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Re: Show HN: Hackjob.io – HN job listings done a bit better

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Post by gabemart »

dvt wrote: post #7
bdamos wrote: post #3

I have two minor comments: 1) Linking to the original HN hiring post is helpful, and 2) I'm on a poor internet connection now, and this page took about a minute to load. http://hnhiring.com/ and the original July 2015 thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812245 ) load in ~5 seconds.

(1) is probably going to make it in at some point! Unfortunately, I need to make an HTTP request for every post (that's how the HN Firebase API works) and that gets pretty expensive on slow connections. :/

> Unfortunately, I need to make an HTTP request for every post (that's how the HN Firebase API works)

What's the total size of the jobs data? Would it be possible to grab all the JSON from the API, concatenate it and then self-host it as a single file? I imagine a $5 DO droplet with nginx would suffice for that.

It looks like firebase isn't even gzipping the JSON.

Re: Show HN: Hackjob.io – HN job listings done a bit better

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Post by personjerry »

jnbiche wrote: post #19
dvt wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no database (everything happens on the browser).

But Firebase is a database, and by definition keeps state.

I believe Hacker News API (which is in Firebase) is what is meant by "Firebase". This tool does not have its own database beyond that.

Re: Show HN: Hackjob.io – HN job listings done a bit better

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Post by phantom_oracle »

Can you add another filter rule where we can remove jobs from the results that aren't interesting to us?

For example, searching for "Remote" and I may stumble onto a post that has "sorry no remote" and I'd like to clear that from the results (so that in the end, I end up only with the jobs that I'd be most interested in applying to).

Re: Show HN: Hackjob.io – HN job listings done a bit better

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Post by chadscira »

avinassh wrote: post #6

It is open source btw: https://github.com/dvx/hackjob What is the meaning of 'stateless: > and wanted to build a stateless product using Firebase.

seems like a massive waste of resources... you're making 800 http requests to firebase. If you don't want to use a database at least setup some sort of cron that just updates a giant JSON file so the users don't have to DDOS firebase.

Other than that it looks great.

Re: Show HN: Hackjob.io – HN job listings done a bit better

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Post by MaxScheiber »

To me, the tag box has incorrect UX. I would personally expect that hitting the spacebar would end one tag and let me enter a second tag, especially since it is clear that you do not permit spaces in tags. I would also expect the "enter" key to conduct the search. Instead, spacebar adds a space that will get converted to a hyphen anyway, and enter ends one tag and lets me create a second one.

Good job overall; I like the idea. It will be an interesting challenge to capture meaning from these raw text posts. For example, I tried to search for jobs in Florida, but typing in "FL" gives a lot of false positives. That will be the

Re: Show HN: Hackjob.io – HN job listings done a bit better

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Post by totalrobe »

MaxScheiber wrote: post #28

To me, the tag box has incorrect UX. I would personally expect that hitting the spacebar would end one tag and let me enter a second tag, especially since it is clear that you do not permit spaces in tags. I would also expect the "enter" key to conduct the search. Instead, spacebar adds a space that will get converted to a hyphen anyway, and enter ends one tag and lets me create a second one. Good job overall; I like…

Well first of all I looked through the recent thread and saw 0 postings in FL.

Little bit of a sidetrack, but it's seriously depressing that 90% of the jobs posted are SF and NY. These companies are seriously limiting their applicant pools.

Re: Show HN: Hackjob.io – HN job listings done a bit better

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Post by throwaway32439 »

totalrobe wrote: post #29
MaxScheiber wrote: post #28

To me, the tag box has incorrect UX. I would personally expect that hitting the spacebar would end one tag and let me enter a second tag, especially since it is clear that you do not permit spaces in tags. I would also expect the "enter" key to conduct the search. Instead, spacebar adds a space that will get converted to a hyphen anyway, and enter ends one tag and lets me create a second one. Good job overall; I like…

Well first of all I looked through the recent thread and saw 0 postings in FL. Little bit of a sidetrack, but it's seriously depressing that 90% of the jobs posted are SF and NY. These companies are seriously limiting their applicant pools.

Outside of helping build a startup, you have literally every other job site at your disposal. Go on any of them.

Within the context of building a startup, Sam Altman suggests it is more than 10x easier in SF and SV - however I think it is more like 50x easier. You can talk to 50 people on "startup" terms in FL before you'll find one person who is as qualified and willing to work on a startup, who will actually do it, as you can find in SF.

For better or for worse, HN is a YC property, and it's mostly about startups. In that sense even NY ranks far behind SF.

In fact, you can go farther and say that inside SF, twenty people can build the better part of a billion dollars in value together from nothing. Outside SF, you will get accused of being a thief and trying to take advantage of the same developers. It's a complete non-starter.

I realize most people posting advertisements are somewhat farther along, but the point stands. SF is where they are funded and able to post startup jobs.

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