Orca's shutting down

another caveman

Thought I'd share this here - https://orcahq.com/ is packing up

I remember browsing it kind of every day at some point, for me or for friends, it's been a quite handy website.

so. 

where shall we go next (:

garcellano

  

Brian "Panda" Choi

What were the operation costs exactly?  Would PC staff have any insight onethis?

Kwramm

shame that was such an incredibly useful site. Maybe the tech behind it can be open sourced so someone else can pick it up?

Eric Chadwick

That's a bummer. Thanks fir posting this. At the moment we don't have a ton of time to devote to something like this, but it is worth reaching out.

xChris

Such a bummer, the post says its just a matter of time he doesn't have to maintain, would have totally backed it with a monthly patreon or something like that. There was someone in these forums that was making a game dev job search too, anyone remember the name of it? 

BrandonBerryCG

   xChris said:

Such a bummer, the post says its just a matter of time he doesn't have to maintain, would have totally backed it with a monthly patreon or something like that. There was someone in these forums that was making a game dev job search too, anyone remember the name of it? 

I believe you are referring to https://gamedevjobs.io/  or this thread.

I wish I knew about Orca sooner, it sounds like its been pretty helpful to a lot of people. Sad to hear its going.

xChris

BrandonBerryCG said:

   xChris said:

Such a bummer, the post says its just a matter of time he doesn't have to maintain, would have totally backed it with a monthly patreon or something like that. There was someone in these forums that was making a game dev job search too, anyone remember the name of it? 

I believe you are referring to https://gamedevjobs.io/  or this thread.

I wish I knew about Orca sooner, it sounds like its been pretty helpful to a lot of people. Sad to hear its going.

this is it, thanks!

Eric Chadwick

Any site has hosting fees, and maintenance time is needed.

Contacted the site owner, suggested some options.

Tekoppar

Patreon for hosting fees and then outsource the maintenance work to some people that want to help. There shouldn't be much maintenance for a scraper website, updating links and xpaths.

fmnoor

While I typically used gamedevmap to manually visit each studio's page and apply in the past - I'm not sure what Orca did in particular that people liked as to say.. using indeed.com 

Looking at the wayback archive it seemed to be an aggregator as well - were there any features that people liked? In the past I had thought about creating a few scripts to scrape and upload jobs similar to   https://gamedevjobs.io/  or gameguzzler  ( but larger in scope) The only thing that hired or indeed don't have are relevant search criteria (like seniority level, intern ships, studio size, past shipped titles etc) and wouldn't be against resuming that if there was a need.

Yoji

@fmnoor
Orca had a huge list of salaries which was very helpful for estimating how much to ask or expect. At least that's what I used it for.
So sad it's down. Just found the news while discussing the subject with a friend.

Thanks for posting this y'all!