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Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by redmattred »

GolfyMcG wrote: post #49
redmattred wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AngelList's API or getting a feed from TheLadders.com is probably your best bet for getting structured job data which includes salary data. There are plenty of other options (indeed, simplyhired, monster, burning glass) if salary data isn't a requirement. I also have a job search tool I recently launched (aimed specifically at software engineers) that I'm looking to get feedback on: http://www.codejobs.io/ Any feedba…

Please make use of this: ```css .clickable-stuff { cursor: pointer; } ```

Ah, very good point - its probably not clear what is and isn't clickable. Thank you for the suggestion

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by Beltiras »

eggbrain wrote: post #2

Greetings Hacker News! Back in 2009 I graduated with a degree in Psychology into one of the worst job markets in years. I was unemployed for about 6 months, during which I tried every job website out there, and thought each one was terrible. I had some programming experience, so I hacked up a demo that I tried to put out there in 2010 called Scoople, but it was a single page php file that ran horribly and was really…

I absolutely love what you have done with the site, with the exception of the colors chosen. IMO the dark scheme is not pleasant to look at. Just read https://medium.com/@erikdkennedy/7-rules-for-creating-gorgeo... the other day, it was a wonderful piece on aesthetics (read Part 1 first).

It seems the LinkedIn data scraper has problems with people out of the US. It fails to read my city and country.

I really REALLY like the game-ified intro. Are you using a library for those effects or are they developed inhouse? (if library: which one?)

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Post by keithwarren »

timcederman wrote: post #42
keithwarren wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a little tone deaf and lacking deeper thought. Surface level stuff like x color buttons are ugly is not really helpful. Telling a guy who has been focused on this for months he should spend more time dogfooding - again, not helpful. What really got me though was complaining that you could not upload a resume. Seriously, give it some thought. Parsing non-structured data in an accurate way is a very hard proble…

I've given it three years of thought, particularly on the resume parser. It's not tone deaf either. Do we want to give everyone who has built something a pat on the back, or do we want to help them build something awesome? Also, you complain about that my feedback is too hard to address, but then simple stuff like non-ugly buttons is unhelpful? re: dogfooding - often folks will build something and then not holistical…

I don't think patting people on the back is useful but if you really want to help him build something awesome, be specific.

Your buttons are ugly because they are too small, the text is hard to read and the back button is actually slightly wider than the next button, even though they are joined together. Back is also red which tends to denote a destructive action that cannot be undone, a yellow might be better.

^ that is feedback. Saying your buttons are ugly is not helpful feedback.

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by mercnet »

posnet wrote: post #43

There is a memory leak or some ridiculous sized photos on the site, it ate 1.5G of my system memory in 30s of use.

Same here, memory drastically increased as page was left open and eventually went to swap. Linux 3.17.3-1-ARCH with Chromium 38.0.2125.122 (290379) (64-bit).

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by hazelnut »

30mb for the first page? That's kind of big.

You should convert all your gifs to videos. Otherwise a lot of people will drop cause their browsers crash. And don't think about people from mobile devices. Sometimes they're about 50% of the traffic.

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by vlbeta »

belzebub wrote: post #21
eggbrain wrote: post #2

Greetings Hacker News! Back in 2009 I graduated with a degree in Psychology into one of the worst job markets in years. I was unemployed for about 6 months, during which I tried every job website out there, and thought each one was terrible. I had some programming experience, so I hacked up a demo that I tried to put out there in 2010 called Scoople, but it was a single page php file that ran horribly and was really…

This is just the post I was looking for. I am from Michigan and currently looking for a software development position! Sadly there is slim pickins in Grand Rapids. While I have your attention, can you add an option to filter for "Remote" jobs? I currently work remotely and have difficulty finding similar positions.

Looks like there are about 43 software developer jobs in Grand Rapids, MI. Enter a programming language or skill in the search to hone in on the results.

https://jobfusion.co/grand-rapids-mi/software-developer

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by [deleted] »

belzebub wrote: post #21
eggbrain wrote: post #2

Greetings Hacker News! Back in 2009 I graduated with a degree in Psychology into one of the worst job markets in years. I was unemployed for about 6 months, during which I tried every job website out there, and thought each one was terrible. I had some programming experience, so I hacked up a demo that I tried to put out there in 2010 called Scoople, but it was a single page php file that ran horribly and was really…

This is just the post I was looking for. I am from Michigan and currently looking for a software development position! Sadly there is slim pickins in Grand Rapids. While I have your attention, can you add an option to filter for "Remote" jobs? I currently work remotely and have difficulty finding similar positions.

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Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by vlbeta »

iandanforth wrote: post #50
eggbrain wrote: post #2

Greetings Hacker News! Back in 2009 I graduated with a degree in Psychology into one of the worst job markets in years. I was unemployed for about 6 months, during which I tried every job website out there, and thought each one was terrible. I had some programming experience, so I hacked up a demo that I tried to put out there in 2010 called Scoople, but it was a single page php file that ran horribly and was really…

Hrm I think I love the tagline more than the site. I really like what OkCupid has done and would love it if someone actually built a jobs site that worked in the same way. Both sides have lists of questions which are presented to them and they answer them and/or rate how important the answers of their prospective parter are. How would this work for a job site? Q. What's your favorite CSS preprocessor? - sass - less -…

Yeah, that type of job search would be hugely helpful. Some of the other questions that come to mind are:

Q. I'd like to bike to work - within 10 minutes - within 20 minutes - i don't bike to work

Q. I need health insurance - the full package - at least medical - not important

Q. I'd like catered meals - every day - occasionally - not important

We just built out a new job search as well and have been thinking about this quite a bit - https://jobfusion.co

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by eggbrain »

hazelnut wrote: post #65

30mb for the first page? That's kind of big. You should convert all your gifs to videos. Otherwise a lot of people will drop cause their browsers crash. And don't think about people from mobile devices. Sometimes they're about 50% of the traffic.

I completely agree. This was a struggle for me -- I wanted to show off features on the homepage, but adding a Gif slideshow added a crap ton of load to the page.

I wanted to create a video, but my video editing skills are pretty poor and I wanted the experience to be great (even my gifs have a few bugs in them if you look closely). I'll work on this for sure.

Re: Show HN: TrueJob – OkCupid for Jobs

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Post by eggbrain »

mercnet wrote: post #64
posnet wrote: post #43

There is a memory leak or some ridiculous sized photos on the site, it ate 1.5G of my system memory in 30s of use.

Same here, memory drastically increased as page was left open and eventually went to swap. Linux 3.17.3-1-ARCH with Chromium 38.0.2125.122 (290379) (64-bit).

Sorry about this, my guess is it's the slideshow on the homepage -- there's about 30MB of gifs in that slideshow (terrible, I know), and it should be "lazily loading" them in, but it looks like there might be a bug with either the slider code or the way I'm doing it because it keeps taking up more memory the longer you have the homepage open. It's on my bug list.
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