Builders' Echo
May hiring gets democratized as it should be
What this is
A paid hiring-contest marketplace with blind, code-first judging so companies evaluate developers by shipped work instead of resumes.
Our one-line summary — not the founder’s tagline.
- How it works
- Companies escrow a prize pool via Stripe Connect; submissions judged blind (no name/photo/school/LinkedIn) with an Originality Score from AST comparison and semantic similarity
- What's different
- Blind judging plus AST-level originality scoring against copying
- Best for
- Companies hiring developers and developers wanting to prove skill via real contests
What we measured
Nobody else publishes this — it comes from knocking on the door every day.
- Watched by us
- 2 days
- Last checked
- 2d ago
Where it shows up
Every group here is a page of its own — each one checked daily.
The numbersIs it still shipping, is it overpriced, where did it land — and what the price is built from.
League price & chart
No money. No seat. It goes on your record — and in 28 days reality settles it.
Calls are closed while we rebuild accounts. You can still read every one of them.
Other. Launched 2d ago on PeerPush, where it placed #188. Today, it's live, but nothing on the site has changed since we started watching.
Quiet for 2 days — no penalty yet, but quiet doesn't stay free.
We check this site every day, ourselves. A founder can post “still working on it” — a claim like that doesn't price. What we price is what we can verify from the outside: evidence, not announcements. The real question isn't “will this be huge?” — it's “will they still be moving in four weeks?”
The market viewHow this launch is priced and ranked in our league — the investor side of the page.
ranked by the reality anchor, not the market price
It placed #188 on PeerPush with 16 votes.
No matter how much money goes in. There is no pump here — you can't make yourself right by buying more. The line only moves on things that actually happened: an award, revenue that grew, a new platform, code that shipped — or silence.
A launch that goes quiet eases down a little at a time — never a cliff you could have run from the night before.
How the launch is moving on its own board, day by day — the crowd's attention.
A flat line is normal: votes stop within a day or two of launch, on every board. What's unusual — and what actually counts — is a launch that keeps pulling votes long after its day is over.
About
Builders' Echo is a two-sided marketplace where companies run real, paid hiring contests and developers prove skill through blind-judged, GitHub-backed submissions — built to work for both sides of the table, not just one. For companies: post a contest with the Contest Creation Wizard, fund a real prize pool escrowed via Stripe Connect, and review submissions through the Company Dashboard. Blind Judging strips name, photo, school, and LinkedIn before anyone scores the work, so you evaluate the code first and the candidate second. Every submission also gets a 0–100 Originality Score (AST-level code comparison + semantic embedding similarity across the whole contest) — AI tools are allowed, copying isn't. Top performers get fast-tracked straight to interviews, and pgvector-backed talent discovery lets you find builders by demonstrated work instead of resume keywords. You see real, ranked output before you schedule a single interview. For builders: it's free to compete. Submit real work via GitHub, get ranked on a public leaderboard, and get paid from a real, escrowed prize pool — not "we'll consider you for the role." Every contest builds your Skill Passport: verified badges, credential pages, and a public profile that accumulates durable proof-of-work across contests, whether or not you win a specific one. No degree line, no warm intro, no ATS keyword filter standing between you and getting seen — the work is what gets judged. That's the mechanism behind democratizing hiring: neither side has to trust the other's paperwork, because both sides are looking at the same evidence. Starter contests are $299 (free for the first 10 companies during early access, no credit card). Pro is custom, founder-led pricing for teams that want promoted distribution and priority placement.
Where it launched
1 platform| Platform | Votes | Counts toward price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| PeerPush | 16 | sets the price | ↗ |
The board it did best on sets the price. Every other board only adds to it if the launch also placed high on that board too — because just showing up somewhere isn't an achievement. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
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