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daily.dev Recruiter is the developer-first alternative to hireEZ built on trust, not automation.

Hello 👋 If you’ve used hireEZ, you already know its promise: automate sourcing, enrich data, and send personalized outreach at scale. It’s efficient — but also the reason most developer inboxes are overflowing with cold emails. daily.dev Recruiter takes a completely different path. Instead of automating more noise, we eliminate it altogether by connecting you with developers who already said yes to hearing from you.

Used daily by developers
Access to passive talent
Trusted by developers
Cold outreach required
Warm intros
Data always up to date
Built on real behavior (not CVs)
Spam-free experience
Pay for outcome
✅ Yes
✅ Yes
✅ Yes
❌ No
✅ Yes
✅ Yes
✅ Yes
✅ Yes
✅ Yes
hireEZ
❌ No
❌ Finds profiles, not people
❌ No
✅ Yes
❌ No
❌ Aggregated & outdated
❌ Inferred signals only
❌ No
❌ No, fixed seats

What’s the overall summary?

hireEZ is built for recruiters who want scale — more profiles, more emails, more automation. It promises efficiency, but not necessarily engagement. Developers don’t know or trust hireEZ, so outreach still lands cold.

daily.dev Recruiter is the opposite. We don’t scrape profiles or automate emails. We turn real developer activity — what they read, learn, and build every day on daily.dev — into meaningful matches. You meet developers where they already are, through double opt-in intros that feel personal, not transactional.

So what does daily.dev Recruiter do differently?

hireEZ helps recruiters work faster. daily.dev helps recruiters work smarter.

Instead of spending time writing and sending hundreds of automated messages, you share your role once and receive warm intros to developers who fit and are genuinely interested. No chasing. No guessing. No “follow-up bumping this to the top of your inbox.”

Developers trust daily.dev because it’s their space. When they see an opportunity here, it feels organic — not invasive. That’s why reply rates are dramatically higher and ghosting almost non-existent.

When hireEZ might still make sense

If you’re an agency or sourcing specialist running high-volume outbound campaigns across multiple roles and industries, hireEZ will help you move fast. It’s great at building lists and automating reach.

But if you’re focused on engineering roles, care about trust, and want genuine engagement instead of volume, daily.dev Recruiter is built exactly for that.

How it feels for developers

hireEZ is invisible to developers — until their inbox pings with another “quick chat?” email.

daily.dev is part of their daily flow. Opportunities appear in the same space where they already read, learn, and share. That context makes all the difference. Developers reply because the invitation feels relevant, not random.

TL;DR

hireEZ scales cold outreach.

daily.dev Recruiter replaces it — with warm, double opt-in intros from developers who actually reply.

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