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I built a job board for Reddit's hiring subs. Only 18 of 190 posts on r/softwareengineerjobs were actually jobs

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Most posts on Reddit's job subreddits aren't jobs. On r/softwareengineerjobs , 18 of the 190 posts I collected were someone hiring. So I built Only Hiring, which shows just the job posts from 20 of these subreddits: https://onlyhiring.hassandev.me

A Python pipeline pulls new posts and skips anything tagged [For Hire] before an LLM reads the rest. For each job it writes a summary, pulls out the pay as a number you can sort by, notes whether it's remote, and scores it for scams. I expected the scam score to do most of the work, but only 9 of 397 jobs looked like scams. Lowball pay and unpaid "test" projects turned up far more often.

The site is Next.js 16 on Vercel. It reads from Neon Postgres through a role that can only SELECT, and with about 300 open jobs the list is small enough to filter and search in the browser.…

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