Launched! A tech stack search engine built in only 3 days.
by Steven NateraHey Indiehacker friends!
I’d like to introduce techstackleads.com, a real-time search engine that uses job board data sources to help you find companies using a target technology stack. It’s free to use. No credit card or email needed. Try a few searches and let me know what you think! You can see the live demo on Twitter.
The backstory
For the last 5 years I’ve wanted to start a DevOps agency to help startups build on Kubernetes. The problem is Kubernetes is an infrastructure tool. You wouldn’t know if a company used this technology unless you worked there or you read about it on the company blog. How was I supposed to find clients?
I noticed in every job post, a company would list Kubernetes if it was a DevOps role. I thought why not automate this pattern to find clients. Bam! TechStackLeads was born.
How can you use it? Let’s say you're an IndieHacker who built a new Javascript framework 😅 on top of Reactjs. The easiest way to get your first users is to find companies already using React.
You can start a search like “reactjs” and you’ll get a list of job posts from companies using Reactjs. From there you can use other sales tools to reach out to people at the company to pitch your product. Hopefully this product will help you get your project off the ground.
I’m extremely proud of this product because it took me only 3 days to build the MVP! A milestone I’d never reached until now and its best product to date. So please give it a try and reach out with feedback!
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This is a cool idea. We have mane devs on the WBE Space and they can use your tool to find freelance gigs. I will share it with them
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Thank you so much for sharing. That's a great use case too!
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Great job! Would be nice to add a negative filter, e.g. all "Angular" jobs without a mention of "React".
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Thank you! I'll look into what it would take to add the negative filters. You're right you'd want to be able to find an all React shop, not a place that has both or is just listing the most popular frameworks.
Great feedback!
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I'd reach out to software bootcamps and universities and tell them that you want to share this tool with their students who are looking for jobs afterwards. Every school and program has somewhat different curriculums, and it'd be helpful if their students could use this tool to find work in line with their skillset.
I think you've got a winning formula here too. You can probably talk to professionals in different industries and ask them which keywords to pay attention to in JDs. Then you can let people from multiple backgrounds get value out what you've got here.
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Wow! You have amazing insight! Such solid feedback. I will 100% be acting on your feedback.
Thank you for believing in this idea!
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This is a cool Tool and an awesome MVP, Congrast.
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Very cool! Not a lot of companies with
react typescript nest graphql😂 but there is one result. Dropnest, and I have many more options. It would be nice to know which search term / tag is really narrowing my results too much-
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Thank you! Lol that's so cool you were able to narrow it down to a handful of options that have all 3.
That's a good suggestion. Knowing which term is narrowing the results could help you write better queries. I'll add that to the product roadmap.
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Congrats man, such a nice tool. I believe it is built with nextjs and lever api?
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Yes and no! I did use NextJS. I did not use lever api. Instead I built a web crawler to scrape the job posts of ~1400 startup websites using Lever.
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Thanks for describing a use-case, I was not impressed by the tool until I read your example.
One UX suggestion:
autofocusthe search field, so users can start directly typing, plus the blinking cursor will draw attention to it.-
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I'm glad I was able to provide some value! That's a wonderful suggestion, need to add that to my product roadmap. Thank you!
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This is great. Thank you.
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I typed blazor and I got "Blazer"...
but idea is good though
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Thank you!
Noted. I'll need to tune the string matching algorithm.
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