* You do what looks like a full-text search on the entries making it easy to find stuff if people use the keyword I'm typing
* It's a decent MVP
Cons:
* Your attempt to prevent email scraping seems to boil down to base64 encoding the email.
* The site suffers from the chicken-and-egg problem - you need gigs to get users and users to get gigs.
* The 'hacker typer' font isn't for everyone
* Links in people's adverts aren't clickable - maybe you should support a very limited subset of Markdown for people's posts?
* With no categories or labels, people do have to use keyword stuffing.
* It looks like there's no way to mark a gig as filled / person as unavailable - a successful site would be filled with fake vacancies.
The Reddit mechanism for avoiding the chicken-egg problem doesn't work - you can't offer fake help or fake jobs. If you offered non-email communication options you could scrape HN Hiring I guess
Emails are intended to be easy to access (basically public), no different than craigslist.org or jobs.wordpress.net. Base64 isn't related to scrape protection. I'm using rate limiting for that. While emails aren't that sensitive in this context, my habit is still not to store them in plaintext. Base64 is pretty useless for security, but if I'm going to even bother obfuscating them at all, I guess I could actually encrypt them properly, as long as it's still a reversible method.
Chicken
I think it's worse than chicken-egg. It's more like no one even knows GigDig exists in the first place for that to happen. In other words, that would be a nice problem to have. The real dilemma is that it's a needle in a haystack in a black hole, like most of my ideas.
Ugly
Yeah, in more ways than one, the site is definitely catering to the pros more than the clients. That's intentional of course, but could make it feel "scary" for people hiring to post there, even if they did discover it.
Links
I think I want to keep it plaintext for purity. Simple description of what someones needs or offers and email address to contact them. Other than that, GigDig gets the hell out of the way.
Searching
There are categories, but maybe there should be more. Currently you can narrow down browsing by category, type, and keywords.
Deleting
Yes, this occurred to me as well, and thank you for reminding me. If someone finds someone right away that would indeed be annoying to have an entire month of emails and people's wasted energy. Philosophically, I refuse to add accounts or email notifications, so I could simply make it so that anyone revisiting their post, if from the same IP, can delete it, and/or reduce posts from 30 days to just 1 week.
Pros:
* There's a clean aesthetic
* You do what looks like a full-text search on the entries making it easy to find stuff if people use the keyword I'm typing
* It's a decent MVP
Cons:
* Your attempt to prevent email scraping seems to boil down to base64 encoding the email.
* The site suffers from the chicken-and-egg problem - you need gigs to get users and users to get gigs.
* The 'hacker typer' font isn't for everyone
* Links in people's adverts aren't clickable - maybe you should support a very limited subset of Markdown for people's posts?
* With no categories or labels, people do have to use keyword stuffing.
* It looks like there's no way to mark a gig as filled / person as unavailable - a successful site would be filled with fake vacancies.
The Reddit mechanism for avoiding the chicken-egg problem doesn't work - you can't offer fake help or fake jobs. If you offered non-email communication options you could scrape HN Hiring I guess
Scraping
Emails are intended to be easy to access (basically public), no different than craigslist.org or jobs.wordpress.net. Base64 isn't related to scrape protection. I'm using rate limiting for that. While emails aren't that sensitive in this context, my habit is still not to store them in plaintext. Base64 is pretty useless for security, but if I'm going to even bother obfuscating them at all, I guess I could actually encrypt them properly, as long as it's still a reversible method.
Chicken
I think it's worse than chicken-egg. It's more like no one even knows GigDig exists in the first place for that to happen. In other words, that would be a nice problem to have. The real dilemma is that it's a needle in a haystack in a black hole, like most of my ideas.
Ugly
Yeah, in more ways than one, the site is definitely catering to the pros more than the clients. That's intentional of course, but could make it feel "scary" for people hiring to post there, even if they did discover it.
Links
I think I want to keep it plaintext for purity. Simple description of what someones needs or offers and email address to contact them. Other than that, GigDig gets the hell out of the way.
Searching
There are categories, but maybe there should be more. Currently you can narrow down browsing by category, type, and keywords.
Deleting
Yes, this occurred to me as well, and thank you for reminding me. If someone finds someone right away that would indeed be annoying to have an entire month of emails and people's wasted energy. Philosophically, I refuse to add accounts or email notifications, so I could simply make it so that anyone revisiting their post, if from the same IP, can delete it, and/or reduce posts from 30 days to just 1 week.