Looks like a good start to something potentially very useful.

Some suggestions:

I'd like to see how old a tweet is. I don't have any idea how fresh some of this information is (without clicking on the user and searching through their history).

Related to that, I'd also like a link to the original tweet, so that I can potentially follow any conversation on that tweet.

It'd also be nice if any hyperlinks in the tweets were active links, rather than just text that I need to cut/paste.

Something that's potentially a little harder would be to let the user determine the radius that they want to see tweets for. I'm in Minneapolis, and I'm seeing some tweets for Iowa and Wisconsin. Those could be useful to me, but I'd more likely want to filter those to a smaller radius.

This is crazy good!

A common complaint is that it's hard to find out about new openings because they're often pushed through your social networks.

Directly mining the social networks is a great man-I-should've-thought-about-that idea. I'm infinitely likelier to tweet about a job opening than to post it somewhere.

Hi HN. I'd really like to get anyones feedback on this. It's still a little rough around the edges but my main question would be

Is this useful? Or could it be with a tweak or two?

Thanks, Robin

Nice idea, and works well. The first tweet is a RT from a fellow student at RISD who I didn't even know had a Twitter. Some feedback:

The second tweet that comes up for me (Providence, RI) is one labeled "North America and Europe." I think local listings should be prioritized over broad ones.

Filters based on language/expertise. I see a lot of these tweets go into specifics already so this could probably be implemented easily.

As someone else mentioned, a link to the tweet would be good, and preservation of the hyperlinks in them so I can click directly on someone's job listing etc.

Perhaps you could also normalize the format of the locations, and group them under one heading. For example, most of the listings for Providence are Boston, and it's a list that looks like, "Boston", "Boston, MA", "Boston", "Boston", "Boston, MA", etc. A consistent format would be good for readability and having a new <h2> for each tweet is redundant.

Basically, you have a good crawler (I assume you're using one) and now you need to alter the design of your page to make it easy to explore.

Have you considered doing a similar one to help companies find good candidates to hire?

(forgive the mention of this fact but:)

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Cool idea! I'll be sure to bookmark it...

Here's my $0.02:

- Typo in the about page : "As weel..."

- I'd change the 1st 2 paragraphs in the about section to "Jobs Tractor looks for people trying to hire developers on Twitter, but filters out tweets that are from recruitment agencies or jobs boards."

- Love the map view

- Does the search field allow you to filter by location, keyword, or both?

- Group by location maybe?

- I'd take the word "jobs" out of the logo - to me it looks cluttered

- Do you save the posts or is it just what the Twitter search API pulls up? Jobs might not get tweeted about more than once, so a posting could still be legitimate after a week or so

I like this. As someone said, normalizing locations like the 3 variations of Boston would be a plus.

Also, The locations could be refined. I see a lot of them being listed under the header "Boston" when they really happen "King of Prussia, PA", Burlington MA, or "West Newburry, MA". Those locations are not Boston. They're close, but not quite (and in the case of the PA one not even close). There's some value to the grouping things under Boston but I would prefer granularity in location headers.

Definitely see this as being very helpful though.

It looks like you have some room to refine your searching / filtering. I'm in the Seattle area and it's picking up some noticeable noise.

e.g.:

"Tacoma cannery property to be repositioned: Pinnacle Foods Group is looking for a real estate developer who can ... http://t.co/UobgHb39

and

"Online entrepreneur pitches for funding for app ... - TasteBand.com: An world wide web entrepreneur is looking t... http://t.co/JKAnZdBk

Very nice. Have you considered grouping the related locations instead of listing all the locations? For example, group "Greater NYC Area", "NYC", "New York, NY" under one section with a consistent name. Over time you could locally map the most commonly used location names under one heading. Also, I would prefer to see the actual tweet text a bit larger with a smaller font size for the location headings.

This is a neat tool. Great idea. One suggestion is that, do no default to Grand Havens.

Suggestions 1. People who dont look at the search bar at the top would have no idea a. why there isn't any job postings for their location b. How to search for jobs in a specific location.

2. Could be a good idea to get the browser location and search for that, to make the site instantly relevant.

I found the "Londinium, London, UK" funny. It came from the londinum.com website, but is also a place in the sense that it's London's original name. So technically, it places the job in Roman London, which is the main banking/business district today (aka The City) and therefore a major IT area.

Its a great idea and a useful app. I liked it. Looks like you have already included quite a few ideas from here but you should continue improving it to include different variations in verbiage and also to look for special conditions like telecommuting etc .. Good Luck

It would be great if the site url updated when I change location, then I could bookmark a link to the location I'm interested in!

Also, after changing location, nothing seems to happen for a couple of seconds. Some visual feedback that it's loading the location info would be nice.

I'm finding that in the latest Chrome beta (unsure on other browsers) that the map functionality isn't that great. Moving outside the initial zoom area requires a re-search to pull up new results, and I can't seem to click on results either.

I see a lot of ideas come through through here and very few of them either put a smile on my face or have me thinking I'm going to use that, or it at least needs book marking.

Congrats I smiled, bookmarked, and did a search. I think you're onto a winner :)

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This rocks. I've been looking for a better way of job hunting in specific areas. Are you planning on a mobile friendly version in the future? I would love to help! miles.matthias at gmail :)

I tried entering "Mountain View, CA" into the text field in the upper left, and hit Enter, and nothing happened. I tried this in Safari, Chrome, Firefox.

Seems broken to me. Am I doing it wrong?

Looks great, only suggestion so far is to:

hyperlink any links in the tweets.

Nice fresh interface, I like what it has to offer as a starting point this could be massive. It looks like it will evolve into something very special.

Awesome work!

Do you have plans to expand the data source beyond Twitter? Maybe with filters for users to select source(s)?

When I view the listings on the map, the markers need to display an infowindow when clicked.

The simplest ideas are the ones that are commonly the most useful. Very interesting tool!

First off, I love the idea.

Secondly, I can't sign up for the weekly email. It says: Cannot POST /new

Cool beans. Can you expand it to have an option for designer jobs?

What about job listings that allow telecommuting?

I think it's much more important to highlight the technologies and the position itself than the location.