Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Launch HN: Taro (YC S22): Private career growth community for software engineers

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 79 posts

Re: Launch HN: Taro (YC S22): Private career growth community for software engineers

#11

Post by rpandey1234 »

jeffwiederkehr wrote: post #6

Excited to see Taro on the front page of HN. I’m just finishing up my first internship at a Big Tech Co and the advice and discussions I’ve seen from Rahul/Alex were extremely valuable in helping me perform well. I feel somewhat connected to the product in a weird way in that I went through the non profit Codepaths interview prep summer course which is where I heard about Rahul and seems to solve a somewhat similar p…

Glad to hear that we were able to help during your internship! And very cool that you were part of Codepath -- it's been so much fun for me to help out over the years. In fact, my YouTube channel started largely because I learned about recording + video editing from Codepath.

Regarding using the app, totally understandable you don't use Taro much on mobile. As an upskilling product for software engineers, we expect most of the usage to be on desktop, which is why we just released the web app.

Re: Launch HN: Taro (YC S22): Private career growth community for software engineers

#12

Post by ipaddr »

A yearly membership to get access to a q/a database. This is a product from from ex facebook and ex robinhood employees which will selling everyone's data.

The value prop seems limited but might be good for facebook interns because outside of those types of companies 99% of companies operate differently.

The fact that past employment to questionable ethical companies is used as a selling point is a negative in my eyes.

Re: Launch HN: Taro (YC S22): Private career growth community for software engineers

#13

Post by Gear61 »

bckr wrote: post #10

I think this is a great idea and look forward to joining. I keep seeing others stumble on the "coding isn't all you need" kink in the carpet, and I'm personally trying to get all the help I can navigating a move to Big Tech Inc., where I'm having some challenges. It seems like it will fill a niche that's left unfulfilled by communities like Blind which are... let's say "cynical".

Looking forward to having you with us! That carpet kink got me hard earlier in my career, haha.

Re: Launch HN: Taro (YC S22): Private career growth community for software engineers

#15

Post by rpandey1234 »

bckr wrote: post #10

I think this is a great idea and look forward to joining. I keep seeing others stumble on the "coding isn't all you need" kink in the carpet, and I'm personally trying to get all the help I can navigating a move to Big Tech Inc., where I'm having some challenges. It seems like it will fill a niche that's left unfulfilled by communities like Blind which are... let's say "cynical".

Exactly -- that's actually the most common reason for people to join Taro today. There's a huge emphasis on interview questions (DSA) and building side projects to get into Big Tech, but these skills don't help you succeed in the job.

One way we think about Taro is a way to "fill in the gap" for what students don't learn in their CS degree or in a bootcamp.

Re: Launch HN: Taro (YC S22): Private career growth community for software engineers

#18

Post by rpandey1234 »

ipaddr wrote: post #12

A yearly membership to get access to a q/a database. This is a product from from ex facebook and ex robinhood employees which will selling everyone's data. The value prop seems limited but might be good for facebook interns because outside of those types of companies 99% of companies operate differently. The fact that past employment to questionable ethical companies is used as a selling point is a negative in my eye…

These companies have talented engineers, and Alex and I learned a lot from working with them. Our goal is to share these insights and create a supportive community to collect best practices -- we think there are many SWEs who could benefit.

We charge software engineers directly for access to the product, which includes the Q&A database, case studies, and member matching services. Hope you'll take a look at our content and track record to judge if it's valuable for you!

Post reply on HN