EconNow - A real-time directory for the economics profession
I'm building EconNow (https://econ.now), a real-time directory for the economics profession. In v1, I'm compiling all economics PhD "job market candidates", people graduating this year who are looking for jobs. The database is filterable by field/nationality/institution/advisor/gender, and if you log in, you can read their CVs and papers.
My stack:
- Convex on the backend
- R2 for storage
- Firecrawl/OpenAI for scraping
- Next.js + ShadCN on the frontend
I posted about it on Twitter and got immense interest. So much, in fact, that I wracked up close to $50 in database bandwidth in 12 hours 😠, which led to me staying up till 3 AM learning about Convex query optimization. I think I've added appropriate indices and caching at this point to kill the worst offending queries, plus the whole site is now feeling snappier without my horrendous full table scans.
Having a lot of fun with Convex - it's now my default backend for all projects.
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