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Re: Show HN: BigOofN – job board from the perspective of software engineers

#21

For any non-American here: the website is made for US

Thanks, yes, for now. Canada will be added in couple of weeks, followed by countries in western Europe.

A checkbox for "VISA" or "INTERN" (like the who is hiring threads) could be really valuable. I like the UI, but what's the source for the 'total funding'?

Re: Show HN: BigOofN – job board from the perspective of software engineers

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The location search bar is particularly frustrating on my phone. Perhaps exacerbated since the site's under load? But it's appears to be kicking off an ajax request per keydown and not updating the input text until that request is completed. Very frustrating as I suck at typing on this danged phone and the feedback delay aggravates that.

Apologies, we will prioritize fixing it today. Yes, the traffic has spiked right now which is adding to it.

Re: Show HN: BigOofN – job board from the perspective of software engineers

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For those that got confused like me, it's "Big O of N", not "Big Oof N"

Big Oof on the title.

Thanks! Will fix today, as you can tell we are super early stage. Trying to collect feedback and keep improving.

Re: Show HN: BigOofN – job board from the perspective of software engineers

#26

"FANG" "Unicorn" "Incubators" "Corporate" Ah yes, the four company types. And that's all the company types there are. --- I think that "Famous" "Late" "Mid" "Early" "Seed" would be better categories. You could use Crunchbase or something similar to categorize by what round they are in. That still excludes bootstrapped companies but are much more sane categories in my opinion.

Seems like two different filters are needed: one for size and one for stage. Excluding established/bootstrapped companies is silly unless the purpose of the site is to only list jobs at startups.

Re: Show HN: BigOofN – job board from the perspective of software engineers

#29

I do like the simplicity of the design, and the filters by type of company. But I also feel that we're at maximum capacity for aggregated job boards. We see a new one posted on here every week. So even though I like this better than many of the others I've seen, the job board market has exploded to the point of absurdity, so I'm not sure what to make of them all.

> job board market has exploded to the point of absurdity

As the creator of some of those job boards, I agree.

Job boards are easy to build.

Established job boards can bring significant visibility from the right audience.

"Fly-by-night" job boards that look identical down to the pricing are stealing money from unsuspecting customers. I've had people buy a similar domain, create google ads to appear in the search to employers, and sell the same-priced job post when they have no existing audience.

Re: Show HN: BigOofN – job board from the perspective of software engineers

#30

On mobile the homepages animated "an individual contributor role." text overflows with the button placement. Also when typing in a filter for the location name, the site stutters. This is probably because the JS is trying to filter the whole list on each keypress. You could implement a slight delay before starting a search. I've previously implemented something similar by restarting a timer (clearTimeout + setTimeout…

Lodash.js has a great `_.throttle()` that I use all the time to buffer keypress/state management.
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