One Feed, Not Ten Tabs

Short answer: refreshing ten job boards every morning isn't a strategy. Pick one feed that pulls from the right sources, spend the saved time tailoring applications, and stop measuring effort by browser-tab count.

A lot of active job hunters end up in the same daily loop: open Indeed, LinkedIn, Wellfound, Otta, YC's Work at a Startup, three company career pages, and a Slack workspace or two. Refresh each one. Compare against yesterday. Copy links into a spreadsheet. Repeat tomorrow.

Two hours a day, five days a week. Ten hours a week that could have gone into tailoring a bullet or writing a cold DM to a hiring manager.

How do you stop refreshing so many job boards?

Two options that both beat the current loop:

Option 1: consolidate into one feed. Use a tool that pulls listings from every relevant source into a single dashboard. For tech roles, Fastlyy monitors ~500 tech company career pages directly (not other boards) and scores every new posting against your resume. You get every job worth seeing in one place, sorted by match — with no duplicate listings and no stale ones.

Option 2: cut down to three. Pick the three boards where your target companies most reliably post first, set up email digests from each, and delete every other bookmark. This is the DIY version — it works if you're disciplined about not reopening the deleted tabs.

Both options save the same thing: the mental overhead of switching contexts across ten sources.

Is it better to check many job boards or one aggregator?

One good aggregator, provided it's monitoring the right upstream sources.

Here's the subtle trap: most aggregators pull from other aggregators. Indeed pulls from Indeed, LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and a few thousand small boards. So does ZipRecruiter. When you switch between them, you're seeing the same 40% of listings repeated with slightly different metadata, and each of those listings is a few hours to a few days behind the original career-page posting.

An aggregator that monitors the actual company career pages — the ATS microsites where roles first appear — gives you the fresh listing without the duplication.

Why does duplication hurt you?

Two reasons:

1. Signal-to-noise gets worse. When you scroll a feed that's 60% duplicates, you dismiss more listings per minute — including ones you should have looked at. Attention is a limited budget.
2. You lose speed. By the time a role is on Indeed and LinkedIn and ZipRecruiter and Wellfound, it's usually 24–72 hours after the company posted it directly. That gap is the difference between being applicant #30 and applicant #400.

How often should you check for new jobs?

Twice a day is enough if you have alerts on. Once in the morning to triage anything that came in overnight, once mid-afternoon to catch what dropped during the day. If you're checking more often than that without alerts, you're not applying more — you're just running your stress higher.

If you don't have alerts on, "checking often" is the same as "manually being a scraper." Set up alerts. Then check twice a day.

What should you do with the saved time?

Two things, in order:

1. Tailor the top of every application. The first 3 bullets on your resume should be rewritten to match each specific company's JD. Not every bullet — that's overkill — but the first three. This takes ~10 minutes per application and does more for your hit rate than any board-hopping.
2. Send one warm outreach per day. DM someone at a target company. Not "let me know if anything opens" — something specific, related to a project they shipped, a paper they published, or a role you actually saw open at their company.

Both are impossible when you're spending your work-search time as a browser refresher. They're natural when your feed is already consolidated.

The one rule

If the tool you're using to find jobs takes more time than the tool you're using to apply to them, the pipeline is upside down. The finding side should be automated; the applying side is where the work belongs.

Fastlyy consolidates 500+ tech company career pages into one match-scored feed, so you can spend your time tailoring instead of tab-switching. Start the free trial.