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How we build, what we learn, what we ship.
Posts about indexing public job postings at scale, salary parsing, and the systems that keep one universal JSON schema feeling small even as the source list keeps growing.
How to build a job board in 2026: stack, data, and go-live
The board itself is a weekend of work. Keeping it full of jobs that are still open is the part that decides whether anyone comes back. The real build order - niche, stack, where the listings come from, and build vs buy - with the data problem front and center.
Best job board software in 2026: 9 platforms compared (build vs buy)
Niceboard, SmartJobBoard, JBoard, Jobiqo, Madgex, WP Job Manager and more - the strongest hosted, white-label, open-source and custom options compared on who they fit, where they run out, and the one thing every one of them leaves to you: the listings.
Open source job board software: 4 real options and what they cost to run
Open source job board software is free to license and never free to run. The maintained options by stack - WP Job Manager, WordPress, and roll-your-own in Django, Rails or Laravel - plus the running costs nobody lists: hosting, maintenance, and the jobs themselves.
Job market datasets: 7 real sources for job postings data (2026)
Kaggle snapshots, the USAJOBS archive, Adzuna aggregates, commercial bulk vendors, and API-built datasets - where to actually get a job postings dataset, what each contains, and when a static file is the wrong tool.
Best job scraping tools in 2026: 8 options honestly compared
JobSpy, Apify, Bright Data, ScrapingDog, Octoparse, PhantomBuster and more - what each job scraper is actually good at, what it costs at real volume, and when the right answer is not a scraper at all.
Jooble API: what you get, the limits, and the alternatives
Jooble offers one of the few genuinely free job-search APIs - a simple POST endpoint over listings in 60+ countries. What it returns, where it runs out, and how it compares to JobsPipe's free tier and no-key sandbox.
Ashby API: pulling job postings from any Ashby-hosted careers page
Ashby runs hiring for Linear, Ramp, Notion, Vercel, and thousands of other startups. Its public Job Board endpoint is free but covers one company per call. Here is how each Ashby API surface works and how to query every Ashby customer at once.
Labor market data: 9 sources and APIs compared (2026)
BLS, JOLTS, FRED, Indeed Hiring Lab, Lightcast, LinkUp, Revelio, and raw job-postings APIs - what each labor market data source actually measures, how fresh it is, what it costs, and which one fits your use case.
JobSpy review: the Python job scraper tested, and where it breaks
JobSpy scrapes Indeed, LinkedIn, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter and Google with one Python call - until it gets blocked. An honest review, and the no-scraper path: JobsPipe's free tier and keyless sandbox for normalized postings.