HackerSurf
Productivity
job search aggregator
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
7 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.37.
Design: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful idea for finding jobs
From 3 comments
This will be quite useful for me, thanks! If I apply to work at a company remotely - how do I know that I'm not getting screwed over (not paid)? I'm 19 and some of my friends…
iM8t on HNThanks for sharing! It's a pretty cool idea, and I'm sure I'd use it if I was currently looking for a job! A feature that would be nice for us europeans, considering a massive…
aweb on HNGreat site. Would be even greater if there were some keyword filters (location, programming language, etc)
dariot on HN
Impressive use of Meteor and simple source code
From 2 comments
Impressive use of meteor, would be cool to filter work from home gigs.
lfender6445 on HNThe simplicity of the source code makes me want to revisit meteor
taternuts on HN
Objections
Unclear criteria for what counts as a hacker job; only a few Stack Overflow jobs listed
From 1 comment
What's the criteria a job being a "Hacker Job"? Currently there's ~1437 jobs on Stack Overflow Careers but only 25 are listed. Is this just a scrape of the the first page of jobs…
teh_klev on HN
Low contrast on job links
From 1 comment
Great idea! Would you mind improving the contrast for the job links?
jkmcf on HN
Requests
Filter by location, language, or remote work
From 4 comments
Great site. Would be even greater if there were some keyword filters (location, programming language, etc)
dariot on HNThere needs to be a way to filter out remote jobs.
JDiculous on HNImpressive use of meteor, would be cool to filter work from home gigs.
lfender6445 on HNThanks for sharing! It's a pretty cool idea, and I'm sure I'd use it if I was currently looking for a job! A feature that would be nice for us europeans, considering a massive…
aweb on HN
Add more languages such as C# and Java
From 1 comment
This looks great, but I do wish there was more variety language varieties (big ones like C# and Java).
system_32 on HN
Add Who's Hiring and other job boards
From 3 comments
Nice! I'd like to see an uncheck all. Or an easy way to just target one site, instead of having to uncheck all but that site. Probably the next thing would be to pull in the…
mjhea0 on HNAs this site is built with Meteor, how about adding a meteor job list?
waitingkuo on HNY'all should throw in jobs.perl.org so that us Perl hackers aren't left out to dry ;)
yellowapple on HN
Questions
How to tell whether a remote employer will pay
From 1 comment
This will be quite useful for me, thanks! If I apply to work at a company remotely - how do I know that I'm not getting screwed over (not paid)? I'm 19 and some of my friends…
iM8t on HN