Great job @stef and crew on launching!
Are you guys keeping this local ( as I see this covers mostly London) or will it expand to cover more of Europe, considering this is a 3beards initiative also and they have their foot in many other capitals around the world thanks to their SiliconDrinkabout events?
If so, who will be moderating the job ads in the long run and will it remain free forever?
P.S. I don't suppose this is open source, or is it?
@orliesaurus Thanks! It's been lots of fun doing something quite light-hearted but that could have a big benefit to the startup scene. I'm just chatting to Joe who's sitting next to me - I wonder if we can get him access to reply directly @andreasklinger?
@orliesaurus@andreasklinger@mattlanham I'll reply for Joe here because commenting is limited. (So imagine I have a beard and look slightly older): It’s currently mostly London, so that’s where it has the best effect currently, but there have been jobs from Berlin, Manchester and Amsterdam on there. We’re happy for it to be used wherever, with the view being that if it gets big and diverse enough, we’ll add functionality to support it.
Hi all, I'm one of the founders of 3 beards, and part of the Unicorn Hunt crew. I'm here with @joescarboro and we're going to do an AMA!
Ask us about the European/london tech scene, job boards, running events, having beards, et cetera!
Fire away!
@joescarboro@stef one of the big things we learnt about why people came to our events was, as well as have a great time, was to find potential hires. So we thought we should leverage the always on, always sober(ish), international nature of the web to help facilitate this..
@joescarboro@stef@inthecompanyof That was the original motivation for the first 3beards job board. Unicorn Hunt is about taking what we've learnt over the last couple of years and making a simple, clean, easy to use job board that has the same function, but is also a pleasure to use.
@joescarboro@inthecompanyof I've been to other networking events where it's been quite an uncomfortable "we are obviously here to recruit you" vibe. How do you get the balance right? Any advice for other people who run startup community events?
@joescarboro@stef regarding balance, it's about helping others before yourself. If you're clearly only self-interested that's apparent and is a turn off, instead listen to others and ask "what can I do to help you?". What goes around comes around. Also, though we're not anti-recruiters, we do try to make it clear that this is not just deal flow for them, they have to prove value to the community first.
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@joescarboro@inthecompanyof This has a beautiful UI. But how do you deal with an overwhelming amount of data sprawl as you have more and more jobs posted? I see the search up top and the smart filters on the side do you think they are enough? Last thing I would want for you guys is to end up bloated like existing job sites.
Very cool product! I love how the header background changes each time you refresh the page. Thanks for using my open source http://msurguy.github.io/triangles/ to generate those images. I've submitted that as a hunt and hope @rrhoover approves it one day :)
@msurguy Love your work on this. I've adapted it a fair bit around light positioning and randomness to make the type of header consistent within some carefully selected ranges. If you look carefully the home page also has a high key version as an SVG all the way throughout. For branding we are also using a cut-out version, and you can see it here: http://unicornhunt.io/logo
I even made a special "Facebook header image" maker, so that every page has one of 30 generated header images. https://unicornhunt.io/facebook-... each one is the correct 1.91:1 ratio for Facebook sharing. Oh the details...
I've been collaborating on a new job board with the folks at 3beards. They organise tons of startup community events, mainly in London, and I suggested that their job board could be a really good place for people to post and find opportunities.
We rebuilt in December, and just put it out today. Any thoughts or questions appreciated! I'll also see if I can get @joescarboro access to comment directly too.
I like the product, but have two comments on the hover effect: It seems to have a slight delay and the post-time-stamp is also changing is size, while it is not inside the white box.
@samuelbeek yes it's using css scaling, and it's the whole row. I was thinking of refactoring it so that the whole white box is clickable, so that could be something else to tweak about it too. Thanks.
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Checked it out and found an ace job for a friend in 10 secs. Looks great. Good job.
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