🚀 jobs + reverse = sboj

I have no idea how to pronounce it and trying hurts my brain...

Author

Herco Bezuidenhout
March 07, 2025

Good morning 👋,

As I sit here this morning, sipping my coffee and enjoying another loadshedding-free week, I realise how grateful I am for having electricity. This week I explored daily.dev but got really overwhelmed by it and I played around with roadmap.sh, which I still think is a decent tool. I have some great content lined up in this issue and some minor changes to the newsletter. This week, we have a brand new product, a returning product and a win of the week with some extra goodies for the curious.

Enjoy the letter 🚀.

LAUNCH

🧑‍💻 sboj.dev

sboj.dev is a delightful, lightweight platform that let’s you create a profile and connect with potential employers. After creating an account, you can add an intro to your profile with a video as well, helping potential employers know what you look and sound like. While you can also add some basic information including your current work status, experience, skills and expected salary, choosing to hide your profile from certain companies is also an option. This introduces some safety for people looking to change companies but worry about how their current company might react when learning about this. Sboj also:

  • Shows you messages that need your attention.

  • Let’s you share your full profile or a simple preview.

  • Helps employers easily find a talented individual.

Built by Nic Malan, Sboj is an innovative take on reverse job boards, which lets job seekers create profiles while employers search for and contact talent based on skills and qualifications. Instead of applicants applying for jobs, employers reach out to potential candidates.

COMMERCIAL BREAK

🏦 Investec Developer Platform

Any developer will have thought to themselves, “I could have built that better” and if you ever opened your banking app and thought “I could build a better banking app”, then you need to look into Investec’s Developer platform. With the platform, you can

  • Access to your card transactions

  • Set up custom budgeting and notifications

  • Limit spending on products

  • And more!

If this sounds like something you want to get in to, send me a message to get the ball rolling 🙌.

CHANGELOG

💡 HealthCheck Updates

There have been some major updates to Capitec’s HealthCheck, thanks to work from Roelof and his team. The updates include:

✨ Features

  • Browser supported routing which enables deep-linking to pages.

  • Layout enhancements and improved mobile responsiveness.

  • Auto-refresh can now be turned off.

  • 24-hour option has been added to the bar charts. It is also the default now.

  • A refresh button has been added to fetch fresh data from the server, however, it will only appear when the current data is considered stale.

🐞 Bugfixes

  • Various bug squashes including card drill-down navigation and jittery behaviour.

WIN OF THE WEEK

🎉 Roelof Jooste

Being nominated for his work on Capitec’s HealthCheck (see above article 😉), Roelof takes the first win of the week for LaunchWeek! Roelof recently joined the project and has already managed to make a huge impact, showing his insane ability as a software engineer. Not only does he contribute to projects at Capitec, but he is also involved with his own personal projects. Be sure to check out his LinkedIn and Github to learn more about him.

COMMERCIAL BREAK

🙌 Entelect is hiring

Entelect Software has taken Sunday Times’s Best Place to Work 2024 and the great thing is that they are hiring! Especially Java engineers but they also have roles open for mobile developers, JavaScript developers and .NET developers. Reach out to us for more information on how you can potentially join this great company.

VNEXT

👀 What to look out for

Here are some articles I found to be very interesting along with some nice tools you might want to use for your next project.

MEME