Ask HN: Review my startup, n3rds
A friend and I were recently laid off and started job hunting. After a couple days of looking on all the job boards, we both had complaints with them.
1) Searching for jobs by skills was often flawed. If someone posted a link that ended with .php, it would show up even though the job had nothing to do with someone developing using php. 2) When we'd find a job we liked, we often didn't know if our expectations for salaries would meet theirs. This led to wasted conversations and time. 3) It can be time consuming searching all the job boards. Yes, there are aggregators, but we didn't want to miss a job if an aggregator missed that particular job board.
On top of that, we had some other thoughts about job searching in general:
1) If you look for a job while employed, you run the risk of exposing your search to your current employer. Either by updating your resume on LinkedIn (or other job site) or talking to the wrong recruiter (who might have a good relationship with your current employer). 2) While employed, it'd be nice to know what's available in the market without spending effort. Unfortunately, job boards require on-going effort of searching, at least weekly. Instead, we wanted to have jobs matching our skills and other requirements sent to us as they became available.
So we built n3rds so that users set up their location and radius, if they want remote, skills, and salary. The user's info is kept private. When a recruiter posts a job, we ask a similar set of questions. We then match users to jobs and notify the user if there's a match. If a user is interested in the position, they click a button to make their information available to the recruiter so they can contact you.
We're interested in any feedback or questions. Site design, marketing, features, bugs, or new ideas.