I made a simple tool to search for talents across different social platforms

[theBrandonWu]

I've always had better luck hiring from social and professional platforms (GitHub, CodeCanyon, Twitter, Dribbble, Behance...etc.) than posting jobs on job sites. A few weeks ago, I had the idea of creating a simple tool where I can conduct search across these sites - and it's now live on ProductHunt! (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/talent-search)

If anyone's interested in how it's made - leave a comment and I'll get a blog post up to explain. It's a quick project but I like the idea - if enough people find it useful, I'd love to go back and turn it into something more complete.

Please have a look, and I'd appreciate a vote on ProductHunt if you find it interesting. Thank you! :-)

[ozchris]

How does it work? Did you crawl all those sites, or hook into an API, or are you simply using their search functionality? Something else?

[theBrandonWu]

It's using Google Custom Search https://developers.google.com/custom-search/. I thought about hooking it up to all the APIs and decided to do a quick prototype first this way first.

[EeErNu]

Explanation is required.

[theBrandonWu]

Explanation on how to use it? Maybe I'll link the youtube video I made on the site to show how it works.