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I made a simple tool to search for talents across different social platforms

I've always had better luck hiring from social and professional platforms (GitHub, CodeCanyon, Twitter, Dribbble, Behance...etc.) than posting jobs on job sites. A few weeks ago, I had the idea of creating a simple tool where I can conduct search across these sites - and it's now live on ProductHunt! (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/talent-search)

If anyone's interested in how it's made - leave a comment and I'll get a blog post up to explain. It's a quick project but I like the idea - if enough people find it useful, I'd love to go back and turn it into something more complete.

Please have a look, and I'd appreciate a vote on ProductHunt if you find it interesting. Thank you! :-)

( 4 comments | 2 points | on HN )
Re:I made a simple tool to search for talents across differe... by ozchris on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @06:53AM (#19979793)
How does it work? Did you crawl all those sites, or hook into an API, or are you simply using their search functionality? Something else?
Re:I made a simple tool to search for talents across differe... by theBrandonWu on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @06:38AM (#20038572)
It's using Google Custom Search https://developers.google.com/custom-search/. I thought about hooking it up to all the APIs and decided to do a quick prototype first this way first.
Re:I made a simple tool to search for talents across differe... by EeErNu on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @07:29AM (#19979978)
Explanation is required.
Re:I made a simple tool to search for talents across differe... by theBrandonWu on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @06:39AM (#20038575)
Explanation on how to use it? Maybe I'll link the youtube video I made on the site to show how it works.