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Show HN: I built a job board that scrapes the internet for Remote roles

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Hi folks. My wife has been looking for a job and has been frustrated with existing job boards because they either don't have enough jobs (because companies need to pay to list their openings) or they don't have good information/filters on the companies.

To solve this, I scraped recruiting sites like Workable, Greenhouse and Lever where most job openings are hosted. I then parse them for useful information such as salaries and hiring location. I then combine this with more useful information I scrape online about the companies e.g. funding, company size.

The result is that I have a lot more open positions on my site than most other job boards. I'd love to hear your thoughts and if you have any feedback!

Fun fact: I noticed that about 11% of job listings specify a salary.

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I'm actively in a job search so here are some things that I want and problems I've seen on your site. I don't know if this is a serious project for you or not so please take this at whatever level of seriousness you like. I don't mean to demand anything from you. Thanks for making this.

With your infinite scroll I have no way to bookmark where I am in the search.

I don't know how the jobs are sorted and have no way to control the sort.

(The previous two items together are a dealbreaker for me for relying on your site.)

I don't know when the jobs were posted, but I understand you may not have this information if you're scraping sites.

I want a way to group by organization. I mainly care about who is hiring, then I go to their job board and look for the position that's the closest fit to what I want.

Your site only lists the upper bound for the salary range. I found one position where you say "$200k/year" but the position itself says $80k-$200k, which is a big difference.

I want to know which ATS the organization uses, Greenhouse or Lever or whatever.

I want a direct link to both the organization's homepage and organization's LinkedIn profile.

This is super useful feedback! Thank you for explaining it so clearly. It all makes perfect sense

Re knowing which ATS the orginization uses, why is this important?

So far I'm mostly limiting my search to organizations with single page applications, and unfortunately over time I've gotten comfortable with filling out applications through specific ATSes. So, for example if an employer uses Greenhouse, I know basically what to expect and how to fill stuff in.

Also, in case you didn't know, a job that shows up at for example boards.greenhouse.io may show up embedded at example.com/jobs?gh_jid=123 if you navigate to it through the employer's jobs page. It may not matter in the end but when that happens I prefer submitting through the example.com URL instead of the greenhouse.io URL. This is one reason I want a link directly to the employer's main site.

That's good to know. Thank you! If you're up for it, I'd love to share an updated version with you once I've incorporated your feedback. If you are, let me know what the best way to get in touch with you is (my contact details are on the site)

Sorry, I'm keeping this account anonymous and I don't want to mess around with creating a throwaway contact point, and I also don't want to commit to reviewing this later. Fair question to ask though! I'm glad you found my feedback helpful.

Nice and very helpful! There seem to be quite a bit of duplicates (I was scrolling through some on my phone for several minutes at full speed).

Thanks! I'll look into it!

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