🏷️Product: A job search engine focusing on high quality job postings and an intuitive user interface.
🌐Website: https://trawle.com
🗨️Social pages: None (yet)
💸Investment: 0$
💰Revenue: 0$
📊Business model: None (yet)
🛠️Tech stack: Hono, TanStack Start, Tailwind CSS. Hosted on AWS.

Hello! Can you tell us a bit about your background and what led you to develop Trawle?


Hey! I’m a professional frontend engineer and product designer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. I’ve chosen this career path since I have a big passion for building things, and I find web development as an amazing outlet that allows creativity, nerdy-ness and being able to solve real-world problems. 

I enjoy working on side projects and when I, a few months ago, were on the hunt for a new job, I discovered I had to scour many different sites, job boards, forum threads and more in order to find adequate jobs, and I figured then and there that I’d take it as a personal challenge to come up with a better job search experience.

Can you explain what you mean by “zero-noise” in a job search engine? How does Trawle filter out irrelevant results?

From what I saw on other job boards is that many of them work by scraping other job boards, seemingly creating an infinite loop of outdated, low quality jobs. I started working on the idea that jobs should come from the most reliable source truth, being the actual career pages of companies. This, in my opinion, makes it harder to “game” the system – and I’ve got some awesome ideas on how to further improve the quality of the job postings down the line.

Trawle is currently in beta, what are some challenges you’ve faced during development, and what feedback have you received so far?

The biggest challenge has been scaffolding the entire underlying “engine” of the platform. I’ve spent a lot of nights working on this scheduler that automatically pulls new job postings from all the companies we track, which needs to register and process these job postings in a reliable way, so that we can display them on the platform.

Most of the feedback I’ve received is about Trawle’s filtering capability, so I’ll focus on improving that in the coming months. People have very different needs when they are searching for jobs and it’s a challenge figuring out how to best keep the platform organized and intuitive while still packing features that cover all these needs, which is key for an automated job search tool to be effective.

Who is your ideal user? Is Trawle designed more for active job seekers, recruiters, or a specific industry?

The platform is definitely built for the job seekers. I’d love to collaborate and gain direct feedback from recruiters/companies down the line in order to improve the platform, but I also see a danger in designing this towards them, as this would inevitably have a negative effect on the quality of the job postings down the line. 

In terms of industry, I think we’re currently catering most to tech-related job postings as I’ve been adding companies I personally know, but as we expand the list of companies in the future, we’ll definitely start covering more industries, making it a broader automated job search solution.

Screenshot of the Trawle homepage showcasing its automated job search interface with a clean and minimal design.

What’s next for Trawle? Do you plan to expand beyond job postings, perhaps into salary insights or application tracking?

One of the things I love the most about working on this project is the sheer amount of data that we get to process, and I love the idea of creating in-depth analyses on the data once we’ve run for an appropriate amount of time – so for example salary insights, job search tendencies and a broader picture of how the job market evolves over time.

Features like application tracking is definitely also something I’ve got on the roadmap – but as I put a lot of emphasis on doing things right, I’d love to take my time to research the needs of my users and figure out how we best tackle these problems while ensuring Trawle remains a reliable automated job search platform.

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