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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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Post by scdoshi »

This might be just me, but the most important thing to me when I get advice is:

- who am I getting it from

- what do I know about their life/experience

- under what circumstances

Because that let's me adjust how much importance to put on it. Getting advice is generally not the hard part, figuring out which advice to follow and which to discard is.

Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach

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Post by wangarific »

Rmilb wrote: post #20
rezashirazian wrote: post #19

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.

It's a huge mental barrier for a lot of people... but can it overcome by talking to something you know is a bot?

Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach

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Post by skylark »

rezashirazian wrote: post #19

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?

My gut reaction was the same as yours because I would personally never use a service like this.

That said, the existence of career consultants proves that there are people who do enjoy this sort of advice and direction. I don't see this becoming a unicorn startup, but I could see it becoming a niche service that some people really enjoy.

Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach

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Post by lazyasciiart »

wangarific wrote: post #22
Rmilb wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's a huge mental barrier for a lot of people... but can it overcome by talking to something you know is a bot?

People are willing to accept talking to a rubber duck can be helpful, why not a bot?

Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach

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Post by anindha »

As someone that moved to SF from Sydney and didn't have a strong network here I think this would have helped.

One thing is that I have no idea who is on the other side of the chat. If they are giving me advice about one of the most important things in my life is there a guarantee on the quality of that advice?

Are you guys in the next YC batch?

Re: Boost – Your personal advisor and career coach

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Post by lucasmullens »

wangarific wrote: post #22
Rmilb wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's a huge mental barrier for a lot of people... but can it overcome by talking to something you know is a bot?

Where does it say this is a bot? To me it looks like it's human coaches who use AI to quickly find answers. Maybe they're doing Facebook's approach of slowly replacing humans with bots, but for right now they seem to be human.

Edit: saw another comment by from Boost, they're doing Facebook's approach.

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