Careers at Hindustan Sphere

Hindustan Sphere is a small, independent news aggregator with an analytical layer on top — cluster comparison, bias spectrum, publisher reliability ratings. We don't have open roles posted right now, but the way we work and the kind of people we'll hire when we do is documented here.

How we're built

We don't write articles. Our work is in the analysis layer: which publishers to ingest, how to classify them, how to cluster coverage, how to rank what surfaces. The full mechanics live on our methodology page.

The technical operation is small: a Cloudflare Worker pulls RSS every 15 minutes, a Next.js application renders the comparison view, and per-tenant Turso databases store the data. No sprawling editorial team — the editorial work is the classification rubric, applied consistently.

Who we'd hire when we hire

When the operation grows past one person, the first roles will likely be:

• Source analyst. Owns the publisher classification rubric, runs quarterly reviews, processes reader-submitted disputes. Background in journalism, media studies, or policy research.
• Engineering generalist. Comfortable across Next.js, edge workers, and SQL. Cares about page-load speed, reliable ingestion, and the comparison-view UX. Not a framework specialist.
• Community lead (community-portal sites only). Owns moderation, seed content, partner relationships with local venues and event listers.

What we look for

• Skepticism, not cynicism. Healthy skepticism of every source — including the ones you personally agree with. The whole site is built on the premise that no single outlet has the full picture.
• Comfort with public criticism. Source classifications and cluster decisions get challenged. Being able to answer challenges in writing, with evidence, is the job.
• Editorial discipline. No partisan endorsements, no thumb on the scale, no off-the-record favors to publishers we cover.

How to reach us

If we open a role and you want to be on the early list, write to careers@hindustansphere.com with a short note on why this kind of work interests you. No cover letter, no formal CV — a paragraph or two and a link to anything you've written or built that's relevant.