Opportunity Radar
An n8n flow which finds companies likely to be hiring before roles are even posted: a live dashboard ranking hiring momentum by tracking signal strength across news, Reddit, LinkedIn, GitHub, Hacker News, funding, and exec hires in real time.
The live dashboard: companies ranked by hiring signal, with one row open to show what drives its score.
- Problem
- By the time a job is posted, 100+ people have applied. Hiring leaves signals earlier, but I had no way to see them.
- Opportunity
- An n8n pipeline that scores companies on eight signal sources, with a dashboard that ranks hiring momentum and surfaces the people worth contacting.
- Result
- Across 39 tracked companies and 48+ scans, it surfaced real companies with rising hiring momentum, and the people worth reaching out to.
It started in a coffee shop, mid job search: hiring leaves a trail before the posting.
v1.0 was two days of vibe-coding n8n with ChatGPT; it only filled a spreadsheet.
A favorable reply on LinkedIn was the real validation.
The friction that started it: over 100 applicants before most people even see the posting.
Built in the coffee shop: eight signal sources merged, deduped, and scored per company.
That reply made it worth revisiting: more signal sources, a simpler pipeline.
I'd switched to Claude, and fed it the n8n workflow JSON to derive the project's goals.
It then sketched a first UI in Figma, through an MCP connection I'd set up.
Claude suggested a radar-style view of the ranked opportunities, which gave it its name.
A short stretch in Figma showed the DOM was the faster loop, so I left Figma.
One exception: once the CSS matured, I derived a style guide from it.
Interface built directly in the DOM, against the live data schema, with an AI agent as co-pilot.
People further along treated project .md docs as essential, so I took a short class.
I wrote a handful mid-build, then hit a rabbit hole an earlier doc would have prevented.
Not a tooling problem; my gap was knowing which guardrails a project needs upfront.
Partway through, I wasn't sure it was an agent, so I derived three tests.
Could you write the rule down, could a simpler tool do it, would two competent people disagree?
The answer was no on all three: a useful pipeline, but no real judgment anywhere.
A ranked leaderboard, plus a company inspector with momentum trends and contacts.
Each score shows how it was calculated, so the ranking isn't a black box.
Live and in use, surfacing real companies with rising hiring momentum and who to contact.
The instinct underneath: find the signal, build the smallest system for it, stay honest about limits.
It shows real contacts, so I share it by walkthrough; get in touch.
- Product Design
- n8n
- Live Product