I built a thing
I wanted an excuse to practice my javascript skills… so building a startup job title generator seemed like a fun way to do it AND also help promote Edmonton Startup Week. The startup community can have some pretty funky job titles, so I think some of these combinations weren’t that far from reality ;D
A gallery of some results
How it works
I used Netlify to deploy it, and some simple javascript variables to mix and match a list of titles. The first variable was an adjective or level type (“Mysterious”, Executive”, “Junior”, etc), the second was a common startup thing (“Internet”, “Pizza”, “Seed-Funding”) and the third was a role or agent-noun (“Developer”, “Manager”, “Jedi”, etc). Every time the button is clicked, a random word from each variable is picked and the three are displayed as one job title on the page. It resulted in some fun combinations like “Senior Dollar Bills Wrangler” and “Mysterious Ping-Pong Unicorn”. Easy code, but lots of fun.
Future ideas
There’s lots that could be improved (I’d love to add fireworks to the button click, change the button text after the first click to something like “try again”, and maybe an easier way to share the job title you got on social) but for a quick little joke site, it works well enough.