DEV Community: Aleksey Baturin

I built hq4.ru: An alternative job aggregator that only indexes official company career pages (no spam, no registration)

Aleksey Baturin — Sat, 16 May 2026 09:59:41 +0000

The Problem: Job boards are broken
If you've been job hunting in 2025-2026, you know the pain.

You spend hours scrolling through hundreds of duplicates, fake posts, and "zombie" vacancies that were closed six months ago. You send your resume into a black hole. Most of the time, you're not even applying to the company — you're applying to a recruiting agency that just collects CVs "just in case."

The signal-to-noise ratio is terrible.

I'm a developer. I don't like wasting time. So I built a tool for myself that eventually grew into something bigger.

The Idea: Only official sources
hq4.ru works on a simple principle:

If a job isn't on the company's official website — it doesn't exist in hq4.ru.

No scraping from random job boards. No duplicate hell. No "recruiting agencies" posting the same position 50 times.

We collect vacancies directly from company career pages. That's it.

Why this matters (technically and ethically)

Responsibility
A company is legally and reputationally responsible for what it posts on its own website. Nobody posts fake salaries or outdated conditions on their official career page — it's too costly.
Freshness
We update daily. If a company removes a vacancy from its site, it disappears from hq4.ru within 24 hours. No more applying to jobs that don't exist.
No middlemen
When you click a vacancy, you go straight to the company's website. You apply there — via their form, their email, their phone number. No intermediaries. No data collected by the aggregator.

Tech stack (because this is dev.to)
The project started as a simple script, but grew into something more robust:

Backend: Go (self-written framework — full control over performance and architecture)

Database: Optimized for fast full-text search across 5000+ active vacancies

Parsing engine: Respects robots.txt, uses polite crawling with exponential backoff

Frontend: Minimal, no JS bloat, works without cookies

Why Go? Because the previous prototype on Laravel started choking at 5k+ daily users. Go gave me:

~10x better performance on the same hardware

Lower memory footprint

Simpler concurrency for parallel scraping

Filters that actually work
Users can filter by:

City (from Moscow to small towns)

Category (engineering, IT, production, healthcare, construction, security, etc.)

Work schedule (full-time, shift, rotation)

Experience level (no experience / 1+ years / 3+ years)

Education (high school, vocational, higher)

All without registration. No "sign up to see the salary". No "verify your email to apply".

For employers (if you're reading this)
If you have a career page or a job section on your website — you can connect it to hq4.ru for free. No API required. We'll find your vacancies and keep them fresh automatically.

The philosophy
I also run svg4.ru (500k+ free SVG icons, no registration). The same philosophy applies here:

Remove everything unnecessary. Registration. Middlemen. Shady databases. You come to get things done — find a job, download an icon. Nothing should distract or raise doubts.

Current state
The project just launched. Growing daily. Not a unicorn startup. Just a useful tool that solves a real problem.

What's next:

Telegram subscription for new jobs by city + category

Better search relevance (using vector search maybe?)

Manual verification badges for companies

Try it
👉 hq4.ru

It's free. No account needed. Just search, click, apply on the company's website.

I built svg4.ru — a high-performance SVG icons platform on Laravel 12

Aleksey Baturin — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 08:21:20 +0000

Hi dev.to 👋
I want to share a project I’ve been building and running in production.

🔗 https://svg4.ru

svg4.ru is a large SVG icons and vector graphics platform focused on speed, simplicity, and scale.

🚀 Tech stack

Laravel 12

Meilisearch for instant full-text search

MySQL — over 1,000,000+ records

Tailwind CSS 4

Alpine.js

Clean, minimal JavaScript (no heavy frontend frameworks)

Despite the data size, the site works blazingly fast:

instant search

fast filtering

low response times even under load

This project is very engineering-focused: performance, indexing strategy, caching, clean architecture, and predictable behavior at scale.

🧠 What this project demonstrates

Laravel can handle million-scale datasets without pain

Meilisearch is a great alternative to Elasticsearch for real-world apps

You don’t need React/Vue for fast, interactive UIs

Tailwind 4 + Alpine.js is a powerful and pragmatic combo

👀 I’d love your feedback

If you’re interested, please:

check out the site

try the search

explore the UI

share feedback or suggestions

🤝 Open to collaboration

If you:

want to build a similar platform

need help with PHP / Laravel / Node.js

work with Tailwind 4, Alpine.js

care about performance, architecture, and scalability

I’ll be happy to collaborate or help.

📬 Telegram: @bau_59

Thanks for reading — feedback is very welcome 🙌

Why Forums Still Matter in 2025

Aleksey Baturin — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:00:41 +0000

These days it feels like everyone has moved to Telegram. Chats are buzzing, questions are solved in minutes, and long discussions seem almost old-fashioned. So you might wonder: why do we even need forums anymore? Aren’t they outdated?

As someone who recently worked on updating a large professional forum for industrial climbers, I can say with confidence: forums are still very much needed.

Think of it this way. A chat is like a lively kitchen conversation — fast, noisy, fun, but anything useful gets buried within hours. Try finding something discussed a month ago in a chat… good luck scrolling.

A forum works differently. It’s more like a library and a community club combined.

Information doesn’t disappear.
A detailed repair guide, a review of a new rope, a breakdown of common mistakes — all of it stays neatly organized. You search → you find → you get a real answer, not fragments of old messages.
A real community forms.
People write thoughtfully, discussions grow naturally, and over time strong experts become recognizable. You can see a user’s history, style, experience — something chats simply don’t preserve.
Work and hiring become easier.
On Alp4.ru, for example, the job section is incredibly active. Employers aren’t just picking a random “username” — they see someone with a reputation and actual contributions. That kind of trust doesn’t exist in chat streams.

So yes — forums are alive. They’ve just taken their rightful niche: a place where knowledge accumulates instead of evaporating.

And if your professional community doesn’t have such a “knowledge hub” yet — or you have an old, buggy forum that desperately needs attention — that can be fixed. I help choose, install, configure, and fine-tune modern forum platforms like Discourse Telegram bau_59. From structure and design to moderation rules and migration of old data — everything can be done properly so the forum becomes a real home for your community.

A forum in 2025 isn’t outdated. It’s order, depth, and a working environment without chaos.

🚀 100 out of 100 on Google PageSpeed — in production!

Aleksey Baturin — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:29:20 +0000

Yes, it's real.
Yes, on a live site.
No paid CDN, no hacks, no AMP. Just clean optimization.

The project svg4.ru is a large-scale SVG icon catalog with filters, images, and dynamic components — and it flies.

👉 Want to learn how to do the same?
Follow me — I’ll break it down step by step:

essential server settings

Laravel + Vite performance tips

optimizing fonts, SVGs, cache, and lazy-loading

what truly affects FCP, LCP, and CLS

and most importantly — what not to do

📌 The next post will drop once we hit 100 followers.
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