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Now that I think about it, this reminds me a bit of Feynman's pickup technique [0] - why waste your time with the whole song-and-dance routine if what you want was never on offer to begin with?
Anyway, good luck!
[0] http://www.roberttwigger.com/journal/2010/9/16/richard-feynm...
Just went through the signup process. There should be a textbox for those of us who don't maintain great github profiles to say a few words about ourselves.
I just submitted, but I'm a product manager - looks like you're focusing on engineers only? We're useful too (sometimes).
That being said we have also seen an overwhelming response from those that don't write code. We are figuring out how to expand the product.
"Every pitch received improves our personalized matching algorithm, making pitches get even better over time."
how would you distinguish a "good" pitch from a "bad" one?
Hi HN. We were tired of recruiters so we built this because it was something we wish existed. We had "satisfying" jobs and liked who we worked with but we were not naive and knew there could be a better job out there. Either building a product more aligned with our personal interests, making more doing something we enjoyed even more, or work with a team that challenged us further. It was too time consuming to activel…
A little sketched out about putting my real name on here.. how do I know my current employer won't see it?
I'm curious: in "Every pitch received improves our personalized matching algorithm, making pitches get even better over time." how would you distinguish a "good" pitch from a "bad" one?
Hi HN. We were tired of recruiters so we built this because it was something we wish existed. We had "satisfying" jobs and liked who we worked with but we were not naive and knew there could be a better job out there. Either building a product more aligned with our personal interests, making more doing something we enjoyed even more, or work with a team that challenged us further. It was too time consuming to activel…
Kudos particularly on your landing page design. Very clean and easy to parse mentally. The long-form is beautifully done.
I'm curious: in "Every pitch received improves our personalized matching algorithm, making pitches get even better over time." how would you distinguish a "good" pitch from a "bad" one?
It is part of our secret sauce, but when you receive a pitch, your very basic interactions with it feed back into the system.
Is it US only? How about telecommuting?