Jabbs

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by Jabbs 2y ago
This is great feedback, I'm very appreciative! Yea there is a much better version of the search bar soon-to-deploy (which accounts for aliases like QA -> Quality Assurance) and it will match by word rather than the entire phrase (cu
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by Jabbs 2y ago
Thank you :) I appreciate the request + feedback. I have a story in the backlog to add location-specific links to the landing page but I really like your idea of having a map (heatmap or something) to show densities of jobs. So the inclusiv
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by Jabbs 2y ago
Ohhh yea I run into this memory issue very quickly when scraping (especially if you have a large URL dataset then it will inevitably find a website with a giant bit of markup). So I have to set timeouts and blacklist timely requests but als
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by Jabbs 2y ago
Selenium, although I'm using a wrapper library that uses it. I only query each company every few days or so which probably helps to not get banned IP-wise but also rotate them. But many of the company job links are through external sou
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by Jabbs 2y ago
Oh that's a really interesting idea. Yea I dislike the idea of charging the job seeker but have not found a good way to monetize companies (not that they even know about me anyway)
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by Jabbs 2y ago
https://www.unlistedjobs.com/ Scraper of job listings directly from company websites. I found my last day job by using a scraper that visits company websites in search of job listings. Now I've turned it into an app fo
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by Jabbs 2y ago
This is a repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42350351 which was flagged (hopefully those reasons have been addressed) and would really like to continue the convo with those interested. The job search view (URL l
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by Jabbs 2y ago
UPDATE: You can now delete your account (under the 'My Account' tab within the /settings page)
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by Jabbs 2y ago
App creator here. I very much agree with your analysis, thank you. I keep trying to figure out a free trial that makes sense so I appreciate your input and could possibly show the user a subset of the job listings as a free version. Current
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by Jabbs 2y ago
Ah yea no LLMs but probably some of the similar ideas were used by having a validating dataset. I just have ~800 common locations (city, state, countries) that are parsed out of the text with validating logic wrapped around each one. Far fr
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by Jabbs 2y ago
The app can be used without signup here: https://www.unlistedjobs.com/jobs Then you can determine if enough relevant job listings are there for your domain to follow through with signup. (there is some confusion that you mu
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by Jabbs 2y ago
Actually "rust" was too difficult to yet parse out of a job description because it is such a commonly used word but I am in the process of working on this. Very sorry it is not included yet
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by Jabbs 2y ago
You can browse job listings without subscribing to see whether there are enough job listings in your domain to add value to your job search. The "U" tag is assigned to job listings without search engine results for paid platforms
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by Jabbs 2y ago
I made a point to collect almost no information (only email) from the user (as opposed to Linkedin which asks for all sorts of data to sell) but happy to delete your account if you just email support. I also dislike having my data used or s
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by Jabbs 2y ago
No that has always been the price. Nothing changed. Same $ as a Netflix subscription was the idea
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by Jabbs 2y ago
Currently 4 worker services run headless chrome browsers and visit company websites (about 10k URLs per service per day). If certain keywords and phrases match a valid dataset of job listings and titles then the page content is saved and pa
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by Jabbs 2y ago
Ah yea there might not be enough #'s for that job title. Apologies, but I will take a look and see if there are enough relevant listings to include it
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by Jabbs 2y ago
You can currently search the job listings without having to sign up, which only hides the company and the link the job listings.
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by Jabbs 2y ago
The landing page has a pricing section. Hmm perhaps this should be obvious on the /jobs page as well.
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by Jabbs 2y ago
Ah thank you, I modified it away from scraper (just thought that would help people understand how it functioned)
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by Jabbs 2y ago
Okay thank you that is certainly a good feature to have and might have that in the backlog somewhere. Much appreciated
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by Jabbs 2y ago
Many thanks!
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by Jabbs 2y ago
There are both but the unlisted jobs are tagged as such. I thought about pulling the listed jobs but I think that is still valuable to the user
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by Jabbs 2y ago
I'm not yet but thank you that is an interesting idea. Currently it is quite dumb and just looks for listings on each company website but in the future it would be nice to connect to workday or other such services
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by Jabbs 2y ago
Good point, I'm not sure the numbers that accounts for this yet. I also have the reverse issue of an employer removing a job posting that has been filled so the scrapers need to visit each listing to see if it is indeed still up (where
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by Jabbs 2y ago
Thank you so much. In some cases I was able to standardize where the title and location are located on the page (Greenhouse, Lever, etc.). But this mostly uses a valid dataset of job descriptions that matches lists of phrases for plain text
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by Jabbs 2y ago
Employers don't post anything, the job listings are scraped directly from company websites. So even if the employer has not paid for an ad on Indeed/LinkedIn/Glassdoor but they leave the listing up on their company website th
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by Jabbs 2y ago
It was a slow aggregation over a few years from various resources but I recently came across https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/ and now that is the source for most of the company data
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by Jabbs 2y ago
OP here. I found my last day job using a scraper that visits company websites in search of job listings. Now I've turned that into an app for others to use and access jobs found on company websites (rather than paid employer ads on Ind
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