#depending on what your eventual goal of
dense beacon
Sorry I didn't answer it very directly before.
- Money
I can't answer well as I don't want ideas stolen, but some of this is part of a bigger SAAS plan. That said, I'm not too worried about money; if it provides something people enjoy, but I can get a high income elsewhere, I'll be happy. - Value
At the moment, when learning web dev, it's hard to ascertain exactly what technologies to put energy into--this will answer that and more. The value is part of a bigger platform; I run a discord for people who graduated bootcamp (a private slack was shut down), university and people with 1+ years experience. My plans are to run meetups when I can get back to canada. For specifically the job bot, it will allow easy filtering of jobs and people can see jobs go up quickly. Some of the statistical analysis I have planned I can't talk about, but as an MVP the value add won't be super high.
It will also allow better access to freelance gigs, because people can log in and post a job; like #🚀looking-for-work and #💼paid-opportunities. The whole site will eventually integrate with discord, not just the job bot.
- Recruiter
From the recruiters perspective, they will get access to a demographic of motivated people (hopefully); and people who are also legally able to work. As a result, hopefully they'd face less spam. That said, it's also grabbing from an API, so it isn't totally reliant on recruiters.
The video is very bare but each thread is a company, and then they will post jobs inside that
dense beacon
If you have suggestions to add more value, I'm all ears too! Ignore how some of the data is laid out. I need to change a lot haha
dense beacon
spiral gazelle
so that first flow of using the /jobs command would be the recruiter right? Would this second flow also be recruiter or would that be a candidates side? Trying to understand who that dashboard is for
dense beacon
people in the server use the /jobs command, and it populates with jobs relevant to their skillset. they will then be able to filter the jobs in discord. the admin panel you see is for me, but there will be a separate thing recruiters log into, that shows the data in a better way. they'd be able to post a job, and that would automatically get sent to discord
you only need the command to trigger the api, it wouldn't be needed when a recruiter posts a job
spiral gazelle
If I'm following then there's basically two layers of filtering then it sounds like. Initially by the /jobs command and then another by these filters?
dense beacon
typing /jobs will essentially send a signal to the api with variables like { "location": "calgary", "experience": "senior", "type": "developer" } and that then grabs jobs. the filters in discord will allow you to filter all results
since there might be a junior that uses the /jobs command and there might be a senior
so it will fill up more and more
it's not exactly two layers of filtering. discord filters, the other doesn't fetch the data in the first place unless it matches that request
spiral gazelle
Yeah but im saying that you already specify to grab is technically filtering from the user's perspective. But from that last sentence it sounds more like the technical nuance is the difference which i assume could be cheaper on your end or some trade off like that
dense beacon
yeah, from the users perspective they get jobs and then those go to the top. if they want to filter all jobs
they'd have to click the buttons
i thought about having it just generate jobs every 24 hours
but there could potentially be a bunch of locations and maybe we only have juniors there, etc. so im gonna see how it goes
for now it's sort of a fun thing to add to my discord, not sweating it too much
spiral gazelle
Ok so it doesnt refresh, so I would have to refresh the api command everytime to grab new jobs?
Of course, just asking questions
spiral gazelle
As a user, I would assume they would want to see the most recent jobs as those are less likely to be filled so I'd have to run the command constantly every time i want to search.
dense beacon
yeah unless someone recently used it
which is likely since the majority are in vancouver
spiral gazelle
when you say someone, do you mean ANYONE does the / command?
not just user specific?
dense beacon
yeah anyone in the server
it's like if i ran it here, it would populate in the paid-opportunities channel
if a recruiter posted on my site, again it would go to that channel
i may also open it up for people freelancing to post stuff too. i am not hugely fond of the current method where people post stuff and then it's moderated
i think it should be moderated before posting
spiral gazelle
Yeah I think thats an important problem to solve
dense beacon
the api is kind of just a way to populate with some data when i don't have much
like i made forums for example, that show on the website like the old PHP forums
except you can write in discord
but not many people msg'd so no one even knew it worked well lol
with the api i will get enough data to make a site and whatnot
how did your thing at work go?
things just got more busy at a startup im part of so i have to slow down with the bot too haha