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Re: Show HN: Cilantro - Chat 1:1 with employees at companies you'd like to work at

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It's unclear from the post whether or not it's anonymous. I'd be more comfortable asking (and answering!) if I knew it was anon. Otherwise, it might be awkward, especially at a smaller company.

one of devs here...it's totally anonymous there's no login anywhere. Thanks for the feedback! please try it out and let us know :)

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Re: Show HN: Cilantro - Chat 1:1 with employees at companies you'd like to work at

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I LOVE the idea! How does the request function work? Can I put multiple company names separated by comma, or should I put one request per company I'm interested in chatting with?

hey @jypepin you can put companies separated by commas! we'll handle parsing that :) sorry for being unclear.

Re: Show HN: Cilantro - Chat 1:1 with employees at companies you'd like to work at

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So how does this work? How do I know the people you're chatting with are actual employees of the respective company? Details are very sparse on the site.

We have past/current employees who have agreed to help out on the site for now. We imagine that we will expose some cred/job status later to indicate what type of background they have. But the anonymous aspect is something we'd like to keep since people tend to be more honest. Any feedback about that would be great!

How do employees sign up? Is that part still not open?

Re: Show HN: Cilantro - Chat 1:1 with employees at companies you'd like to work at

#45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

because if someone said, hey go to this site "trycilantro" to help find jobs - I would immediately have an aversion to it and the likelihood of me going there would be lower. I would also have an aversion to try helping out on that site. You've lost ~10% of your client base right there.

Wow, that increased from 5% to 10% in half an hour! Or are you suggesting either that cilantro aversion is higher among tech workers, or that people who don't dislike cilantro will also be put off by the name? I think if Wii and iPad can get past those names then this'll be fine.

5% on one side, 5% on the other side (presumably independent varibables, but minus a little bit to account for overlap hence ~10% not 10%). "client base" was the wrong turn of phrase, should have said "traffic potential". I don't really know what I'm talking about, so I could have done the math wrong.

Re: Show HN: Cilantro - Chat 1:1 with employees at companies you'd like to work at

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have past/current employees who have agreed to help out on the site for now. We imagine that we will expose some cred/job status later to indicate what type of background they have. But the anonymous aspect is something we'd like to keep since people tend to be more honest. Any feedback about that would be great!

How do employees sign up? Is that part still not open?

You can sign up by clicking the blue button at the top of landing page that says 'I want to share my experiences'. Sorry we don't call that out more!

Re: Show HN: Cilantro - Chat 1:1 with employees at companies you'd like to work at

#47

What do you need to implement a website background like that? I want to work something like it for my website, minus the hairy arms :).

http://dfcb.github.io/BigVideo.js/ is great! That is what we are using with a few modifications :)

Re: Show HN: Cilantro - Chat 1:1 with employees at companies you'd like to work at

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, that's a pretty rude move...

hi josh! ah yes my bad :( will update soon. trying to scramble and upgrade a lot stuff since we hit firebase and server limits.

no longer hotlink'd!

Re: Show HN: Cilantro - Chat 1:1 with employees at companies you'd like to work at

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What do you need to implement a website background like that? I want to work something like it for my website, minus the hairy arms :).

http://dfcb.github.io/BigVideo.js/ is great! That is what we are using with a few modifications :)

thanks, I'll give it a spin.

Re: Show HN: Cilantro - Chat 1:1 with employees at companies you'd like to work at

#50

It's unclear from the post whether or not it's anonymous. I'd be more comfortable asking (and answering!) if I knew it was anon. Otherwise, it might be awkward, especially at a smaller company.

one of devs here...it's totally anonymous there's no login anywhere. Thanks for the feedback! please try it out and let us know :)

Any plan to prevent trolling? Honest question... curious about how you plan to catch me giving crazy answers about a company I don't like.
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