[HN Gopher] Techmap: Find companies using technologies you love
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Techmap: Find companies using technologies you love
Author : joergrech
Score : 67 points
Date : 2021-10-17 16:14 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| rmason wrote:
| Searched for Lucee in London, U.K. and it brought back a map
| featuring Target stores in the Lansing area. Going to be quite
| embarrassed if I find all Target stores using Swiss based open
| source ColdFusion servers.
| gumby wrote:
| This is an interesting idea. There are a few bugs mentioned in
| the comments here but I think the current version is more than
| merely MVP quality.
| echelon wrote:
| Bug report for the operators:
|
| After I entered a search, the website went completely dead with
| the following message:
|
| > An unexpected error has occurred.
|
| I tried to open a new tab and reload, but it's gone.
|
| FWIW, I declined location API access.
| tytrdev wrote:
| Neat! Surprised to see so many results for Clojure. The mobile UX
| is pretty hellish, though. I'll have to check it out again on
| desktop.
| culi wrote:
| Tried searching up "Elm (programming language)" and it brought
| up 3 companies near me. None of which actually used Elm. One of
| them was just some fashion company named "West Elm". I don't
| think the data is 100% accurate, but still a useful tool
| nonetheless
| moffkalast wrote:
| Looked up "javascript" and it found a total of like 4 results
| in my entire country. I think this thing needs some time to
| get meaningful data before it becomes useful. It's like a
| search engine without anything indexed yet.
| nyulmalac wrote:
| I checked my company and the result was funny knowing our
| business... Ok, it's a big corp with several office, so I guess
| it's harder to infer.
| nyulmalac wrote:
| Nevertheless the I love the idea.:)
| the_lonely_road wrote:
| Probably my fault for trying to use it from a smart phone browser
| but the struggle was real. Safari.
|
| First thing it did was ask me if it could use my location. I said
| no. It then took me to a map centered on my current location! I
| don't really care and only said no because I was prompted and
| default to better safe than sorry answers, but being asked and
| then ignored rubbed me the wrong way.
|
| Next problem was the map kept flashing in and out little blue
| circles with numbers on them like "63" which I assumed meant this
| was the 63rd company in the database using Ruby on Rails (only
| tech I put in) but when I tried to zoom in it disappeared and a
| new number "43" appeared in a different location with "63" no
| where to be found. I zoomed in again and that one disappeared
| too. I was attempting to zoom in on the location of the number
| and can't promise you I didn't zoom in wrong but certainly felt
| like I was zooming in on the exact spot the number was located.
|
| Anyway, that was when I exited. I am really interested in the
| concept and would check it out again from my desktop if if was on
| the front page again when I was browsing from home. Good luck
| with your product!
| wswope wrote:
| > First thing it did was ask me if it could use my location. I
| said no. It then took me to a map centered on my current
| location! I don't really care and only said no because I was
| prompted and default to better safe than sorry answers, but
| being asked and then ignored rubbed me the wrong way.
|
| It's not using your location directly; it's going to fall back
| to using the location tied to your IP since you denied it
| access to GPS/wifi data from your phone. Every single website
| you visit can get that location, no permissions required. If
| you don't like that, you should already be using a VPN.
| [deleted]
| culi wrote:
| Also relevant to anyone trying this approach to job hunting:
| https://stackshare.io/
| akudha wrote:
| Do you find it useful? The content seems quite thin
| kubanczyk wrote:
| I like that I can find openings within biking distance. It's a
| major advantage!
|
| I don't like that the labels don't differentiate between HQ and
| small branch office of a company/bank.
| gumby wrote:
| > the labels don't differentiate between HQ and small branch
| office of a company/bank.
|
| Fun anecdote: my gf started working (engineering) for a bank
| last year during Covid lockdown. Last month she had a problem
| with her laptop; because of the complex security it couldn't be
| fixed remotely. So she walked over to a neighborhood branch of
| the bank and plugged it into their network so IT could fix it.
|
| Apart from that single brief visit she's never met any
| colleagues in person and has never been in any of the company's
| facilities.
| culpable_pickle wrote:
| I'm curious as to why you are calling this a startup. Are you
| actually planning to get investors and turn this into a stand
| alone business? How would you plan to monetize users?
| herval wrote:
| There's a pricing page, have you seen that?
| culpable_pickle wrote:
| No, I missed that. Thank you for pointing this out.
| carterschonwald wrote:
| Lol. Two of the results they come up with for Haskell in the nyc
| area are my teams past and present.
| throw_away9580 wrote:
| What are the legal implications when scraping stepstone and so on
| for their data? I am honestly curious because we build roughly
| the same for a university project one year ago.
| throwaway158497 wrote:
| Interesting startup. Looks cool. Where do you source the data
| from? Usings APIs for job search engines?
| akudha wrote:
| Looks like they're scraping job ads. The careers page has a job
| requirement for a scraping position
| im_down_w_otp wrote:
| We're HQ'd in Portland, OR. But, we allow remote work anywhere in
| the US and Canada. How is that sort of situation handled by this
| service?
| sail0rm00n wrote:
| Do you have more details on your company? I love Portland
| chillage wrote:
| Search for C# comes up with nothing. Guessing it's a parsing
| error related to the # sign?
| _tom_ wrote:
| Doesn't work.
|
| Enter an address. Backspace across the whole field to clear it.
| It kicks you to a map with "unexpected error has occurred". Can't
| get back to input fields.
|
| Can't find San Jose, ca, or any permutation I tried. California
| by itself gets hundred of hits, too many to scroll down to see if
| it has California, USA. Maybe sort by population?
| _tom_ wrote:
| Enter "Mountain View", and "mountain view mobile home park,
| Montana" ranks above the city of Mountain View, CA.
| noahtallen wrote:
| Another bad example is Portland, OR when searching
| "Portland". I'd expect it to be near the top, as my IP should
| be pretty clearly from the US and Portland is one of the
| largest Portlands in the US. Instead, you have to scroll
| through 15 results to get to the US, and then it's probably
| 30 deep.
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