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Show HN: API Jobs, a new job site focused on APIs

37 points by johns 15y ago

In my spare time to remind myself that I could actually build stuff (and learn some Python, Flask, Redis, etc) I put together a simple job board to feature the best jobs in the API industry. The jobs can be either building APIs at companies like Twilio, Box, Stripe, etc. or integrating them. In addition to featuring those jobs, I'm also aggregating API jobs from GitHub Jobs, Stack Overflow Careers 2.0, and 37signals Job Board. Today I launched with what I would consider an 'MVP' with jobs from SendGrid, TokBox, Twilio, Zencoder, Parse, Stripe, Pusher and Box. Check it out, I'd love to know what you think of it. http://www.api-jobs.com

saiko-chriskun 15y ago
check what out? you didn't link anything.
- johns 15y ago
  Edited! Thanks :)
johns 15y ago
Link! http://www.api-jobs.com http://www.api-jobs.com
mthreat 15y ago
Congrats on going live, looks good!
devinrhode2 15y ago
Y SO BEAUTIFUL!
jessegavin 15y ago
Very smart to link to jobs available via external sources too. Good luck!
jefe78 15y ago
Cool, but can you make an API request to see the jobs?! Clarification: I see that your API is coming soon. Just kidding around. I really liked the design though.
- johns 15y ago
  Wanted to make sure there was interest before I invested the time in it. It's looking like there is.
  - MatthewPhillips 15y ago
    Yes, please accept application/json and text/plain, the latter so we can just curl and grep for keywords.
janineyoong 15y ago
it's pretty!
Omnipresent 15y ago
looks pretty neat. How are you fetching jobs from the different sources? do they all have api's for their jobs sites?
- johns 15y ago
  RSS feeds from their search functions, or in 37signals case pulling in all RSS items and then filtering for just those that match what I'm looking for. Then a little post-processing work to extract the data into something more structured.
farmdawgnation 15y ago
This is spectacular! Congratulations! Going to add this to my list of go-to sites next time I'm in the job market. :D
babeKnuth 15y ago
I imagine filtering will be available in version 2.0?
- johns 15y ago
  Yep

37 points by johns 15y ago

saiko-chriskun 15y ago

check what out? you didn't link anything.

johns 15y ago
Edited! Thanks :)

johns 15y ago

Link! http://www.api-jobs.com http://www.api-jobs.com

mthreat 15y ago

Congrats on going live, looks good!

devinrhode2 15y ago

Y SO BEAUTIFUL!

jessegavin 15y ago

Very smart to link to jobs available via external sources too. Good luck!

jefe78 15y ago

Cool, but can you make an API request to see the jobs?! Clarification: I see that your API is coming soon. Just kidding around. I really liked the design though.

johns 15y ago
Wanted to make sure there was interest before I invested the time in it. It's looking like there is.
- MatthewPhillips 15y ago
  Yes, please accept application/json and text/plain, the latter so we can just curl and grep for keywords.

janineyoong 15y ago

it's pretty!

Omnipresent 15y ago

looks pretty neat. How are you fetching jobs from the different sources? do they all have api's for their jobs sites?

johns 15y ago
RSS feeds from their search functions, or in 37signals case pulling in all RSS items and then filtering for just those that match what I'm looking for. Then a little post-processing work to extract the data into something more structured.

farmdawgnation 15y ago

This is spectacular! Congratulations! Going to add this to my list of go-to sites next time I'm in the job market. :D

babeKnuth 15y ago

I imagine filtering will be available in version 2.0?

johns 15y ago
Yep