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- wnm 12y agoso this is more or less an mvp to see if people find value in the idea. the idea grew out of my own frustration of how much job boards suck. if you are not living in SF finding a job as a software developer is far from a solved problem...
- alex_hitchins 12y agoThis could be very worth while if you could vet the submissions to remove all the "I want a site like Google for $99" that fill up the others.
- Bahamut 12y agoIt isn't as hard in all areas - while I was in DC, I was getting ~3 emails a day from recruiters. I was able to score in person interviews in hours, even unsolicited at meetups. Granted, in smaller places, getting a job in software engineering can be challenging, but it isn't too bad in many metropolitan locales, assuming you do the standard things software engineers should do to improve.
- quaffapint 12y agoWhat do you mean by "assuming you do the standard things software engineers should do to improve"?
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- Bahamut 12y agoAlways strive to improve yourself, learn new tech, set the example, etc. things any person should be doing with their career.
- philbarr 12y agolike the idea, although it is pretty much covered by many other job sites as they have this feature already. Where are you sourcing the jobs from? This would be perfect if it aggregated jobs from all the other job sites. Searching for remote jobs (which I am interested in) in particular is a pain - and is actually why I signed up once I saw that was an option...
- _neil 12y agoYou might be interested in http://workingnomads.co/ http://workingnomads.co/ or http://letsworkshop.com/ http://letsworkshop.com/
- agilebyte 12y agoWow, thanks for the Workshop link. Any idea if they are US centric only? I would love to do some freelancing from Canada.
- _neil 12y agoI am not sure. I think I've seen leads from non-US companies before but I may be remembering wrong.
- robwilliams88 12y agoFounder here. All the leads are for remote work so you can work from anywhere. Hope that helps :)
- wnm 12y agoyes, right now it is aggregated from job boards that i think are of high quality (github, stackoverflow, angellist, etc). but honestly, if you are living outside of tech hubs like SF, New York, Berlin etc, google is still your best bet to find jobs. its a chicken and egg problem. i was recently looking for a job myself, in a small-ish city (200k people) in germany... and the job boards mentioned above were all completely useless. small companies in small cities don't post jobs in those job boards. its not worth it for them. posting a job at stackoverflow is something like 600 dollars. i dont have an definite answer yet, all i know is, there must be a better way for finding jobs then google... right now i think i can offer this service, by just manually filling the system with high quality jobs matching all of my users critereas... someday i think this can be automated...
- ludite313 12y agoAwesome... Have you thought about adding salary information to the site as well?
- wnm 12y agogreat idea. I will add it to the roadmap. Also on the roadmap are other filters, like filter for specific technologies (PHP, Rails, Backbone, e.g)
- sneilan 12y agoSo now I can get more spam emails from recruiters?
- sharmanaetor 12y agoI filled up the form. Here is what I see: http://imgur.com/0B2dfRo http://imgur.com/0B2dfRo
- piran 12y agoThat's an interesting error message to show the user...
- bhousel 12y agoI think it's just a standard 5xx error on a Heroku hosted site.
- vinceguidry 12y agoIt's the default production Rails 4 error message. On development it gives you a stack trace.
- wnm 12y agosorry, i got HN'd... i spun up another dyno at heroku to handle the traffic. please try again...
- sharmanaetor 12y agoNope...still the same result
- rohitv 12y agoi got the same message when location wasn't filled
- iclems 12y agoWould be much better if you could add multiple locations, but +1 for the concept ;-)
- danbucholtz 12y agoI've already got jobs for software developers delivered to my inbox from the copious amount of recruiters emailing me... So incredibly annoying! I swear, they just spam every potential candidate for every job. The WORST!
- increment_i 12y agoOne day you may reflect on this and realize this was a good problem to have.
- gravity13 12y agoYeah, like when artificial intelligences enslave us all.
- vonmoltke 12y agoGood for you. Forward some to me. I get three in a good month. Recruiters seem to forget Dallas exists.
- allsystemsgo 12y agoHaven't experienced that at all in Dallas. What skill set?
- vonmoltke 12y agoPower electronics (troubleshooting and support, but no design), systems engineering[1], real-time embedded software (radar signal processor, so "big" embedded), and NLP. My resume is linked through my website in my profile here. [1] This kind: http://www.incose.org/practice/fellowsconsensus.aspx http://www.incose.org/practice/fellowsconsensus.aspx
- vishbar 12y agoThat's probably the reason. Those are all rather niche markets. Stick "ASP.NET MVC" in your resume or on your LinkedIn and you'll get swamped.
- taco_emoji 12y agoWhat happens if you check both "Remote only" and "include remote"?
- wnm 12y agomy bad. that shouldn't be possible. check remote only, if you are just interested in jobs that allow remote work. check include remote if you are interested in both remote jobs and also jobs at your location. check none if you are only interested in jobs at your location. sorry about that...
- eik3_de 12y agosounds like three radios: remote, remote or office, office
- conorgdaly 12y agoor 2 checkboxes remote, office
- timjahn 12y agoWhere are you sourcing the jobs/gigs from?
- vonmoltke 12y agoWhat is the search radius on this? Will I only get jobs for the specific location I enter? It's a great start, and I hope you can continue to develop it. Being in Dallas I end up having to actively search out opportunities when I am looking, because the recruiters rarely come to me.
- wnm 12y agohaven't decided yet. Maybe it should be an option. i think a commute of 30 minutes counts as a job near your location...
- mattt416 12y agoi think it'd be helpful. i know commuting across london is a pain, so people may only be interested in a radius rather than specific location.
- gee_totes 12y agoWhat sites are you searching? I built a web scraper to help automate my job search in NOLA http://nolatechjobs.leesome.com/ http://nolatechjobs.leesome.com/ I'd be happy to share the code with you and you could switch out the sites I'm scraping with the ones you look at. The whole thing runs on a cronjob that just re-generates the HTML every hour.
- vonmoltke 12y agoRight now when I look I usually use Indeed and StackOverflow. I gave up on the big boys (Monster, CareerBuilder, Dice) because the sites are so polluted by recruiters and the filtering tools are so poor. I'd love to try your scraper. I've thought about doing something like that before, particularly since I have started doing lots of web scraping for work and I am much more comfortable with it. Do you have any issues with sites that actively or passively discourage scrapers?
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- zura 12y agoConsider RSS.
- uptownben 12y agoI'd like to signup but still errors out after submitting the form.
- aosmith 12y agoIf you could figure out how to keep those pesky recruiters out of my inbox, now there's a product!
- ddorian43 12y agoKeyword filtering! Also: don't fail the form if I don't enter a location.
- steven777400 12y agoI like the simplicity. A few thoughts: 1. Radius. My location is Olympia, WA (about an 60-90 minutes south of Seattle). Does that include Seattle jobs? It seems like that should be on a person-by-person basis. Some people here do commute into Seattle. For me, though, Seattle jobs would just be noise. 2. Maybe another set of checkboxes for common technology stacks? 3. I didn't receive a confirmation or verification email to confirm my signup. (Maybe it hasn't come yet) Thanks, for those of us outside the big metro areas, this could be helpful.
- larssorenson 12y agoNo love for Security? :(