It would be great if profiles could be searchable through the three hashtags one can use on the profile. That way one would not necessarily only rely on sending an email, but would always be available to the pool of hiremyfriend users who are looking for growth hackers or ruby devs, etc.
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#12Having been to the HN London and heard the talk from Makeshift, I hope this doesn't disappear in 3 months! As a dev in London looking for a job, i'll give it a go. Good luck.
What kind of work are you looking for?
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#13I'd like to give this a go, but I don't have a twitter account. How do you see this working for those developers without a social media presence?
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#14I'd like to give this a go, but I don't have a twitter account. How do you see this working for those developers without a social media presence?
We've been using Twitter auth for all of our apps at @makeshiftHQ just out of convenience; some rely on it for core functionality more than others.
In the case of HireMyFriend we put in Twitter auth as a precursor to building a 'secretly DM your friends' feature that hasn't shipped yet.
That said - with an app based around your anonymity but the social presence of your friends & professional contacts I think this would work well for a developer without a social media presence. We'll consider adding email/password sign up in the coming weeks — I'm sure you appreciate how busy launches are :)
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#15It would be great if profiles could be searchable through the three hashtags one can use on the profile. That way one would not necessarily only rely on sending an email, but would always be available to the pool of hiremyfriend users who are looking for growth hackers or ruby devs, etc.
That's a really great idea, thanks :)
This has been a crazy rush to get the product launched as-is (and there's a whole bunch of hypotheses we want to validate right now anyway), but working more on the employer side is definitely something that we're excited to explore in the very near future :)
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#16The biggest problem I have with this is that it attaches you to your friend's profile and whatever he does online. So, for example, what if a buddy of mine posts that he just smoked a joint, and then he endorses me for a job. Unfortunately most employers will likely draw certain conclusions from that, "He hangs out with those kinds of people? I'm not hiring him." It could be much subtler, like your friend posts "I lo…
Absolutely agree — I think that's the most important thing we want to test with this iteration :) I'd think that people would choose the professional connections they trust rather than their stoner roommate from college, but there's only so much hypothesising we can do without real people trying it out! I'm not a huge fan of Bob Marley either, but I know what you mean. It could be your friend who is, say, a prominent…
Awesome, I'm glad your really thinking everything over. To be honest, it wasn't entirely clear to be that you can pick the friends you want to tweet about you. I guess now looking at it that seems rather obvious, haha. It would be really cool to see a recommendation engine, for example, "We think you should ask your friend John Doe to endorse you because he has a massive Twitter following, speaks regularly to companies X, Y, and Z, whom are all hiring. We've analyzed his profile and it looks pretty non-controversial." It's good to see you guys are making use of Twitter and not Facebook. That's a huge selling point for me. Good luck to you guys.
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#17I'd like to give this a go, but I don't have a twitter account. How do you see this working for those developers without a social media presence?
Tread carefully friends, there's dogma here [1].
I obviously can't answer for the author, but in my own endeavors I've used social auth as a quick fix and said "eh, if it takes off I'll go back and do it right." Chances are the subsegment of his market without a social presence is small.
Authentication and marketing are big hairy problems, especially for people embarking upon small side projects. Social auth can help with both with remarkably small effort on the dev's part.
Edit: Also if you'd really like to give it a shot, having a twitter account doesn't require you to use said twitter account.
Edit 2: Changed tone - "whether you like it or not" is way too confrontational of a phrase to use there - I apologize if I sounded like I was attacking.
1: There seems to be a social auth holy war going on. Your comment was respectful, so please don't think I mean you when I say this, but there's too damn many people saying the equivalent of "OHHH you shitbag! I hate the Facebook/Twitter/other! Why would you force me to have that in order to have your service?" The truth is that it wasn't meant as a personal slight - your opinions just fell on the wrong side of an early-stage tradeoff.
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#18btw not sure if anyone spotted it, but we came up with a high-tech solution for keeping out recruiter spam (god forbid this turns into the LRUG mailing list…). What do you reckon?
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#19Amusingly enough, my friend is upstairs in an interview busy getting hired RIGHT NOW. Alas! Too late!
Maybe next time, though? :)
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#20btw not sure if anyone spotted it, but we came up with a high-tech solution for keeping out recruiter spam (god forbid this turns into the LRUG mailing list…). What do you reckon? http://c.jon.gd/image/1u013o34073u
Bravo, sir... bravo!