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Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

#1

Post by jpdpeters » Tue, May 21, 2024, 5:12 PM UTC

I used to work for Facebook and Google and constantly got asked questions like "Hey, my Instagram account got blocked for no reason. Could you help me get it back?". I'd say yes, it would take me 10 min to fill out an internal form and 1 week later the account was back.

Even years after leaving, I still get these requests. So I built a marketplace for them. Let me know what you think!

Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions
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#2

Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 21, 2024, 5:17 PM UTC

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#3

Post by kirstenndb » Tue, May 21, 2024, 5:20 PM UTC

How do you verify employees? Are they really going to sign up to this?

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Post by jpdpeters » Tue, May 21, 2024, 5:22 PM UTC

kirstenndb wrote: post #3

How do you verify employees? Are they really going to sign up to this?

For now, I'm verifying them via their work email.

So far, I've gotten decent feedback from my former colleagues and friends in big tech. Most of them take some sort of compensation for helping restore Insta / ad accounts - this is just a more direct way.

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#5

Post by skeptrune » Tue, May 21, 2024, 6:10 PM UTC

Lmao, this is a fantastic idea. Extremely needed.

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#6

Post by ashrafsam » Tue, May 21, 2024, 6:13 PM UTC

we've been struggling with verifying our business on Meta and tried many ways to get around it with no success, do you think you can help with it? can you reach out to founders@activepieces.com?

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Post by ryanmcdonough » Tue, May 21, 2024, 6:43 PM UTC

ashrafsam wrote: post #6

we've been struggling with verifying our business on Meta and tried many ways to get around it with no success, do you think you can help with it? can you reach out to founders@activepieces.com?

I reckon advertising the fact you're willing to pay to get around this, which I expect is probably against ToS and the employment agreement with the company name isn't the best choice.

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#8

Post by marklar423 » Tue, May 21, 2024, 7:39 PM UTC

This is a real problem that needs solving, but I can see this sort of thing at scale leading big tech companies to not allow their employees to do this anymore.

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#9

Post by ilrwbwrkhv » Tue, May 21, 2024, 7:40 PM UTC

Yes this is excellent. companies usually provide these services anyway to large clients. This is a win win for both the small clients and the lowly worker drone at Google.

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Post by jpdpeters » Tue, May 21, 2024, 7:43 PM UTC

marklar423 wrote: post #8

This is a real problem that needs solving, but I can see this sort of thing at scale leading big tech companies to not allow their employees to do this anymore.

It's definitely a grey zone. I am definitely keeping all tech employees' info private, nothing is displayed on the site.

If it becomes large, I imagine big tech companies would try to fight it, but let's cross that bridge when we get to it.