Ask HN: Review Startup, jobmigo.com - Real Time Job Finder, Powered By Twitter
Please review my friend's startup jobmigo.com
About jobmigo: JobMigo is an application created to help people find and sort jobs using twitter. So what does Twitter have to do with finding a job? Twitter has also become a place where users have begun to post listings for job openings. There are many ways in which this is done in the “Twitterverse”. Some users are actually job portals, “tweeting” posts from their website for the benefit of anyone who is receiving the tweets.
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- Using a stock font included with OSX (Marker Felt) for the logo would not have been my first choice. And, marker Felt reminds me of comic-sans.
- The logo is not matted properly, I can see a square box around it of a lighter shade of gray. Could be due to color shifts with your color profiles in Photoshop, or your original file is CMYK and is being converted to RGB when you save for web. The easy fix: change the CSS background-color of the header to #1b1c1e instead of #000.
- From a IA perspective, what's more important to the end-user: 1) the twitter user that submitted the job or 2) the job title and description? I believe it to be the latter, but the jobs titles are lost amongst the bright pink links used on submitters name and pagination (two items relatively unimportant, but those elements shout at me).
- The [1] next to each title is also confusing. Perhaps using Tooltips throughout the site would improve usability. I could also see that number being moved to the right of the Job Title.
- I can't decide how I feel about the Twitter avatars as I can almost immediately tell that the site seems to be more focused on aggregating aggregators – at which point I tend to bounce onto other job sites that offer distinctively different jobs, than the same stuff I see over and over again.
- The rotating headline at the top is wasted space as it stands. That is prime real-estate that's not being utilized effectively. I would switch it to a leaderboard banner that you can rotate JobMigo announcements through until you have paying advertisers.
I think this is a good idea (had something similar floating around in my head) and it looks like you guys have executed really well.
- There is a number (most always 1) next to each post title, it's not totally obvious what this is for...(especially if you're not a twitter pro)
- It would be nice to view all tags without leaving the main page
Looking forward to watching your app as Twitter continues its crazy growth.
I think it's especially useful for some of our unemployed twitter friends who don't have the attention span for a traditional job search.
also I'm ok with using the hashtag rtjobs, but #jobs is more obvious no??
btw, i am always annoyed if i meet the clearspring embedded flash thingy (due to the addthis button). dunno if that affects others as well...
alternate services include:
* http://sharethis.com
* http://www.addtoany.com
http://linuxuser.at/blog/why-addthis-sucks-because-of-clears...
I see the team is based in the UK. Would be great to have you along to the next Twitter Developer Nest: http://twitterdevelopernest.com You could do a demo in the "Show & Tweet" session.
Have you seen: http://www.twitterjobsearch.com also from a UK company?
Design is simple and clean and the site seems to be working well.
However no one can predict if it will be useful or not. In my opinion, for Freelance Jobs, it may be successful, but for a company, i don't think it's good to hire from twitter, as you may get a lot of responses from different people.
Anyway, we shall give it a try, I tweeted it (http://twitter.com/omarabid/status/1503823559)
Twitter could become a classifieds portal if they exploit user-submitted ads sending tweets like @ads @jobs @auto @love etc.