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New comment by Jabbs in "How do you plan to make a living after AI takes your job?"

Jabbs — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:51:42 +0000

I run a job search site (UnlistedJobs) which monitors about 200k company website career pages. So my data comes from that and I've normalized it to look at the same group of companies (for analysis sake). Ah yea I've seen that Indeed chart circulating.

I'm in the process of putting together a market analysis tool with my data since it isn't biased to one platform (not saying that Indeed data is wrong though). Mine will only go back to the beginning of 2025 tho

New comment by Jabbs in "How do you plan to make a living after AI takes your job?"

Jabbs — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:17:48 +0000

Yea totally agree, would like a 10+ year chart. I only had good data from the beginning of 2025

New comment by Jabbs in "How do you plan to make a living after AI takes your job?"

Jabbs — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:12:33 +0000

From my data of ~1.8M jobs, "Software Engineer" as a job title in postings are down ~25% and "Senior Software Engineer" jobs are down ~10% comparing the first 2 months of 2026 with 2025

New comment by Jabbs in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

Jabbs — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:27:00 +0000

I'm building out some interesting features on my app (UnlistedJobs). Basically I have job seekers as paying customers (not employers) so I can do things with the job listings that others can't - like tag a job posting if it is 1 standard deviation below the avg salary or "this job has been posted N times already." These things wouldn't fly if the employer paid for the listing. I am wondering what else would be most helpful to job seekers that you couldn't do if the employer paid for the listing

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Jabbs — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:24:47 +0000

I analyzed 1.8M job posting descriptions and looked for 63 descriptor words and phrases. Here are the top 10 for software engineers:

problem-solver (37.7%), collaborative (36.2%), passionate (31.2%), hands-on (29.2%), high-performing (19.7%), creative (17.3%), analytical (16.7%), proactive (16.3%), team-oriented (10.2%), decision-making (9.0%)

New comment by Jabbs in "Ask HN: How do you market a side project?"

Jabbs — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:27:43 +0000

Post it to "Show HN"

New comment by Jabbs in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

Jabbs — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:23:43 +0000

https://jabbs.co/

Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?

Jabbs — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:07:22 +0000

I've often been in the market for new software engineer opportunities and have found some untraditional ways of finding new jobs. But with so many job search tools, AI and ATS matching I'm curious what job search strategies are working for you today? Also, what has been a waste of time?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588695

Points: 20

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Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?

Jabbs — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:35:29 +0000

I've often been in the market for new software engineer opportunities and have found some untraditional ways of finding new jobs. But with so many AI tools and ATS keyword matching (and so on) I'm curious what job search strategies are working for you today? Also, what seems to be a waste of your time?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46532229

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Jabbs in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"

Jabbs — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:33:08 +0000

1. Churn isn't as bad as I would have thought. There is also the use case for someone who has a job and wants to find the next one. But yea if someone wants to only use for 1 month, that is expected

2. I think companies (or the ATS's they use) might object to reposting a job listing on my site but I'm not doing that. You can search/sort/filter jobs but in order to view the job posting you will open a link back to the original job.

New comment by Jabbs in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"

Jabbs — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:47:02 +0000

https://www.unlistedjobs.com/

26.3% of jobs found on company websites are not advertised on any job boards but found using this tool.

The app scrapes company's directly (24/7) and give the user:

- a head start over other job seekers

- access to thousands of jobs not listed anywhere else

- daily job filter emails with ability to be highly curated to reduce noise

New comment by Jabbs in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

Jabbs — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:22:57 +0000

https://www.unlistedjobs.com/

A different type of job search site that gathers job postings direct from company websites. About 1 in 4 jobs are not advertised on any sites (like LinkedIn or Indeed) but they are found going direct to company career page.

Side note: I found my last gig using this method so have now built it into a web app. It is a paid service but feel free to DM me for a free trial.

Show HN: Unlisted Jobs

Jabbs — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:52:57 +0000

This press release describes the product (which you can use for free with promo code "ULAUNCH").

The app gathers job listings directly from company websites (different than aggregators that collect directly from ATS's). So there are about ~30% of 300k+ jobs listed not found on paid sites like Indeed.

This job search site is geared towards job seekers (rather than employers). Would love any feedback

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722410

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Jabbs in "Unadvertised and hard-to-find tech roles"

Jabbs — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:05:10 +0000

It is a paid platform so people remove it from "show hn" if not free. But about 30% of the listings are indeed unlisted so it is more than an aggregator. Sadly the feature to tag those listings used google serp results and they cracked down on bots a bit early this year. So it is a mix of unlisted (aka not on paid platforms like Indeed) and listed

Unadvertised and hard-to-find tech roles

Jabbs — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:36:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.barchart.com/story/news/35694878/unlistedjobs-unveils-real-time-job-scanning-platform

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721479

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Ask HN: How's the software engineering job market treating you?

Jabbs — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:44:11 +0000

To add some data and context on people's job search (or lack there of). Precede your response with one of the following:

- Actively seeking

- Passively seeking

- Contemplating

- Non-seeker

- Employed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45538348

Points: 2

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Ask HN: How's the job search coming along?

Jabbs — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:06:38 +0000

I was laid off last June and have sort of given up on finding something that is actually worth my value. Would love to hear others experiences with job search. Anything working well in particular to source or land new roles?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45200672

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Jabbs in "[dead]"

Jabbs — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:23:36 +0000

Hey HackerNews! I've previously posted about a job search app I built that gathers listings from company websites. Well its now on ProductHunt for anyone to vote on.

There is a 7-day free trial there (promo code: PH1WEEK) if anyone is interested. Otherwise it is a small monthly fee (just FYI)

A few stats w the app: - 230k+ total open roles (mostly tech) - 60k remote jobs - 20-25% of those listings are "unlisted" (not found on other job boards)

Some job counts by dev skills: - 761 Rust - 780 Perl - 886 C++ - 1165 Kotlin - 1222 Golang - 1451 MongoDB - 1487 VueJS - 1533 Redis - 1632 Ruby - 1684 PHP - 2672 Angular - 2723 NodeJS - 3062 .NET - 3784 TypeScript - 7007 React - 7350 JavaScript - 8037 Java - 15130 Python - 17817 Scala

Ask HN: How would you improve job search?

Jabbs — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:30:20 +0000

What isn't available on most job search sites (or within recruiter processes) that would improve your search experience?

I've built an app that gathers remote jobs and on-site jobs (mostly software engineering / tech jobs) directly from company websites. Features are built for job seekers (not employers). If interested see my HN profile

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42623386

Points: 6

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New comment by Jabbs in "Ask HN: Best job boards, particularly for remote?"

Jabbs — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:04:15 +0000

Not free (DM me for a free trial) but please try out https://www.unlistedjobs.com/ which gathers listings directly from company websites