We launched BoroughJobs here on Product Hunt on Aug 25. A week later, here's what actually happened, numbers included:
Organic search traffic went from ~0 to a real, sustained daily plateau within days genuinely surprised us for a domain that's barely three weeks old.
Added three new civil-service sources (Ministry of Justice, Home Office, Parliament), on top of NHS, councils, and 20+ GP/primary-care boards.
Built a live data page (/press) that's always current no more static reports, it queries our own database on every load.
Now tracking 20,000+ live public-sector vacancies across 368 UK areas.
Live data, if anyone's curious: boroughjobs.co.uk/press
Thanks to everyone who gave feedback on the original thread a couple of specific suggestions from here genuinely shaped what we prioritized this week. Still very much iterating what would make this more useful to you?
I'm building boroughjobs.co.uk a job board focused entirely on UK public-sector roles (NHS, local councils, civil service) that's mapped visually to where you actually live, not just a filtered list.
The idea started from a simple frustration: job boards like Indeed and Totaljobs treat "location" as a text filter, but when you're looking for a council or NHS role, what you actually care about is "what's realistically commutable from here" and none of the big boards show that well. So boroughjobs opens on a full-screen, dark interactive map of the UK. Click a borough and it flies in, showing every live public-sector role there and each job now shows the nearest train/tube/bus station and how far it actually is, straight-line, no guessing.
It's not trying to compete head-on with the big aggregators on breadth that's a losing fight. The bet is that public-sector hiring specifically (NHS + ~380 councils + civil service, unified in one place) is a niche the giants structurally ignore, and that hyperlocal, map-first browsing is genuinely more useful than another keyword search box for this specific use case. Currently live with ~19,750 real roles, refreshed daily.
boroughjobs brings every NHS, council, and civil-service vacancy in the UK into one place — searchable by postcode, borough, or role. No more checking 380 different council career pages one by one. Click any area on the map to see what's open, or search a partial postcode to jump straight to jobs near you. 19,000+ live roles, updated daily, completely free for job seekers.
