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About the StackRadar

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About the StackRadar

2025/07/10

StackRadar is a job-market analytics platform that identifies the most in-demand tech stacks in New Zealand based on real job postings. The motivation behind this platform is that, as a programming student, i realized that the tech skills i learned at Lincoln University aren't widely used in the industry(Flask, Bootstrap, PythonAnywhere, etc), which make me think i needed to learn more beyond the coursework. Then I searched for the most popular tech skills worth learning in New Zealand, I found some results, but none of them seemed convincing and reliable enough. So, I decided to find the answer myself by analysing the frequency of tech-related keywords in real job postings. the logic is simple: the most frequently mentioned teck skills are the ones actually in demand, and therefore the ones I should be learning. Besides ranking the most popular tech skills from real job postings, I added other features that I believe are useful for job searching — such as filtering jobs by the tech skills users have, since tech-stack matching is often a key factor in developer job searches. For those of you who might be interested in the actual tech stack I used to build StackRadar, Here they are: · Frontend: Javascript, HTML, Tailwind CSS(The Frontend part will be rewritten in React in the near future) · Backend: C# with ASP.NET Core Web API (RESTful architecture) · Data Collection: Python + Requests + BeautifulSoup · Cloud Platform: Microsoft Azure (App Service, Static Web App, PostgreSQL Flexible Server) · Database: Postgresql GitHub Repo : https://github.com/jwqiu/StackTrends.com.git Junwen