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

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Post by mol2103 »

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

Robin,

Nice, simple idea - solid MVP. Good use case for text processing too because the domain of candidate phrases, patterns you are looking for is relatively small :)

Here are UX some suggestions:

-It will require some effort, but you should try to surface companies as tags if you can. Will be a popular feature...We did this at my last startup Tracked.com and it was a really popular. You can start by getting a list of companies via Crunchbase API and then use that set to do the entity extraction.

-Same as above, but for programming language keywords

-Show timestamps of Tweets (you've heard this a lot)

-Make links hypertext (you've heard this a lot)

Thanks,

@mileslennon

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

#32

Post by robinwarren »

rmason wrote: post #30
tednaleid wrote: post #9

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…

Definitely need to show how old the tweet is in days. Every job I clicked on was expired. I do feel that you have built something quite useful.

organising them by date, ie Today/Yesterday/Later is high on my list. I figured it would be important for people coming back to the site after an initial visit. But for that I'd need people making an initial visit first hence I thought I'd wait until I'd got some positive feedback before doing that.

Nothing on there should be more than 6 days old which was a guess by me as to how much history made sense to show. Possibly that needs to be more recent even, or maybe ordering by date will just make it less of a surprise when you find one which is gone already.

Thanks.

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

#33

Post by chc »

robinwarren wrote: post #32
rmason wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely need to show how old the tweet is in days. Every job I clicked on was expired. I do feel that you have built something quite useful.

organising them by date, ie Today/Yesterday/Later is high on my list. I figured it would be important for people coming back to the site after an initial visit. But for that I'd need people making an initial visit first hence I thought I'd wait until I'd got some positive feedback before doing that. Nothing on there should be more than 6 days old which was a guess by me as to how much history made sense to show. Poss…

Something's borked with your date filtering, because I saw at least one tweet from Oct. 1.

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

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Post by robinwarren »

chc wrote: post #33
robinwarren wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

organising them by date, ie Today/Yesterday/Later is high on my list. I figured it would be important for people coming back to the site after an initial visit. But for that I'd need people making an initial visit first hence I thought I'd wait until I'd got some positive feedback before doing that. Nothing on there should be more than 6 days old which was a guess by me as to how much history made sense to show. Poss…

Something's borked with your date filtering, because I saw at least one tweet from Oct. 1.

Thanks, I'll check that out. I've only been running it for a couple of weeks and have been actively developing it during that time so have possibly broken something and missed deleting some tweets at some point.

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

#37

Post by gautamsivakumar »

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

very useful.

good stuff. you should always be tweaking.

best of luck

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

#38

Post by Periodic »

phillmv wrote: post #15

This is crazy good! A common complaint is that it's hard to find out about new openings because they're often pushed through your social networks. Directly mining the social networks is a great man-I-should've-thought-about-that idea. I'm infinitely likelier to tweet about a job opening than to post it somewhere.

And as someone who might be hunting for a job, I hate having to comb through twitter and the thousands of daily posts to make sure I don't miss a job opening. I stopped following twitter because it was so hard to find the few things I was interested in from all the noise. Sites like this make me believe twitter is still valuable.

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

#39

Post by davers »

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..
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