A Bay Area developer launched osgovjobportal.com this week — an open-source aggregator pulling 737 regional government job listings via public APIs, built out of frustration with the City of San Francisco's official portal. No accounts, no ads, no funding on file.

Tired of finding the City of San Francisco's jobs portal too difficult to navigate, a Bay Area developer posted an open-source alternative to r/bayarea on Thursday: osgovjobportal.com, a regional aggregator for government job listings that pulls from public APIs and refreshes daily.

As of Thursday the site showed 737 active listings — spanning SF, the South Bay, East Bay, North Bay, and the Peninsula — with salary ranges, department names, and required experience levels on each card. Roles ranged from an IT Operations Support Administrator at SF Public Works ($90,090–$111,696/year, per the listing) to a GIS internship at San Jose's Environmental Services Department. Filters let users narrow by location, skill keywords, and experience range; the developer's own example from the Reddit post combined "Civil Engineering" and "Legal" to illustrate how the tool surfaces niche roles that title-based searches miss.

No accounts, no ads, no paid tier. A "Star it!" prompt on the homepage implies a GitHub repository; the developer hasn't publicly linked one.

The portal carries no SEC Form D filings and has no Hacker News footprint, consistent with a solo, unfunded side project. The developer is known only by the Reddit handle /u/Expensive-Ad8916 and has not disclosed their identity further.

The context that makes the tool useful: Bay Area tech-sector time-to-hire stretched to 67 days in Q1 2026, up from 38 days a year prior, per jobsbyculture.com. Government roles post salaries upfront and move on their own calendar, largely insulated from VC sentiment. The obstacle has always been finding the listings.

What remains unconfirmed: which specific public APIs feed the site, actual traffic or usage numbers, and the GitHub repo URL.