Hiring Signal Finder (Public Job Board APIs)
Enter a list of target companies and see which ones are hiring for roles that signal they need your service, using the public job board endpoints companies publish.
Economics
- Pricing example
- $19 for 500 company checks; $49 for 2,000
- Daily math
- 1 small pack a day x $19 = $19/day; one $49 pack a week adds about $7/day, which takes the average past $20/day.
- Target if you hit the daily math
- Target: $500 - $800 / month if the daily math is hit
Audience and urgency
Audience: B2B agencies, recruiters and freelancers who sell to companies growing a specific function, such as marketing, data or customer support.
Urgency: A company posting a role is a public sign that it has budget and a gap to fill. Checking careers pages one by one is slow, so small agencies skip it and send generic outreach instead.
MVP scope
- ✓ Paste company names with careers URLs or job-board tokens; detect whether the company publishes jobs through a supported public endpoint (Greenhouse job board API, Lever postings API, Ashby posting API)
- ✓ Fetch open roles from those documented public endpoints and match them against keyword rules the user defines
- ✓ Results table: company, matching role titles, location, posted date and a link to the original posting
- ✓ CSV export and saved keyword presets (e.g. 'needs SEO help', 'scaling support')
- ✓ 1 credit per company checked; results cached for 24 hours to keep request volume low
Omitted features
- - Do NOT scrape LinkedIn or any site behind a login
- - Do NOT collect personal contact details of employees
- - Do NOT send outreach emails from the tool
Suggested stack
- Frontend
- React + Tailwind CSS
- Backend or API
- Serverless functions calling the public job board endpoints with rate limiting; Supabase for cache and credits
- Payments
- Stripe Checkout (credit packs)
- Hosting
- Vercel or Netlify (free tier to start)
Repository metadata
- Blueprint ID
hiring-signal-finder- Category ID
lead_scraper_tool- Monetization ID
usage_pack
Day-one distribution
Channels
- LinkedIn posts for agency owners about using job posts as buying signals
- Reddit r/sales and r/Entrepreneur
- Cold email to small B2B agencies with a free check of 20 companies they name
Reddit strategy
Write up how to read job posts as buying signals with 3 anonymised examples, and offer a free 25-company check.
Cold outreach or directory hook
Run a free check on 20 companies an agency already targets and send the results as the pitch.
Search keywords
companies hiring signal tool, find companies hiring marketing roles, job posting lead generation
One-shot master prompt
Build a "Hiring Signal Finder" web app in React with Tailwind CSS and serverless functions.
Core requirements:
1. Input: textarea or CSV upload of companies (name + careers URL or board token). Detect the provider from the URL pattern (boards.greenhouse.io, jobs.lever.co, jobs.ashbyhq.com) and mark unsupported ones clearly instead of scraping them.
2. Server functions fetch open jobs only from the public endpoints: Greenhouse job board API (boards-api.greenhouse.io/v1/boards/{token}/jobs), Lever postings API (api.lever.co/v0/postings/{company}?mode=json), and Ashby posting API (api.ashbyhq.com/posting-api/job-board/{name}). Limit to 2 requests per second and cache results for 24 hours.
3. Keyword rules: include/exclude terms per preset, matched on job title and department. Show matching roles with location, posted/updated date and the original link.
4. Results table with sorting, a "signals per company" count, and CSV export.
5. Credits: 25 free checks, then Stripe Checkout packs ($19 for 500, $49 for 2,000). No personal data is stored; show a short note about which public sources are used.Comparable products
Published 2026-10-08.
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