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Re: UseTheSource

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Post by felideon »

jgrahamc wrote: post #2

UseTheSource is my Hacker News-inspired job board that uses your Hacker News karma (or begging) to determine who gets to post jobs: http://jobs.usethesource.com/hrdoc

Has anything changed since you first launched[1]? How has the experiment been going so far?

I like checking it out from time to time to see if anything interesting pops up. I pointed an ex-coworker/friend to one of the postings and he had an interview. They were pretty responsive, although he is now waiting for their final decision.

[1] Genuinely curious, not being snarky. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2661776

Re: UseTheSource

#4

Post by jgrahamc »

felideon wrote: post #3
jgrahamc wrote: post #2

UseTheSource is my Hacker News-inspired job board that uses your Hacker News karma (or begging) to determine who gets to post jobs: http://jobs.usethesource.com/hrdoc

Has anything changed since you first launched[1]? How has the experiment been going so far? I like checking it out from time to time to see if anything interesting pops up. I pointed an ex-coworker/friend to one of the postings and he had an interview. They were pretty responsive, although he is now waiting for their final decision. [1] Genuinely curious, not being snarky. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2661776

Since I first launched I added some functionality (search as the search and the filter options). I fixed some bugs. Folyo offered a link exchange.

As you can see some people have been using the site. Of course, what it needs is more visibility and more traffic. It's an experiment so far.

Re: UseTheSource

#5

Post by duck »

jgrahamc wrote: post #2

UseTheSource is my Hacker News-inspired job board that uses your Hacker News karma (or begging) to determine who gets to post jobs: http://jobs.usethesource.com/hrdoc

Keep up the good work with this John. I link to it in almost every issue of my weekly Hacker Newsletter and I've had several people comment on how useful your site is.

Hopefully it will get some more eyes and thus postings today. Maybe you could do a reminder each month in the Who's Hiring threads.

Re: UseTheSource

#6

Post by robinwarren »

Nice to see more company friendly/recruiter unfriendly job boards out there. My own effort http://jobstractor.com scrapes jobs from twitter, removing the jobs boards and recruiters is getting some traction.

Have you plans to improve the search on the site? I think that would be the biggest benefit to me. And are all the jobs on there still active? Ie some are quite old but do employers remove them once they're filled?

All the best with UseTheSource, Robin

Re: UseTheSource

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Post by jgrahamc »

duck wrote: post #5
jgrahamc wrote: post #2

UseTheSource is my Hacker News-inspired job board that uses your Hacker News karma (or begging) to determine who gets to post jobs: http://jobs.usethesource.com/hrdoc

Keep up the good work with this John. I link to it in almost every issue of my weekly Hacker Newsletter and I've had several people comment on how useful your site is. Hopefully it will get some more eyes and thus postings today. Maybe you could do a reminder each month in the Who's Hiring threads.

Thank you for that. That's very helpful. I don't like to impose on the "Who's Hiring" threads because they are a HN tradition and I don't feel that trumpeting this site is a good idea there. Of course, it would bring me traffic but might be breaking social taboos here.

Of course, the day PG wants to link from HN to UTS I won't complain :-)

Re: UseTheSource

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Post by udp »

I remember when you first launched news.usethesource.com as a HN for programmers, and then closed it due to inactivity. I hope it has more success as a job board.

Re: UseTheSource

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Post by rglullis »

jgrahamc wrote: post #4
felideon wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has anything changed since you first launched[1]? How has the experiment been going so far? I like checking it out from time to time to see if anything interesting pops up. I pointed an ex-coworker/friend to one of the postings and he had an interview. They were pretty responsive, although he is now waiting for their final decision. [1] Genuinely curious, not being snarky. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2661776

Since I first launched I added some functionality (search as the search and the filter options). I fixed some bugs. Folyo offered a link exchange. As you can see some people have been using the site. Of course, what it needs is more visibility and more traffic. It's an experiment so far.

Care to share numbers?
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