I've built a remote programming jobs aggregator
Greetings fellow coders!
I've put together a job aggregator site focused on remote programming jobs: https://nomadcoder.work/
It currently has 15000+ job offers scraped from popular job sites. The links point back to the sources, of course. You need to sign up for full access, but it's free for now.
It's pretty basic; my primary goal right now is to get some good honest feedback for making it more useful. So if you used sites like this before to find your perfect job, I'd like to have a brief 20-minute call with you to learn more about your experience with them.
Thanks!
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Looks great Robert
Thanks very much!
what platforms are you aggregating those jobs from?
Right now, these are Stack Overflow, Indeed, Working Nomads, Simply Hired, and CareerJet. I'm planning to expand the data sources to career pages of popular startups.
How do you use it? I mean the straightforward usage is obvious: select filters, open a job post, read, apply. But how do YOU use it differently from just hiring/freelance platforms? It looks like it supposed to be valuable, but it doesn't feel like it really helps. I'm well aware of all the platforms and countless jobs. There is no scarcity in it.
Great questions! So I have two primary objectives with this site:
Hey, if you have a bit of time, would you be available for a short call over Zoom? I'm curious about your experience with these sites.
At the moment I'm not your target audience. I see no value in it. If you'll have other points on how aggregation can be helpful - lmk. I have my own scrapers, they work very differently from yours. I consider building a SaaS but so far I didn't identify much of a product market fit for this idea. There are plenty of dead projects that were trying to do what you do. If you'll figure out how to make something useful - I'll gladly use your service and work on some other idea :)
Yeah, I've got a few more ideas like scraping company information and reviews, identifying trends (hot technologies in high demand), etc.
I'm also building a web scraping platform called DataGrab (https://datagrab.io). It is currently marketed as a no-code tool, but I'll most likely pivot to "productized web data", intended for technical people. This would assume strong DB integrations, Webhooks, S3 storage, etc.
Nomad Coder currently reimplements the scraping, but I'm planning to power its data by DataGrab.
What about your scrapers? What's your use case?
Not much about my scrapers. Scraping platforms I want, analyzes jobs, rarely notifies me about relevant opportunities.