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SiftFirst
Stop drowning in AI resumes, start hiring the right people
Small businesses now get 200+ applications per role, most AI-generated. SiftFirst ranks candidates against your criteria and quotes the evidence for every score. No signup required to try. You set the rubric, you make the call, you see the reasoning. New this month: an Ask tab to chat with your shortlist, team sharing with interview review, AI-prefilled interview scorecards, and pool analytics.
Hey Product Hunt!
I'm Virko, and I built SiftFirst because small business hiring is broken.
A friend who runs a 12-person company got 230 applications for a junior role. Most were AI-generated, all looked perfect, and he spent two full days screening them by hand. He has no HR team. This should not be his job.
SiftFirst gives hiring managers a ranked shortlist with the receipts. Paste the job description, then add candidates however suits you: paste them, bulk-upload PDFs, a ZIP, or a CSV, or add them in one click with our new Chrome extension straight from LinkedIn or a resume PDF. Every candidate is scored against your criteria with a quoted line of evidence for each score. Re-weight criteria on the fly, compare finalists, export to CSV, or generate interview questions. No black box, no auto-reject, no signup wall.
I would love your feedback. Try it at siftfirst.com (free, no signup) and let me know what would make it more useful for you.
Thanks for checking it out.
Nice to see the recruiter side of this. You're pitching it as cutting through AI resumes to find real signal, which I like. Curious how the rubric avoids the opposite problem, where keyword matching might penalize a strong candidate who wrote their own resume but did not optimize the wording. That false-negative case feels like the hard part. Congrats on the launch.
Very interesting product, these days one needs to try every new tool one can get, as you never know, sometimes you might find one that can solve your problem all together and I think this tool might be the one One small comment, on the website after "Three steps to your shortlist" there are 3 points, they get highlighted with mouse hover (looks like a button) while click does not do anything, maybe worth making it do something or do nothing at all :) But this is just my quirk
The no signup trial is great for testing the waters. One thing that would really help: let me bulk paste 20-30 JDs and have SiftFirst suggest a starter rubric I can tweak, instead of building criteria from scratch for each role. Would save a ton of setup time when hiring across multiple departments.
Honestly the quoted evidence thing is what got me, like I can actually see why someone got ranked where they did instead of just trusting a score. Tried it without signing up which was refreshing, the Ask tab feels like a nice add for digging into a shortlist.
Is this only for tech roles, or would it work for hiring, say, a shop manager or a welder?
I once spent 1/2 week reading applications for one role, half of them clearly AI-written. If this cuts that to an hour I'm sold. Trying it now.
Cool product, seems extremely useful in current market! Any plans to allow uploading of CVs as separate files in addition to copy-paste?
We run a modular building factory and hire dozens of people every year- carpenters, finishers, team leads, and warehouse staff. Screening eats days of our production managers' time, and lately most applications look polished but say nothing. SiftFirst looks promising for exactly this: it ranks candidates against our own criteria and shows the evidence behind every score, so hiring decisions could be defended internally instead of relying on gut feel. The rubric stays ours, the call stays ours. Haven't run a real hiring round through it yet, but looks promising!
As someone who's hired without any HR help, the 200-applications problem is painfully real. Bookmarking this.
About SiftFirst on Product Hunt
“Stop drowning in AI resumes, start hiring the right people”
SiftFirst was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 20 upvotes and 23 comments, placing #37 on the daily leaderboard. Small businesses now get 200+ applications per role, most AI-generated. SiftFirst ranks candidates against your criteria and quotes the evidence for every score. No signup required to try. You set the rubric, you make the call, you see the reasoning. New this month: an Ask tab to chat with your shortlist, team sharing with interview review, AI-prefilled interview scorecards, and pool analytics.
SiftFirst was featured in Hiring (15.4k followers), Artificial Intelligence (473.7k followers) and Human Resources (2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 118.3k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted SiftFirst?
SiftFirst was hunted by Virko Kask. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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