Wellfound Market Sizes by Industry, City and Tech
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Wellfound Market Sizes by Industry, City and Tech
How many startups are hiring in each Wellfound industry, city and technology, and how many jobs each city holds. Sizes come from each segment's own page, not from counting rows. A slug Wellfound does not know returns its whole index, so this checks the filter the page applied before taking a number.
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Reads how big each Wellfound segment is. How many startups are hiring in an industry, a city or around a technology, and how many open jobs a city holds. No key and no login.
Where the numbers come from
Each segment has its own page on Wellfound, and that page prints its own total. This Actor reads that total. It does not count rows and then call the count a size.
The segment list comes from Wellfound too, in two requests: the startup index lists about 30 industries and 30 cities, and the hiring data page lists 33 industries, 40 cities and 109 technologies. They are merged, so you get the wider list and the tagging counts that only one of the two pages carries.
A slug it does not know
Ask /startups/industry/fintech and Wellfound answers HTTP 200 with its whole index. The size
of fintech would come back as 10,367, which is the size of Wellfound.
The real slug is fintech-2. This Actor reads the filter the page says it applied, skips the
segment when it does not match, and charges you nothing for it. City pages behave differently
and answer 404, which is handled the same way.
The tagging count is not a company count
taggingsAcrossWellfound is Wellfound's own popularity number for a tag, and it counts every
tagging on the site. For a technology that is mostly candidate profiles: Python reads over 1.7
million taggings and 2,642 companies.
Use startupsHiring for companies. Use the tagging count to rank a technology by how many
people on Wellfound claim it.
The counts overlap
A company sits in several industries and several cities at once, so segment sizes do not add up to the total. Wellfound's own index total moves between requests as well. Both numbers are sizes, not a ledger.
What this pairs with
slug on every row is exactly what the other Wellfound Actors take as a filter. Size the
segments here, then run the company or job Actor on the ones worth the money.
Input
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
kinds | Which kinds to list automatically: industry, location, technology |
industries | Name specific industries instead |
locations | Name specific cities instead |
technologies | Name specific technologies instead |
maxResults | Upper bound for the whole run. One segment is one page load |
Output
One row per segment: kind, name, slug, startupsHiring, jobsOpen for cities,
taggingsAcrossWellfound and the page it was read from.
RUN_SUMMARY in the key value store holds the discovery pages, how many segments were
considered against how many were sized, and every segment Wellfound did not recognise.
Price
0.002 dollars per run and 0.006 dollars per segment. One segment is one page load. Both are charged after the rows exist, so a run that sizes nothing costs nothing.
