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Correct me if I'm wrong, but this business appears to be... A template? Like a word template, but the fields are separated so they're harder to navigate. Why would I, as a customer, use this?
I think I understand that you’ve pivoted to selling a resume builder for data science workers. It seems to me from your story that you could use some slightly more hard-nosed business sense. I won’t pretend I know what you should do, but I do have a few reactions to your story and situation. Building out a data science/ML jobs site that is trusted by ML workers is a good idea, and could be really valuable. One downsi…
Thanks a lot for the thoughtful feedback, it's much appreciated it! Right now the resume builder is general purpose for people wanting to work in tech. We went down the path of charging companies for access to qualified candidates and the lesson we learned is that you first need a critical mass (which is bigger than we initially thought) to make it scaleable. To get enough job seekers looking for a specific job in a…
While this is true if you want to build lots of these niches at once, I'm not sure if it holds for a specific niche. Rather than trying to fill a giant general-purpose funnel, you may find it easier focusing on a tighter niche to begin with.
For example: ML recruiting for data scientists in the Bay Area with 3+ years of experience
You can find them on LinkedIn
I like the clean design of Beamjobs.com. Wish that was more common.
Your time-line is remarkably similar to what I've experienced, I also quit my finance job to start a business with a co-founder in 2018 at the age 26. It's also an online product but quite different so it's hard to draw additional parralels but I can totally appreciate your up and downs along the way. It kind of sucks sometimes but for me it's also why I did this in the first place, so I don't look back in my mid thi…
I'm not sure why people feel like they needs to make something in their early years before marriage/kids.
a lot of company started by people in their middle age because they spend their early years working in an industry, build up the knowledge and solved some of the problem they experienced.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/business/tech-start-up-fo...
I can't believe how hard it is for you to acquire customers, I truly empathize and I am not surprised you only made $10 since April. I hope you guys make it, it seems like "bulletproof" resumes are a good way forward to help people have a higher chance at job hunting!
P.S. what about cover letters?
You will not like the path you are on. - Google Namedropping is annoying like hell and i have seen it plenty of times. You will not feel great if you need to bring that up all the time - When i google for Resumes, resume.io is the first hit with ad and it cost 3$ - When i go to your website, i don't even know that it is a paid product - People really don't care that much about there resumes. I have seen probably 50 o…
Let me amplify that further - often when I'm using a recruiter to assist with hiring (rather than direct sourcing), the recruiters will take the candidate resumes and normalize them to remove formatting, layout and structural differences.
Just a hint, a lot of engineers I talk to are desperately in need of career advice and they don't find a port of a call.