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Show HN: Pandora-like Job Finder (jobpigapp.com)
30 points by lefnire on March 29, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



I created Jobpig as a Pandora-like (thumb up/down) to filter jobs based on preferences, increasingly personalized over usage. It works more like Pandora than other learning boards; where jobs match users via hard-coded features (a la Music Genome Project) rather than collaborative filtering. These features include: location, commitment (eg full-time), company, source (eg stackoverflow), skills (eg python), and remote.

Eg I personally seek React, Python, Postgres, Remote, Part-time, Contract. That's combo's a tough ask on most boards; but Jobpig finds the closest match to my criteria, and it's working quite well for me. It scrapes these boards[1] (discuss[2]), and employers can post custom jobs. It's open source[3]. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

[1] https://github.com/lefnire/jobpig/tree/master/server/lib/ada...

[2] https://github.com/lefnire/jobpig/issues/5

[3] https://github.com/lefnire/jobpig


Neat idea. I am getting a ton of jobs that aren't matched location-wise, though. I started with "City, State" and one language as seed tags and hoped it would limit itself to jobs near me.


GTK. Yeah, I think the way location is handled has something to do with this (https://github.com/lefnire/jobpig/issues/1). I'll investigate in coming days, thanks for pointing out




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