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I scraped 1.8 million jobs with ChatGPT, can this become a startup? (I will not promote)
Hi! I'm seeking advice on if a side project of mine has the potential to become a startup. Background: I'm a CS PhD Student in AI at Stanford. While looking for jobs, I got sick and tired of how LinkedIn & Indeed are contaminated with ghost jobs and 3rd party offshore agencies, making it nearly impossible to navigate. I discovered that *real jobs* are typically posted directly on a company websites. Until recently, there was no way to scrape them at scale because each job posting has different structure and format. After playing with ChatGPT's API, I realized that you can effectively dump raw job descriptions and ask it to give you formatted information back in JSON (ex salary, yoe, etc). I used this technique to scrape 1.8 million jobs (with over 350k remote jobs) and built powerful filters. I made it publicly available here in (url: Hiring.Cafe) and have also been really wow'd by the user feedback. Our reddit community r/hiringcafe grew to 28,000 users who seem to really enjoy the product. Currently I don't have any business model or revenue. It's a free product with passionate users, and I really don't believe in charging job seekers. A few questions: \* Does this have the potential to become a startup? Could we disrupt competitors like Indeed/LinkedIn by offering a vastly superior job search product \* How can we think about revenue while keeping the product free for job seekers and maintaining the mission of helping people find jobs?2
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