Feedback on my startup job aggregator

Re: Feedback on my startup job aggregator by agotterer on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @10:50AM (#1474979)

Today I launched Startups Hiring. The idea is simple; eliminate recruiter posts, noise and the need for startups to maintain and manage job postings on third party job boards. I ended up building a curated list of companies that are crawled for open positions directly from their career pages. Links are fresh and updated daily. Clicking a link takes you directly to the job description on the company website. The service is free and we are adding new companies every day.

I would love to hear feedback from the HN community and suggestions on possible ways to generate revenue outside of featured links (which I have).

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Re: Feedback on my startup job aggregator by grasshoper on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @02:30PM (#1475697)

First of all, let me say I think your site is exceptionally attractive. I am immediately presented with the logos of scores of exciting startups. This engages me right away. Although, at the moment the front page is a bunch of Airbnb listings. I think the variety of logos does a lot for the site's first impression, so you might want to make sure there aren't too many listings of a single company on the front page. Also remember to add a favicon.

Featured links seems like a good way to go. Do you actually have companies paying for featured links at the moment?

Edit: Oh, and your Adap.tv logo is broken.

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Re: Feedback on my startup job aggregator by agotterer on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @02:54PM (#1475782)

Thanks for the feedback. Currently when you add a new company it does the initial crawl and brings in all of their listings. Future crawls only bring in the new listings, keeping the cmpany variety good and mixed. I haven't come up with a good way to get around the initial crawel yet, short of randomizing the dates for launch.

All the logos are from crunchbase. I will shoot them a message.

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