Ask HN - rate my startup idea

What a trial lawyer sees: Dear Employee, before we even talk to you, please spend time revealing to us your race, sex, age and differently-abled status. Thanks.

It's almost certainly a non-starter at any big company for that reason.

Honest question: How is this different from the actual interview process? All it does is potentially reveal these things earlier, but still prior to a hire. By this logic, couldn't you argue that big companies wouldn't participate in face to face interviews?

I don't like the light grey text. Against the white background, I find the lack of contrast to draw my eye to the picture, which takes away the impact of your message. I have the same difficulty on 90% of the ASK HN posts where the grey text above is of such low contrast, I have to wonder if it has already been downvoted.

Your 5 step button process needs to be more prominent. Some of your descriptions seem like you felt you had to type something there. I'm not sure the steps need to be numbered, perhaps stress the time it would take to perform the steps, I can clearly see that there are 5 boxes. Sometimes less information is better. I would suspect making the button text more descriptive would work better than a quick title and a rehash. I think I can figure out what 'Review Resumes' means.

Start Now - AB Test this. Something about that box's color, the text, the white on grey text seems oddly out of character. Orange, green, grey and black? Perhaps too low contrast.

As for the business model, I'm curious. Don't you need a separate Job Seeker and Job Creator section. Where are the resumes coming from? Is there a sister site that is collecting resumes from candidates? Am I likely to see hundreds/dozens of resumes for particular fields? I would think I would get to review resumes, you double-blind correspondence or block correspondence, I find a candidate I like, send them a questionnaire. What sort of metrics do I get from this? How many times did they record the answer to each question? Are they able to sit and answer them, or can they pause the process? I might want to ask questions that determine if someone is fast on their feet or can solve a problem without having to google it. Is each question answered a separate video or is it indexed so I can skip to the answers when reviewing it?

Pricing. As someone that hires a few people a year, and knowing I would interview more than 1 person, I would suspect your $10 option would never get used. I would probably suggest you raise that to $20, maybe include 3. Your discount rate for purchasing additional videos seems shallow almost like you've decided $8/interview is your fixed selling price. I wouldn't mind spending more money to get more than 1 interview, but, that depends on where your resumes are coming from.

I'm not wild on the domain name as others have mentioned.

Technically the project looks interesting. I don't do enough interviews where I would buy something like this as I think the interview process affords me the ability to read body language, check reaction times to questions, see visual and hear verbal cues that wouldn't be present in the video interview. Basically, this is a video resume that someone could potentially rehearse and research the answers to the question which wouldn't give me some of the touchy-feely stuff that is important when building a team.

I can see where larger organizations could use this as a first step to deciding whether to fly a candidate in for further interviews. I would think it would work very well when you had a candidate you knew would be good for the organization, but, didn't know which group would be a good fit. Someone like google could pass it around to the actual project managers to find a fit for intriguing candidates rather than hiring than finding a fit.

The idea has a lot of promise, looks well executed.