I love that you gave test credentials :)
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I have not, will check them out, thank you. One at-a-glance difference is that they charge individual writers, which probably makes sense. I'm fairly allergic to charging job seekers though.
If I were looking for a job, I would gladly pay a couple hundred dollars to use this. There is real value in a streamlined way to track all of my applications' statuses like this. I've used lists on Asana with custom categories in the past, but this is a lot cleaner. If you'd really rather not go the monetization of job seekers route, one suggestion would be to try and sell this to people running upskill programs i.e…
Thank you for the suggestion! I've considered the bootcamp/school route and I think there is opportunity there. For now trying not to spread my focus too thin though.
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#23I love that you gave test credentials :)
Fun fact - dang (the HN moderator) suggested this earlier while we were figuring out why this post was stuck in flagged status (props to him for unblocking it eventually).
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fun fact - dang (the HN moderator) suggested this earlier while we were figuring out why this post was stuck in flagged status (props to him for unblocking it eventually).
Why was it in flagged state?
dang followed up on it and it turned out someone flagged it by mistake
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#26I love this idea. When you're in the hiring process, you're managing an absolute mountain of detail between your various applications. There's so much pain and toil, and a lot of it is lost once you get a job, and if you're ever laid off you need to scramble to gather it all again.
LinkedIn _kinda_ works here but it's a distant afterthought for them.
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#27If you ever scale up, you might find it difficult for recruiting for that stack, ironically
> The main application uses React with Tailwind on the frontend, C# on the backend
I'm curious what about your experience gave you that stack? I'm sure it works fine, but the "not JS backend" people are usually stuck in older frontend frameworks, and the JS everything world has Next.js and various things to power both the frontend and backend together
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#28Looks cool - I'll try it out.
Is it possible to export my data if I decide to leave the platform?
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#29If you ever scale up, you might find it difficult for recruiting for that stack, ironically > The main application uses React with Tailwind on the frontend, C# on the backend I'm curious what about your experience gave you that stack? I'm sure it works fine, but the "not JS backend" people are usually stuck in older frontend frameworks, and the JS everything world has Next.js and various things to power both the fron…
Both C# (ASP.NET Core) and React consistently rank pretty high up in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey frameworks section, with both being in the top 5 for 2023 [0].
[0] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-admired-and-de...
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Through employers, not job seekers. Not sure how to put this without marketing-speak, but I do truly believe that there is a win-win proposition here where an amazing candidate experience can be highly beneficial to the hiring org. I wrote down some thoughts on https://rolepad.com/employers as well. As I mentioned in the original post, there is a lot of consider here privacy-wise but I definitely have some concrete i…
I honestly think you should aim to make jobseekers pay instead of the job offerers. The automation of job applications means that basically everyone tunes out when they hit 100+ CV's, go post a small wage globally remote job to test and you will see what I mean. A dollar here or there definitely means your clients will get actual people who are serious about wanting it rather than the current spray and pray system th…
I also want to pay for this as a future jobseeker for two reasons: one, I want a platform like this to focus on me as the client, and two, I want it to exist.
But what Grimburger says is also important - employers will hate your platform if it will become spam city.
If a platform helped me track my applications CRM-style and automate some of the process, especially scheduling interviews, I would gladly pay LinkedIn bucks for it.