Comment by rythie | Hacker News Reader

Comment by rythie | Hacker News Reader

Really, this would be neat, but would it help at all?

If you actually wanted a job, why not just read through them all and contact the ones that are near and interesting? - it's really not that hard, I read them all and I'm not even looking for a job.

HN could instead do with a proper job board. I'd suggest that a job board should not be restricted to advertising just specific jobs like every other board does. In a small startup roles will not be that well defined yet. You should be able to post just a company and say they are looking for good people, by stating:

  - What the Company does / the problem it solves
  - Capital raised and current situation
  - Technologies currently used
  - Location

To be honest, I quite like the lo-fi nature of the "Who's hiring" process on HN. If you really are looking for a job I think spending 15 minutes (if that) on a (admittedly poorly organised) thread isn't too much hassle in my opinion.

Sounds like a perfect use for the workatastartup.org domain name :).

Instead of the first point (what the company does) I suggest link to a Company website. 3 other points are very good - maybe one more point with the salary/equity info?

And all of those posts should be aggregated under http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs link.

There should be link for further information, yes. Though I think you should be a quick pitch inline - actually thinking about this a bit more, there should be char limit on it too, say 500 chars.

Not sure about Salary/equity details, it brings up all sorts of issues, whether they are in it for the money and lack of knowledge of the market rate. Also it's specific to a job, rather than just a call out to people who want to be involved which could be anyone from people straight out of college to people with 20+ years experience doing technical or non-technical jobs.

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