JobStash is a free job aggregator provided as a public good for the crypto space

JobStash is a job platform which indexes and publishes jobs for over 1500 organizations which are currently hiring. We distribute job vacancy data throughout the ecosystem, and each month we serve 40k pageviews, 4k job applications sent, and 1k unique job applicants.

Our core value proposition is that we are the fastest jobsite in the space when it comes to discovering jobs, and we structure the job vacancy data so it can be easily evaluated, filtered and sorted by our end users and integrators.

We are fully independent, bootstrapped, and support DeFi protocols, networks, and other onchain and offchain projects in need of staff.

Our Impact

• Served 300k pageviews on jobstash.xyz
• 29k unique users applied for a job
• 41k vacancies received candidates from us

JobStash: Quick intro

Crypto is permissionless. As such, we discover job data for reputable decentralized on-chain and off-chain organizations without any interaction on their side. Most organizations dont know we exist, because we don't force our users to mention us, and we have no incentives do to so. Simply put: we are the best friend of small nascent organizations which don't yet have the capacity to run an in-house recruitment department. We've been growing steadily and with great attention to the quality of our dataset, and our value is that we don't gatekeep information between candidates and organizations. We provide tools and information for both candidates and employers to optimally identify suitable opportunities, contributing to the growth of the crypto ecosystem. The core focus of the project is on data collection, structuring of data, enrichment, and correlation between market data and job data. We present projects and organizations in a complete, permanent and authoritative way by showing critical metrics such as TVLs, Hacks, Raises, Usage stats, and more. We allow protocol members to join the platform for free and redact inaccuracies and enrich the data set with their own knowledge.

We provide this data to the ecosystem via an open API, which then allows other builders to compose solutions leveraging our data silos.

Our advantage

Our platform is fully automated and ingests data from APIs and via custom AI based scraping infrastructure we built bespoke for JobStash. We currently have ±8k subscribers in our telegram channel, and try to keep the quality of our subscribers high. Our fully automated platform which requires no manual input from organizations to list their jobs, and which allows consenting developers to opt in and have their opensource public contributions analyzed and ranked to solve safety and trust issues which commonly plague sourcing departments at organizations.

Problems We Are Addressing

• Fragmented job market due to misaligned monetary incentives for publishing job ads, similar to liquidity fragmentation across various L1s/L2s.
• Job vacancy liveness: our tooling is the fastest on the internet when it comes to discovering new open roles in the crypto industry, ensuring our users have the best odds of having their candidacy evaluated.
• External recruitment agencies not acting in the best interest of candidates or organizations, leading to suboptimal matchmaking.
• Limited access to detailed information about crypto job opportunities due to information gatekeeping.
• Difficulty in identifying the most relevant and high-potential job openings in a rapidly evolving space.

Solutions We Implemented

• A free, fully automated and unbiased platform that aggregates job listings from reputable crypto organizations.
• Innovative condensation of job ads into information-dense, optimally formatted job-ads.
• Building tools for both job takers and job offerers to streamline their processes
• Providing detailed data about job opportunities to individual candidates.
• Offering analytics and research to gain insights into the general crypto job market.

End-User Value

Our platform aims to place the right people in the right job as efficiently as possible by providing the best and most up-to-date information. This enables all parties to independently make informed decisions throughout the job application process, ultimately contributing to the growth and success of the entire crypto ecosystem.

Goals

• Continuously improve our Web UI and data pipelines. We spent 2 years building this project, and will continue doing so as long as we can.
• Integrate more job sources and onboard additional organizations and projects.
• Integrate additional sources of data for better understanding of evaluated opportunities.

Team Information

Our diverse, global team consists of four full-time members and two part-time contributors (5 devs and 1 designer), with plans to expand soon. David Leonardi, an engineer passionate about building projects benefiting makers and builders, founded the project in September 2022.

Source of Funds

Grants have been an instrumental source of funding for our project. We are prod to have been supported by RetroPGF3, but these funds are coming to and end this month, and we need more to keep building

Use of Funds

Funds received will cover infrastructure bills and support our engineers in working full-time without external influences. Our costs include GitHub, OpenAI, Figma, hosting, and various software vendor licenses. We aim to compensate our contributors fairly, considering living costs in their regions across Europe, Southeast Asia, and Africa.