Looks cool - I'll try it out. Is it possible to export my data if I decide to leave the platform?
Thanks! Not at the moment, but you're the second user asking about it today so that definitely bumps it up on the priority list.
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#32If 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…
It was a mix of what I already knew (.NET) and what I wanted to learn (React). I love C# as a language and it works just fine with whatever frontend you throw at it (it's just an API after all). I wouldn't touch a Microsoft frontend framework with a ten-foot pole.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 b…
This platform will not change human behavior. Sorry to say.
Re: Show HN: A job application tracker with company reviews, recruiter autoresponder
#34If 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…
It was a mix of what I already knew (.NET) and what I wanted to learn (React). I love C# as a language and it works just fine with whatever frontend you throw at it (it's just an API after all). I wouldn't touch a Microsoft frontend framework with a ten-foot pole.
yeah, itll be a high performant API server as C#
Re: Show HN: A job application tracker with company reviews, recruiter autoresponder
#35Looks great and comes in perfectly in time for me. One concern: All my data incl. CV is stored plainly in the cloud, correct?
Thanks! I suppose the answer depends on what you mean by "plainly in the cloud" :) It is indeed stored in Amazon's RDS, which is a managed service. I approached this as a real product rather than a weekend project when it comes to security (application and infrastructure) and there is a lot in place protecting the data - Firebase's jwt auth, XSS and SQL injection protection, default passwordless logins, data encrypte…
Have you done any penetration testing?
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
As a currently not employed person, one interesting thing to note about me is that I have no income, which means not much money to pay for things.
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#37If 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…
Have you ever heard of "making people learn tools"? Not every job has to be the cookie-cutter node/react stack... you can also train people to use your stack.
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#38sorry but I do not see this as useful. I just use a spreadsheet and that is good enough. The hard part of job interviewing is learning all the useless Leetcode and preparing the stories in "STAR format" and interviewing taking up 5 hours and the indefinite period of time for replies. Not the tracking.
Re: Show HN: A job application tracker with company reviews, recruiter autoresponder
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 honestly think you should aim to make jobseekers pay instead of the job offerers.
If I was a job seeker, specially if I was out of a job, I would never ever spend a single cent on a job application service, particularly one that does not work as a job board.
All job boards such as LinkedIn already support some job application tracker features, including through third-party services. If you have access to a text file/spreadsheet, you can easily fill in the blanks to track your own job applications. Any third party job application service ends up being only the n+1 webapp you'll be using anyway,so why pay for the one out of n+1 particularly if it doesn't add any value?
There are plenty of job application tracking services out there already, but from the applicant's pov the only issue worth fixing is how you end up using a different service for each company you applied for. Job boards such as LinkedIn kind of mitigate this problem due to its massive adoption, but still some companies only use LinkedIn to route applicants to their own service. Adding yet another job application tracker to the mix solves nothing, and is definitely not worth paying for as an applicant.
Re: Show HN: A job application tracker with company reviews, recruiter autoresponder
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 b…
This platform will not change human behavior. Sorry to say.
Yes.
I think the only way to prevent spewing/spamming of every employer with resumes, would be if there was a crazy high cost to apply to each job. If someone paid $10 per month for 1 application or 100 applications, or 1000, for many the 1000 is going to happen.
If it was $10 per application, you wouldn't be "changing" human behaviour, you'd be leaning into it, by de-incentivizing 1000 applications with "virtual pain". EG, money leaving wallet.
I don't see how to easily prevent this with such a platform, the per-application cost is a no-go, at best you could have hard limits of apps per month.