Show HN: Whoishiring.io – all tech jobs mapped out (opens in new tab)

Hi! This is the second “Show HN” for whoishiring.io. In the summer of 2015 I posted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=983895) here for the first time with the site visualizing job offers from Hacker News’ “Who is Hiring” on a map. Over the course of 1.5 years I’ve spent a lot of time improving it (thank you for all feedback), and decided to turn my “Show HN” project into business. After Daniel’s (dang) suggestion I’m doing “Show HN” for whoishiring.io again — today as a product (https://blog.whoishiring.io/shut-up-and-give-me-your-money/)

Here’s the backstory. The whoishiring.io website launched around August 2015. It was a simple side project done for my own purpose - to see where jobs are. Even though I was aware of similar projects that existed at that time, I already had a "map search" tool ready, so I decided to build on it. The fist “Show HN” was received really well, it ended up as nr 42 in the top “Show HN” of all the time. I received tons of feedback, good words, and suggestions. This gave me the idea and motivation to push the project forward.

Today, whoishiring.io has evolved quite a bit and has come a long way from what I started with. The Hacker News’ "Who is Hiring" thread is still there, however not alone, but along with 22 other sources (~15000 jobs). The core idea still remains the same - to keep everything on the map and make it accessible and visible to make a job hunt a less painful process.

Here are a few important things and I want to push the project forward having them in mind:

1. it’s free. Just use Hacker News’ “Who is Hiring”. I will import it. This will be our secret and it will remain that way. When you do, please pay attention to thread description — it says how to format the first line so that the job ad looks good on whoishiring. More about the formatting (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13080505)

2. To recruiters: please use a real company name, otherwise no! I’m building this to bring back transparency.

3. Internships are important. I won’t be charging for internships, you shouldn’t punish companies for helping people trying to get into IT. Also, internship is a cost for the company by design.

4. If you’re using ATS, like Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters etc., they have API, which we can use. Please write me an email at sebastian@whoishiring.io and I will synchronise your jobs posts. No need to copy-paste.

5. I’m planning to allocate 10% of the income to charities. The main idea is to find those teaching children to write code. But since I am now testing this process I chose a few that are doing a great job for the Internet in general: Code.org, Wikimedia, EFF, and local from Poland Fundacja Media 3.0 — because you should support local community!

On the road map I have:

* improving search searches

* implementing trends page with IT trends (languages, framework, databases…)

* fix the back button

All suggestions are welcome and appreciated. Please leave a comment here or just write me an email.

Also, since I get this question often, the stack is: Angular, Python, Django, ElasticSearch.

There aren't really any jobs near Ashland, Oregon – it's just that "Talent" and "Remote" are both names of towns in the area.

Looks cool, but I'm having issues where the list of jobs on the right hand side is slow to update, and there's no visual feedback that it even will update. So I would be in the scenario of looking at a map centered on Raleigh, but the job list would still show listings from New York. Several seconds later, the listings on the right were finally filtered.

Giant thanks for making this. A suggestion, though: the "remote" switch should probably imply "or". A search for jobs in Chicago OR remote would be more more useful than Chicago AND remote. The latter currently returns Chicago-based companies that hire remotely.

Very cool. But I feel like the "purple" and "turquoise" should be switched. My brains thinks the purple means more... and "turquoise" is less.

HN hug of death - Google Maps API rate limits exceeded :)

I've used this site in the past and liked it, but now it seems much slower. I tend to just use the map to do a wide geographic search, like looking at eastern Washington and Idaho. Using the site this way, by just moving around on the map is very slow now. It can take minutes to update the jobs.

I still think it's a good idea though.

Seems like Google maps is doing a poor job at clustering, once you zoom out markers become a cluttered mess.

How do you detect jobs posted on multiple sites? Do they get listed twice?

Might need to work on your filter a bit. "Senior Children's Magazine Designer" doesn't sound very tech to me.

Do you plan to monetite or is this a pet project?

A map zoom-in feature would e handy

By scanning freshjobs.ch you managed to get many jobs from Switzerland which is rare and rather nice.

(Full disclosure: I am well-connected tech-recruiter in Switzerland, Zurich. Read more about Switzerland in my blogpost "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in tech": https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...)

You can try scraping each and every niche tech-job board out there to get a full picture of world-wide tech jobs. In the end, you might get bought by indeed maybe?

This is excellent.

I did a quick job search a couple of months ago. After playing with various alternatives I ended up using this as the primary method for sourcing.

It a great tool for job searchers, and, a great place for recruiters to get in front of them.

P.S - I ended up with a job that originated from accidentally clicking on LinkedIn links. So, yah, life...

When I first saw this post, I thought it may be the same guys behind the github list of places hiring with simple form/email submission pages (vs recruiters, etc). If you haven't - you might hook up with their list, too. The biggest problem with their list is that it isn't in any kind of order, there isn't any way to filter it, etc...

Unfortunately, I don't have a link handy to the list (if anyone else here knows what I'm talking about, help me out, please?)...

Nicely done!

Looking at my local "community", Israel, especially Tel Aviv area, I see 8 jobs, while, there are at least 8K jobs opened right now in the tech industry.

You may consider expanding outreach by letting companies post jobs via API (instead manually typing positions details). Also, cooperating with local-well-established jobs listing sites, in this case, alljobs.co.il.

The best way to grow global, it to cooperate with the locals.

This site is a really great resource. Thanks for doing this, its been great seeing it evolve. Keep up the good work!

Using logos of other sites may create trademark issues. E.g. if a site is upset you're crawling them, they could allege that you're committing trademark violation and presenting yourself as a partner of theirs. You should ask a lawyer about the banner across the bottom because I'm guessing they'll tell you to remove it. I'm not a lawyer and am not giving legal advice

When you’re updating the URL as you do, it’d be really helpful if you’d update the page title as well. As it is, you just end up with a zillion entries titled “Who Is Hiring? - The Map With Jobs for Developers, Designers and Management in IT” rather than with things like “Remote Python jobs - Who Is Hiring?” &c.

As a jobseeker I use this daily, thanks for a great product. The more data sources you can integrate in the future, the better!

Very nice design and UX. I like it. What would be nice to have is a switch (like remote switch) for part-time jobs. Keep up the good work! And thank you for this service!

Gee only one job opening at Google in Mountain View. That must be some serious competition.

Looks great at first glance. A strict or title only search would be nice, I searched for Scala and the first 5 jobs I checked out didn't list Scala anywhere, not even keywords or tiny fine print at the bottom.

Very cool, but it's so slow it's almost unusable. When I scroll around the map, I guess it's going through all those places I've been as opposed to the last place I stop at?

I really like this website and I was quite surprised to discover you're from Kraków :) (dobra robota!) Have you considered showing job offers from nofluffjobs?

Fantastic services. I have been using it since it launched

Beautiful execution. This needs more attention, and can go hand in hand with the monthly 'Who is hiring' threads.

I am curious as to why there is (at the time of writing this) a 79 job cluster around Pensacola of remote work positions.

Is this still a sideproject for you? Or is it profitable enough to work on this full time?

Is it possible to add angel.co/jobs too? I think it has lot of startups there.

Fantastic service. Been using it since it was first released.

Hi! Your website is completely broken in Tor browser. https://whoishiring.io/templates/search/base.html returns 403 and https://app.getsentry.com/api/48143/store returns 429.