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So the plan here was to scrape the job listings off another site (freshremote.work), pretend those people posted on your site, make a show HN and then hope some

So the plan here was to scrape the job listings off another site (freshremote.work), pretend those people posted on your site, make a show HN and then hope someone is tricked into thinking this site actually gets traffic and pays you $49? I understand what you are doing but how is this providing any value? Wouldn’t people just be better off going to the site you are scraping from?

paxys 4y ago
I'd wager "freshremote.work" is doing exactly the same thing. This is why 90% of job boards on the internet are useless. Just stick to reputed ones (Indeed, LinkedIn) or go directly to the company's careers site.
- kyriakos 4y ago
  Seen sites that scrape HN who's hiring
cercatrova 4y ago
That is in fact how every job board gains traction. I've seen it happen multiple times.
- piinecone 4y ago
  Hopefully the fact that we're not doing this for our developer job matching site is not its death knell. We're building up developer preferences first, and then we can ask employers to create job descriptions and potentially match with developers. Scraping, in our case, wouldn't work anyway because most job advertisements don't have the information we require. (For the curious, my friend and I are making https://polyfill.work https://polyfill.work. Developers say what they want -- pay, schedule, etc. -- and polyfill introduces employers and developers when they want the same things)
dvtrn 4y ago
Welcome to Job boards. It’s not really a secret that this is how many, many, many of them work.
saasxyz 4y ago
I am not trying to trick people into believing all those postings were posted directly on my site. Anyone clicking around the site will simply find out that it is curated from various sources. And also on the top there is a clause that says "updated daily". Isn't it enough for people to understand this is curated from external services?
- dewey 4y ago
  > Isn't it enough for people to understand this is curated from external services Usually "curated" means hand selected and filtered, not just scraped and automatically posted. It's an aggregator of aggregators at this point.
  - djohnston 4y ago
    Aggregator of aggregator is a viable business these days, till u get aggregated XD
wooque 4y ago
you just learned how most job boards, but also classified advertising works
djohnston 4y ago
Just aggregate this dude and you've upped the game!

paxys 4y ago

I'd wager "freshremote.work" is doing exactly the same thing. This is why 90% of job boards on the internet are useless. Just stick to reputed ones (Indeed, LinkedIn) or go directly to the company's careers site.

kyriakos 4y ago
Seen sites that scrape HN who's hiring

cercatrova 4y ago

That is in fact how every job board gains traction. I've seen it happen multiple times.

piinecone 4y ago
Hopefully the fact that we're not doing this for our developer job matching site is not its death knell. We're building up developer preferences first, and then we can ask employers to create job descriptions and potentially match with developers. Scraping, in our case, wouldn't work anyway because most job advertisements don't have the information we require. (For the curious, my friend and I are making https://polyfill.work https://polyfill.work. Developers say what they want -- pay, schedule, etc. -- and polyfill introduces employers and developers when they want the same things)

dvtrn 4y ago

Welcome to Job boards. It’s not really a secret that this is how many, many, many of them work.

saasxyz 4y ago

I am not trying to trick people into believing all those postings were posted directly on my site. Anyone clicking around the site will simply find out that it is curated from various sources. And also on the top there is a clause that says "updated daily". Isn't it enough for people to understand this is curated from external services?

dewey 4y ago
> Isn't it enough for people to understand this is curated from external services Usually "curated" means hand selected and filtered, not just scraped and automatically posted. It's an aggregator of aggregators at this point.
- djohnston 4y ago
  Aggregator of aggregator is a viable business these days, till u get aggregated XD

wooque 4y ago

you just learned how most job boards, but also classified advertising works

djohnston 4y ago

Just aggregate this dude and you've upped the game!