JobLens

Web and SaaS

job search

SHOW HN2023

108points
18comments
#594of 3,109 in 2023
Top 20%of 2023 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

3 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.

Design: 0 for, 3 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Results look good and LLM parsing works well

    From 2 comments
    • JobLens is cool! This past month we had the same idea -- it's been a fun project: https://hnjobs.u-turn.dev ChatGPT does an incredible job parsing, but then lots of effort goes…
      boxcarr on HN
    • Wow this is amazing. This is more or less what I was trying to build https://hnresumetojobs.com to look like, I am reconsidering whether or not to continue now. I tried using the…
      SCUSKU on HN
  • Good example of structured extraction with OpenAI functions

    From 1 comment
    • Looks like it's getting some fields wrong. For examples, "Global" location is matching other text not related to the job location. Still, a good example of OpenAI's functions. I…
      mmaia on HN

Objections

  • Must pick from a long industry list before searching, causing abandonment

    From 2 comments
    • Hi, just a thought, I backed out as soon as I saw I had to pick from a giant list of industries. Most people don't have rigid criteria like that, and if the do, a conventional…
      version_five on HN
    • Need a category for design. Right now all design jobs are scattered around, mostly in product management. Also as others have mentioned, having to make all these decisions before…
      dsgnr on HN
  • Some fields extracted wrong, e.g. Global location

    From 1 comment
    • Looks like it's getting some fields wrong. For examples, "Global" location is matching other text not related to the job location. Still, a good example of OpenAI's functions. I…
      mmaia on HN
  • Checkmark on unchecked options is confusing

    From 1 comment
    • Having the 'unchecked' visual actually have a checkmark threw me off. I was thinking, oh goodness, I have to deselect all of these.
      SomewhatLikely on HN

Requests

  • Conversational or freeform search instead of rigid filters

    From 1 comment
    • Hi, just a thought, I backed out as soon as I saw I had to pick from a giant list of industries. Most people don't have rigid criteria like that, and if the do, a conventional…
      version_five on HN
  • Add a design job category

    From 1 comment
    • Need a category for design. Right now all design jobs are scattered around, mostly in product management. Also as others have mentioned, having to make all these decisions before…
      dsgnr on HN
  • Support sites that require login such as LinkedIn

    From 1 comment
    • I was going to build something similar for funsies but now I don't have to :) I'm curious the page mentions not being able to scrape sites that require a login but then I saw…
      digitalsanctum on HN

Questions

  • How to reduce hallucination in structured extraction

    From 1 comment
    • Wow this is amazing. This is more or less what I was trying to build https://hnresumetojobs.com to look like, I am reconsidering whether or not to continue now. I tried using the…
      SCUSKU on HN
  • Is there similar tool for freelancing gigs

    From 1 comment
    • Nice! Is there something similar for freelancing gigs?
      baxtr on HN

Alternatives named

  • hnjobs.u-turn.dev

    From 1 comment
    • JobLens is cool! This past month we had the same idea -- it's been a fun project: https://hnjobs.u-turn.dev ChatGPT does an incredible job parsing, but then lots of effort goes…
      boxcarr on HN
  • hnresumetojobs.com

    From 1 comment
    • Wow this is amazing. This is more or less what I was trying to build https://hnresumetojobs.com to look like, I am reconsidering whether or not to continue now. I tried using the…
      SCUSKU on HN
  • aijobnetwork.com

    From 1 comment
    • Looks like it's getting some fields wrong. For examples, "Global" location is matching other text not related to the job location. Still, a good example of OpenAI's functions. I…
      mmaia on HN

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