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Show HN: We tried to build a job board that isn't awful (teeming.ai)

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Hi HN,

We’re definitely not the first to realise there’s something seriously wrong with how hiring and job-seeking works today. Zero-cost communication and LLMs have created so much noise that good candidates can’t get heard, and it becomes all too tempting to game the system with keywords and prompt-hacking.

In fact we discovered that 70% of early stage AI startups don't post their jobs on LinkedIn. Instead, many founders hire exclusively within their network, which works at the start but doesn’t scale.

We thought a lot about this problem, and pivoted through a few ideas including an AI voice agent recruiter. We even spent some time trying to be conventional tech recruiters to better understand the problem space.

And in the end we built...a job board.

But we think there are a few things that make ours different:

- We decided to not put barriers between the user and the data. You can search, filter or browse however you like from the minute you sign up. Zero onboarding

- We wanted to nail one niche, so we focused on surfacing opportunities at early-stage AI companies (over 30,000 jobs at 24,000 companies)

- You can navigate it using keyboard shortcuts!

- We built a voice agent, Nell, who conducts a technical recruiter call with you through your browser and immediately finds matches, the way a well-connected friend who knows you well would

- When you tell us you’re interested in a role, we make a best effort to connect you to founders directly, along with your profile, so no cover letters, no pointless forms

- We enriched jobs data with investor-grade intelligence - you can look at same data that VCs use to decide whether a startup is worth joining or not

Give it a try and let us know what you think: https://teeming.ai

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okejminja
Tried it out, honestly works pretty well.

The data and filtering feel solid, found navigating the table pretty easy. Not in love with the agent, maybe add multiple threads or preserve context between sessions. Needs a bit of polish here and there with UX still.

Definitely gonna take another look when I’m next job-hunting as it looks like it's going to be a time saver. Good job!

mlangley2010
I have really enjoyed the experience of searching for roles on Teeming. Additionally I like the concept of cutting through the process of sending mass applications and being able to go directly to founders to make contact.

My only feedback is that it would be nice to have a view where you can see more of the job description at a glance. Right now you have to click in to each role to get information about the job.

Grosvenor
A search in the dropdowns would go a long way. "AI field" has 700+ entries, and aren't in alphabetical order.
java-man 

  "Continue with Google"
no thanks.
ipaddr
"We decided to not put barriers between the user and the data"

Aside from requiring a login - Google login no less to see the job description.

Gooblebrai
You show a frontend engineer role at Gr4vy in the landing page but looking in their careers page and LinkedIn the only role they have currently is Python Engineer.

Unless you tell me you have exclusive roles, it doesn't give me much initial trust.

Edit: the voting ring of comments / AI comments make the whole thing even more disgusting.

48terry
You absolutely need to get an accessibility professional (one you pay, not try to crowdsource free labor) to review your site. Your site excludes disabled people from participating.
IAmBroom
That's overstating the problem, but accessibility is very important.
8organicbits
The challenges I've seen with job boards include showing job postings that are no longer open, jobs that are unclear on key factors like pay or location, and especially poor handling of "remote" which means something different to everyone.

There's also way too much barrier to entry here, signing up, especially with Google is a big ask. I also bounced at that step. A demo or video of the product could help if you don't want anonymous access.

ralferoo
First impression - seemingly random jumble of jobs, none of which are interesting to me, but clicking on any of them requires sign in to read.

Click "I'm an engineer" to try to search for jobs to see if there's anything interesting. Get a sign up page.

Click "I'm hiring". Get presented with an email harvesting page.

Yeah no, I won't be looking any further. There's nothing here to suggest this sucks less than any other jobs site, where at least I can peruse the JD before having to give away my personal details.

AznHisoka
I tried to build a job board awhile back, and although there was demand in the consumer side, it ended up being a gigantic slog and a waste of time because every company is busy paying the Indeeds/Linkedins of the world. Because they get millions of more users. Unless you intend for this to be free, I don’t see how it could ever be profitable.

I ended up pivoting to just having a free daily remote jobs email for engineers (among other roles) https://bloomberry.com/blog/remote-jobs/

IAmBroom
Free isn't even free to them. If a company is paying their HR staff, the minutes to hours that they spend learning a new interface, and setting it up, and using it, are a real cost.

Compare that to an existing service, where they only have to do the last part, and are dividing that cost by the millions of jobseekers that the existing solutions already reach.

philk10
Looked for a QA remote role and one of the top results was for a Sales Engineer and nearly all the rest were just generic engineer roles
deadbabe
Why the hell would this require a google account? I do not have one.

Rolling your own user account system is not that hard.

Animats
The trouble is, you don't have enough clout to do a good job on this. Look at Alibaba. Here's a typical Alibaba customer profile:

    4.8/5 Satisfied
    113 reviews

    ≤2h average response time
    98.7% on-time delivery rate
    US $470,000+
    474 orders
Tracking interactions with employers like that would be a huge help. "Ghosting" should show up in employer stats.
IAmBroom
It's a really good feature that I'd love to see, but that would be like giving dating site users the chance to review their past dates. Why would companies want to expose their image to that scrutiny?
cmin764
Got in no-time an opportunity with a well established start-up, ran quickly through the interview process, almost finished it, and we both decided to pause the process since an offer I was waiting for finally arrived.

This is good news, as I wasn't expecting to move so fast via Teeming.ai, and it worked! Too bad that this time I was the one refusing to continue instead, although the platformed proved it's success and I'm going to use it again, even for fractional work opportunities.