Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter) • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

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Post by robinwarren » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 7:25 PM UTC

davers wrote: post #39

reneherse wrote: post #35

Cool beans. Can you expand it to have an option for designer jobs?

Yeah! Or maybe, once you get the initial tweaks here worked out, tech jobs in general — with either categories or tags to filter to what's relevant for an individual user. Would be absolutely thrilled to see this expand into general jobs eventually..

This is a good idea. I just wanted to start with something simple and small enough to prove the concept. From there I'm sure there's plenty of other jobs on twitter I could be pulling in.

Thanks.

Re: Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

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Post by robinwarren » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 7:48 PM UTC

p_monk wrote: post #34

When I view the listings on the map, the markers need to display an infowindow when clicked.

Hi there,

The map is pretty minimal/useless at the moment. There's a lot I can do to improve it.

Thanks

Re: Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

#43

Post by tibbon » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 8:33 PM UTC

I'm finding that in the latest Chrome beta (unsure on other browsers) that the map functionality isn't that great. Moving outside the initial zoom area requires a re-search to pull up new results, and I can't seem to click on results either.

Re: Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

#44

Post by TheTarquin » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 8:42 PM UTC

Awesome work!

Do you have plans to expand the data source beyond Twitter? Maybe with filters for users to select source(s)?

Re: Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

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Post by TheTarquin » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 8:45 PM UTC

It looks like you have some room to refine your searching / filtering. I'm in the Seattle area and it's picking up some noticeable noise.

e.g.:

"Tacoma cannery property to be repositioned: Pinnacle Foods Group is looking for a real estate developer who can ... http://t.co/UobgHb39

and

"Online entrepreneur pitches for funding for app ... - TasteBand.com: An world wide web entrepreneur is looking t... http://t.co/JKAnZdBk

Re: Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

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Post by rjd » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 8:49 PM UTC

I see a lot of ideas come through through here and very few of them either put a smile on my face or have me thinking I'm going to use that, or it at least needs book marking.

Congrats I smiled, bookmarked, and did a search. I think you're onto a winner :)

Re: Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

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Post by Jayasimhan » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 8:50 PM UTC

This is a neat tool. Great idea. One suggestion is that, do no default to Grand Havens.

Suggestions 1. People who dont look at the search bar at the top would have no idea a. why there isn't any job postings for their location b. How to search for jobs in a specific location.

2. Could be a good idea to get the browser location and search for that, to make the site instantly relevant.

Re: Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

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Post by drewolbrich » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 9:27 PM UTC

I tried entering "Mountain View, CA" into the text field in the upper left, and hit Enter, and nothing happened. I tried this in Safari, Chrome, Firefox.

Seems broken to me. Am I doing it wrong?

Re: Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

#49

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 9:39 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

#50

Post by dav01 » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 9:42 PM UTC

Nice one, except ours don't show up. But for all you coders/synth-nerds want a great job! Check this out: http://twitter.com/#!/jugendingenieur