lukehero

Hey HN!

I recently have gotten into dev on Windows (and really like it), was looking for a place to find themes for the new Windows Terminal and couldn't find any, so I made this for a fun weekend project

I hope you find it useful!

A little on me: Self-taught dev. Learnt to code at home building projects, 9 months later I used that portfolio to land a job as a full-stack web dev and I love it!

Follow me on Twitter to see what I'm working on: https://twitter.com/itslukehero

Hey Hacker News!

The Product: I made this tool to help YouTube creators with researching topics and keywords for videos and also helping with the upload process with features such as title keyword suggester, tag generator and preview pages to see how your video will look on YouTube without you having to upload it, plus more!

Me: I am an aspiring IndieDev like a lot here on the platform. I love to build things that help people and it’s my dream to make a living doing so. My mission this year has been simple: Take a month to learn the fundamentals of code, then start building - 6 projects in 6 months, this makes 4 out of 6.

You can follow me here to see how I’m doing and what I’m making: https://twitter.com/itsLukeHero

Hey HN!

The what: I thought of an idea to build a site that can list cities around the world with the risk factor that city may have from things such as flooding, hurricanes, wildfires etc.

The why: Natural disasters happening all around the world right now are increasing each year.

The safety of family and loved ones is always a priority when looking for your next home. It would be great if there was a reference to assess risks before you consider where to live.

If you are interested to help gather the data for such a site, please contribute and share this document. If not or if you think this idea sucks, no worries. If you have feedback, suggestions or criticism, let me have it!

Me: I'm on a mission to learn to code while building things that genuinely help people. See my profile for more info :)

p.s feel free to share this to Reddit if you find a good subreddit for it, I am yet to find one.

Hey HN! Here's some back story..

The project: Ever had a question like “When can I buy that?” or ‘Can I afford that vacation 6 months from now?”. The answer to those questions is ZenQalendar. ZenQalendar is a smart budget calendar which makes future predictions based on your spending habits.

Me: A month ago I successfully launched freshjobs.io on here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17793024), here's my next project!

I’m on a mission to learn to code by making 6 projects in 6 months (this is 3 out of 6), with my final project being at the end of the year in December. The dream is to live from these projects by that time and help people across the world by building things that are truly helpful to those people.

All feedback and bug reports are much appreciated. Go easy on me, I am still a total newbie dev!

I vlog my journey here: https://www.youtube.com/lukehero I post regular updates here: https://twitter.com/itsLukeHero I do a write up after each project here: https://medium.com/@lukehero

Just sent you an email :)

Well spotted and thank you! I have fixed it :)

Well spotted! Fixed. Thank you :)

Indeed do have an API, which I have applied for, but they didn't get back to me yet. Still waiting for a few big job sites to get back to me on using their APIs. Hoping eventually I can get them all!

I've made sure not to crawl any sites that do not allow it, such as LinkedIn for example prohibit it, so I left them alone ;)

I wouldn't feel quite right about charging the job seekers as typically a lot of them are unemployed and thus money can be tight. The incentive for a company here would be cheaper labour so its already a saving for them by having a large pool of potential junior or entry level candidates to advertise to.

Thank you so much for taking the time to give your feedback, I will take it into consideration and see how things work out as time goes on for the site :)

Where you able to find some suitable nursing jobs on the site? If not I will see what I can do to make sure those results are coming onto the site for you and your fellow nurses looking for those jobs.

>> Is it a mix between apis and direct website scraping?

That's right. I am trying to normalise the data from all the sources so I can generate some useful filters.

FreshJobs.io is also listing jobs from Switzerland :)

Thank you soo much for the feedback! Those issues should be fixed now :)

Thanks for this. Was a good read.

Thank you for the suggestion! I will work on filters for the site. Any particular filters you'd like to see?

Some background to this:

The project: Ever been in that catch-22 situation where you need experience to get a job, but you can’t get a job without experience? Or maybe you want to go into a new field, or you just graduated from College or University?

FreshJobs sources all the entry level and junior positions from across the web and puts them in one place. When you click the ‘apply’ button you are taken to the source site to apply. I’m still adding more sources so over time it will grow larger with more jobs across more locations.

Me: I’m on a mission to learn to code by making 6 projects in 6 months (this is 2/6), with my final project being at the end of the year in December. The dream is to live from these projects by that time and help people across the world

The idea: The idea for FreshJobs came when a friend told me a few weeks back after I finished project #1, “hey man, you could probably apply for some junior dev jobs now", so I decided to check the internet out of curiosity to see what there was. I noticed that there was no specific place which had a lot of these types of jobs, so project #2 was decided right there and then.

I truly hope this website can help you find a new job that you love. For those struggling to get a job because they don’t have experience, it will be a true pleasure if you can find a job. If you do find and get a job via FreshJobs, please let me know!

All feedback and bug reports are much appreciated. Go easy on me, I am still a total newbie dev!

Thank you!

My sever has just been upgraded. Can you confirm if you're still having issues or not?

I've just upgraded the server :)

Uh oh, I think traffic is getting too much for my server. Upgrading now!