirestack outright, contract-free.
One month of a big-name ATS add-on buys Hirestack outright, contract-free. Hirestack costs $49 once; Greenhouse / BambooHR charges $100s/mo — about $2400 a year. For freelancers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
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.
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.