The business and user context
Small and mid-sized companies often can't afford enterprise ATS tools but still need organized hiring. Hire Portal was built to give them a focused, affordable recruitment management solution.
Job postings were scattered across platforms, applications arrived in emails, and there was no consistent way to evaluate candidates.
Create a focused recruitment management platform for SMBs with job posting, application tracking, and structured evaluation.
What we learned before building
Multiple posting channels
Recruiters posted jobs on different sites and lost track.
Application overload
Inboxes filled with unstructured resumes.
No evaluation framework
Hiring decisions were based on gut feeling.
Principles that shaped the experience
One workflow
Post, collect, review, and decide in one place.
Structured evaluation
Scorecards make comparison objective.
No feature bloat
Only essential tools, kept simple.
The technical breakdown.
Discovery
Mapped SMB recruitment pain points.
Design
Created job post and review screens.
Development
Built with React and Django backend.
Iteration
Added scorecards and email notifications.
The solution across every screen
Results that moved the needle
Hire Portal gave smaller companies an affordable, organized way to manage hiring without the complexity of enterprise ATS software.
Problems faced, solutions found, lessons learned
Users wanted too many features too soon
Created a public roadmap and focused on core flow
“SMBs value simplicity over features.”
Email notifications looked spammy
Designed clean branded templates
“Every email is part of the product experience.”
The stack that powered this project
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