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Show HN: BigOofN – job board from the perspective of software engineers
- gwbas1c 7y agoWhere are you finding these jobs? Are you scraping something?
- krazykonkani 7y agoYeah, career pages of early stage to public companies, with focus on software engineering roles.
- codingdave 7y agoI do like the simplicity of the design, and the filters by type of company. But I also feel that we're at maximum capacity for aggregated job boards. We see a new one posted on here every week. So even though I like this better than many of the others I've seen, the job board market has exploded to the point of absurdity, so I'm not sure what to make of them all.
- krazykonkani 7y agoThanks for the feedback, do agree there are too many job boards now. Our goal is to collect data which would be useful from the perspective of engineers: team size, stock option value, etc. We are still in very early stage in the process.
- DailyHN 7y ago> job board market has exploded to the point of absurdity As the creator of some of those job boards, I agree. Job boards are easy to build. Established job boards can bring significant visibility from the right audience. "Fly-by-night" job boards that look identical down to the pricing are stealing money from unsuspecting customers. I've had people buy a similar domain, create google ads to appear in the search to employers, and sell the same-priced job post when they have no existing audience.
- RobDRosenberg 7y agoLove the design and simplicity of it! Are you using any APIs? I ask because if you can add info on the date it was posted that could be useful information to display as well.
- krazykonkani 7y agoThanks! Not using any APIs, we read from Career pages. Once our processes are more established, we should know when the posting went live, we will start publishing the date soon.
- harrisreynolds 7y agoOk. First off I love the name. Fantastic. Also. I love the clean and simple design. If there is one tweak I would make I would add a simple badge to the company name like you see here for the 'Developers' tag: https://www.webase.com/website-gallery https://www.webase.com/website-gallery All the best!
- krazykonkani 7y agoThanks for the feedback! We got lucky with the name :). Will check into adding a badge.
- stevewodil 7y agoOn mobile the homepages animated "an individual contributor role." text overflows with the button placement. Also when typing in a filter for the location name, the site stutters. This is probably because the JS is trying to filter the whole list on each keypress. You could implement a slight delay before starting a search. I've previously implemented something similar by restarting a timer (clearTimeout + setTimeout) each keypress. Once the setTimeout actually executes (in my case after 200 ms) OR the user hits the enter key, the state is updated and the filter search is performed using the current value of the text input. I've found this to be a great solution for responsiveness.
- krazykonkani 7y agoMobile needs a lot of love for sure. Thanks for suggesting the solution for speeding up the search field, we have an item in this week's list to fix it!
- leesalminen 7y agoLodash.js has a great `_.throttle()` that I use all the time to buffer keypress/state management.
- stevewodil 7y agothrottle uses debounce, which uses a timer + setTimeout and clearTimeout :)
- krazykonkani 7y agoWe tried your suggestion, worked great. Its live now, thanks again!
- stevewodil 7y agoAwesome! Good luck with everything
- Tokiin 7y agoFor those that got confused like me, it's "Big O of N", not "Big Oof N"
- _verandaguy 7y agoBig Oof on the title.
- krazykonkani 7y agoThanks! Will fix today, as you can tell we are super early stage. Trying to collect feedback and keep improving.
- opmac 7y agoCopyright 2018?
- krazykonkani 7y agoWill get to that too.
- aetherspawn 7y agoI assumed this was done on purpose and thought it was quite clever.
- Martinsos 7y agoHah, also thought it is Big Oof!
- madamelic 7y ago"FANG" "Unicorn" "Incubators" "Corporate" Ah yes, the four company types. And that's all the company types there are. --- I think that "Famous" "Late" "Mid" "Early" "Seed" would be better categories. You could use Crunchbase or something similar to categorize by what round they are in. That still excludes bootstrapped companies but are much more sane categories in my opinion.
- krazykonkani 7y agoThere are definitely more categories than what we have and agree the naming can be improved. Next ones we are considering adding are: 'Mid Stage backed by Big Name Investors' and 'University + Govt.' jobs.
- ilikepi 7y agoSeems like two different filters are needed: one for size and one for stage. Excluding established/bootstrapped companies is silly unless the purpose of the site is to only list jobs at startups.
- krazykonkani 7y agoWe don't plan on excluding any established companies, the filters will be expanded and you will see more categories soon.
- cephaslr 7y ago"Famous" "Late" "Mid" "Early" "Seed" are probably more sanitized and accurate but I would argue less fun. It will drive the employers crazy to not be included in 'Top brands' but as a user I know exactly what 'FANG + Top brands' means and I love it. Its refreshing to see a job board that's a little edgy and innovative.
- krazykonkani 7y agoExactly! Our goal is to cater to the user's\developer's perspective.
- xenocratus 7y agoFor any non-American here: the website is made for US
- krazykonkani 7y agoThanks, yes, for now. Canada will be added in couple of weeks, followed by countries in western Europe.
- sheikheddy 7y agoA checkbox for "VISA" or "INTERN" (like the who is hiring threads) could be really valuable. I like the UI, but what's the source for the 'total funding'?
- krazykonkani 7y agoThanks, you can filter for Interns by title. Few postings explicitly mention whether they sponsor visa or definitely don't, so its tricky to determine, we would add it in our things we would like to do list.
- zerr 7y agoerr, so a rich kids club?
- krazykonkani 7y agoThe countries above may be rich, but we aren't! Focusing resources on one country at a time and expanding gradually among neighbors. Our goal is to have data for all major tech hubs globally, not just in US and Europe. And there also isn't anything wrong with building a service for the country you live in.
- dzink 7y agoRoom for improvement: Golang is missing. Update the copyright statement.
- krazykonkani 7y agoThanks, will fix them in today's release.
- sarakayakomzin 7y agobig oof.
- klyrs 7y agoThe location search bar is particularly frustrating on my phone. Perhaps exacerbated since the site's under load? But it's appears to be kicking off an ajax request per keydown and not updating the input text until that request is completed. Very frustrating as I suck at typing on this danged phone and the feedback delay aggravates that.
- krazykonkani 7y agoApologies, we will prioritize fixing it today. Yes, the traffic has spiked right now which is adding to it.
- krazykonkani 7y agoWe added a delay after each key press in the location filter, it should be easier to use now, please try when you get a chance.
- sergiotapia 7y agobig oof? sounds like a place for disgruntled engineers to criticize their company.
- eyegor 7y agoMay want to update that giant "copyright 2018" on the front page.
- krazykonkani 7y agoGiant indeed! Will be fixed.
- DailyHN 7y agoI've been running job boards for 8+ years. Monetization is the biggest problem. How do you plan to monetize?
- dickfickling 7y agoLove the UI. Where are you pulling these jobs from?
- krazykonkani 7y agoRead from Career pages of all companies, big and small, from Universities as well and soon from government sites.
- wespiser_2018 7y agoFirst off, congrats on a successful reception on HN. Now, the site layout on mobile needs some love. I would suggest setting up google analytics, and getting some numbers on what percentage of users are hitting this from which device size, and allocate your time accordingly.
- krazykonkani 7y agoThanks! Agreed, the numbers for mobile are significant. Our focus so far was mostly on data collection and cleanup, hence we stayed on building web only. Will spend resources on mobile soon, once couple more features are released on the web.
- ykevinator 7y agoIt's nice, where do you get your jobs from?
- krazykonkani 7y agoAll read from Careers pages. We will have a About Us page up this week, will explain how we get the positions.
- Martinsos 7y agoUseful! I am not looking for a job, but on the other hand I like being updated on what is out there (with respect to my interests). Which means I will not go through the jobs now, but if I could define my filter/interests and then subscribe to get an email with job roles that are best fit, every week or 2 weeks or month, that would be interesting.
- krazykonkani 7y agoYes, majority of the engineers are in the state you are in. We have on our roadmap a feature similar to what you are describing.
- Jahak 7y agoGood service