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Show HN: A socially curated startup job board

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I don't think King.com and SurveyMonkey are startups. What's stopping this from just turning into another job board? Once the recruiters catch wind of this it will be filled with junk.

I don't think so, it's user-curated. If the job is not interesting, it won't be retweeted so it won't appear at the top of the page, just like HN

Who goes on such a site? Jobseekers. Which jobseeker has an incentive to retweet a job s/he finds interesting? Usually YOU want the job you find interesting. Why retweet it when this makes it harder for you to get the job?

Jobseekers are not expected to retweet. Company stakeholders and relevant jobseekers friends are.

And what happens when you add retweeting spambots into the mix?

Great point. One way I can think of is to moderate each and every job submission. This could be costly in terms of manpower. Maybe put a requirement that your business must have 10 or less employees.

You can cross-reference the Crunchbase API to have filters on the companies such as funding, employee coutn, location, etc. That would guarantee the startup fits the profile of what the applicant is looking for.

Looks nice, good luck with it.

Couple of points:

Browser navigation does not seem to do much (I click on UK then back arrow and remain in UK, have to reload page or click on All to get back to All).

Esc to close the popup when clicking on an ad would be useful. (Naturally try to do this, and got stuck with a swirly at one point, close button didn't appear. Reload to fix).

It's a difficult one for a startup job listing, but some indication of expected Salary or perhaps even an indication of equity / salary options would be good.

Thanks for the feedbacks! Very much appreciated :) I'll look into the bugs you mentioned

I'm not so sure about the equity/salary part. Angellist does this but the ranges are often so wide (like $80k-$140k) they don't really seem relevant to me. We'll definitely check if it makes sense :)

I'd like to put an advert on but why do you need Twitter authorisation? It's not clear to me exactly what you're going to do so I'm reluctant to authorise.

Nothing ! But you will have the opportunity to auto-retweet the offers you post

Not sure of the ideal solution but you are referencing 3 forms of social validation users are aware of: upvotes, karma, and retweets. I understand the relationship among the 3 but it adds an unnecessary layer of complexity.

HN is not so simple neither ! But you have a point.

I would have gone with "not so simple either".

If the crowd is stupider than individual people, why use it to curate? You'll have the latest Californian startups in drone delivery of gluten-free flour for the whole SOMA district area, but not the next disruptive stuff from a small Spain town.

I like it! Although it is in dire need of an easy-to-find 'city, location' marker for each entry.

edit: up!! nevermind, i found it. It's on the bottom right. I initially didn't see it. nice job on the site!

thanks for the feedbacks :)

I found a gig I was interested in. There doesn't seem to be a way to contact them though. Their link goes to their homepage which has no contact info. Maybe the site could facilitate that ?

SJ is "just" a tool to help startups to promote their jobs page, the better they use the tool the higher the karma of the post is

"Startupjob.org a Reddit for startup jobs” and now I understand the expression 'ideas are a dime a dozen’.

Your logo looks exactly like Enthought's www.enthought.com

"exactly like" is a bit of a stretch. I see the resemblance. Enthoughts looks exactly like Gamecube's icon if we're being that vague.

It looks like the symmetry of the 9gag's logo as well.

http://9gag.com

What does it take to add new countries (for example Canada)?

Additional countries will come fast, thanks !

+1 for Canada.

I feel for larger countries like canada or the states some option to limit ads to certain regions/states/etc would be very benefitial.

Easy to scan and clean design!

I had the opposite reaction. The design uses grids which are worse than lists for scanning.

There is a study (or statistics, at least) that showed a row layout made the user actually see _every_ product in an online shop while a grid view made the user skip many.

I intuitively agree about the reduced scannability, but do you happen to have a link to the study? I tried searching for it to no avail.

I haven't been able to find it again. I'll update if I do.

Very cool idea! Great design

I use Startupers.com

There's already a reddit for startup jobs its called reddit.com/r/startups

Sort of.

"Welcome to r/startups, a community for all backgrounds, levels of expertise, and business experience. We are a forum of entrepreneurs working towards unbiased and anonymous feedback, advice, ideas, and discussion."

Reddit could use a /r/startupjobs subreddit.

I don't see any job ads there

Yeah, /r/startups is totally not a jobs place. It's like a watered down HN. With more trolls.

Fair enough. I just thought it was silly to call it a Reddit for X

Neat site but please don't call it 'Reddit for Startup Jobs', X for Y is seriously annoying. Just say it's a startup job board ..

yeah, it doesn't even resemble reddit. Just has some kind of voting.

I also disagree with the name of Reddit for startup jobs. It would still be better to call it a "Socially curated startup job board".

We changed it to use your suggestion. There's no need for the thread to be about a title.

i dig this.

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