I like the idea a lot but when I go to the demo profile, I can highlight the redacted text with my mouse and see the person's name. Is that intentional??
Show HN: HireMyFriend – Get your friends to help you find a new job
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#22I like the idea a lot but when I go to the demo profile, I can highlight the redacted text with my mouse and see the person's name. Is that intentional??
Inspect element on it ;)
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#23I like the idea a lot but when I go to the demo profile, I can highlight the redacted text with my mouse and see the person's name. Is that intentional??
If you hover your mouse over the name the title is "Give us some credit, we did think about this - this is a randomly generated name. Reload the page!"
I tried reloading and it was indeed a random name. Although, not sure why they did this, people could very easily be turned off from using this because they didn't see the hover text.
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#24I'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 wou…
Have you considered integrating with LinkedIn as well?
As a complete tangent I'm presently looking for jobs literally on the other side of the world, in a country where I know nobody (so I guess I'm not your target market?). The site used most often there is SEEK. On their own I doubt services like yours would integrate with SEEK or similar smaller international jobs sites. However I'd love to see some kind of social networking standard take off where once you've integrated with say LinkedIn, integrating with someone like SEEK would literally be as simple as swapping a couple of API keys. It'd be even better if the integration could be bidirectional. That is, SEEK could decide to integrate with HMF or vice-versa and whatever features would just "magically" show up on both sites so long as both approved the integration.
Shit, that's kind of like a meta-friend request. "Hey there! My social network wants to be friends with your social network!" Weird.
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#25I like the idea a lot but when I go to the demo profile, I can highlight the redacted text with my mouse and see the person's name. Is that intentional??
If you hover your mouse over the name the title is "Give us some credit, we did think about this - this is a randomly generated name. Reload the page!" I tried reloading and it was indeed a random name. Although, not sure why they did this, people could very easily be turned off from using this because they didn't see the hover text.
I agree, it's quirky but poor Columbus Torphy is probably getting called into his bosses office today ;)
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#27"Sign in with twitter". Don't have an account, don't need one right now. Thanks and bye.
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#28I like the idea a lot but when I go to the demo profile, I can highlight the redacted text with my mouse and see the person's name. Is that intentional??
If you hover your mouse over the name the title is "Give us some credit, we did think about this - this is a randomly generated name. Reload the page!" I tried reloading and it was indeed a random name. Although, not sure why they did this, people could very easily be turned off from using this because they didn't see the hover text.
It's a hangover from a previous iteration of the design - we were generating names with ffaker and then doing a strikethrough, but in reality it was confusing users rather than being a funny aesthetic touch.
In the interests of getting this thing shipped we decided to hide the text with CSS, but replacing it with an SVG is at the top of our priority list :)
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#29Amusingly enough, my friend is upstairs in an interview busy getting hired RIGHT NOW. Alas! Too late! Maybe next time, though? :)
Beaten by the buzzer! Congratulations to your friend; if you feel like kicking the tires and looking for a new job we'd love to have you sign up!
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#30I'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…
That's really helpful, thanks :)