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Show HN: Touvlo – Technical Interviewing for Hardware Engineers (By Humans)

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Re: Show HN: Touvlo – Technical Interviewing for Hardware Engineers (By Humans)

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Do you say “hardware” to mean “mechanical engineering”? That’s kind of what it seems like from your description and screenshots. It’s probably worth making this a bit more descriptive - to some people “hardware” means PCBs and electronics. (I’m one of them!) It’s an interesting idea and I like that you’ve stood up something minimal to test your product offering quickly. What’s your elevator pitch for your value propo…

That’s a good point regarding hardware in the name. Eventually we’d like to do all hardware and more (e.g. architecture), but currently our expertise is in mechanical and robotics engineering. Our pitch: We make recruiting easier, better and cheaper for the companies building the hardware of tomorrow, by letting them focus on their product rather than repetitive candidate skill assessments. Currently, senior engineer…

I just want to reiterate the comment you're replying to; in mine and I safely assumed until now everyone else's mind, hardware means electronics/electrical. When I job hunt for a computer engineer role, I often use "hardware engineer" as a prompt and I've never seen it return a mech eng or robotics one. Hardware just seems the wrong word to use in your case.

Re: Show HN: Touvlo – Technical Interviewing for Hardware Engineers (By Humans)

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We’re both greek, it’s meant in a joking way :) What do you think of the name?

the second I read it I knew it was Greek I have actually thought of using the name for an app before years ago, but it never happened as I thought it's... a bit rude? not sure if this applies when exposing your app to a mostly non-greek audience though

It's very offensive to call someone τούβλο because in reality its meaning is more or less "he's too stupid to understand, his mind it's thick like a brick...".

I would urge the project founders to rename it to avoid possible legal complains by those who may consider it quite offensive to say the least.

Just call its ancient version πλίνθος and you are good to go!

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