YC startups can post job ads to HN. These appear on HN's front page for several hours, then go on the jobs tab for about a week.

If you're a founder at an active YC company, you can post a job for it here, using your YC founder account. Please don't post jobs for other companies.

Title

The title must be neutral and be clear that it's a hiring post. It should begin with your company name and YC batch, say "is hiring" or equivalent, and be 80 chars or less.

The community expects a factual, non-salesy style. These titles are good:

• MyCompany (YC S21) is hiring a senior back-end engineer
• MyCo (YC W22) is hiring a product manager to help improve health care

These ones are bad—avoid titles like this:

• BAD: Join MyCompany to revolutionize the Foo of the Bar Baz
• BAD: FooCo (YC S21) is disrupting the Bar Baz. Get on board now!
• BAD: FooDB (YC S21) is making the fastest database in the world

Don't mention fundraising, salary, or equity in your title. It's fine in the ad body.

If your job requires living in a specific place, include it in the title, so readers know what to expect.

Don't use abbreviations, hashtags, or emojis. They make a bad impression on HN.

Body

The body of your ad can be text that you enter directly, or an external page that you supply a URL for. Don't use Bookface links—those aren't public.

Explain what your company does. HN readers want to understand this first. Make it impossible to finish reading your ad and still be confused about that.

Logistics

Your ad goes into a queue. You'll get priority your first time. After that, the software picks the startup which has waited the longest since its previous ad.

You can choose which time window(s) you want your ad to run in. If it's a popular choice, your ad may wait longer to go out.

You can tell whether you have a job ad in the queue by visiting jobs while logged in with your YC account. If you do, there will be links to edit or delete it. If you don't, there will be a link to submit one instead.

You're welcome to keep a job ad in the queue at all times, but you'll need to submit a new one each time.

Ads for the same startup don't appear more than once per 14 days. HN readers are sensitive to repetition and we don't want to overdo it.

Who Is Hiring

HN also has Who Is Hiring? threads on the first weekday of each month, which are open to everyone. You post your job as a comment in the latest thread. Please read the instructions at the top and look at some existing posts to get the conventions. The threads are closed to new comments after two weeks.