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Hey, I started working on this site as a way to learn rails last summer and finally managed to fix it up and release it. Jobs are sourced from AngelList, the r

by nsp 13y ago

Hey, I started working on this site as a way to learn rails last summer and finally managed to fix it up and release it. Jobs are sourced from AngelList, the resumator, jobscore, indeed, simply hired, stack overflow and github and are grouped by job/internship and technical/nontechnical using primarily keyword filtering. I've pulled in metadata(year founded, # employees, funding) about the companies from AngelList, Crunchbase and Linkedin to try and make it easier to filter by companies you might be interested in. Anyway, I'd love any feedback people have and would be happy to answer any questions EDIT: error should be fixed, sorry about that.

brickcap 13y ago
Looks nice. Do you save the jobs in your database once it is sourced from the sites you mentioned? Or it looks up on them every time? If latter are you not worried about limits. Any way it is a quite nice aggregator.
- nsp 13y ago
  I cache the jobs and the description and so forth and recheck every 24 hours to make sure they're still active/pick up new jobs
epc 13y ago
Feedback: - the jobs for 10gen are stale, like maybe 6+ months old. - you might want to add something to catch people searching on subtle spelling differences (eg: "10gen" not "10 gen"). - there's some mismatches on company names, eg for this job (http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/34710/senior-software-engineer-crimson-new-product-advisory-board-company http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/34710/senior-software-...) it comes up as an Adafruit job not "Advisory Board Company". Many of the jobs sourced off StackOverflow seem to be mismatched to companies, maybe there's a common bug. - you can expand a job listing by clicking on it. Maybe add a graphic bug to click on to fold the listing?
- nsp 13y ago
  - 10gen I'll work on getting those out of there - That's a good idea, improving searching and filtering is definitely top of my list. - Yeah, stackoverflow's got pretty limited searching ability, so I was trying to match via name appearing in job title/description, but it's got way more false positives than I'd like. - Absolutely

by nsp 13y ago

brickcap 13y ago

Looks nice. Do you save the jobs in your database once it is sourced from the sites you mentioned? Or it looks up on them every time? If latter are you not worried about limits. Any way it is a quite nice aggregator.

nsp 13y ago
I cache the jobs and the description and so forth and recheck every 24 hours to make sure they're still active/pick up new jobs

epc 13y ago

Feedback: - the jobs for 10gen are stale, like maybe 6+ months old. - you might want to add something to catch people searching on subtle spelling differences (eg: "10gen" not "10 gen"). - there's some mismatches on company names, eg for this job (http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/34710/senior-software-engineer-crimson-new-product-advisory-board-company http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/34710/senior-software-...) it comes up as an Adafruit job not "Advisory Board Company". Many of the jobs sourced off StackOverflow seem to be mismatched to companies, maybe there's a common bug. - you can expand a job listing by clicking on it. Maybe add a graphic bug to click on to fold the listing?

nsp 13y ago
- 10gen I'll work on getting those out of there - That's a good idea, improving searching and filtering is definitely top of my list. - Yeah, stackoverflow's got pretty limited searching ability, so I was trying to match via name appearing in job title/description, but it's got way more false positives than I'd like. - Absolutely