I made a simple tool to search for talents across different social platforms

2 pointsby theBrandonWu7 anni fa4 comments

I've always had better luck hiring from social and professional platforms (GitHub, CodeCanyon, Twitter, Dribbble, Behance...etc.) than posting jobs on job sites. A few weeks ago, I had the idea of creating a simple tool where I can conduct search across these sites - and it's now live on ProductHunt! (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/talent-search)

If anyone's interested in how it's made - leave a comment and I'll get a blog post up to explain. It's a quick project but I like the idea - if enough people find it useful, I'd love to go back and turn it into something more complete.

Please have a look, and I'd appreciate a vote on ProductHunt if you find it interesting. Thank you! :-)

4 comments

ozchris7 anni fa

How does it work? Did you crawl all those sites, or hook into an API, or are you simply using their search functionality? Something else?

theBrandonWu7 anni fa

It's using Google Custom Search https://developers.google.com/custom-search/. I thought about hooking it up to all the APIs and decided to do a quick prototype first this way first.

EeErNu7 anni fa

Explanation is required.

theBrandonWu7 anni fa

Explanation on how to use it? Maybe I'll link the youtube video I made on the site to show how it works.