Why Indeed and LinkedIn fail new grads

I spent 4 months job hunting after graduation and it was honestly soul-crushing.

Every "entry-level" position I found seemed to require 3-5 years of experience. I'd get excited about a "Junior Developer" role, click through, and see "Must have 4+ years in React" in the description.

Here's what I realized during those frustrating months:

Companies ARE hiring new graduates. I'd occasionally stumble across genuinely entry-level positions buried deep in company career pages. The problem wasn't that these jobs didn't exist - they were just invisible on traditional job boards, drowned out by thousands of senior-level postings.

The discovery problem is real:

Think about it - when you search "software engineer" on Linkedin, you get everything from intern positions to principal engineer roles mixed together. New grads have to manually filter through hundreds of irrelevant listings just to find the handful that actually match their experience level.

It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack, except the haystack keeps growing and the needle keeps getting smaller.

So I built what I wish existed during my own search:

A job board called First Jobby that only shows positions meant for people with 0 - 3 years of experience. No more getting excited about a listing only to discover it's way above your level.

How it works:

• Scrapes company career pages directly (not aggregated from other job boards)

• Uses filtering logic to identify genuinely entry-level positions

• If a listing mentions 3+ years experience, it doesn't make it onto the platform

• Clean interface with direct application links

• Updates weekly with new postings

Current status:

• ~200 curated entry-level positions across tech, marketing, sales, operations

• Covering companies from startups to Fortune 500s

• Simple subscription model ($6/month) to keep it sustainable

What I'm learning:

Building a job board is way harder than expected. Web scraping at scale has its challenges (rate limiting, bot detection, parsing different job posting formats). But solving your own problem while helping others? That's the kind of business I want to build.

The bigger picture:

There are millions of new graduates every year facing this same frustration. They're talented, motivated, and ready to contribute - but the current job search experience makes them feel unqualified for everything.

I'm not trying to disrupt the entire job market. I just want to create a corner of the internet where "entry-level" actually means entry-level.

Try it for free: firstjobby.com (no signup needed to browse jobs)

Currently focusing on getting more user feedback and expanding the company coverage. Would love to hear what you think!

Anyone else built something to solve their own job search frustrations? What worked for you?