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I've already got jobs for software developers delivered to my inbox from the copious amount of recruiters emailing me... So incredibly annoying! I swear, they just spam every potential candidate for every job. The WORST!

Good for you. Forward some to me. I get three in a good month. Recruiters seem to forget Dallas exists.

Haven't experienced that at all in Dallas. What skill set?

Power electronics (troubleshooting and support, but no design), systems engineering[1], real-time embedded software (radar signal processor, so "big" embedded), and NLP. My resume is linked through my website in my profile here.

[1] This kind: http://www.incose.org/practice/fellowsconsensus.aspx

That's probably the reason. Those are all rather niche markets.

Stick "ASP.NET MVC" in your resume or on your LinkedIn and you'll get swamped.

This is a good skill set for San Jose or Austin, not so great for Dallas unless you want to work for one or two of the local telecom companies that are still investing in engineering here.

I'm not limiting myself to Dallas. My original comment was more about the propensity of recruiters to not look outside the local area of the job they are trying to fill. If you aren't already in the area the recruiters are not beating your door down.

One day you may reflect on this and realize this was a good problem to have.

Yeah, like when artificial intelligences enslave us all.

How many of those are CyberCoders? I've heard that their software is setup so that every time a recruiter there does a search, it e-mails every single matching candidate in their database. A single search results in roughly 5000 e-mails. As a result, they dwarf the e-mail volume of every other recruiter out there.

I like the simplicity.

A few thoughts:

1. Radius. My location is Olympia, WA (about an 60-90 minutes south of Seattle). Does that include Seattle jobs? It seems like that should be on a person-by-person basis. Some people here do commute into Seattle. For me, though, Seattle jobs would just be noise.

2. Maybe another set of checkboxes for common technology stacks?

3. I didn't receive a confirmation or verification email to confirm my signup. (Maybe it hasn't come yet)

Thanks, for those of us outside the big metro areas, this could be helpful.

like the idea, although it is pretty much covered by many other job sites as they have this feature already.

Where are you sourcing the jobs from? This would be perfect if it aggregated jobs from all the other job sites. Searching for remote jobs (which I am interested in) in particular is a pain - and is actually why I signed up once I saw that was an option...

You might be interested in http://workingnomads.co/ or http://letsworkshop.com/

Wow, thanks for the Workshop link. Any idea if they are US centric only? I would love to do some freelancing from Canada.

I am not sure. I think I've seen leads from non-US companies before but I may be remembering wrong.

Founder here. All the leads are for remote work so you can work from anywhere. Hope that helps :)

yes, right now it is aggregated from job boards that i think are of high quality (github, stackoverflow, angellist, etc). but honestly, if you are living outside of tech hubs like SF, New York, Berlin etc, google is still your best bet to find jobs.

its a chicken and egg problem. i was recently looking for a job myself, in a small-ish city (200k people) in germany... and the job boards mentioned above were all completely useless. small companies in small cities don't post jobs in those job boards. its not worth it for them. posting a job at stackoverflow is something like 600 dollars.

i dont have an definite answer yet, all i know is, there must be a better way for finding jobs then google... right now i think i can offer this service, by just manually filling the system with high quality jobs matching all of my users critereas... someday i think this can be automated...

it would be great if the site had an about/imprint to know who's behind it

really? there are lots of job boards for remote jobs -- https://www.wfh.io, https://weworkremotely.com/, http://careers.stackoverflow.com/, https://jobs.github.com/, etc.

Yes, but a lot of those are "remote - US only".

i look at those boards regularly, some jobs are US-only but not all. on https://www.wfh.io, since march we've had 19% of jobs posted that are open to those in a particular country only.

even on wfh.io some companies would write country as "Anywhere" but in the description you'd see "Candidates MUST be located in USA" for example https://www.wfh.io/jobs/789-android-developer-tripcraft

Thanks for pointing that out. That particular job posting has been fixed.

I filled up the form. Here is what I see: http://imgur.com/0B2dfRo

That's an interesting error message to show the user...

I think it's just a standard 5xx error on a Heroku hosted site.

It's the default production Rails 4 error message. On development it gives you a stack trace.

sorry, i got HN'd... i spun up another dyno at heroku to handle the traffic. please try again...

Nope...still the same result

i got the same message when location wasn't filled

What is the search radius on this? Will I only get jobs for the specific location I enter?

It's a great start, and I hope you can continue to develop it. Being in Dallas I end up having to actively search out opportunities when I am looking, because the recruiters rarely come to me.

haven't decided yet. Maybe it should be an option. i think a commute of 30 minutes counts as a job near your location...

i think it'd be helpful. i know commuting across london is a pain, so people may only be interested in a radius rather than specific location.

What sites are you searching? I built a web scraper to help automate my job search in NOLA

http://nolatechjobs.leesome.com/

I'd be happy to share the code with you and you could switch out the sites I'm scraping with the ones you look at. The whole thing runs on a cronjob that just re-generates the HTML every hour.

Right now when I look I usually use Indeed and StackOverflow. I gave up on the big boys (Monster, CareerBuilder, Dice) because the sites are so polluted by recruiters and the filtering tools are so poor.

I'd love to try your scraper. I've thought about doing something like that before, particularly since I have started doing lots of web scraping for work and I am much more comfortable with it. Do you have any issues with sites that actively or passively discourage scrapers?

Nope, haven't run into any issues. I scrape Craigslist from RSS and the others from the HTML. I only hit the sites once an hour, and leave a unique browser string so they can filter me out of their analytics.

My e-mail is in my profile and I'll be happy to send over the code.

so this is more or less an mvp to see if people find value in the idea. the idea grew out of my own frustration of how much job boards suck. if you are not living in SF finding a job as a software developer is far from a solved problem...

This could be very worth while if you could vet the submissions to remove all the "I want a site like Google for $99" that fill up the others.

It isn't as hard in all areas - while I was in DC, I was getting ~3 emails a day from recruiters. I was able to score in person interviews in hours, even unsolicited at meetups.

Granted, in smaller places, getting a job in software engineering can be challenging, but it isn't too bad in many metropolitan locales, assuming you do the standard things software engineers should do to improve.

What do you mean by "assuming you do the standard things software engineers should do to improve"?

Always strive to improve yourself, learn new tech, set the example, etc. things any person should be doing with their career.

Would be much better if you could add multiple locations, but +1 for the concept ;-)

Awesome... Have you thought about adding salary information to the site as well?

great idea. I will add it to the roadmap. Also on the roadmap are other filters, like filter for specific technologies (PHP, Rails, Backbone, e.g)

If you could figure out how to keep those pesky recruiters out of my inbox, now there's a product!

Keyword filtering!

Also: don't fail the form if I don't enter a location.

I'd like to signup but still errors out after submitting the form.

You have to put a location apparently.

no you shouldn't have too... the database seems to be the bootleneck. on my plan heroku limits concurrent connections to 20. just try to sign up again...again, sorry about that, i didn't carefully plan to be on the frontpage

Where are you sourcing the jobs/gigs from?

github, angel.co, stackoverflow right now. and manually based on interest...

can you add https://www.wfh.io to your list? :)

sure, all links in this thread will be noted... any other links that haven't been mentioned yet?

No love for Security? :(

What happens if you check both "Remote only" and "include remote"?

my bad. that shouldn't be possible. check remote only, if you are just interested in jobs that allow remote work. check include remote if you are interested in both remote jobs and also jobs at your location. check none if you are only interested in jobs at your location. sorry about that...