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To me, the tag box has incorrect UX. I would personally expect that hitting the spacebar would end one tag and let me enter a second tag, especially since it is

To me, the tag box has incorrect UX. I would personally expect that hitting the spacebar would end one tag and let me enter a second tag, especially since it is clear that you do not permit spaces in tags. I would also expect the "enter" key to conduct the search. Instead, spacebar adds a space that will get converted to a hyphen anyway, and enter ends one tag and lets me create a second one. Good job overall; I like the idea. It will be an interesting challenge to capture meaning from these raw text posts. For example, I tried to search for jobs in Florida, but typing in "FL" gives a lot of false positives. That will be the

totalrobe 11y ago
Well first of all I looked through the recent thread and saw 0 postings in FL. Little bit of a sidetrack, but it's seriously depressing that 90% of the jobs posted are SF and NY. These companies are seriously limiting their applicant pools.
- throwaway32439 11y ago
  Outside of helping build a startup, you have literally every other job site at your disposal. Go on any of them. Within the context of building a startup, Sam Altman suggests it is more than 10x easier in SF and SV - however I think it is more like 50x easier. You can talk to 50 people on "startup" terms in FL before you'll find one person who is as qualified and willing to work on a startup, who will actually do it, as you can find in SF. For better or for worse, HN is a YC property, and it's mostly about startups. In that sense even NY ranks far behind SF. In fact, you can go farther and say that inside SF, twenty people can build the better part of a billion dollars in value together from nothing. Outside SF, you will get accused of being a thief and trying to take advantage of the same developers. It's a complete non-starter. I realize most people posting advertisements are somewhat farther along, but the point stands. SF is where they are funded and able to post startup jobs.
  - totalrobe 11y ago
    I think you are underestimating the SE. They have the talent but not the employers. I, like most educated young folks I knew from FL, had to move out of the state for non military tech jobs.

totalrobe 11y ago

Well first of all I looked through the recent thread and saw 0 postings in FL. Little bit of a sidetrack, but it's seriously depressing that 90% of the jobs posted are SF and NY. These companies are seriously limiting their applicant pools.

throwaway32439 11y ago
Outside of helping build a startup, you have literally every other job site at your disposal. Go on any of them. Within the context of building a startup, Sam Altman suggests it is more than 10x easier in SF and SV - however I think it is more like 50x easier. You can talk to 50 people on "startup" terms in FL before you'll find one person who is as qualified and willing to work on a startup, who will actually do it, as you can find in SF. For better or for worse, HN is a YC property, and it's mostly about startups. In that sense even NY ranks far behind SF. In fact, you can go farther and say that inside SF, twenty people can build the better part of a billion dollars in value together from nothing. Outside SF, you will get accused of being a thief and trying to take advantage of the same developers. It's a complete non-starter. I realize most people posting advertisements are somewhat farther along, but the point stands. SF is where they are funded and able to post startup jobs.
- totalrobe 11y ago
  I think you are underestimating the SE. They have the talent but not the employers. I, like most educated young folks I knew from FL, had to move out of the state for non military tech jobs.