Ask HN: Can you give me feedback on this feature

I am planning to add a feature on my platform where you select the companies you want to apply. The web crawlers crawls the website of all the companies you selected and gives you a list of all the current jobs the company has on their website in an excel file along with Job Title and Link to Apply.

Do you think, it might save you time or you want some other tool that can simplify your job search process ?

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ish099 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think it does. Better is if it auto applies for the jobs.

If I know the companies, I don't need you anymore, why don't you mark a list of companies you think the user would be interested in and fetch the jobs for them. Now that's cool.

	▲	pbs29 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How does anyone decide which companies to apply to?

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tene80i 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The way to think about this is: what user (jobseeker) need does this solve, or make easier? What does the user currently do, and why is this better?

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pbs29 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Jobseeker tend to spend a lot of time finding companies and browsing through each companies website to find a position.

What if you don’t have to go to each companies individual website. Just select names of all the companies you like or know. The tool gives you a list of all the current jobs the company has posted. In this case multiple companies details all in one excel file.

Thus saving time on researching and rather focus on crafting your profile for that role.

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tene80i 10 hours ago | parent [-]

True but what about existing job boards? They also mean you don’t have to go to every company website. Is this approach better than that?

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pbs29 10 hours ago | parent [-]

You are right, job boards solve the aggregation problem. What they don’t solve is still you have to manually sift through hundreds of listings.

Instead, the idea is to surface a small set of companies/jobs where you’re more likely to get a response.

	▲	tene80i 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ok great. I would frame your product in those terms. It’s not an abstract feature - it’s an improvement on job boards! Sounds like a promising idea.