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Show HN: Whoishiring.io – all tech jobs mapped out

419 points by xando 10y ago

intrasight 10y ago
A map zoom-in feature would e handy
- garrettgrimsley 10y ago
  This already exists. If you're on desktop then double-click the map, or use your scroll-wheel.
xando 10y ago
Hi! This is the second “Show HN” for whoishiring.io. In the summer of 2015 I posted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=983895 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=983895) here for the first time with the site visualizing job offers from Hacker News’ “Who is Hiring” on a map. Over the course of 1.5 years I’ve spent a lot of time improving it (thank you for all feedback), and decided to turn my “Show HN” project into business. After Daniel’s (dang) suggestion I’m doing “Show HN” for whoishiring.io again — today as a product (https://blog.whoishiring.io/shut-up-and-give-me-your-money/ https://blog.whoishiring.io/shut-up-and-give-me-your-money/) Here’s the backstory. The whoishiring.io website launched around August 2015. It was a simple side project done for my own purpose - to see where jobs are. Even though I was aware of similar projects that existed at that time, I already had a "map search" tool ready, so I decided to build on it. The fist “Show HN” was received really well, it ended up as nr 42 in the top “Show HN” of all the time. I received tons of feedback, good words, and suggestions. This gave me the idea and motivation to push the project forward. Today, whoishiring.io has evolved quite a bit and has come a long way from what I started with. The Hacker News’ "Who is Hiring" thread is still there, however not alone, but along with 22 other sources (~15000 jobs). The core idea still remains the same - to keep everything on the map and make it accessible and visible to make a job hunt a less painful process. Here are a few important things and I want to push the project forward having them in mind: 1. it’s free. Just use Hacker News’ “Who is Hiring”. I will import it. This will be our secret and it will remain that way. When you do, please pay attention to thread description — it says how to format the first line so that the job ad looks good on whoishiring. More about the formatting (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13080505 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13080505) 2. To recruiters: please use a real company name, otherwise no! I’m building this to bring back transparency. 3. Internships are important. I won’t be charging for internships, you shouldn’t punish companies for helping people trying to get into IT. Also, internship is a cost for the company by design. 4. If you’re using ATS, like Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters etc., they have API, which we can use. Please write me an email at sebastian@whoishiring.io and I will synchronise your jobs posts. No need to copy-paste. 5. I’m planning to allocate 10% of the income to charities. The main idea is to find those teaching children to write code. But since I am now testing this process I chose a few that are doing a great job for the Internet in general: Code.org, Wikimedia, EFF, and local from Poland Fundacja Media 3.0 — because you should support local community! On the road map I have: * improving search searches * implementing trends page with IT trends (languages, framework, databases…) * fix the back button All suggestions are welcome and appreciated. Please leave a comment here or just write me an email. Also, since I get this question often, the stack is: Angular, Python, Django, ElasticSearch.
- pyoung 10y ago
  One idea for you stats page - Number of job listings over time, broken down by various attributes (programming language, location, source of post, etc...). There is a lot of talk of another dot-com bubble, and this could be another data point to argue about. I would imagine it would be a good leading indicator as well.
  - xando 10y ago
    Yes, this really good idea. I would really like to make the stats page useful (not marketing useful). Recently I did something like this https://blog.whoishiring.io/hacker-news-who-is-hiring-2016-in-numbers/ https://blog.whoishiring.io/hacker-news-who-is-hiring-2016-i... even though it wont have answer if there is a bubble or not. There are interesting trends there and numbers to back them up
- rattray 10y ago
  Pardon me for missing something presumably obvious, but what is the source of revenue & pricing model?
  - garrettgrimsley 10y ago
    Posting directly to the site costs money. https://whoishiring.io/item/ https://whoishiring.io/item/
- rattray 10y ago
  Is there, or will there be, a way to filter for only jobs posted on HN? (I expected the button at the bottom to accomplish this, fwiw)
  - xando 10y ago
    Yes, option like this is already available. You have to progress to search view then open "More search options".
- clay_to_n 10y ago
adgasf 10y ago
How do you detect jobs posted on multiple sites? Do they get listed twice?
- xando 10y ago
  I have naive checksum, right now. I compare basic characters think ascii. This doesn't work in all cases, but most jobs post is copy-paste, so it does work most of the time.
brian_c 10y ago
Giant thanks for making this. A suggestion, though: the "remote" switch should probably imply "or". A search for jobs in Chicago OR remote would be more more useful than Chicago AND remote. The latter currently returns Chicago-based companies that hire remotely.
- tedmiston 10y ago
  Personally I prefer the AND approach. For example, if I'm interested in working for a company in CA but in a remote position. I could see the argument for OR, but it would be confusing to me that flipping on the remote switch included non-remote positions when a city is included in the query.
GavinMcG 10y ago
There aren't really any jobs near Ashland, Oregon – it's just that "Talent" and "Remote" are both names of towns in the area.
- alexose 10y ago
  Ashland resident here. The "remote" jobs got a chuckle out of me.
  - mountaineer 10y ago
    Oregon, but not Ashland resident, and that is definitely funny to see the 28 postings for Remote, OR. The latest Silicon Valley escape destination.
    - alexose 10y ago
      Maybe there's an opportunity here! "Chef needed, Remote work welcome"
- gdulli 10y ago
  There should be a term for trusting successively scraped/filtered/processed data sets, which lose accuracy at each step, resulting in a decreasingly accurate view of the world.
  - reitzensteinm 10y ago
    Chinese Whispersync?
deleted 10y ago
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sparrish 10y ago
Might need to work on your filter a bit. "Senior Children's Magazine Designer" doesn't sound very tech to me.
- xando 10y ago
  I agree this shouldn't be here. For my defence I can only say that I trusted the source, I guess too much. I will look into it. Thanks for catching it.
holydude 10y ago
Do you plan to monetite or is this a pet project?
- garrettgrimsley 10y ago
  >Over the course of 1.5 years I’ve spent a lot of time improving it (thank you for all feedback), and decided to turn my “Show HN” project into business https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13500705 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13500705 https://blog.whoishiring.io/shut-up-and-give-me-your-money/ https://blog.whoishiring.io/shut-up-and-give-me-your-money/
ronilan 10y ago
This is excellent. I did a quick job search a couple of months ago. After playing with various alternatives I ended up using this as the primary method for sourcing. It a great tool for job searchers, and, a great place for recruiters to get in front of them. P.S - I ended up with a job that originated from accidentally clicking on LinkedIn links. So, yah, life...
vinhboy 10y ago
Very cool. But I feel like the "purple" and "turquoise" should be switched. My brains thinks the purple means more... and "turquoise" is less.
- xando 10y ago
  Thanks and yes agree. Let's do something those colors. They should visualize progression, they are not doing good job right now.
stuckagain 10y ago
Gee only one job opening at Google in Mountain View. That must be some serious competition.
nnd 10y ago
Seems like Google maps is doing a poor job at clustering, once you zoom out markers become a cluttered mess.
- blauditore 10y ago
  Yeah, something's off there. I think the clustering is not done by GMaps, so maybe OP can do something about it. From what I can see, clusters have a too large radius, so when zooming in, some items leave the viewport before being uniquely visible.
sr-ix 10y ago
I am curious as to why there is (at the time of writing this) a 79 job cluster around Pensacola of remote work positions.
bogomipz 10y ago
This site is a really great resource. Thanks for doing this, its been great seeing it evolve. Keep up the good work!
slm_HN 10y ago
I've used this site in the past and liked it, but now it seems much slower. I tend to just use the map to do a wide geographic search, like looking at eastern Washington and Idaho. Using the site this way, by just moving around on the map is very slow now. It can take minutes to update the jobs. I still think it's a good idea though.
- xando 10y ago
  Hey. This is strange. Search should react in ms. What is your physical location country or maybe you could dig search.whoishiring.io in terminal?
tzury 10y ago
Nicely done! Looking at my local "community", Israel, especially Tel Aviv area, I see 8 jobs, while, there are at least 8K jobs opened right now in the tech industry. You may consider expanding outreach by letting companies post jobs via API (instead manually typing positions details). Also, cooperating with local-well-established jobs listing sites, in this case, alljobs.co.il. The best way to grow global, it to cooperate with the locals.
pfarnsworth 10y ago
Very cool, but it's so slow it's almost unusable. When I scroll around the map, I guess it's going through all those places I've been as opposed to the last place I stop at?
hyperpape 10y ago
Looks cool, but I'm having issues where the list of jobs on the right hand side is slow to update, and there's no visual feedback that it even will update. So I would be in the scenario of looking at a map centered on Raleigh, but the job list would still show listings from New York. Several seconds later, the listings on the right were finally filtered.
- xando 10y ago
  We had an API limit issues. Please let me know if works properly for you right now?
  - hyperpape 10y ago
    Looks good now.
paulclark 10y ago
HN hug of death - Google Maps API rate limits exceeded :)
- xando 10y ago
  Yeah, few seconds of stress. fixed
dasboth 10y ago
As a jobseeker I use this daily, thanks for a great product. The more data sources you can integrate in the future, the better!
fmmodzelewski 10y ago
Fantastic service. Been using it since it was first released.
fmmodzelewski 10y ago
Fantastic services. I have been using it since it launched
cr0sh 10y ago
When I first saw this post, I thought it may be the same guys behind the github list of places hiring with simple form/email submission pages (vs recruiters, etc). If you haven't - you might hook up with their list, too. The biggest problem with their list is that it isn't in any kind of order, there isn't any way to filter it, etc... Unfortunately, I don't have a link handy to the list (if anyone else here knows what I'm talking about, help me out, please?)...
erljk324lkj 10y ago
Hi! Your website is completely broken in Tor browser. https://whoishiring.io/templates/search/base.html https://whoishiring.io/templates/search/base.html returns 403 and https://app.getsentry.com/api/48143/store https://app.getsentry.com/api/48143/store returns 429.
s3nnyy 10y ago
By scanning freshjobs.ch you managed to get many jobs from Switzerland which is rare and rather nice. (Full disclosure: I am well-connected tech-recruiter in Switzerland, Zurich. Read more about Switzerland in my blogpost "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in tech": https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-to-switzerland-to-work-in-it-c7ac18af4f90 https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...) You can try scraping each and every niche tech-job board out there to get a full picture of world-wide tech jobs. In the end, you might get bought by indeed maybe?
kgabis 10y ago
I really like this website and I was quite surprised to discover you're from Kraków :) (dobra robota!) Have you considered showing job offers from nofluffjobs?
giis 10y ago
Is it possible to add angel.co/jobs too? I think it has lot of startups there.
creativityland 10y ago
Beautiful execution. This needs more attention, and can go hand in hand with the monthly 'Who is hiring' threads.
speedkills 10y ago
Looks great at first glance. A strict or title only search would be nice, I searched for Scala and the first 5 jobs I checked out didn't list Scala anywhere, not even keywords or tiny fine print at the bottom.
wineisfine 10y ago
Is this still a sideproject for you? Or is it profitable enough to work on this full time?
rce 10y ago
Using logos of other sites may create trademark issues. E.g. if a site is upset you're crawling them, they could allege that you're committing trademark violation and presenting yourself as a partner of theirs. You should ask a lawyer about the banner across the bottom because I'm guessing they'll tell you to remove it. I'm not a lawyer and am not giving legal advice
chrismorgan 10y ago
When you’re updating the URL as you do, it’d be really helpful if you’d update the page title as well. As it is, you just end up with a zillion entries titled “Who Is Hiring? - The Map With Jobs for Developers, Designers and Management in IT” rather than with things like “Remote Python jobs - Who Is Hiring?” &c.
boyanpro 10y ago
Very nice design and UX. I like it. What would be nice to have is a switch (like remote switch) for part-time jobs. Keep up the good work! And thank you for this service!

419 points by xando 10y ago

intrasight 10y ago

A map zoom-in feature would e handy

garrettgrimsley 10y ago
This already exists. If you're on desktop then double-click the map, or use your scroll-wheel.

xando 10y ago

Hi! This is the second “Show HN” for whoishiring.io. In the summer of 2015 I posted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=983895 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=983895) here for the first time with the site visualizing job offers from Hacker News’ “Who is Hiring” on a map. Over the course of 1.5 years I’ve spent a lot of time improving it (thank you for all feedback), and decided to turn my “Show HN” project into business. After Daniel’s (dang) suggestion I’m doing “Show HN” for whoishiring.io again — today as a product (https://blog.whoishiring.io/shut-up-and-give-me-your-money/ https://blog.whoishiring.io/shut-up-and-give-me-your-money/) Here’s the backstory. The whoishiring.io website launched around August 2015. It was a simple side project done for my own purpose - to see where jobs are. Even though I was aware of similar projects that existed at that time, I already had a "map search" tool ready, so I decided to build on it. The fist “Show HN” was received really well, it ended up as nr 42 in the top “Show HN” of all the time. I received tons of feedback, good words, and suggestions. This gave me the idea and motivation to push the project forward. Today, whoishiring.io has evolved quite a bit and has come a long way from what I started with. The Hacker News’ "Who is Hiring" thread is still there, however not alone, but along with 22 other sources (~15000 jobs). The core idea still remains the same - to keep everything on the map and make it accessible and visible to make a job hunt a less painful process. Here are a few important things and I want to push the project forward having them in mind: 1. it’s free. Just use Hacker News’ “Who is Hiring”. I will import it. This will be our secret and it will remain that way. When you do, please pay attention to thread description — it says how to format the first line so that the job ad looks good on whoishiring. More about the formatting (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13080505 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13080505) 2. To recruiters: please use a real company name, otherwise no! I’m building this to bring back transparency. 3. Internships are important. I won’t be charging for internships, you shouldn’t punish companies for helping people trying to get into IT. Also, internship is a cost for the company by design. 4. If you’re using ATS, like Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters etc., they have API, which we can use. Please write me an email at sebastian@whoishiring.io and I will synchronise your jobs posts. No need to copy-paste. 5. I’m planning to allocate 10% of the income to charities. The main idea is to find those teaching children to write code. But since I am now testing this process I chose a few that are doing a great job for the Internet in general: Code.org, Wikimedia, EFF, and local from Poland Fundacja Media 3.0 — because you should support local community! On the road map I have: * improving search searches * implementing trends page with IT trends (languages, framework, databases…) * fix the back button All suggestions are welcome and appreciated. Please leave a comment here or just write me an email. Also, since I get this question often, the stack is: Angular, Python, Django, ElasticSearch.

pyoung 10y ago
One idea for you stats page - Number of job listings over time, broken down by various attributes (programming language, location, source of post, etc...). There is a lot of talk of another dot-com bubble, and this could be another data point to argue about. I would imagine it would be a good leading indicator as well.
- xando 10y ago
  Yes, this really good idea. I would really like to make the stats page useful (not marketing useful). Recently I did something like this https://blog.whoishiring.io/hacker-news-who-is-hiring-2016-in-numbers/ https://blog.whoishiring.io/hacker-news-who-is-hiring-2016-i... even though it wont have answer if there is a bubble or not. There are interesting trends there and numbers to back them up
rattray 10y ago
Pardon me for missing something presumably obvious, but what is the source of revenue & pricing model?
- garrettgrimsley 10y ago
  Posting directly to the site costs money. https://whoishiring.io/item/ https://whoishiring.io/item/
rattray 10y ago
Is there, or will there be, a way to filter for only jobs posted on HN? (I expected the button at the bottom to accomplish this, fwiw)
- xando 10y ago
  Yes, option like this is already available. You have to progress to search view then open "More search options".
clay_to_n 10y ago

adgasf 10y ago

How do you detect jobs posted on multiple sites? Do they get listed twice?

xando 10y ago
I have naive checksum, right now. I compare basic characters think ascii. This doesn't work in all cases, but most jobs post is copy-paste, so it does work most of the time.

brian_c 10y ago

Giant thanks for making this. A suggestion, though: the "remote" switch should probably imply "or". A search for jobs in Chicago OR remote would be more more useful than Chicago AND remote. The latter currently returns Chicago-based companies that hire remotely.

tedmiston 10y ago
Personally I prefer the AND approach. For example, if I'm interested in working for a company in CA but in a remote position. I could see the argument for OR, but it would be confusing to me that flipping on the remote switch included non-remote positions when a city is included in the query.

GavinMcG 10y ago

There aren't really any jobs near Ashland, Oregon – it's just that "Talent" and "Remote" are both names of towns in the area.

alexose 10y ago
Ashland resident here. The "remote" jobs got a chuckle out of me.
- mountaineer 10y ago
  Oregon, but not Ashland resident, and that is definitely funny to see the 28 postings for Remote, OR. The latest Silicon Valley escape destination.
  - alexose 10y ago
    Maybe there's an opportunity here! "Chef needed, Remote work welcome"
gdulli 10y ago
There should be a term for trusting successively scraped/filtered/processed data sets, which lose accuracy at each step, resulting in a decreasingly accurate view of the world.
- reitzensteinm 10y ago
  Chinese Whispersync?

deleted 10y ago

[deleted]

sparrish 10y ago

Might need to work on your filter a bit. "Senior Children's Magazine Designer" doesn't sound very tech to me.

xando 10y ago
I agree this shouldn't be here. For my defence I can only say that I trusted the source, I guess too much. I will look into it. Thanks for catching it.

holydude 10y ago

Do you plan to monetite or is this a pet project?

garrettgrimsley 10y ago
>Over the course of 1.5 years I’ve spent a lot of time improving it (thank you for all feedback), and decided to turn my “Show HN” project into business https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13500705 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13500705 https://blog.whoishiring.io/shut-up-and-give-me-your-money/ https://blog.whoishiring.io/shut-up-and-give-me-your-money/

ronilan 10y ago

This is excellent. I did a quick job search a couple of months ago. After playing with various alternatives I ended up using this as the primary method for sourcing. It a great tool for job searchers, and, a great place for recruiters to get in front of them. P.S - I ended up with a job that originated from accidentally clicking on LinkedIn links. So, yah, life...

vinhboy 10y ago

Very cool. But I feel like the "purple" and "turquoise" should be switched. My brains thinks the purple means more... and "turquoise" is less.

xando 10y ago
Thanks and yes agree. Let's do something those colors. They should visualize progression, they are not doing good job right now.

stuckagain 10y ago

Gee only one job opening at Google in Mountain View. That must be some serious competition.

nnd 10y ago

Seems like Google maps is doing a poor job at clustering, once you zoom out markers become a cluttered mess.

blauditore 10y ago
Yeah, something's off there. I think the clustering is not done by GMaps, so maybe OP can do something about it. From what I can see, clusters have a too large radius, so when zooming in, some items leave the viewport before being uniquely visible.

sr-ix 10y ago

I am curious as to why there is (at the time of writing this) a 79 job cluster around Pensacola of remote work positions.

bogomipz 10y ago

This site is a really great resource. Thanks for doing this, its been great seeing it evolve. Keep up the good work!

slm_HN 10y ago

I've used this site in the past and liked it, but now it seems much slower. I tend to just use the map to do a wide geographic search, like looking at eastern Washington and Idaho. Using the site this way, by just moving around on the map is very slow now. It can take minutes to update the jobs. I still think it's a good idea though.

xando 10y ago
Hey. This is strange. Search should react in ms. What is your physical location country or maybe you could dig search.whoishiring.io in terminal?

tzury 10y ago

Nicely done! Looking at my local "community", Israel, especially Tel Aviv area, I see 8 jobs, while, there are at least 8K jobs opened right now in the tech industry. You may consider expanding outreach by letting companies post jobs via API (instead manually typing positions details). Also, cooperating with local-well-established jobs listing sites, in this case, alljobs.co.il. The best way to grow global, it to cooperate with the locals.

pfarnsworth 10y ago

Very cool, but it's so slow it's almost unusable. When I scroll around the map, I guess it's going through all those places I've been as opposed to the last place I stop at?

hyperpape 10y ago

Looks cool, but I'm having issues where the list of jobs on the right hand side is slow to update, and there's no visual feedback that it even will update. So I would be in the scenario of looking at a map centered on Raleigh, but the job list would still show listings from New York. Several seconds later, the listings on the right were finally filtered.

xando 10y ago
We had an API limit issues. Please let me know if works properly for you right now?
- hyperpape 10y ago
  Looks good now.

paulclark 10y ago

HN hug of death - Google Maps API rate limits exceeded :)

xando 10y ago
Yeah, few seconds of stress. fixed

dasboth 10y ago

As a jobseeker I use this daily, thanks for a great product. The more data sources you can integrate in the future, the better!

fmmodzelewski 10y ago

Fantastic service. Been using it since it was first released.

fmmodzelewski 10y ago

Fantastic services. I have been using it since it launched

cr0sh 10y ago

When I first saw this post, I thought it may be the same guys behind the github list of places hiring with simple form/email submission pages (vs recruiters, etc). If you haven't - you might hook up with their list, too. The biggest problem with their list is that it isn't in any kind of order, there isn't any way to filter it, etc... Unfortunately, I don't have a link handy to the list (if anyone else here knows what I'm talking about, help me out, please?)...

erljk324lkj 10y ago

Hi! Your website is completely broken in Tor browser. https://whoishiring.io/templates/search/base.html https://whoishiring.io/templates/search/base.html returns 403 and https://app.getsentry.com/api/48143/store https://app.getsentry.com/api/48143/store returns 429.

s3nnyy 10y ago

By scanning freshjobs.ch you managed to get many jobs from Switzerland which is rare and rather nice. (Full disclosure: I am well-connected tech-recruiter in Switzerland, Zurich. Read more about Switzerland in my blogpost "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in tech": https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-to-switzerland-to-work-in-it-c7ac18af4f90 https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...) You can try scraping each and every niche tech-job board out there to get a full picture of world-wide tech jobs. In the end, you might get bought by indeed maybe?

kgabis 10y ago

I really like this website and I was quite surprised to discover you're from Kraków :) (dobra robota!) Have you considered showing job offers from nofluffjobs?

giis 10y ago

Is it possible to add angel.co/jobs too? I think it has lot of startups there.

creativityland 10y ago

Beautiful execution. This needs more attention, and can go hand in hand with the monthly 'Who is hiring' threads.

speedkills 10y ago

Looks great at first glance. A strict or title only search would be nice, I searched for Scala and the first 5 jobs I checked out didn't list Scala anywhere, not even keywords or tiny fine print at the bottom.

wineisfine 10y ago

Is this still a sideproject for you? Or is it profitable enough to work on this full time?

rce 10y ago

Using logos of other sites may create trademark issues. E.g. if a site is upset you're crawling them, they could allege that you're committing trademark violation and presenting yourself as a partner of theirs. You should ask a lawyer about the banner across the bottom because I'm guessing they'll tell you to remove it. I'm not a lawyer and am not giving legal advice

chrismorgan 10y ago

When you’re updating the URL as you do, it’d be really helpful if you’d update the page title as well. As it is, you just end up with a zillion entries titled “Who Is Hiring? - The Map With Jobs for Developers, Designers and Management in IT” rather than with things like “Remote Python jobs - Who Is Hiring?” &c.

boyanpro 10y ago

Very nice design and UX. I like it. What would be nice to have is a switch (like remote switch) for part-time jobs. Keep up the good work! And thank you for this service!