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Show HN: Tech jobs on the command line

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Hi HN! I'm Nico and lately I've been struggling looking for jobs. I've gotten specially frustrated with having to spend hours reading through listings just to find good matches. So I built something to scratch my own itch:

Command Jobs, a terminal-based job finder and application tracker designed specifically for me, and maybe also software engineers

The app scrapes web listings, saves them, processes them with GPT[1], then based on your resume and job preferences, it gives you the best matches

This is my first open source project, and also my first public project using LLMs

I'm really excited to share this with the HN community and would love to hear your feedback, suggestions, and any features you'd like to see in the future. Please check it out and let me know what you think!

https://github.com/nicobrenner/commandjobs

I'm currently working on adding more sources for job listings, periodic scraping via cronjobs, and alerts for new matches

Looking forward to your questions, feedback and requests. Thank you

[1]: Bring Your Own (OpenAPI) Key

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Re: Show HN: Tech jobs on the command line

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Post by nico »

bagels wrote: post #4

Most of the jobs on Who's Hiring threads don't include any compensation, so I don't see how searching that source would be useful for many folks.

That’s true, and it would be a great feature to have. The scraper could “double click” on the listings and try to find salary ranges from other websites where the listing might be posted, like the careers page of the company

I’m going one step at a time, the first tedious task I wanted to automate was searching and second-pass filtering

Most job listing sites have tools to filter by many different factors, including role, location, remote, salary range and seniority level, but usually the filters are either too strict or too permissive and I still end up having to read through tens or hundreds of listings to select just a few

Command Jobs gives me better matches faster by using GPT to match my resume and job preferences with the listings

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One of the most challenging aspects is having a proper interface for prompt management. Right now there are 5 different elements that are combined together to form the prompt in a specific format. The prompt elements are stored in the .env file, are are read from there when running the app

Would love to get some tips or ideas on how to allow the user to manage the prompt, to make changes and test it (without braking it), from the command line

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