Freelance Radar: Two-sided matching and alerts from HN

Automatically match freelance demands from HN threads and alert you via Slack or email.

Problem

Monthly HN 'Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?' threads contain many opportunities, but info is buried in comments; freelancers must manually scroll and filter. Similar pain exists in 'Who is hiring' and 'Who wants to be hired' threads, with no efficient aggregation tool.

Solution

A lightweight service that scrapes comments from dedicated HN threads, uses simple rules/LLMs to extract role, skills, location, remote requirements, matches against a freelancer's skill tags, and sends daily digests via email or Slack. Users can set keyword alerts.

Users

Freelance developers, designers, writers, and small studios.

MVP

Scheduled scraping of specified HN comment threads; extract structured info (role, skills, remote, contact) via regex/LLM; user sets skill tags and keywords; daily match digest email; simple web page to view historical matches.

Revenue

Free basic matching + paid premium filters ($5/month) or per-alert pricing; affiliate revenue from freelance platforms.

Why now

Freelancing and remote work keep growing; HN remains a high-quality source but lacks dedicated tools. An indie can validate quickly with minimal data access friction.