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

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Post by robinwarren » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 3:39 PM UTC

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

#2

Post by robinwarren » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 3:49 PM UTC

Hi HN. I'd really like to get anyones feedback on this. It's still a little rough around the edges but my main question would be

Is this useful? Or could it be with a tweak or two?

Thanks, Robin

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

#3

Post by oscardelben » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 3:57 PM UTC

robinwarren wrote: post #2

Hi HN. I'd really like to get anyones feedback on this. It's still a little rough around the edges but my main question would be Is this useful? Or could it be with a tweak or two? Thanks, Robin

Looks useful to me! I would like to see when the tweet was made, a link to the actual tweet, and the option to change location/filter by keyword.

Edit: I see that you can already change location. Well done!

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

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Post by robinwarren » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 4:06 PM UTC

oscardelben wrote: post #3

robinwarren wrote: post #2

Hi HN. I'd really like to get anyones feedback on this. It's still a little rough around the edges but my main question would be Is this useful? Or could it be with a tweak or two? Thanks, Robin

Looks useful to me! I would like to see when the tweet was made, a link to the actual tweet, and the option to change location/filter by keyword. Edit: I see that you can already change location. Well done!

Thanks. Yep you can change the loc but maybe I need to make it more obvious.

Better filtering is high on the priorities. As for the dates on the tweets. I'm only holding 6 days worth at the moment, I think I'll break them up by Today/Yesterday/Older in future. Otherwise it'll be too easy to miss new tweets maybe not at your exact location. Better linking or a summary pane is on the list as well.

Thanks for taking the time to look and comment.

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

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Post by StyleOwner » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 4:11 PM UTC

Have you considered doing a similar one to help companies find good candidates to hire?

(forgive the mention of this fact but:)

StyleOwner (SF) is hiring (today we're at the UC Berkeley Startup Fair) and we'll be at the Github party on Monday. email matt@styleowner.com for more details. Hiring for both frontend and backend positions. Ideal candidate will want to do 20% time toward open source work.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 4:14 PM UTC

robinwarren wrote: post #2

Hi HN. I'd really like to get anyones feedback on this. It's still a little rough around the edges but my main question would be Is this useful? Or could it be with a tweak or two? Thanks, Robin

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

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Post by casey » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 4:14 PM UTC

robinwarren wrote: post #2

Hi HN. I'd really like to get anyones feedback on this. It's still a little rough around the edges but my main question would be Is this useful? Or could it be with a tweak or two? Thanks, Robin

Nice. You need to linkify the tweets so users don't need to copy and paste the URLs to the actual job posts.

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

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Post by robinwarren » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 4:14 PM UTC

StyleOwner wrote: post #5

Have you considered doing a similar one to help companies find good candidates to hire? (forgive the mention of this fact but:) StyleOwner (SF) is hiring (today we're at the UC Berkeley Startup Fair) and we'll be at the Github party on Monday. email matt@styleowner.com for more details. Hiring for both frontend and backend positions. Ideal candidate will want to do 20% time toward open source work.

Hi there. And good luck with the recruitment.

I'd consider something like this, but I'm not sure how it'd work. Would you just loook for people saying 'I'm looking for a job' or would it be something more complex based on what expertise you can infer from there tweets?

Thanks for the feedback.

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

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Post by tednaleid » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 4:16 PM UTC

Looks like a good start to something potentially very useful.

Some suggestions:

I'd like to see how old a tweet is. I don't have any idea how fresh some of this information is (without clicking on the user and searching through their history).

Related to that, I'd also like a link to the original tweet, so that I can potentially follow any conversation on that tweet.

It'd also be nice if any hyperlinks in the tweets were active links, rather than just text that I need to cut/paste.

Something that's potentially a little harder would be to let the user determine the radius that they want to see tweets for. I'm in Minneapolis, and I'm seeing some tweets for Iowa and Wisconsin. Those could be useful to me, but I'd more likely want to filter those to a smaller radius.

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

#10

Post by m0tive » Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 4:19 PM UTC

It would be great if the site url updated when I change location, then I could bookmark a link to the location I'm interested in!

Also, after changing location, nothing seems to happen for a couple of seconds. Some visual feedback that it's loading the location info would be nice.