Turn Hacker News hiring posts into a structured Airtable job board

Job listings from Hacker News hiring posts are pulled, cleaned up, and organized into Airtable automatically.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each job listing.

Pattern: Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Starts itA stepRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Spreadsheet & Database OpsResearch & Market IntelligenceHR & Recruiting
Connects
AirtableGoogle Gemini

The problem it solves

Hiring threads on forums are useful but painful to read through, with hundreds of unstructured comments mixed together. Manually copying listings into a usable format takes forever. You want a clean, searchable list without reading every comment yourself.

Who it fits

Recruiters, founders, or teams tracking hiring trends or building a job board.

How it works

  1. A schedule triggers the automation on a set interval
  2. The latest hiring thread and its comments are fetched
  3. AI reads each listing and pulls out structured details like role and company
  4. The structured listings are saved into Airtable
What you get

Hiring trends you can track at a glance

You get Hacker News hiring posts organized into a structured Airtable board, making hiring trends easy to track.

What you get

An organized, searchable table of job listings in Airtable.

What you need

An Airtable account and a Google Gemini API key.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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