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Wrote a proof of concept script for searching for jobs by copy pasting your resume. It looks for jobs posted on Hacker News Who’s Hiring from the past 3 months: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/12wt7cjhIUKf1Vu2rRFO... To use it, click Runtime > Run All. Wait about 5 minutes, then once everything is done, go to the bottom most cell and you can change the query variable from my resume to yours, and then re-run the cell. Largely written by GPT-4 and copy pasting documentation, with some minor tweaking.
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I got tired of manually reading through the hiring thread and automated it for myself using Github actions and GPT4o with structured data to extract data points I cared about. I also wrote about it if you're interested in reading how it was done here - https://amberwilliams.io/blogs/a6593b75-8cdd-4ae3-9a89-5dedb... Also follow up to use structured data here - https://amberwilliams.io/blogs/474b0361-cbc1-4fa5-b047-c042f...
2024 · github.com
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I vibe-coded a small project that turns the “Ask HN: Who is hiring?” thread into searchable job data using OpenAI, PostgreSQL, and Metabase. It pulls the thread using the Hacker News API, uses GPT to extract fields like company, role, location, salary, and contact, stores everything in PostgreSQL, and spins up Metabase so you can explore and search the results. Right now it runs locally, but would anyone be interested if I built this out a bit more and made a public dashboard?
2025 · github.com
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Hey HN, I wanted to share an open source plugin + skills I put together that turn Claude Code into a job search assistant. The goal is to minimize the amount of time needed to find interesting and relevant jobs. How it works: 1. Clone the repo, install the plugin, and run `/job-search` 2. Claude will ask a few questions to understand the roles you’re interested in and save your preferences locally. 3. Claude will then pull live job postings (currently, LinkedIn Jobs), compare posts against your preferences, and generate a digest of the posts that are relevant. 4. [Optionally] Claude…
Jun 2026 · github.com
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Hello everyone! For Interns and New grads last year, the job market was rough. I was one of them. I wanted to know how to become those "good candidates". FindResume helps people to share their resume that passed the resume screening so others can pass also! If you share your resume now, you will get a FREE 30-day pass instantly! findresume.xyz Let me know any advice, it will mean a lot to me! James
2024 · findresume.xyz
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Hi everyone, I built GrepJob because I got frustrated with the user experience of LinkedIn/Indeed while looking for a new SWE job. Specifically: 1) Not being able to trust the date posted of any job. The date shown on LinkedIn is often the date the job was reposted by the recruiter and 2) Being shown too many irrelevant jobs. For example, I get shown senior/staff level roles when I search for "Software Engineer II" GrepJob solves 1) by populating the date_posted time directly from each company's ATS system And 2) by extracting seniority, specialty (frontend, backend, etc.), and…
2025 · grepjob.com
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Hello HN! After 2.5 years of development, I'm sharing Job Search Assistant (https://jsa.works) - even though I still don't feel quite ready. It's an open alpha of a job search platform that actually matches positions to your resume properly. The problem: Major platforms like LinkedIn, Indeed, etc. have terrible search despite huge resources. Search for "senior backend engineer" and you'll get frontend internships in the top results. They optimize for engagement, not relevance. My solution: JSA uses LLMs for resume/job parsing and semantic vector search for matching. Upload…
Jan 2026 · jsa.works
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Skip straight to the bottom if you only want to know how to save hours of work in your job searching process just by using two simple python scripts + GPT As a former startup founder, lately I've been facing the complex challenge of transitioning back into the traditional job market. With no experience in the job searching game for the last 10+ years, I had no idea what I was getting myself into I still have a lot to go, but one of the most annoying and time-consuming parts of the process of applying to jobs so far, has been just even trying to find the right jobs to apply to Every jobs site…
2024
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My friend Angus (angusiguess) & I became annoyed trying to parse through the wonderful 'Who is Hiring?' threads looking for internships this summer, so we made a searchable version. It's just the first roll out, we have some other stuff planned. It's important to note that this was all done programatically, so there is no possibility for 100% accuracy with most fields. We would love to hear your feedback! If you have any more personal issues (ie, want your post removed), contact info is available in our profiles. URL: http://supzu.cc Github: https://github.com/ianbishop/whoishiring
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I have a bit of an obsession with spreadsheets, and wanted to see if it was possible to use Google Sheets to manage my job search. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ozM7JxBXyq16m9zHdvZaBj9fQVXKFleqUpK1RnIPMTg/edit?usp=drivesdk Using Indeed's job search API, I was able to pull together a simple sheet that utilizes no custom scripts. Good luck in your job hunt!
2020
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Hi all, I made this tool to sift through all the who's hiring posts. You'll need node / npm, but it works locally. It includes 2019 data. In the future, I hope to include all who's hiring posts with better graphs to visualize it. You can download it and play with it from here: https://github.com/vishaldpatel/jobstats And if you do, I'd love feedback! Including code feedback. There's some stuff that I haven't followed. Thank you! - V
2019
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Link: https://who-is-hiring.arxpoetica.com/listing/20083795 Hello all, I wanted a tool to query against and save job searches and hide irrelevant ones, so I built it. Thought I'd share. Built on the awesome SvelteJS (https://svelte.dev/) framework and equally awesome Sapper (https://sapper.svelte.dev/) deploy platform. The app pulls posts from user `whoishiring` (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring) on Hacker News, and provides useful tools for sorting and saving settings / filters to localStorage. Click on…
2019
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Automate your job search with your favorite coding agent. Skills, guides, and scripts that any agent (Devin, Claude, Cursor, opencode) consumes to search, apply, and track jobs on your behalf. - galiprandi/job-seeker
14d ago · github.com
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Hi HN, I built hireindex.xyz – a searchable website that aggregates and indexes candidates from the "Who Wants to Be Hired" threads on Hacker News. Coming soon: Analytics to highlight trends in skills, technologies, and candidate preferences across HN posts. With HireIndex, you can: Search by tech stack. Quickly scan bios, salary expectations, and contact links. Filter by remote/on-site preferences and employment type. I made this because I was tired of scrolling through long threads and wanted a better way to find interesting people. Would love your feedback – especially around UX and…
2025 · hireindex.xyz
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I’ve built a simple tool using Python with FastAPI and FastUI that imports “Who Is Hiring” job posts, allowing you to easily search through them and track the status of each opportunity. It helps you quickly organize and manage job applications without unecessary complexity.
2024 · github.com
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Hello everyone! I know there are already a few "Who Is Hiring" aggregators, but I wanted to show off what I've done. My project was cancelled right before Christmas, so this project was a great way to blow off some steam while procrastinating looking for a new job. Tangentially, I am looking for new career opportunities if your company needs a full stack web developer, lol. This website was completed in about a week and a half. I wanted to present it in a Show HN post on Jan 2 when the usual Who Is Hiring posts were featured, but I didn't think it had enough features to make it useful. Even…
2020
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Hi Everyone, My name is Tosin Kuye, a computer science student from Canada. After looking online for various ways to tailor your resume/write a cover letter and being disappointed in the results, I built CoverQuick. CoverQuick is a site that uses the job description to tailor your resume and write a personalized cover letter for that position. It uses a number of different NLP techniques along with GPT-3 to find the right keywords and add the ideal suggestions to the given resume. Try it out below and let me know what you think! https://app.coverquick.co/playground
2023 · app.coverquick.co
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Hey Hacker News, I made a job aggregator for entry-level positions that focus on students, recent grads, and individuals with less than 3 years of experience. I mostly find dev jobs requiring 3+ years of experience and is a huge pain so I made this. We recently launched our MVP last month and today we are launching V2 with a category based re-design. We will be adding filtering tags very soon. Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback. Link: https://entrylevel.io
2020
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