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Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach

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Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach

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Hey Elfen! Founder here -- thank you. :) We're always looking to hone in our pitch and improve the product. If you or anyone else here has feedback, let me know.

Can we get a shift + Enter to submit the main chat text field?

Shift+Enter is usually reserved to make a new line, wherease command or ctrl+enter is used to submit.

Does that work for you?

Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach

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I also provide private career advisory/coaching and resume services to many in the tech sector, and I'm a mod on a Reddit sub that answers compsci career questions (r/cscareerquestions), so this caught my eye. The biggest question I generally have with services like this is "who is providing the advice?". We have an issue in our Reddit sub, where there is little transparency (obviously due to anonymous accounts) as t…

Hey Fecak! Fantastic -- and important -- question.

We have trained career coaches on staff, an advisory board for coaching, and an extensive network of experts who are within reach.

Through all of this, each conversation acts as a knowledge base that we can pre-fill. We brought in tens of industry experts across product management, design, software engineering, marketing, and more to give crash courses, which were then put into the database as well.

We're still refining our coaching process, as what works for one individual doesn't always work for another.

I'd be interested in chatting in more detail. Can you reach out? :) -> zach@getboost.io

Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can we get a shift + Enter to submit the main chat text field?

Shift+Enter is usually reserved to make a new line, wherease command or ctrl+enter is used to submit. Does that work for you?

Thank you!

Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach

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I also provide private career advisory/coaching and resume services to many in the tech sector, and I'm a mod on a Reddit sub that answers compsci career questions (r/cscareerquestions), so this caught my eye. The biggest question I generally have with services like this is "who is providing the advice?". We have an issue in our Reddit sub, where there is little transparency (obviously due to anonymous accounts) as t…

Hey Fecak! Fantastic -- and important -- question. We have trained career coaches on staff, an advisory board for coaching, and an extensive network of experts who are within reach. Through all of this, each conversation acts as a knowledge base that we can pre-fill. We brought in tens of industry experts across product management, design, software engineering, marketing, and more to give crash courses, which were th…

That's refreshing to hear that you've got some experienced team members in place or on call, and although career advice is clearly not 'one-size-fits-all' I've learned over the years that there are certainly many pieces of advice that can be applied on a regular basis without much need for customization (negotiation tactics perhaps) which is why AI will be quite useful to you.

Happy to discuss with you, will email directly. Again, good luck!

Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach

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One thing I want to mention is our upcoming event! We'll be hosting Amjad Masad, Founder of Repl.it and former JS Tech Lead at Facebook where they built projects like React Native, BabelJS, and Jest.

Tickets are free. Event is in SF on June 1st!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-fireside-chat-with-amjad-masa...

Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach

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How will you scale (if intended)? Why I ask: Wondering if bots or customer support staff can really support this use case.

Hey there! We're looking to scale this in a similar way as Facebook M -- where our coaches on staff have control over specific bots with specific purposes, and can leverage an entire world of data/knowledge to quickly craft personalized responses. At $59/month, unit economics should work as we develop better tech. But for now we're certainly prioritizing quality over speed. :)

Have you thought about freemium models? Maybe have bot-only engagements that are free and then pay for more personalized advice? I just feel like paying on a "session" basis would be more workable for me than a monthly subscription. If the product/advice works well, I should have less and less need of it! :)

Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach

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Really cool idea, but I don't know why I would pay a (relatively large) monthly fee for a service that I probably need twice a year, around both my performance reviews.

Hey dtft!

Boost can do things that help you daily or weekly such as:

- Review communications (inbound and outbound) - Help you develop new skills and stay up to date - Assist you with targeted networking - And much more.

Overall, this is a service that can refine every aspect of your professional life. People who only think about refining their habits and practices twice a year are not aiming towards their potential. The bare minimum is too often accepted as normal -- we want to change that.

Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach

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Roll eyes. I'm sorry but this is a ridiculous idea. I can see potential use for this once or twice a year, and even at that I wouldn't reach out to anyone unless I know them personally.

How insecure and in need of validation someone needs to be to seek career advice from a chatbot four times a month?

Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach

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Roll eyes . I'm sorry but this is a ridiculous idea. I can see potential use for this once or twice a year, and even at that I wouldn't reach out to anyone unless I know them personally. How insecure and in need of validation someone needs to be to seek career advice from a chatbot four times a month?

I think impostor syndrome can be a huge self imposed mental barrier for some software devs. Unsure on the right price point to help over come it.
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