News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

Jabbs

Jabbs on Hacker News

Re:How do you plan to make a living after AI takes your job? on Monday March 02, 2026 @05:51PM (#47225347)
I run a job search site (UnlistedJobs) which monitors about 200k company website career pages. So my data comes from that and I've normalized it to look at the same group of companies (for analysis sake). Ah yea I've seen that Indeed chart circulating.

I'm in the process of putting together a market analysis tool with my data since it isn't biased to one platform (not saying that Indeed data is wrong though). Mine will only go back to the beginning of 2025 tho

Re:How do you plan to make a living after AI takes your job? on Monday March 02, 2026 @03:17PM (#47223499)
Yea totally agree, would like a 10+ year chart. I only had good data from the beginning of 2025
Re:How do you plan to make a living after AI takes your job? on Monday March 02, 2026 @01:12PM (#47221734)
From my data of ~1.8M jobs, "Software Engineer" as a job title in postings are down ~25% and "Senior Software Engineer" jobs are down ~10% comparing the first 2 months of 2026 with 2025
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026) on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @12:27PM (#46963419)
I'm building out some interesting features on my app (UnlistedJobs). Basically I have job seekers as paying customers (not employers) so I can do things with the job listings that others can't - like tag a job posting if it is 1 standard deviation below the avg salary or "this job has been posted N times already." These things wouldn't fly if the employer paid for the listing. I am wondering what else would be most helpful to job seekers that you couldn't do if the employer paid for the listing
Re: on Friday February 06, 2026 @06:24PM (#46919562)
I analyzed 1.8M job posting descriptions and looked for 63 descriptor words and phrases. Here are the top 10 for software engineers:

problem-solver (37.7%), collaborative (36.2%), passionate (31.2%), hands-on (29.2%), high-performing (19.7%), creative (17.3%), analytical (16.7%), proactive (16.3%), team-oriented (10.2%), decision-making (9.0%)

Re:Ask HN: How do you market a side project? on Friday January 30, 2026 @04:27PM (#46830137)
Post it to "Show HN"
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @02:23PM (#46621343)
https://jabbs.co/

Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?

Posted by Jabbs on Monday January 12, 2026 @09:07AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've often been in the market for new software engineer opportunities and have found some untraditional ways of finding new jobs. But with so many job search tools, AI and ATS matching I'm curious what job search strategies are working for you today? Also, what has been a waste of time?

( Read More... | 19 comments | 5 points | on HN )

Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?

Posted by Jabbs on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @03:35PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've often been in the market for new software engineer opportunities and have found some untraditional ways of finding new jobs. But with so many AI tools and ATS keyword matching (and so on) I'm curious what job search strategies are working for you today? Also, what seems to be a waste of your time?

( Read More... | 1 comment | 2 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and... on Friday December 19, 2025 @09:33AM (#46326272)
1. Churn isn't as bad as I would have thought. There is also the use case for someone who has a job and wants to find the next one. But yea if someone wants to only use for 1 month, that is expected

2. I think companies (or the ATS's they use) might object to reposting a job listing on my site but I'm not doing that. You can search/sort/filter jobs but in order to view the job posting you will open a link back to the original job.

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and... on Thursday December 18, 2025 @01:47PM (#46316798)
https://www.unlistedjobs.com/

26.3% of jobs found on company websites are not advertised on any job boards but found using this tool.

The app scrapes company's directly (24/7) and give the user:

- a head start over other job seekers

- access to thousands of jobs not listed anywhere else

- daily job filter emails with ability to be highly curated to reduce noise

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @02:22PM (#46304243)
https://www.unlistedjobs.com/

A different type of job search site that gathers job postings direct from company websites. About 1 in 4 jobs are not advertised on any sites (like LinkedIn or Indeed) but they are found going direct to company career page.

Side note: I found my last gig using this method so have now built it into a web app. It is a paid service but feel free to DM me for a free trial.

Show HN: Unlisted Jobs

Posted by Jabbs on Monday October 27, 2025 @11:52AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://apnews.com/press-release/access-newswire/unlistedjobs-unveils-real-time-job-scanning-platform-3b02247308dc4c561046b6373afeb419

This press release describes the product (which you can use for free with promo code "ULAUNCH").The app gathers job listings directly from company websites (different than aggregators that collect directly from ATS's). So there are about ~30% of 300k+ jobs listed not found on paid sites like Indeed.This job search site is geared towards job seekers (rather than employers). Would love any feedback

( Read More... | no comments | 2 points | on HN )
Re:Unadvertised and hard-to-find tech roles on Monday October 27, 2025 @11:05AM (#45721815)
It is a paid platform so people remove it from "show hn" if not free. But about 30% of the listings are indeed unlisted so it is more than an aggregator. Sadly the feature to tag those listings used google serp results and they cracked down on bots a bit early this year. So it is a mix of unlisted (aka not on paid platforms like Indeed) and listed

Ask HN: How's the job search coming along?

Posted by Jabbs on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @01:06PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I was laid off last June and have sort of given up on finding something that is actually worth my value. Would love to hear others experiences with job search. Anything working well in particular to source or land new roles?

( Read More... | 1 comment | 3 points | on HN )
Re: on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @08:23AM (#42792520)
Hey HackerNews! I've previously posted about a job search app I built that gathers listings from company websites. Well its now on ProductHunt for anyone to vote on.

There is a 7-day free trial there (promo code: PH1WEEK) if anyone is interested. Otherwise it is a small monthly fee (just FYI)

A few stats w the app: - 230k+ total open roles (mostly tech) - 60k remote jobs - 20-25% of those listings are "unlisted" (not found on other job boards)

Some job counts by dev skills: - 761 Rust - 780 Perl - 886 C++ - 1165 Kotlin - 1222 Golang - 1451 MongoDB - 1487 VueJS - 1533 Redis - 1632 Ruby - 1684 PHP - 2672 Angular - 2723 NodeJS - 3062 .NET - 3784 TypeScript - 7007 React - 7350 JavaScript - 8037 Java - 15130 Python - 17817 Scala

Ask HN: How would you improve job search?

Posted by Jabbs on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:30AM
from the ask-hn dept.

What isn't available on most job search sites (or within recruiter processes) that would improve your search experience?I've built an app that gathers remote jobs and on-site jobs (mostly software engineering / tech jobs) directly from company websites. Features are built for job seekers (not employers). If interested see my HN profile

( Read More... | 12 comments | 3 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: Best job boards, particularly for remote? on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @09:04AM (#42501955)
Not free (DM me for a free trial) but please try out https://www.unlistedjobs.com/ which gathers listings directly from company websites
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and... on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @08:44AM (#42501839)
The data is destroyed and no content from the web pages are reused or repurposed (each listing is merely a link + various tags that are created/associated upon viewing. My understanding is that public websites scraping is legal but repurposing their content might not be
Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs? on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @12:35PM (#42452722)
I think you should always be searching for your next role. This will keep you informed about the market and know if the SWE skills are indeed shifting towards AI (this would become part of their job interviews, which I have not seen yet)
Re:Show HN: App to discover job listings directly from company websites on Sunday December 15, 2024 @03:32PM (#42425782)
Ah thank you for the signup and feedback. I'm increasing the services to check for expired jobs now that a lot of companies seem to be expiring there job listings around this time of the year, so apologies for that (I want to show more transparency into how/when those job listings are indeed checked for expiry too)

You can currently 'archive' any job listing by clicking on the 3-dots dropdown menu on the right side of each job listing to remove it from your view (and it will disappear and only be accessible in the "Archived" section of your sidebar). But gotcha there should be a report method, thanks so much!

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and... on Thursday December 12, 2024 @08:48AM (#42399088)
Thank you. Currently working on promo code functionality to give away to all the postings in Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42297422
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and... on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @10:12PM (#42395841)
Oh wow that’s not good, thank you so much for pointing that out!
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and... on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @03:50PM (#42392817)
Yea that one is still a WIP (along with "R", "Rust", maybe a few more) because parsing out some of these tags is a little more difficult than others.
Re:Show HN: App to discover job listings directly from company websites on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @08:06AM (#42387331)
Ah I understand, that is an interesting use case. Currently the only searchable keywords are tagged on the job listings upon creation, but I can see if these keywords come up often enough to make tags for them. I'm not familiar with those Google products. Appreciate the comment
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and... on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @07:22AM (#42387036)
Thank you, appreciate this. I'm not certain about expanding this in that direction but that is certainly an interesting thought.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and... on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @07:01AM (#42386929)
Yea I feel ya, I’m definitely not a good designer based on how long this stuff takes me. I think we are all not that bad but once you spend 6 hours on a component you really feel your dev skills could be much better used. Anyway here are some of the things I used on the landing page:

CSS - https://tailwindcss.com/ Components - https://tailwindui.com/ Logo - https://pixlr.com/editor/ Icons - https://heroicons.com/ - https://lucide.dev/icons/ Animations - https://www.framer.com/motion/ BG patterns - https://heropatterns.com/ - https://dev.to/bybydev/top-10-svg-pattern-generators-16h

Otherwise its just React

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and... on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @06:52AM (#42386884)
The search bar is for job title only at the moment. Under the "Tech" filter you can find "C++" and add it as a filter

Older »