u/xezbeth13

I’ve been building AnywhereHired in public-ish: a free remote job board focused on things I felt were underserved on big boards, junior/entry-level, a clear visa sponsorship feed, and resume PDF matching so people aren’t only keyword-hunting.

What it does today

• Aggregates remote listings from multiple sources on a schedule (Scrapy pipelines → SQLite).
• Public site: search, categories, visa filter, junior feed.
• Resume upload → match against the live board (lightweight text similarity, so it runs on modest hosting).
• Newsletter signup for alerts.

Stack (keep it boring on purpose)

• Flask + Jinja, SQLite
• Scrapy for ingestion
• Cron on shared hosting for pipelines
• Deployed on cPanel-style hosting, which taught me more than any tutorial.

What actually hurt (the real build-in-public part)

1. Hosting ≠ your laptop. Different Python venv paths (~/virtualenv/... vs ./venv), install limits, and “why does this work in SSH but not in Passenger?” were weekly puzzles.
2. I tried semantic embeddings (Sentence Transformers) for resume match because it’s a better story the server said no (RAM / install killed). Rolled back to TF-IDF so the product stays reliable. Lesson: ship what the infra allows; upgrade when you move hosts.
3. Stats that lie. I had “posted this week” drift because date logic mixed ingest time with real posted dates. Had to separate “source posted date” from “we ingested it today” so the UI matches reality.
4. Legal / trust. I finally shipped Privacy Policy + Terms (footer + next to newsletter/resume), not because the product is “done,” but because we collect emails and PDFs — users deserve a straight answer.

What I’d love from this sub

• For aggregators: how do you explain “we don’t guarantee sponsorship/accuracy” without killing trust?
• Resume features on small hosts: TF-IDF vs “real” embeddings — when did you switch, and what infra did you need?
• Anyone else running SQLite + batch jobs as “good enough” analytics before Postgres?

https://anywherehired.com/

Hey r/sideprojects 👋

I just launched AnywhereHired (anywherehired.com) — a free remote job aggregator built with Flask + Scrapy + SQLite as part of my MSc dissertation on automated web data extraction.

**What it does:**

- 3,000+ remote jobs aggregated daily via automated Scrapy pipelines

- 1,477 visa-sponsored roles with a dedicated filter

- Dedicated junior & entry-level feed

- AI resume matching — upload your PDF, get matched instantly

- 100% free, no sign up, no paywalls

**The stack:**

- Flask + Scrapy + SQLite

- Cron-job powered scraping pipelines

- TF-IDF resume matching (upgrading to sentence transformers next)

- Deployed on a VPS

**Week one stats (all organic, zero marketing):**

- 164 active users

- 1,800+ page views

- 4,700+ events

- Traffic from UK, USA, and more

Would love feedback from this community — especially on what features to prioritise next.

🌐 anywherehired.com