What’s the overall summary?
Indeed is designed for active job seekers. It’s an inbound firehose — great for visibility, less great for signal. When you post a role there, you’ll get plenty of applicants, but you’ll spend hours sifting through mismatches, unqualified submissions, and people applying “just to see.”
daily.dev Recruiter flips the funnel. We’re built for passive talent — developers who aren’t applying anywhere but are open to the right opportunity. Instead of waiting for resumes, you get warm, double opt-in introductions to developers already active on daily.dev and aligned with your role. Fewer leads, better fits, faster hires.
So what does daily.dev Recruiter do differently?
Indeed is about volume. daily.dev Recruiter is about intent.
Your opportunity appears natively in the daily.dev feed — not as an ad, not as a posting — but as a relevant match inside the community where developers already learn and explore.
We don’t scrape profiles or spam inboxes. We surface your role quietly, screen for fit, and only introduce developers who’ve said “yes, I’m interested.” That’s why our reply rates consistently exceed 85–90%, and ghosting almost disappears.
When Indeed might still make sense
If you’re hiring at scale — multiple roles, entry-level positions, or non-technical roles — Indeed remains the easiest way to drive high application volume. It’s broad, fast, and familiar.
But if you’re hiring senior engineers or specialists who don’t live on job boards, daily.dev Recruiter is the smarter channel. It’s where passive developers actually pay attention.
How it feels for developers
On Indeed, developers apply into a black box.
On daily.dev, they stay in control. They see the full context of the role, decide if it fits, and only then opt in to connect. That transparency and respect for their time changes everything — it’s why they actually respond.
TL;DR
Indeed fills pipelines.
daily.dev Recruiter fills conversations — with the developers you can’t reach anywhere else.