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Re: GitHire

#71

Post by cheald »

Don't pitch the value of your product with "We have a very high tech algorithm" until it works. Invoking the "secret sauce" when your basic functionality doesn't work is amateur-hour stuff, and degrades the benefit of the doubt that people otherwise give a new product.

This project feels like it's about halfway to MVP. This is more akin to a tech demo.

All that said, equating inbound connections with programmer ability is an inherently flawed metric for measuring how hireable a person is.

Re: GitHire

#73

Post by MostAwesomeDude »

i386 wrote: post #60
telemachos wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ditto (username telemachus which points to the user derekprior instead?!?) Actually, now my profile has been updated, and it now points to Linus Torvalds. Snapshot for posterity: http://cl.ly/C23P Edit : Don't believe the pretender i386 below me. I am the true Linus Torvalds! :)

I'm really flattered - apparently I am Linus! http://www.githire.com/user/i386

No, I'm Linacus! http://www.githire.com/user/MostAwesomeDude

Re: GitHire

#74

Post by anthonyb »

krobertson wrote: post #34

1) Searched for "San Francisco, CA" and it was returning people from India.... ? 2) Its 2011, githire.com should work the same as www.githire.com. This is my biggest pet peeve with any site. 3) The "add info" button on a user page goes to http://www.githire.com/user/edit which simply loads the user info for a username of edit on github. Overall an interesting idea, but maybe unveiled a bit prematurely.

Also, page 2 and on show people for different locations (eg. I searched for "Melbourne, Australia" and got some people from there, but the next page is Tokyo, and the next one is... Oregon? Refresh the page... get Texas. Location coordinates haven't changed though.

Re: GitHire

#75

Post by rebel19 »

This thing is a joke. Searched for Atlanta Georgia and came across someone who had no open source contributions on and three skeleton projects as a top guy while high profile open source contributors were not in the system.

Re: GitHire

#76

Post by anthonyb »

cheald wrote: post #71

Don't pitch the value of your product with "We have a very high tech algorithm" until it works. Invoking the "secret sauce" when your basic functionality doesn't work is amateur-hour stuff, and degrades the benefit of the doubt that people otherwise give a new product. This project feels like it's about halfway to MVP. This is more akin to a tech demo. All that said, equating inbound connections with programmer abili…

That seems to be all they're offering that's different from github's advanced search: https://github.com/search?type=Users&language=Python&#38...

Re: GitHire

#77

Post by jcoder »

Seems to me you don't have enough information to declare "Hireable: false." I don't have much of a github presence. I am hireable.

Re: GitHire

#79

Post by jlarocco »

I'm a bit confused how this works.

I searched for my location and couldn't find myself.

I tried my page directly at http://www.githire.com/user/jl2 and see my "GitRank" is N/A. I clicked "Add Info" and was taken to another user's page: http://www.githire.com/user/edit

Is it a bug? Did this happen for anybody else?

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