Built a free job-alert tool for seafarers (aggregator + focused alerts) — would love feedback

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Hi everyone,:waving_hand:

I’m a working as 2nd engineer in offshore and I want to share something I’ve been building in my spare time for the last 5+ years.

It’s called Ship&Crew — ship-crew.net.

I’m not posting this as some “growth hack” or business pitch. It’s not a commercial project, and right now it’s 100% free. I’m here because I’ve been using it myself for a long time and it honestly made job searching less painful.

Back when I was actively looking for contracts, I was checking multiple sites every day like it was a second job. So I started building a simple idea: pull vacancies from popular sources into one place and let people filter it in a way that actually matches how seafarers search.

The part I care about most is the focus. A lot of “job channels” are either super narrow (one employer / one vessel type) or they dump everything into one feed — all ranks, all fleets — and after a week you stop reading because it’s just noise. What I’m trying to do is the middle ground: alerts that stay inside your search scope. Not every vacancy will be a perfect 100% match, but it should stay relevant and not spam you with unrelated stuff.

Example: I run something like “Second Engineer + offshore” and it shows what’s actually out there for my profile. Offshore isn’t just a checkbox on my side — it’s basically a set of keywords and vessel types that the system tries to recognize across different sources (some sites have proper fields, some just have messy text).

You can set alerts as:

  • a daily digest (e.g. every morning), or

  • instant alerts when something matching appears.

Delivery is Email or Telegram (registration required to save alerts).

There’s also an Apply now option for some vacancies. If the vacancy includes an application email/contact, you can apply right from the vacancy page: name, email, cover letter, CV file. If you have an account, you can optionally save your details and later apply faster (saving is optional — you can also just send without storing anything).

If anyone here is willing to take a quick look and tell me what’s missing / what feels wrong — I’d really appreciate it. Especially:

  • does this “focused alerts” approach match how you search for jobs?

  • what fleet/vessel keywords are the hardest to classify in real job posts?

  • anything you’d consider a must-have before you’d rely on it?

Link: ship-crew.net
If links aren’t welcome here, tell me and I’ll remove it.

Thanks.